90: Chapter 90: Brook with the Afro Makes His Debut"A ghost!" Usopp screamed, his vision rolling back as he fainted.Nami and Vivi trembled, hiding behind Luffy, peering tentatively at the skeleton on the ship.The skeleton removed its top hat and politely greeted them, causing the two girls to scream again and shrink back, too afraid to look.Uta, however, wasn't so frightened; instead, he watched the skeleton with its afro with interest.But where there's courage, there's fear.After the initial panic subsided, those interested in the moving skeleton stood on the ship's railing, ready to go and see the intriguing skeleton on the ghost ship.Usopp, now fully conscious, was clinging to Zoro, who was about to go with him, crying and begging Zoro to stay and protect them."Alright, alright, how about this?Let's draw lots.Whoever draws the longest one gets to explore that ship," Sanji said, pulling out several sticks.After praying to Buddha, God, and the heavens, Usopp drew the longest one, looking at his hand.Usopp fainted with a groan as the long staff was pulled away.Seeing this, Ries couldn't bear it and exchanged staffs with him.Finally, the Ghost Ship expedition team consisted of Luffy, Uta, Sanji, Nami, and Ries.Nami, who arrived at the bottom of the Ghost Ship in a small boat, clung to Luffy the entire time, too afraid to look up.No matter how much Luffy comforted her, she refused to get down.Sanji, with a lovesick expression, declared that he would definitely protect Princess Ries.Ries gripped her staff tightly; if that skull made any move, she would definitely send it on its way with a fireball."Yohohoho, I'm so happy!After all these years, I've finally met living people!I'm so happy I'm about to cry!Ah, although I don't have eyes to cry!" The group who boarded the Ghost Ship looked at the dancing skull with indescribable expressions.At this moment, the skull saw the three beautiful women and immediately stopped.After polishing its shoes, it walked up to the three women and bowed elegantly."Beautiful ladies, please allow me to admire your panties."
Then, the afro-haired skull got a good beating from the three girls.Sanji, realizing what was happening, immediately pointed at Brook lying on the ground and yelled, "Never mind that!Who the hell are you?And why does a skeleton like you have such an afro?"
Brook stood up abruptly, gracefully walked to the stool, sat down, and elegantly took a sip of red tea, saying, "My name is Brook.As you can see, I'm a musician.As for why my hair is an afro, that's because my hair roots are very strong." Sanji, unable to bear it any longer, was about to teach this unreliable skeleton a lesson when Luffy quickly stopped him, grinning and inviting Brook to become his partner.Under the incredulous gazes of Sanji and Nami, Brook agreed."So, you guys are going to stay here for a while after your adventure?" Zoro said, pointing at the wolfing-down Brook with a dark face.Behind him stood Usopp, dressed in his exorcism suit.Brook, Chopper, Sanji, and Nami looked ashamed, and even Jarvis fell silent, as its database contained no information about such a creature.After a hearty meal, Brook finally revealed his identity to everyone: "I am a resurrected person who ate the Paramecia-type Revive-Revive Fruit.After I ate the fruit, it only turned me into a landlubber who can't swim.Back then, my pirate crew launched a human attack, and I died in that battle.That's when the Revive-Revive Fruit took effect, pulling my soul back from the underworld.However, I got lost in this foggy Devil's Triangle for a year, and when I finally found my body, I was already like this."
Brook was gesticulating wildly as he talked, but Luffy wasn't really listening.He was busy figuring out why Brook, as a skeleton, could still eat.Brook admitted he didn't know either, only that he hadn't eaten for years and, although he felt extremely hungry, he hadn't starved to death.Then Usopp noticed that Brook had no shadow."You say you're not a ghost?Then why don't you have a shadow?" Usopp cried out in fear.At the same time, everyone noticed that their reflections were in the dining room mirrors, except for Brook's.Brook's face darkened, and he stammered, unable to speak.Suddenly, as if sensing something, Brook frantically pushed open the door and ran outside.Everyone followed him outside.A huge island was slowly moving towards them.Brook trembled as he looked at the island, and as if making a decision, he leaped off the Sunny.To everyone's astonishment, he quickly ran across the sea, disappearing into the mist.His target seemed to be that island."Luffy?" A sigh of relief escaped Luffy's lips.Usopp then noticed Luffy taking to the air.To Usopp's bewilderment, Luffy flew towards the slowly moving island.Usopp weakly stretched out his hand in the direction Luffy had gone, as if pleading, "Come back!We can't take this!" The group reluctantly prepared to row their small boat to find Luffy, who was terrible with directions."Wait a minute, come with me!The Sunny's secret weapon can finally be deployed!" Franky mysteriously led the group to the Sunny's mist weapon storage area.In the empty space at the bottom of the ship's hold, Franky pressed.A button was pressed, and a door marked with the number three slowly opened.As the lights came on, everyone saw a familiar figure docked there.Usopp excitedly ran into the room, and seeing the familiar goat's head, tears streamed down his face.This small sailboat was the Going Merry.Franky, at Luffy's request, had used materials from the Going Merry when building the Sunny.After the Sunny was completed, seeing the remaining goat's head, Franky simply used the remaining Adam Wood and the goat's head to build a smaller Going Merry.Although it could only carry four people, it was enough for Luffy's group.Upon landing on the island, Luffy predictably got lost.Seeing himself back in the same spot, Luffy couldn't help but complain about the system's lack of a map function, nearly causing the system to self-destruct and take him with it.The system, which had worried endlessly about its host since childhood, had already enabled a map function for Luffy, but even following a map, he still got lost.Seeing that its host's tendency to get lost was hopeless, the system simply disabled the map function.Luffy complained as he searched for his way, encountering many strange creatures that tried to cause him trouble, but he purified them all with his flames.Watching the dark shadows drift away from the charred remains, Luffy became interested, pondering whether he should kill Moria and steal the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.After all, such a powerful fruit ability would be a waste on Moria.