One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 120

Title: The Fruit of the Shadow!

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Holy hooch!

The pink-haired girl, Perona, sends spam to the ghost towards Amon, but Amon seems to be unaffected at all.

He did not explain the reason, while Perona was very confused. 'This has never happened before. Why are my ghosts not working?'

'And...what's with that deadly aura?!'

It was as if a predator was playing with its prey!

A few seconds passed, seeing Amon not showing any hostility, Perona stopped.

He decided to first ask about his identity.

"A... Who are you?"

He was still on guard, but he did not attack.

Amon looked at him with solitary eyes. "Lucifer, the Celestial Emperor."

Amon's smile emitted the same dangerous rays as the one emanated on his gift poster. Perona's body vibrates.

'Dangerous...'

Even in her shocked state, Perona seemed to catch her words as her round eyes grew. 'Now I see it. yes!'

He was paying attention to the newspaper, so he recognized her even though his mind was hyperactive right now. But the moment he recognized her, another thought flashed through his mind.

'Wait, no. This is not a good thing. Why is the Former Sea Warlord, the current Ocean Emperor here?!' He only reached one conclusion when his legs became weak. 'He is here to hunt Gecko Moria!!'

Perona took a step back, if Moria was to be hunted, she would also be his subordinate, right?

But he would not give up without a fight. Even if his negative hole was cancelled, he had more attacks. They will definitely ruin it!

But... was it a good idea to provoke the Emperor?

In the end, at that thought, Perona stopped. His life was precious, besides that the aura around Amon did not let him think of any intelligent move.

He decided to take the easy route and asked his intentions.

"S, Sir. Can I help you?"

Sweating, Perona gulped a few times in this short sentence.

"Haha," Amon laughed convincingly, but his dangerous aura was still there. "I won't hurt you, considering you stopped attacking me."

Perona gulped again.

"It's good that you know me." He nodded tremblingly. "I'm not here to hurt you, but rather, I'm here to recruit you, I need a strong man like you."

Amon had a smile on his face. Perona knew he was not that strong to attract a sea Emperor, but he felt glad to be praised.

Usually, Amon will choose a more relaxed approach. He will speak convincingly, but since Perona's personality is a relaxed person, the same actions will not work. Acting hard is the way.

continued Amon. "Join me, you will receive an incredible bonus, there are not many restrictions either."

Amon grinned to see Perona's eyes glow for a moment. After all, an invitation from someone like him was a big deal.

He pushed further. "I'm sure you don't like this place full of dead bodies. After joining, I'll give you a place to live in the clouds."

A few seconds passed while Perona's shocked mind understood what he meant.

An Emperor invited him!

For the first time, he felt a bit of life coming back before him. 'Wouldn't he give more protection than Moria...?'

First of all, he only worked in this slum because the protection of the Marines, being under the Warlord was advantageous. But, if he can get more protection... Then why not? After all, Moria did not even treat him well!

Kata, 'bonus' also caught his attention. He almost decided, but-

He has a mind. Right now, everyone's top priority was Amon, the marines, the pirates, and the Emperor would bite him when they got the chance. Is it a good idea to go under it?

Flutter gulped, "And... What if I refuse?"

While he managed to ask that, Amon's smile grew cold and his eyes darkened. Her previous aura returned when Perona felt her legs tremble, she was one step away from urinating.

This was the aura of an Emperor!

"Pretty clear, isn't it? You'll be tortured before I kill you." Amon finished his words with a crazy grin.

'Psy... psychopath!"

Does he have a choice but to accept his offer now?

«...★...»

As his first job, Perona was ordered to make the same offer to 2 other 'Four Mysterious' besides Gecko Moria. If they refused, he would have to arrest them. So Perona went to do it in fear.

Crazy doctor Hogback accepts his offer because he's only here for his dead crush. The offer included the welfare of his bluff even after Moria's death, so he did not mind accepting it.

Absalom did not accept it. He retaliates but Perona easily defeats and catches him. All of this happened in less than 5 minutes, so Moria was still unaware of everything.

Ammon forced Absalom's body to die by injecting electricity into his brain. He will brainwash him later in the presence of Baccarat.

'Really, the power to hypnotize and brainwash people is very useful.'

Amon felt lucky to have researched the Hypnotic boy from last year, otherwise he might have lost a lot of opportunities by now. Now, rather than killing them in vain, Amon could use humanity to its fullest extent.

'Things that cannot be achieved with hypnotism can be done with brainwashing.'

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"Alright, your work is done, Perona. I gave you 5 stars for your first job."

Smiling with satisfaction. He liked how he didn't just kill Absalom. Perhaps, he was not as bad as he thought.

He opened his mouth excitedly. "Then-"

"It's okay." Amon cut off Perona as if he knew what he was going to say. "You don't have to fight Gecko Moria, I'll take care of it myself."

"Instead, send your ghost to the whole island. Try using them as eyes, soon, all shadows will leave the zombie body, I want you to deliver me to their location."

Amon cannot sense shadows using observation. Although he could use Thunder Eyes to support that weakness, it would produce light. Although it would not ruin the show itself, the resulting light would injure, and even kill, the shadowless people living on the island.

