Somewhere in the Devil's Triangle.

In the thick fog, a pirate ship with many decayed and cracked hulls and sails like rags drifted with the current.

"Yo Ho Ho ......"

There was a burst of laughter over the wrecked ship.

On the cracked deck of the ship, a set of tables and chairs are placed.

A skeleton man with an explosive head and a black gentleman's uniform sat at the table.

Among his pale, visible phalanges, he looked quite laid-back, holding a steaming cup of teacup.

The laughter that spread through the fog came from his mouth.

"Yo ho, it's another pleasant evening."

The skeleton man held up his teacup, took a sip, and then looked up at the mist flowing above, as if he could see the orange-red sky beyond the mist.

In the sea area of the Devil's Triangle, there is a thick fog all year round, and it is difficult to see a ray of sunlight, let alone a clear sky.

In this environment, there is no way to grasp the time of day by the change of sky.

If you stay for a long time, your sense of the flow of time will gradually become confused.

But this skeleton man is clearly unaffected.

Because, in this lonely environment where he spends his days like years, he can only relieve the loneliness in his heart by counting the seconds.

For nearly 50 years, every day.

"Yo Ho Ho ......"

The Exploding Head Skeleton slowly got up with his teacup in his hand and walked to the side of the ship, staring at the fog ahead of him while raising his glass of hot tea.

Until the cup of hot tea bottomed out, the skeleton man remained silent, staring at the mist.

There was only darkness and hollowness in his eye sockets, and it was impossible to detect his emotions clearly.

After a long time.

"45 degree angle!"

The skeleton-man's body leaned forward in vain, his forehead resting straight on the ship's side railing, causing the elongated skeleton to form a straight 45-degree angle to the deck.

"Yo Ho Ho ......"

The skeleton man held his position, looking down at the deck in front of the ship's side railing.

"Eh???"

Suddenly, as if he had seen something incredible, his mouth opened wide.

"Bang."

The missing teacup in his hand fell off the deck and shattered into several pieces on the spot.

It was the last teacup on the ship that could be used to make tea, and its preciousness was self-evident, but the skeleton man didn't even look at the broken teacup, but stared at the faint shadow beneath him.

"My shadow, back......"

The skeleton man looked at his shadow and muttered to himself.

"That powerful swordsman...... Knocked down? What the hell is going on over there? Well? Could it be ......?"

He straightened up suddenly, looking up at the sky in disbelief.

About an hour ago, he vaguely heard the movement of some kind of behemoth whizzing over the sky.

I thought it was an illusion, but soon after, the same sound came from the air in the same direction.

The skeleton man didn't know what it was.

But the shadow returned without warning, and he couldn't help but think about it.

Thinking of this, he first glanced at the furnishings of the ship, used many things as references, and then reluctantly found a general direction.

"I remember coming in this direction......"

...........

Terror three-masted ship.

In the cold hall of the mansion, Maude kept waving autumn water, trying to familiarize herself with the feeling in the little time before the war.

Compared to the lower-grade Chidori and the ferret transformed by Bailey, the length and thickness of the autumn water are superior, and the weight is also one level higher than that of the Chidori and the ferret.

In addition, the sturdiness is a few streets away from Chidori and Stoat.

After all, it is a twenty-one big fast knife, and it is a black knife tempered by domineering.

"It feels really good."

Maude looked at Qiushui's black-purple blade with satisfaction.

It is worthy of being a national treasure of Wano Country.

With this famous knife, the power of the slash can be at least doubled.

Needless to say, in terms of suppressive power, the sturdiness of the Qiushui knife body alone, supplemented by the domineering of the armed color, when fighting with weaker opponents in short combat, it is not a problem to destroy people's weapons.

Moreover, Qiushui is heavier than ordinary knives, and when the knife is deadlocked, as long as you have a slight advantage in strength, you can rely on the weight of Qiushui to further transform and amplify the output rate of power.

Being able to get the autumn water, Maude is satisfied.

The only thing I feel sorry for is that I can't get Ryoma's sword experience.

Taking a step back, the only person on the island who can provide Maud with a clear experience is Moria.

Maude didn't come purely for experience, so he didn't think much about it, and with a flip of his wrist, he put Qiushui back into the sheath and hung it on his waist.

