Chapter 496

For a time, the sound of fighting echoed over the Sunny war-chariot.

At this moment, Brook moved suddenly and actually disappeared directly in front of the many men in black.

"Where is he?"

The men in black were surprised, but before they could react, they heard Brook's voice from behind them.

"Ah, you guys are really impatient; do you want to sit down, have a cup of tea, and have a good chat?"

At this moment, Brook was holding a cup of tea, slowly approaching the crowd, and then placed the teacup in his hand on the table to the side.

"This... how is this possible, how could your speed be so fast?"

"Brothers, let's keep attacking!" The men in black shouted in shock.

Brook smiled disdainfully: "My slash is already finished! Humming Three-Verse—Arrow Tail Slash!"

Only a cold light flashed, and all the men in black were slashed to the ground.

"Ah, eh! I forgot to ask who you guys are!" Brook said, looking at the men in black lying all over the ground.

In the prison cell where Nami and the others were being held.

Sanji kicked the surrounding wall; the hardness of the wall made his foot feel a bit of pain, which showed how sturdy the place was.

"Bastard!"

After seeing the scene before him, he couldn't help but curse, his mood very irritable.

"Hey! Sanji, what are you doing?" Franky, who had been in a coma, was also woken up by the sound Sanji made.

He rubbed his head and sat up from the ground.

"What happened? Why do I feel so dizzy?" Franky looked around in confusion.

"Are you awake? Our current state is obvious, right!" After Sanji finished speaking, he kicked the wall a few more times, seemingly wanting to kick the wall to pieces.

"Us?" Hearing Sanji say this, Franky realized the seriousness of the problem: "What happened to us? Why are we in this place?"

"Franky! It's not good! We've all been locked up!"

Chopper cried out beside Nami, his face pale.

Nami's face was the same, except she was still keeping conscious.

"I remember we seemed to have fainted after smelling a puff of smoke; someone released sleeping smoke on us!"

Nami used all her strength to lift her head, her gaze fixed on everything around her.

"That's right." Sanji nodded and answered Nami's question, and told her about the series of things that had happened before.

"I see..." Nami took a deep breath and forced herself to stay calm.

Her palm gently stroked Chopper's little head: "Let's stay calm for now; since the other party dared to take us away, they must not be afraid of me. Besides, Luffy and the others are still outside."

"I see..."

Chopper lowered his head, gritting his teeth tightly.

"Imperial Guard? Embroidered Uniform Guard? Or some underworld force? It's really troublesome not knowing who the enemy is!"

Sanji scratched his head in distress; he always felt like he had fallen into a huge crisis.

"No, where did that guy Brook go? Wasn't he fainted along with us?"

Suddenly, Sanji reacted; their team was missing a member.

"Could it be that the enemy had no interest in the skeleton and didn't bring him up?" Chopper asked in confusion.

"That situation is also possible."

Sanji frowned and pondered.

Then everyone heard a strange voice: "I say, you guys, do you like playing jigsaw puzzles?"

"Who? Who is talking?"

Sanji screamed, looking around vigilantly, but nothing unusual happened.

"Don't look anymore, I'm right beside you."

"Who on earth are you?"

Nami clenched her fists, staring fixedly at the surroundings, her whole body's nerves tense, ready to act at any time.

Everyone followed the sound and finally discovered the source of the voice.

The one making the sound was a pile of severed heads.

But these wounds had no blood flowing out, and the cuts were neat, as if they had been cut by a sharp weapon.

"What is this thing?"

Nami and Franky were both scared.

【Brothers, seeing this thing, and the half-section of the body behind Luffy before, I have a bold idea!】

【What idea? If you can say it, say it, don't keep people in suspense!】

【That's right, say it!】

【Brothers, don't be impatient, please note, do these wounds look like the ability of that Ghost Doctor Law?】

【!!! The person above seems to have hit the truth; is Law here too? Didn't he save Luffy before?】

【Perhaps this town has even bigger secrets!】

"Damn it, what on earth are you?"

Sanji and the four of them ran to these strange creatures and sized them up carefully!

"Who I am is not important; what's important is that I want you to help me! Also, I'm not 'what thing'; what you see are my heads; can I trouble you to help me assemble them?"

The words of these creatures were very human-like, making Nami and the others doubt their own ears.

"You say, you are human?"

"Hmm-hmm~ that's right~"

"What happened to you? Can this appearance still be called human?"

Nami asked tentatively; after all, this was truly too bizarre.

"This is a long story; please help me assemble them! Please!"

These heads seemed to be begging Sanji and the others, hoping they could help them put themselves together.

"Alright, I'll do it."

Nami stretched out her hands and began to assemble these head fragments, just like a jigsaw puzzle; every piece joined together as if they were connected.

Soon, she was finished.

In front of them was a head that looked a bit discordant; the left and right eyes seemed to be reversed, and the mouth also seemed to be put on backward.

"I say... does this look a bit wrong?" Sanji pointed at the appearance in front of them and laughed awkwardly twice.

Nami shook her head to indicate she didn't know.

"This is definitely wrong; I don't look this ugly!" That head made a sound of dissatisfaction.

"Hehe! Let me try!" Franky rubbed his hands, intending to try it himself.

But the head Franky put together was even stranger; the nose was on the mouth, the tongue was in the ear, and both ears were drooping on the sides of the cheeks.

"Hahaha! This is too ugly, right?" Seeing this, Sanji laughed loudly, mocking his failed work.

The others also covered their mouths and giggled; this kind of jigsaw puzzle was truly too ugly.

"I say, don't use other people's heads as toys!" That head couldn't help but complain anymore; where did these people come from, why was their playfulness so heavy!

"Uh, sorry, sorry, I thought this would make it look high-class; I didn't expect it to be this ugly." Franky coughed dryly and laughed sheepishly.

"Alright, alright! I'll do it for you again; this time I guarantee you'll be satisfied."

Sanji waved his hand and began to piece together this head again.

After a while, he finally pieced this head together perfectly.

"This time it's finally a person! Right, why can a severed head still talk!"

Sanji looked at the head next to him.

"Because that guy used a terrifying technique! I thought I would die after my head was cut off! But I didn't expect that I would actually be able to survive!"

"But this is an insult to a samurai! I would rather die than be insulted like this by others!"

That head roared angrily, filled with anger and grief, and thick hatred.

But let's talk about Luffy and the four of them on this side.

They were walking toward the world of ice and snow.

The fire town and this ice and snow world were separated by a river, and they had to cross the river.

But just as they got close, they felt a cold wind blow, making them shiver.

Luffy and the four of them couldn't help but pause their steps; this temperature was truly too eerie.