'They are valuable test subjects, I cannot let them die... It's Moria's turn.'

Deciding on this, Amon teleported to Moria's room.

«...★...»

"Hmm, hmm~".

In a large room, an ugly white-skinned humanoid creature was lying with its back, its hands locked behind its head in a carefree manner.

He lay down as usual, someone who dreamed of becoming the Pirate King lazing around. It's Gecko Moria! One of the seven sea warlords!

'...Meh, 'Hearing the sound of electricity, Moria ignored him as the flies roamed around with her eyes closed.

'No... Something's not right.' After a moment of silence, Moria felt a little strange as she opened her eyes with a frown.

"...?!"

His eyes met an old pocket watch that moved before his eyes. They instantly locked onto the rhythmic movement of the watch as Moria's eyes then began to turn.

"Eh.... Where~ me~?"

Slowly, the silhouette of a man appeared in front of him, he was the one holding the watch.

"Gosh, this isn't even a challenge. Idler bastard."

.....

After Amon teleported behind Moria, he only observed as Moria was lazing.

In the end, hoping the hypnotist would succeed, Amon took out his pocket watch.

'General hypnotization does not work on everyone, ambitious, smart or strong people, and certain people are immune to it. But Moria is nobody. Idiot slackers.'

Amon easily hypnotizes Moria with his decent skills in this field which he has been developing for 8 years before revealing himself in front of him.

He only had one question for Moria: "What's your devil fruit like?"

It was a question that many people heard from Amon during his 19 years of life, but no one lived to tell the story.

"That looks like a Muttokin."

Moria answered a simple question in a simple and accepting way.

«...★...»

–Amon Pov–

'Moria is a worthless man. Such a deadly demonic fruit was wasted for him.'

Yeah, he was 'once', but not anymore.

I looked in front of me, Moria was lying on the floor with a hole in her chest, not breathing anymore. I killed him without him knowing.

'The warlord is weak...'

In my left hand, there was a fruit basket. I brought this from Skypiea a moment ago. The basket contained 5 green-colored round pieces of the same kind that had not existed in my previous world. However, I knew this was the 'Muttokin' fruit he was talking about because I memorized their names every day, even until now.

There are millions of fruits in this world, I know only a small part.

'There were cases where my victims didn't know what their own fruit names were, so I had to skip some good fruit. Embarrassing.' But once I get the ability to read memory, this won't be a problem anymore.

Slowly, one of the fruits began to get strange. The green skin became black in color and started to form golden encryption on it, there were green leaves that started to appear out of nowhere. The fruit now looked like a proper devil fruit.

'Hm...?'

Suddenly, I felt someone approaching this room.

The man pushed the door.

Crick!

"Hey, sir! All the zombies collapsed and the shadows left the body!"

It is the persona that I ask to be noticed after the shadows.

"What do you want to do not–...?!"

He stopped talking after seeing Moria's corpse and the hole in her chest. He was too caught off guard by the red blood to notice the strange fruit on my hand.

"Moria Gecko..." Perona gulps. "Dead?!"

Perona. But I don't care. He was a pirate, he obviously killed a lot of people in his life. It shouldn't be too much to bear.

I ordered him: "Disregard him, he's dead." He knew if he didn't want the same thing to happen to him, he had to obey. "Give me the location of the shadow."

I threw a walkie-talkie at him. "Speak in that, I'll hear everything with my earpiece. Now, start."

Perona was still shocked but she pulled her courage to move her lips. Who can guarantee that this man won't kill him either?

"Y-Yes, there are 150 shadows in the northeast..."

I'm nodding.

Zzzz...

Teleporting, I entered my slow world.

Around me were countless shadows, flying out from the island. I started to pick it up and tie it with a rope.

Yes, the shadow that was free from the grip of the Shadow-Shadow fruit user could be touched by an ordinary person. It was shown in the anime as well if I remember correctly ...

'Fortunately, the Shadow is immune to light, so they do not perish by my flashes...'

Like this, I took some and tied it up. Holding and tied. Holding and tied.

Perona continued to give me a location in my earpiece. 'Help handy.'

Some shadows have left the foggy area, but I don't care. I just moved quickly and brought them back here. These shadows are important to me, they are like soldiers. I only miss the people who have entered the bodies of the people who are on this island.

"Oh, my shadow's coming back to me!"

"Y, Yeah!"

I can even hear some of their voices from up here. Although their happiness must have been short-lived. First, let me give the fruits to Yona, then I will deal with them.

...

I continued to capture shadows for 10 minutes before I could gather about 6,000 shadows.

... That's fun, honestly.

Well, it's time to give this to my Dragoness.

"First, let's talk to him a little bit."

I'm not sure if he'll accept this. Since Shadow was a second soul, would he be fine playing with that so-called mortal soul?

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"So what do you think?" I asked Yoona. "It's a good fruit."

Yona's face darkened as she exchanged glances between me and the fruit.

"It's harder than I thought."

I also saw Brook smashed to pieces in the corner of the deck, pretending to be dead.