One Piece Volume 46 : Adventure on Ghost Island Chapter 443 Thriller Bark - Page 47 - Ener's Space Conquest, Vol. 13 "A Great Blast" - Page 48 - Brook: Yohohoho!!! Greetings to all!! Top of the day to you!!! I shall be lodging on this ship now! I am "Dead Bones" Brook!!! Pleased to make your acquaintance!!! Crew: OH HELL NO!!! WHO IS THIS?!! Brook: Yohohoho, ferocious young bucks, these fellows are!! - Page 49 - Chopper: It's a skellytonnnnn!!! Usopp: What kind of skeleton walks, talks, and hawks an afro?!! This is a dream; it must be!!! Chopper: Really?! Thank God it was a dream!! Usopp: Evil spirits begone, evil spirits begone!! Brook: Oh, what a charming lady we have here!! Might I have a gander at your pantaloons? Nami: Knock it off, you lecherton!!! Zoro: Luffy, what the hell is this?! Luffy: Isn't he funny? I made him join us. Zoro: No you didn't! I won't stand for this!!! What was the point of you two going along, anyway?!! Oh yeah! It was to STOP Luffy from doing ridiculous crap like this!!! Nami & Sanji: We're sorry. Brook: Yohohoho!! No use getting in a huff!!! Please, come indoors!! Let us eat dinner!!! Crew: This ain't YOUR ship!!! - Page 50 - Brook: My word, what SPLENDID dining quarters!! And such a kitchen!! This is a FAB-ulous ship!! Yohohoho!! Franky: Hell yeah it is! Super-me built it! You got eyes for the good stuff! Sanji: Don't start getting all friendly, Franky. Brook: I'm all a-twitter at the prospect of a good nosh! I haven't dined on a decent meal in decades... I say, it's like my stomach has shrunk down to nothing after all these years. Of course, being a skeleton, I haven't got one!!! YOHOHOHO!! That's a skully joke!! Being a gentleman, I have learned to love the casual delight of "waiting for the meal"... - Page 51 - Brook: Diiiinneeeeer! Oh Diiiinneeeer! Sanji: Shut up and wait in silence!!! Brook: Head Chef!! I would like milk for my mealtime beverage!! Luffy: So anyways, Korobockle... Brook: Ah, my name is Brook, Mr....? I'm afraid I haven't heard your name yet... Luffy: I'm Luffy. So anyways, what ARE you? Zoro: Seriously, do you guys know ANYTHING about each other?!! Sanji: We can kick out the skeleton later. First we eat! Luffy: Moohoooo!! Eat up, Brook! Sanji's food is the best!! Brook: Why... You have all filled my heart even more than my belly...! You seem to have a larger cut of meat than I, madam. Might we switch plates? Sanji: There's PLENTY where that came from, so eat yours first!!! - Page 52 - Crew: "Yomi Yomi Fruit"...?! So it was a Devil Fruit after all... Brook: That is correct! In fact, I died already, several dozen years ago!! Sanji: Clean your face off first. How can anyone get that filthy during a meal? Brook: The Yomi Yomi Fruit has the ability to "revive" (YOMI-gaeru) a person, giving one a second life. A most peculiar power, I must say!! (chk)(chk)(shh-haa)(shh-haa) In fact, I was once a pirate. Oop, pardon! Belch!! Until my ship and my comrades stumbled upon this Sea of Evil...!! Hang on! Toot!! Sanji: God, I wish I could beat some manners into you. Brook: Unfortunately... We ran across some frightfully powerful fellows in the same trade, so to speak, and we were wiped out in battle. Of course, I died during the ordeal!! ...when I was alive, the Yomi Yomi Powers did nothing but rob me of the ability to swim, - Page 53 - Brook: But that day, they made their true worth known. My soul came fluttering back to the world of the flesh from the land of "Yomi"!! (Note: Yomi is the Japanese word for the underworld.) Brook: I should have been resurrected directly back into my corpse, But as you can see, this sea's mist is unnaturally thick, and I became lost. (Yohoho) One year I spent in just my soul, wandering through the mists!! When I finally found my own body, it had already been skeletonized!!! (gyaaaa) I was so shocked my eyes nearly rolled up in my head, not that I've got any!!! Yohohoho!!! Luffy: What a dumbass. Just like Zoro! Nahaha! Zoro: Don't even start. Franky: And that's how you get a talking skeleton! Kind of scary to think that Devil Fruit Powers can even bring a skeleton back to life. Sanji: It's practically a curse. The fruit's already served its purpose. Now you've just got the side effects. Zoro: I didn't think skeletons kept their hair. So how does this skeleton have an afro...? Brook: I had strong roots. Zoro: Well... Whatever... - Page 54 - Usopp: So... So you're not a ghost?! Right?! You're human! Or... partly human!! Brook: Oh yes, I simply can't STAND ghosts!! The moment I see one, I simply scream in fright!! Nami: Have you ever looked in a mirror? Brook: Noooooooo!! No, no mirrors!! Usopp: Huh?! Hey, wait!! Brook: Not a mirror...!! Usopp: Why don't you... Appear in the mirror?!! Luffy: Really?!! CRAAAAYZEE!! - Page 55 - Crew: Y... You're a VAMPIRE?!!! Usopp: And... And look at your feet! You don't have a shadow, either!!! Crew: Holy crap, he's right!!! What the hell ARE you?!! Brook: (sip...) Sanji: No, that's not where you stop and take a sip!!! Usopp: We're all freaked out about you!!! - Page 56 - Brook: The time I have spent floating on this sea... Is far too long to tell