Pirate Control Thunder

"So, it's been so long."

After listening to Nicholas's words, Brooke couldn't help but speak.

Obviously, the sea has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past ten years.

"I didn't expect that the little guys like Whitebeard, Shiji, and Roger who had just emerged back then would have become great pirates sailing the sea."

Nicholas originally wanted to comfort Brooke with a few words, but when he heard these words from Vers, his words of comfort immediately stuck in his mouth.

Indeed, in terms of seniority in the sea, this guy should be the most senior.

"By the way, why did you go to sea at that time?"

Sitting on a stool, flipping through a book about the scenery and people in the West Sea, Nicholas asked.

"Oh ho ho ho ho, becoming a brave sea man is the dream of countless people. And there were many people going to sea at that time. After all, the stories of adventurers like Rolando were widely circulated on the sea."

"Rolando the Liar?"

Nicholas was a little surprised when he heard the name appear in Brooke's mouth.

Umbra Rolando was the admiral and botanist of the expedition team of the Kingdom of Lubnir in the North Sea more than 400 years ago. He is characterized by a large chestnut growing on his head.

During the third great sea voyage, Rolando and his crew came to Gaya Island to escape the storm. They happened to save the Sandia clan who were attacked by "tree fever" and killed the Sandia clan's sacrificial priest.

'God', ended the traditional ritual of human sacrifice of the Sandia clan, and also became good friends with the "great warrior" Calgara who hit it off immediately.

Although Rolando saved Sandia, he did so in order to prevent the recurrence of tree fever and infected the Sandia clan.

Without informing Sandia, they cut down the rotten trees privately, but in the tradition of the Sandia people, the souls of ancestors will return with the sound of the bells in Sandora and attach themselves to these trees.

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Rolando cut down all the "sacred trees" of Sandia, which was misunderstood by the Sandia people as a sinner who violated their traditions and beliefs.

After Calgara issued an eviction order to drive them away, he learned from his daughter Musi the reason why they cut down the tree.

He regretted not being able to see Rolando off in time.

Calgara also agreed with Rolando that he would ring the golden bell every day to guide Rolando's return.

After Rolando returned home, he told the king what he had seen. After that, the king returned to Gaya Island with a large number of soldiers to look for gold. At this time, Gaya Island had been washed up in the White Sea.

Because he could not find the Golden Land and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, Rolando was executed and was also named the King of Liars.

Later, the great liar Rolando became a well-known character in Beihai's fairy tale. The protagonist Rolando was a fool and liar who often lied.

"That's just a fairy tale spread in the North Sea. Anyone who has actually read the voyage diary of Umbra Rolando knows what a respectable navigator he was."

This time Brooke did not bring his habitual laughter, but said it quite seriously.

The two of them also chatted a lot afterwards, but it was obvious that most of the information they could get from Brooke was not very secret. After all, Brooke was not a famous pirate at the beginning, otherwise the Lombard Pirates would not have been completely wiped out.

The Devil's Triangle area.

Even Brooke didn't even complete the first half of the Grand Line.

"Ah, Fish-Man Island? An island located under 10,000 meters under the sea? Are there really beautiful mermaids and ugly fish-men there?"

Brooke seemed particularly interested in the Fish-Man Island mentioned by Nicholas.

"You'll know if you have the chance to see it with your own eyes. By the way, are you missing some bones in your body? And how do you make sounds without vocal cords?"

Nicholas said as he looked at Brooke. Although Brooke looked like a skeleton, upon closer inspection, it was obvious that some small bones on Brooke's body seemed to be missing.

Click.

I saw Brooke cracking his joints with his hands, and then there was a crisp sound of fracture.

"Eh?"

Nicholas was stunned for a moment.

Brooke shook his left arm and said, "Oh ho ho ho, it's actually not a lot. Each of the 206 bones that belong to me is where it should be."

Two seconds later, Brooke looked at Nicholas after resetting the bones.

"As for speaking, there is no problem if you don't have vocal cords, yo ho ho ho ho!"

Hearing the voice coming from him and Brooke's mouth tightening, Nicholas began to ponder a little and said to himself: "Is it the underworld fruit..."

It seems that only the power acting on the soul can do this. In other words, the words Brooke spoke were not emitted by vibrating the air through the vocal cords, but directly acting on the soul.

In other words, if Brooke doesn't want you to hear what he says, he will directly block you. Of course, he must be able to control this power, otherwise it will be like talking among everyone.

"Brooke, are you willing to board my ship to continue the unfinished journey?"

"Eh?"

Hearing Nicholas' sudden invitation, Brooke was slightly startled and said in surprise: "What...did you just say?"

Nicholas smiled and said again: "How about coming to my ship and taking the regrets of all the crew members of the Lombard Pirates to help them complete their unfinished voyage?"

"ah?"

Brooke looked at Nicholas in surprise, who extended an olive branch to him, and hesitated: "But, as you can see, I am like this..."

"I don't care about such trivial things. There are many incredible things in the sea among the giants, long-hands, fish-men, demons, three-eyed tribes, and fur-tribes. A talking skeleton is nothing, so

, want to come?”

Nicholas interrupted Brooke again and extended the invitation again.

Such a sudden invitation made Brooke a little flustered. The unfulfilled dream of his companion was really a very tempting reason.

But he also thought of the agreement the entire Lombard Pirates had made with Rab, and his initially agitated heart gradually calmed down.

"Thank you very much for the invitation, but I'm sorry, I have an agreement that must be fulfilled. Once the agreement is completed, if you are still willing to invite me to join, then I will definitely be willing."

"Promise? Do you mind talking about it? Maybe I can help you complete it."

Nicholas knew very well what Brooke's so-called agreement was, but he couldn't show it. After all, only the Lombard Pirates and Kurokas of the Twin Capes knew about this kind of thing.

Brooke was silent for a moment after hearing this.

Faced with Nicholas, who was willing to take him to complete the mission of killing the other dead members of the Lombard Pirates, he did not hesitate for long before speaking out about the agreement he had made with Rab.

Listening to Brooke's narration, Nicholas looked calm.

After Brooke finished narrating, Nicholas then told Rab's current situation.

When Brooke heard that Rab had been constantly hitting the Red Continent at the Twin Heads, trying to enter the Grand Line to find them, leaving himself scarred.

His mouth was open, and tears welled up in vain from his empty eyes.

"Yo ho ho..."

He couldn't suppress his emotions, he didn't know whether he was happy or heartbroken, he just laughed and cried at the same time.

After all, they originally agreed with Rab that they would definitely return to Twin Capes in three years and take him on a trip with him, but they broke the promise, and it was more than ten years since they broke the promise.

"Yo ho ho ho ho... It turns out... Rab has been waiting for everyone to go back!"

Nicholas silently looked at Brooke who was venting his emotions.

Nicholas waited until Brooke's mood calmed down slightly and looked at Brooke and said seriously: "Brooke, if you want to go back to Twin Capes, I can help you now."

"..."

After hearing Nicholas' words, Brooke slowly closed his mouth, looked at Nicholas with a serious expression on his empty and dark eyes, then shook his head and said seriously.

"A man never looks back, let alone what's more, I want to... abide by the agreement with Rab and meet Rab again from the 'front'!"