The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

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Nami: "...I mean, since we're going to such a thrilling and dangerous place, we absolutely have to be fully prepared!!"

Usopp and Chopper: "!! Hey, hey, that's clearly not what you just said!!!"

This ability to change one's appearance is far superior to any seafaring skill!

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"The Devil's Triangle?"

Luffy repeated the name there, and then an adventurous smile reappeared on his face:

"That sounds quite interesting."

"However, it is indeed necessary to prepare early for such a dangerous place."

Franky, who was also drinking cola nearby, said, "Who knows what strange things might run out again?"

"There won't be anything strange?"

Link put down his teacup. "It's just that a Shichibukai will run out of there."

"Really? No monsters, just one Shichibukai?"

Chopper breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, but then suddenly felt that something was amiss.

Wait, wrong? The Seven Warlords of the Sea?!

"Come and hurt the Going Merry!!"

Not only him, but everyone else immediately took notice.

"Yes, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Gecko Moria, is stationed there."

"Moriah?"

Robin had obviously heard of the name. "I remember he was a very powerful pirate back then, and he even broke into the New World."

"He fought Kaido of the Beasts, one of the Four Emperors, but was defeated and had to retreat."

"Are they now stationed in the Devil's Triangle?"

This was a major news story back then, and Robin still vaguely remembers some of it.

"A Shichibukai who has fought against the Four Emperors?!"

Usopp and Chopper started stammering again, "How amazing would that be?!"

"As for being impressive, I wouldn't say so."

Link, recalling Moria's life, said this.

Twenty-one years ago, the year after Roger's death, Moria, then twenty-seven years old and still sporting a chin, led his companions and subordinates to challenge Kaido in the New World.

The battle ended in his crushing defeat, with his jaw broken and the loss of all his companions.

After suffering this blow, Moria firmly believed in the principle that "because you live, you lose," and later became depressed and neglected his exercise.

He hoped to use external things, such as an army of zombies that would never die, to help him achieve his dream, which led to a continuous decline in his own strength.

However, after his battle with Kaido, when he left Wano Country, he took with him many of the corpses of Wano Country's residents.

Among them were the corpses of the samurai who slew the dragon, Shimotsuki Ryoma, and others, and the Wano Country's national treasure sword, Shusui, was also taken away.

Well, before leaving, this guy followed the principle of "a thief never leaves empty-handed" and took out quite a few good things.

However, these things will likely end up benefiting Link and his Straw Hat crew.

Upon learning that a Shichibukai was in their next sea route, the group was first surprised, and then...

Continue doing what you were doing.

What a joke! It's not like they haven't seen the Seven Warlords of the Sea before; in fact, they've seen two of them.

They even defeated one in Alabasta.

Moreover, they've accomplished something like capturing Enies Lobby; a single Shichibukai... they really don't take them seriously.

So, the group simply discussed this matter briefly, and then the topic shifted to what to eat for dinner.

Well, are the things we'll face in the future not as important as worrying about filling our stomachs right now?

Luffy and his crew continued their leisurely, unsteady journey forward.

Soon, they arrived at a sea area where snow was falling and there were icebergs and islands.

In the meantime, they also found a floating barrel on the sea.

After it was opened, the barrel fired a flare into the sky.

249 Brook! You perverted skull!! Labuda, you've been waiting for me at Twin Capes all this time.

The Straw Hat crew then learned that these were signal barrels specifically released by some hunters.

The purpose was to locate the pirates who opened the bucket, so as to capture them and achieve their various goals, such as exchanging bounties or collecting flags.

Upon learning of this situation, the Straw Hat crew also took it very seriously.

But as a result, no one dared to cause trouble until they sailed out of the iceberg area.

"Could it be an old, discarded signal barrel?"

Luffy, Usopp, and the others were a bit confused, while inside the building deep in the iceberg.

"Are we just going to let the Straw Hat Pirates get through like this, Father?!"

A group of people surrounded the obese man, who was still shirtless in the freezing cold and looked like a balloon, and asked him questions.

This is the Flag Hunters' base, the base of the Achino family, a group of bounty hunters whose main goal is to find the flags on pirate ships.

"That's the flag of a major pirate crew with a bounty of over 500 million! Are we just going to let them go like that?!"

As the eldest son of the Achino family, the strong and tall man in the blue vest, Campachino said with some resentment.