my story all at once...!!! The reason I am a skeleton... And the reason I have no shadow are completely different. To be continued. Sanji: NOW!! To be continued NOW!!! Brook: As for my shadow... It was stolen by a man, several years ago. Crew: ...stolen? Robin: ...shadow...? Zoro: Seeing you walking and talking, I'm prepared to believe anything... But is that even possible? Brook: It is. Losing one's shadow means that one can no longer exist in the world of light. - Page 57 - Brook: If I come into contact with direct sunlight, I will be destroyed!! I witnessed a man with the same condition vanish underneath the bright sun...!! It was a sight to give me goosebumps, not that I've any skin. Just as I have no "shadow," which is reflected on the ground in direct light, I am not reflected in mirrors or photographs! In other words, the light has shunned me!! My crew is all dead. I am "Dead Bones" Brook, delighted to make your acquaintance!! Sanji: Talk about cheerful!!! You've had a hell of a life. Brook: Yet here I am, still chipping away!! BONE-chipping away!!! Sanji & Franky: SHUT UP!!! Brook: Yohohohohoho!! Yohohohohoho!! Usopp: What's up with him? Is he cracked? - Page 58 - Brook: What a simply perfect day!!! I've met PEOPLE!!! In such thick mist where you can't even tell when the days go by, stuck on a huge ship with no working rudder, DECADES spent floating on the waves!! I've been EVER so lonely!!! So lonely, and afraid...!!! I wished I could just DIE!!! - Page 59 - Brook: But a long life is a good one!!! People are "pleasure"!!! You are all my "pleasure"!!! Yohohohoho!!! If my tear ducts had not dried and shriveled away, I would be weeping with joy!! And you invited me to join your number!! What a wonderful delight. Thank you so much. But I'm afraid I must decline. Luffy: WHAT?! WHY?! Brook: As I told you earlier, my shadow was stolen. I cannot live underneath the naked sun! This evil sea of mist both traps and protects me. If I were to leave this sea with you, t'would only be a matter of time before my body disintegrated. I must stay here and wait for the miraculous day that I can retrieve my shadow!! Yohohoho! - Page 60 - Luffy: What?! Don't be like that!!! I'LL get it back for you!!! So who took it from you then?!! Where are they?! Brook: ...you truly are a good and righteous man. What a surprise!! Yet I cannot tell you. I could not demand that you ladies and gentlemen, whom I've only just met, die for my sake. Franky: What, the guy's too tough? What's the harm in telling us his name? Brook: No, I cannot... I shan't!! Yohohoho. I don't even know if I shall meet him before the end of my second life. But I am prepared to fight... if we should meet once more. - Page 61 - Brook: But never mind all that!! Let us sing a song!!! For our fortuitous meeting! I am most skilled at my instrument!! I was a minstrel on my pirate ship! Ghost: (loom) Luffy: Whaaaaat?!! Really?!! All right dammit, now you're REALLY on my crew!! Brook: Yohoho!! One fun little sea shanty, coming right up!! GYAAaAaAAaaA!!! Crew: Hey, what is it? Brook: A... A GHOOOOOST!! Ghost: (wheee...) Chopper: Aaaahh!! There's something there!! Ghost: (swishh) Crew: Whoa! What's making that rumbling?!! - Pages 62 & 63 - Brook: My word!! Is this ship already under "surveillance"?!! Observe, my friends!! The gate blocks our way to the fore!!! That is the root of the shaking!! But this is the rear of the gate... Which means...!! Look to the rear, everyone!!! ...did you happen to pick up a floating barrel at sea? Luffy: Oh...!! Yeah, we did!!! Brook: That was a trap! Your ship has been in their sights ever since that point!! Luffy: Sights? What do you mean?! Our ship's been stopped here this whole time. What's an island doing right here?!! Brook: This is a "ghost island" that wanders the seas...!!! THRILLER BARK!!!! - Page 64 - Nami: An island, wandering the seas...?! The Log Pose isn't reacting at all...!! Brook: No, it wouldn't. This island came all the way from West Blue! But what a fortuitous day!! Not only have I met people again, but my wish has come true!! Yohohoho!! Sanji: Whoa!! How does a guy get that light...?! Brook: Yohohoho!!! Dead bones are light, my friend!! You must find a way to break through the gate behind us and escape!!! You must not under any circumstances put your anchor down near shore!!! I will never forgot our happenstance encounter, and the delicious meal!! Thank you all!! - Page 65 - Brook: Faretheewell!! If life permits it, let us meet again someday!! Luffy: Hey!! Wait, Brook!! Zoro: Hang on, you've got Powers!! You can't just jump overboard!!! Brook: Yohohohohoho! Crew: He's running on top of the water!!! Luffy: Whoaa, cool!!! Crew: L-Look, Luffy, let's just do as he says!! I don't know what's going on here, but this place just looks like BAD NEWS!! Luffy: ...huh? You say something? Crew: HE'S RARIN' TO GO!!! - Page 66 - SBS Special, Thousand Sunny F2 (2nd Floor) (clockwise from top) Girls Room (p.187) Kitchen (p.188-189) Food Storeroom (p.189) Ladder Hatch to Surveying Room (p.195) Fishtank (p.196) Infirmary (p.188) Dining Room (p.188-189) - Chapter 443 End -