Chapter 270 Afro Skull

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There is no sunrise or sunset in the fog, and you have no sense of time unless you look at the clock.

It was unknown how long had passed. Gel only remembered that he had taken a nap between his five meals. After Weeble had eaten more than ten meals, a dilapidated large ship floated in front of them. The skull logo of the pirate ship could be vaguely seen on the sail that looked like a rag.

"This! This is it!?"

Kurokas shuddered all over and stood up tremblingly. He held Lab in his arms and stared at the big ship floating from the distance with wide eyes.

"Meow~!!"

Lab let out a shrill and sad cry, and through tears, the slowly drifting abandoned shipwreck was slowly overlapping with the joyful ship in his memory!

This is the Rumba Pirates' pirate ship! It's so familiar!

"Yohoho, a living human? It's so rare to see one. Excuse me, can I have a cup of afternoon tea? Although I don't know if it's afternoon now, yohohoho."

"Ah! The skeleton is talking! Ghost!"

The two ships were getting closer. Franky, who was standing on the side of a ship and excitedly preparing to board the ship to fight, saw a skull with an Afro on the deck of the opposite ship suddenly speak. He was so scared that he let out a pig squeal and fell down.

Kulokas and Gol looked at each other and shouted excitedly:

"Brooke! Is that you?"

"Oh? What is this??"

Brook was stunned at first, then his dark eye holes became bigger and bigger, and he looked very surprised.

He jumped into the sea, ran quickly on the sea, then jumped high, did a front flip, and landed lightly on the side of the Mingwang.

"Ahhh, it really is a talking and moving skeleton! So scary!"

Several little kids on the boat were so scared that they huddled together, while the other people on the boat looked at the moving bones with great interest.

“Yohohoho~!”

Just as Crocus was about to go forward to shake hands and hug his old friend, Brook straightened his clothes, but did not go to Crocus. Instead, he came to Stella, who was wearing a maid outfit beside Gel, and said after a gentleman's greeting:

"Who is calling my name? Is it this beautiful lady? I have a humble request. I wonder if you can let me admire you..."

Before he could finish, Gel, who knew this guy's character, interrupted him and said:

"If you dare to say anything disrespectful, I promise to grind you into powder and blow you away in the wind to provide calcium for the fish and shrimp in the sea. I just don't know if your Yellow Spring Fruit can revive you a second time."

Brooke took a few steps back in fear, and smiled at Geer with lingering fear:

"What a terrifying human captain! I was so scared that my eyes almost fell out, even though I don't have any eyes. Yohohoho~! Sorry, it was just a joke. I haven't seen a living person in a long time. I was too excited at the time. I didn't mean to offend you."

Ger waved his hand.

"I don't like it when people play that kind of joke on my female crewmates."

"I understand! Please forgive my rudeness."

Brooke bowed to express her apology.

Stella smiled softly.

Seeing that he was still the same, Kurokas slapped his forehead helplessly and said:

"Okay stop it, Brooke. How did you become like this?"

"Ah!! Who are you? Are you Mr. Kulokas from Twin Cape?? Why are you here??"

Brook then turned his attention to Kurokas and shouted in surprise.

"Well, it was Captain Gel who told us that there were still survivors in the Rumba Pirates and that he could lead us to you, so I brought Lab to join Captain Gel's adventuring group."

"Rabb?"

Brooke's eyes were half filled with tears when she heard Lab's name.

"Is the child Labu doing well? Is he still waiting for us to return to Twin Capes? We are sorry for him and failed to fulfill our promise to go back and find him."

"If you want to apologize, tell it yourself."

Kurokas said with a smile.

Brooke was stunned for a few seconds. After he came to his senses, he began to run wildly along the side of the ship with tears streaming down his face, shouting at the sea like a madman:

"Labo? Labo! Where are you? I'm Brooke! Labo!"

Kurokas walked forward and handed the little cat, which was already in tears, to Brook.

Brook stared blankly for a while, then picked up the kitten and said:

"Rabu? You are Rabu??"

"Meow~!"

"Labo! It's really you, Labo! I'm so sorry for leaving you alone and making you wait for us for so many years! You must be very lonely. I have also been drifting here for many years and only then did I realize how terrible it is to be alone. It's really better for me to die with my companions. You must feel the same way, Labo! Wuuwuwu!"

"Meow~!"

"I'm sorry, we broke our promise! We met a powerful enemy and everyone died. I'm sorry!"

"That's right! And this!"

Brook wiped his tears, opened his skull, took out a sound shell, and released the Rumba Pirates' swansong.

"Labu, we haven't forgotten you. Before you died, we sang your favorite song for the last time. They hoped that I could play it for you one day. I didn't expect that I could fulfill everyone's wish today!"

“Yo-ho-ho~ Yo-ho-ho~”

"Binkes wine is delivered to you, just like the sea breeze, riding the waves as you wish..."

A familiar melody sounded, and a skeleton and a cat hugged each other and cried loudly.

On the side, as the eldest sister who boarded the ship first, Bia and her friends told the story of Lab and the Rumba Pirates.

As a result, after listening to it, Franky, who was the most emotional, cried even more exaggeratedly than Brooke and Lab.

"Woooooooo! Assholes! You guys! That's so touching! Woooooooo!"

Infected by this atmosphere, even the steely straight man and hard-hearted Barrett couldn't help being moved. When he realized something was wrong, he quickly put on his headphones and listened to the first battle song, trying to drive away this "nagging" emotion.

He turned around and looked at Weibull, who was concentrating on his training and completely oblivious to the matter, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly that sometimes being a little stupid can be an advantage.

Captain Gill smiled:

"Merit +1"

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"Captain Gul, thank you so much for allowing Lab and I to be reunited. From now on, I will be at your disposal even if it means my death."

Brooke bowed to Gel and said seriously. Gel thought to himself that this oath was too trivial for you. Can't you recover by drinking some milk if your bones are broken?

Both Kurokas and Lab joined Gel's adventure group to go out to sea in search of him, so Brook naturally had no reason not to stay.

"Haha, welcome to join."

Ger had even less reason to refuse.

In my previous life, I often saw people commenting: Hate it! Why do you want to steal the protagonists?

Now it seems so ridiculous. Do you think you are playing a game? This is the reality. Anyone who wants to live, whether willing or not, will either become a chess piece on the board or a chess player!

Naturally, Gel doesn't want to be a pawn in the hands of others, so even if he has no ambition to become king, he has been trying every means to expand his power. Of course, he will try his best to win all available talents to his camp. After all, I have already traveled through time and space, and I still have to think about how to leave room for the protagonist?

Stupid and naive!

Just stay aside~!

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