"As you know, they are notorious pirates with individual bounties exceeding 500 million!!"

The head of the Achino family, Don Achino, adjusted his small black sunglasses and glared at him, saying:

"The '733' gang destroyed Enies Lobby and is considered by the Navy to be an extremely ruthless group!!"

"Both the captain and the first mate are vicious criminals whose bounties have exceeded 550 million!!"

"Even the World Government has put such a high bounty on them to illustrate how troublesome they are. Do you think our family, with its size, can handle that whole gang?!"

It must be said that although Don Achino has a balloon-like obese body, he is exceptionally shrewd.

As a flag hunter, he knows very well who he should mess with and who he shouldn't.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to build such a foundation in this place, so close to the midpoint of the Grand Line.

Clearly, in his view, the Straw Hat Pirates were the kind of people you absolutely shouldn't mess with.

Criminals of this caliber should be left to the Navy and the World Government to deal with.

Thus, without any obstruction from the Achino family, Luffy and his crew easily crossed the sea and arrived at the legendary Devil's Triangle.

The Devil's Triangle is also known as the Dark Sea.

This place is shrouded in dark, gloomy black mist all year round, devoid of sunlight and direction.

Ordinary pirates would easily get lost here, and even with Log Pose, it would be quite troublesome.

"It really is pitch black."

As Nami gazed at the pitch-black environment before her, where she couldn't see her own hand in front of her face, her initial desire to search for treasure gradually subsided.

They began to pay attention to the environment they were in now.

Especially when a faint, eerie singing voice drifted over?

"Yo ho ho ho, yo ho ho ho."

A unique voice, mingled with melodious singing and laughter, slowly entered everyone's ears.

"Are there really ghosts?!"

Having already changed into an outfit that would ward off evil, Usopp couldn't help but look around nervously.

The hairs on his body almost stood on end.

"Isn't it said that there are no ghosts in this world?"

Chopper, standing nearby, also spoke in a trembling voice.

"Who said that?"

Seeing the two of them like this, Link joked, "Since Devil Fruits exist in this world, maybe ghosts really do exist."

The most direct proof of this is Brook's "Revive-Revive Fruit," which safely returned his soul from the underworld.

After two years of training, his Nose Song Sword Technique could also unleash the chilling aura from the underworld to freeze the souls of his enemies.

And then there's Luffy, who, after eating that poisonous purple fish skin in the New World, also saw the Underworld and the River Styx, and almost went to meet Ace?

"Are there really ghosts?!?"

Usopp and Chopper hugged each other.

"Really? If ghosts exist, I'd really like to see one!"

Luffy, on the other hand, looked on with anticipation, thinking, "If I could bring them onto the ship and make them my crewmates, that would be amazing!!"

"Hey Hey hey!!!"

Chopper, Usopp, and Nami all yelled at the same time, trying to dissuade their captain from this unrealistic and terrifying idea.

"Bring Binks' liquor to your side; like the sea breeze, free and unrestrained, riding the waves?"

As the crowd was making a ruckus, a melodious song drifted closer and closer, and a dilapidated, obviously old pirate ship slowly sailed toward them.

"?!?!"

Everyone's eyes widened; they all heard the singing coming from the ship.

"Is someone singing?!"

Everyone craned their necks, waiting for the ship to get closer so they could see what was on it.

then.

"On the other side of the sea, the sunset is also noisy, and the birds' songs draw circles in the air~"

They watched as a skeleton with an afro sat at a dilapidated round wooden table, drinking red tea while his jawbone opened and closed, creating a musical melody.

The melodious song of the pirates, "Binks' Sake," came from his mouth.

Luffy: "...!!!"

Nami, Usopp, and Chopper: "...!!!!!"

"Yo ho ho ho, we've encountered another new adventurous ship."

Brooke, aboard the wrecked ship, was quite pleased to see new faces arrive.

However, he was clearly celebrating too soon.

Just as he was about to put down his teacup...

"Eek!! A skeleton ghost!!!"

Three extremely sharp screams almost pierced the sky and revealed the sunlight.

"Hey, wait a minute, what's wrong?!"

Brooke was so startled that she almost dropped the teacup, spilling the tea onto her bones.

"I almost burned my skin! Ah, even though I don't have skin, yo ho ho ho?"