It was also at this time that Maud noticed a noticeable change in the blade of the ferret.

The length, thickness, and width of the blade, as well as the knife pattern on the handle and body, are all highly similar to those of Qiushui.

“……”

Maud watched in amazement at the change in the ferret.

Just after a fight with Ryoma, did Bailey's ability proficiency improve by a cut?

When he was originally transformed into a ferret, Bailey couldn't take into account many details of the blade, and it was difficult to even visualize the handle, let alone the neat knife lines.

Can ...... now

Looking at the weasel blade, which looked similar to Qiushui, Maude raised his eyebrows slightly.

This guy can't be jealous, right?

Maud thought silently.

Bailey was indeed jealous.

But he will not be jealous further except for trying to make the appearance of the blade similar to Qiushui.

Not far away, Philo glanced up at the shadows on top of the pillars.

The spider rats that had been there before were all gone.

Philo withdrew his gaze and came to Maude's side.

"Maude, what's next?"

Philo followed him all the way, and basically did nothing.

She wasn't interested in fighting, and she was happy to watch when she didn't need to make a move.

In fact, she was more interested in the various plants in the forest than in the enemy's mansion.

Maud didn't respond to Philo's words immediately, but looked at the garden beyond the collapsed wall.

"I can't sit still......"

Maude's eyes glowed red, and she quickly untied the bags of salt on her body and threw them to Philo on the side.

Philo caught the salt and tilted his head slightly, looking at Maude, who was dozens of centimeters taller than her.

"Philo, those zombies in the mansion, please clean them up."

"No problem."

Philo nodded.

At this moment, there was a dense flutter of wings outside.

I saw a swarm of dark and eyeless bats falling from the sky and gathering in the garden outside the ruins of the wall.

Maude looked at the group of bats calmly and said lightly, "Go ahead." ”

Philo glanced at the sudden swarm of bats, and walked to the depths of the mansion without looking back.

...........

Click-Click

In a wide corridor inside the castle, Lafayette danced his cane with one hand, and as he walked, the thick heels of his leather shoes landed on the floor of the brick-paved corridor, and he could not help but make loud footsteps.

The stout Jim walks side by side with Lafayette.

When the two of them walked, they were not in a hurry or slow.

In the corridor behind them, there were quite a few zombies lying around.

"Ho ho, the main force of the zombie group that Maude said is not here."

Lafayette stopped what he was doing, tucked his cane behind him, and looked up slightly at the gate at the end of the corridor.

Suddenly, several white ghosts pierced through the side of the corridor wall and flew towards Lafayette, who was closer to the wall.

The moment the ghost was about to touch Lafayette......

Lafayette noticed this, and hurriedly stepped back in time, narrowly avoiding the three ghosts.

However, Jim, who was walking side by side with him, was pierced by the three ghosts.

Immediately, Jim lay on the ground as if he had lost his strength, his face full of negativity, muttering something to himself.

Jim's instantaneous loss of combat power was seen by Lafayette, and a sense of jealousy could not help but rise in his heart.

"That's ......"

Lafayette lifted her hand to press the brim of her hat and raised her gaze slightly to look at the negative ghosts floating above the corridor.

"I can't even perceive what I see and hear, and once I am penetrated by a spirit, I ...... through my body."

Out of the corner of her eye, Lafayette glanced at Jim, who looked powerless, and a chill flashed in her eyes.

"Without the information provided by Maude, the consequences would be unimaginable, but after the details are exposed, it will be nothing more than that."

While thinking about it, Lafayette suddenly drew his sword out of its sheath and turned around and slashed out a sword qi.

In an instant, the sword qi crossed a distance of dozens of meters and hit a girl wearing a gothic dress and a pink double ponytail.

It's just that the incomparable sword qi penetrated the girl's body straight and disappeared into the darkness at the end of the corridor.

"Hmph."

The girl snorted coldly, glared at Lafayette, and then secretly manipulated the negative ghost to pounce on Lafayette's back.

As long as the negative ghost can be used, the stinky man in front of him who looks like a vampire will lose his ability to resist like the bear lying on the ground.

In the end, it is natural to accept their shadows!