Chapter 382 Brook officially joins the Straw Hat Pirates

"Hey, you two." Luffy looked at the two of them, "Just now you seemed to say you knew something, what you saw?"

"Humph." Upon hearing this, the two men immediately followed suit.

"Don't ask such ignorant questions." said the thin man.

"The most important thing is that everyone is safe." The fat man followed.

As they spoke, the two of them walked aside with the pretentious guy.

"Okay, I really want to say it."

"Man, the glorious deeds of a man, endurance..."

"What, what happened?" Luffy looked at the backs of the two people in confusion.

"Pfft..." Robin covered his mouth and laughed secretly.

……

"I'm starting!" Soon, the banquet began in the ruined atrium.

Everyone was having fun, when suddenly, the sound of a piano was heard. Everyone turned their heads and saw Brooke sitting in front of a golden piano and playing it.

"Oh, is there a piano in this room?" Luffy said to Brook.

As the music started, everyone started dancing.

"Aren't you a violinist?" Sanji asked as he walked to the piano.

"Yohoho, I can play all the musical instruments." said Brooke.

"Really? You play it very well." Sanji exclaimed.

"Well, come to think of it, I saw it too." Brooke said in a low voice, "I was moved by your actions. It's great to have companions."

"Don't talk about the two of them, I just acted stupidly." Sanji said.

"No, you have the same awareness. Do you want to listen to a song?" Brooke said, "If you want to."

"Any song will do?" Sanji asked, "Then..."

Without waiting for Sanji to choose a song, Brook pressed the piano keys again and started singing.

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

"Didn't you ask me to choose the song!" Sanji growled with his fangs.

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

"Binx's fine wine, delivered to you..."

"I will ride the wind and waves and swim..."

"The waves are surging, the setting sun is moving, and the birds are singing, cutting through the sky..."

Hearing the music, everyone jumped up happily.

"It's Binks's wine. No wonder I feel like I've heard it somewhere before." Robin said, "It's such a nostalgic song."

"Hey, Brook, I know this song." Luffy said to Brook while lying on the piano, "Shanks and the others sang it before."

"Hey, all the pirates in the past would sing this song." Brook said, "No matter when they were sad or happy."

"I'm talking to you, you'll be our companion, right?" Luffy said, "Shadow is back too, so we can sail even if the sun shines on us."

"There's one more thing I haven't said about this," Brooke said.

"What is it?" Luffy asked.

"I have a promise with my companions," Brooke said, "I must fulfill that promise first, otherwise I will not be a man."

"Ah, you mean about Lab." Luffy said, "I know, I heard about it from Franky and the others."

"Ah, yes, Lab." Brook looked up at Luffy, "It's a whale with that name... on a certain cape..."

"So, Brook, we met Laboon at Gemini Cape, really." Luffy said with a smile.

"Huh?" Brooke's piano stopped playing in surprise.

"We know that Lab has been waiting there for 50 years, waiting for the return of his companions." Luffy said.

"Hey, Skeleton, what's wrong with you? The beat of the piano has slowed down." someone shouted next to him.

"So it was surprised when it found out that the survivor of the pirate group it was waiting for was you, and you still remembered the agreement. If Lab knew that, he would definitely be very happy." Luffy said.

"Wait, wait a minute, yo hoo hoo, what a surprise, this is too abrupt, have you really seen Lab?" Brooke asked.

"Yeah." Luffy said.

"It's been 50 years! Is Lab still waiting for us at that cape?" Brooke asked in disbelief, "Really?"

"We are also witnesses." Sanji and Usopp came over, and Sanji said, "We have indeed seen it."

"Is it alert?" Brooke asked in a low voice.

"Very energetic." Usopp said with a smile.

"All that's left is like a mountain," Sanji said.

"I really want to meet it. When we said goodbye to it, it was only as big as a boat. It was very cute." Brooke said, "Although it was a little disobedient, it was a good kid who loved music. I can still remember its appearance in my mind..."

"when……"

Brooke pressed the piano keys heavily, raised his hands to his face, his eyes blurred with tears.

"Really? Is it very energetic? Wow..." Brooke cried, "I have never been so happy as today..."

Brook then tells his story and pulls out a sound shell from his head.

"Awesome, is this how it is built?" Usopp and Sanji opened their mouths wide as they watched Brook take out a shell from his head and place it on the piano.

"This is a sound shell that I bought from a merchant ship a while ago. It's a rare shell that can preserve sounds and then play them back," said Brooke.

"Oh, it's something from Sky Island." Luffy said.

"You know?" Brooke asked in surprise, "If I want to see Rab, I will play it for him and carry it with me all the time. Even though I am a skeleton and have no body."

"Did you record any sound?" Usopp asked.

"It's a song," Brooke said, "the song of our dead companions before they died. This is for Rab. It's the message that we have ended our happy journey. Can we put it down now?"

"Ah? I'd really like to hear that." Luffy agreed happily, "Labo will definitely be very happy."

"So..." Brook flipped the switch on Yinbei.

From Soundberry came the Rumba Pirates, a once-in-a-lifetime chorus, also their swan song.

"Oh, we can sing this song together." Laura said when she heard the music.

"Oh!" everyone responded.

“Yo hoo hoo~ Yo hoo hoo…”

Everyone started singing and even dancing.

"Lab, if you have been waiting there for 50 years, can you endure for another one or two years? I also have the ambition of a pirate. For you who are waiting on the cliff, I will abide by my promise and meet you again from the front." Brook whispered to himself.

"Hey, Skeleton, aren't you going to sing anymore? Sing it again, sing it again." The music stopped and the people from the Victims' Association shouted.

"This is the song that my companions and I sang with all our lives. It was the last chorus of the Rumbar Pirates." Brook picked up the sound shell and said, "I have been drifting alone in this dark and foggy sea for 50 years. I don't know how many times I have heard it. Alone on this sea, this song is the only one that can make me feel that there is life outside of myself. But today I have made a new decision in my heart. I want to seal this sound shell."

Everyone looked at Brooke, only to see him pull the bandage off his forehead again.

"Seal!" Brook opened the skull and threw the shell in.

"Ah!!! Is this really the structure?!" Usopp and Sanji shouted in unison.

"Hahaha!" Luffy's eyes were full of stars.

When Brook sat at the piano again, Luffy climbed onto the piano again.

"Got it. Laboo is waiting very energetically. Shadow has also returned and escaped from the Devil's Sea. The songs of everyone stored in this sound shell are no longer songs that I remember for the past alone. These are songs for Laboo." Brook said while playing the accompaniment, "There is not a day without pain. To be honest, I can't see any hope at all. But, Mr. Luffy, I, I, I am so glad that I am still alive!"

Brooke cried and said, "It's so great to be alive!"

"Of course." Luffy said with a smile.

"Because of days like today..." Brook looked at Luffy and said, "Can I be your partner?"

"Oh, sure." Luffy said without hesitation.

"Ah! It's so easy to join!" Everyone in the Straw Hat Pirates complained loudly.

"Hehehe..." Robin laughed.

"Long live the musician!" The Straw Hat Pirates picked up Brook and threw him into the air again and again. "The musician, the musician who died and only bones were left, the long-awaited musician, the very light musician."

"Your light body is also an advantage." Usopp said.

After saying that, he and Chopper threw Brook out.

"Yes, I only have bones." Brooke said happily.

Luffy was so amused that he clapped his hands and couldn't stop laughing.