Chapter 142

"A ship spirit? What is that?"

Franky immediately patiently explained the existence of ship spirits.

It drew exclamation after exclamation from Brook!

"How amazing!"

"It can actually give a ship its own consciousness?"

"What a truly magical pirate crew!"

This praise made the Straw Hat Pirates all smile without a word.

Crocus said with deep feeling, "Brook, this ship has plenty more wonders. We'll learn about them later."

Furnace Stones, Haki Cultivation Methods, Haki techniques, spatial pockets, Time and Spirit Room teleportation stones......

Any one of these, given to another pirate crew, would be a "secret treasure."

Yet this ship possessed them all!

Simply......

Even more jaw-dropping than Roger and his crew back in the day!

Sanji's efficiency was impressive—a table full of delicious food came out of the pot in no time.

Just one bite, and Brook was thoroughly conquered.

"Yo ho ho ho—Fifty years without eating food, and the first bite turns out to be this delicious!"

"It really brings tears to one's eyes!"

"Although I'm just a skeleton, I can shed tears but have no body temperature, yo ho ho ho—"

Brook's uniquely styled skeleton jokes made Luffy and Laboon burst into laughter.

Very supportive of the act.

Brook quickly hit it off with everyone, as smoothly as if he were destined to become their companion.

The wine was half-drained, the dishes had run through five flavors.

Everyone also raised their own doubts.

"Laboon didn't sink into the sea just now—can he swim on the surface?" Usopp asked in confusion.

Laboon's face was blank.

"I don't know. At the time I was only thinking about proving my identity, didn't think too much...... just like before, I floated on the sea surface."

Sima Di ate his meal in silence.

The more said, the more mistakes; you all discuss it yourselves.

"Laboon is clearly a Zoan user, so he shouldn't be able to swim," Nami said.

"Could it be because Laboon is a whale himself, so he floats on the sea surface?" Usopp guessed.

Whales and other marine mammals don't have swim bladders, but by contracting their chest cavities to compress the air in their lungs, they can achieve the same effect as a swim bladder.

So Laboon was just floating on the seawater?

"No!" Laboon shook his head. "Think carefully—when I entered the seawater I felt no discomfort, and my strength wasn't weakened at all...... it was exactly the same as before."

Ah, this......

Everyone exchanged glances.

What kind of principle is this?

"How about...... tossing some user into the sea to test it? Maybe this stretch of sea is special?" Usopp proposed a rotten idea.

Everyone's eyes lit up!

It's not impossible, is it?

The Devil Fruit users currently on the ship are Sima Di, Robin, Nami, Chopper, Laboon, Luffy, and Brook.

The three Sima Di users were instinctively skipped over by everyone; Laboon had Crocus and Brook watching over him, so Chopper and Luffy became the focus of most people's gazes.

Chopper:? っQ?;)っ

Luffy hadn't noticed any danger yet, and was still "secretly" stretching out his hand, snatching Nami's portion of roast meat in a flash, stuffing meat and plate straight into his mouth.

Nami: (▼へ▼メ)

"Luffy! How many times have I told you! Don't eat the plate!" Sanji was furious.

......... 0 0

Now there was no need to say anything,

Luffy was directly carried out of the dining room by everyone, a rope tied around his waist, and tossed straight into the sea.

"Splash—"

Luffy sank to the bottom of the sea without any struggle, only a few bubbles indicating his existence.

The sight made Sima Di beside him unable to hold back his laughter.

Tch!

You lot really dare to think.

Everyone waited for a minute,

Seeing the rope go taut, Luffy still showed no movement.

Only then did they frantically pull him up from beneath the sea onto the deck.

"Guess was wrong," Usopp said with a serious face.

As if he were really doing research.

"Bastard! I'll kill you!"

"Huh? I'm not the one who chose you!"

Just now, the crowd who had been "accomplices" all chose to turn a blind eye to the beaten Usopp — it was clearly your suggestion, so who else would they hit if not you?

"Come to think of it... can an Island Whale really grow that huge?" Brook asked as well.

Island Whales, as creatures unique to the West Blue, do indeed grow quite large, but they are nowhere near Laboon's level.

"That's right!" Sanji said in sudden realization: "Laboon isn't an ordinary Island Whale, nor a Devil Fruit user — she was also injected with a Sea King modification drug. Maybe that's what gave her back the ability to swim!"

This guess drew nods of agreement from the crowd.

Logical and well-founded — it couldn't be wrong.

Only Brook was still wearing a head full of question marks.

Sea King modification drug?

And what is that?

The considerate Laboon immediately explained it to Brook.

Once again, it drew exclamation after exclamation from Brook!

"That amazing?"

"Sea Kings were actually modified to build the Grand Line?"

Sima Di nodded in great satisfaction.

He was very pleased that they could come up with their own questions.

Seeing Brook like this,

Laboon could not help continuing to "show off" her other experiences to him.

"What? There's also a drug that separates Devil Fruits?"

"Miss Nami's Rumble-Rumble Fruit was obtained that way?"

Laboon's adventure stories made Brook jump with surprise again and again.

Especially the Devil Fruit separation drug!

The Rumba Pirates had once landed on Little Garden too — who would have thought there was an ancient civilization museum beneath that volcano?

Sky Island actually exists?

And the Jiayadao they had once visited — it actually got blasted up to Sky Island by the Knock Up Stream?

In the end,

Brook sighed: "Your adventures... are truly magnificent and stirring!"

What kind of treasure-hunting pirate crew is this?