Chapter 75

[Dorry P.O.V.]

After a long time of walking, we finally came across a promising looking room.

We entered the room through a big gate.

"Don't tell me that those are giant spiders!?" said Brogy

"I think it's better if we go back to the Captain and say that we couldn't find anything."

"Yeah, good idea."

*BOOM*

When we turned around, the gate shut in our faces.

I suddenly sensed all the spiders running towards us.

I smiled at Brogy

"I guess we have no other choice."

He smiled back.

"Guess not."

I readied my sword and shield. Brogy also readied his ax and shield.

The spiders jumped towards us.

*WOOSH*

*WOOSH*

*BAM*

*BAM*

We smacked them away with our shields.

*SLICE*

*SLICE*

We started cutting up every spider in our way.

[15 minutes later]

"I killed a total of 3459 spiders." said Brogy

"I guess that means that we're tied right now. So let's see who will take the win."

We both looked up and smiled.

We saw a massive black spider with a red cross on his back that is just as big as us.

*WOOSH*

He suddenly shot a cobweb from his arse towards us.

We easily dodged his attack.

*BAM*

It jumped onto the ground.

'Alright, I can probably take it down with one attack.'

"Busoshoku Haki!"

I looked at Brogy who's ax suddenly turned black.

"Ey, that thing is mine!"

My sword also turned black.

*WOOSH*

*WOOSH*

We ran towards the massive spider.

"Get out of my way! This guy is mine!" screamed Brogy

"We'll see about that!"

*SWOOSH*

*SWOOSH*

We swung down our weapons onto the spider who looked terrified.

*SLICE*

*SLICE*

*BOOOOOOM*

We slice the spider and ground in pieces, making us fall through the floor.

I looked at Brogy while we were falling.

"Uh, so have you learned that thing called Geppo yet?"

"Uh, what is Geppo?"

'We should have fought less and actually trained.'

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

We fell through the floor and then fell onto another one that stopped our fall.

"Argh. We actually survived." said Brogy

"Yeah, just barely."

We sat up and saw everyone staring at us.

"Yo, Captain."

"Sigh. Why is everyone suddenly dropping out of the ceiling? But to fill you in quickly. The metal guys don't die, and Robert and Sabo are fighting against a wolf that is beating their ass."

"So we can fight as much as we want?" asked Brogy

"Go ahead."

"Yeah, let's do this!"

We immediately went for the big guys.

[Ken P.O.V.]

The giants suddenly started fighting against the 7 metal giants I was occupied with.

'I guess I can take it easy now. Robin read some ancient writing on the walls, and it said that we need 3 gems to unlock something. Laffitte has given me a blue one, Sabo has a purple one, and there is supposed to be a 3rd one which is red.'

I suddenly saw something shining inside of the spider carcass.

I walked up to it and looked at the shining thing.

'Shit! Why did it have to be inside the spider? Wait!'

"Robert! Come here for a sec."

"I can't! There is something chasing me!"

*WOOSH*

I appeared above the wolf and stomped on its head with Haki. I pointed my sword at its head.

"Make one wrong move, and you're done."

It glared at me but didn't move.

"Robert, there is a red gem inside of that spider. Get it for me."

He nodded and used his Devil fruit to take it out of the spider's body. He threw it to me, and I caught it.

"Sabo."

He threw me the purple gem, and the wolf started to become restless.

I jumped off the wolf and walked towards the middle of the room. All the enemies in the room suddenly focused on me.

I looked at my crew.

"If any of those bastards touch me, you guys are going to pay for it."

They quickly nodded, and Robert created a shadow dome around me.

I looked at the ground.

'There's supposed to be three holes where I can put the gems.'

After a little bit of looking, I spotted it. I placed the three gems inside the holes, and a pair of stairs down suddenly appeared. The torches inside it suddenly lit up.

'Let's see what all this effort was for.'

I started walking down the stairs, and a pungent smell of blood immediately hit me. The further I walked down, the stronger the smell got.

After walking for about 5 minutes, I was about to throw up when I finally made it to the end, and the smell completely disappeared.

*COUGH*

*COUGH*

*COUGH*

'What the hell was that all about? It smelled so bad.'

I looked around in the room I ended up in and saw a coffin. There was nothing in the room except the coffin.

'Did I really come all the way here for a f*cking dead person!'

I walked around the coffin, and I saw a name tag on the top of the coffin.

"Vlad Bathory. You have a cool name, my dude."

"Thank you. What's your name?" asked Vlad

"My name is Ken."

"Nice to meet you, Ken. How are you doing."

"Nice to meet you too. I'm doing fine. How are you…"

It suddenly just hit me.

I jumped back.

"You're still alive!?"

"Dead people don't talk."

*SHIIIIIIING*

I took out Shusui.

"So, you're the guy that sent all those guys after us."

"Well, you guys were the ones that broke into my home."

"Well, sorry about that. We are kinda stranded here, and we came here to find a way out."

"Stealing my gems, killing my pet spiders, threatening my pet wolf, and messing up my metal soldiers. Does that sound like just coming in to find information?"

"They attacked first."

"Because you guys are intruders."

"Tsk. You're annoying."

"Do you want to fight!"

"Let's go! I'll cut you and your stupid coffin in half!"

"Wait, don't!"

"Why?"

"If you destroy this coffin, this entire island is going to explode!"

"That's smart. If the World Government stumbled on this place, it would have been an easy way to wipe all of you out."

A massive amount of killing intent suddenly came out of the coffin.

"Don't speak out their name in my castle!"

"Hahahaha, while you're stuck here in this castle, they are out their living life."

The killing intent intensified.

"When I get out of here, I'll kill you and those bastards!"

"Ey, calm down, dude. I also hate them. I'm probably at the top of their kill list after all the shit I've done to them."

"I see. Then I have no business with you."

The killing intent completely disappeared.

"Behind the castle, there is a hidden underground tunnel that takes you out of here. Take your people and stop destroying my home more than it already is."

"Thanks. We'll go right after I repay you."

I grabbed the coffin lid and tried to take it off.

"What are you doing, you idiot!?"

"I'm getting you out of here."

"You idiot! This isn't some normal coffin. Otherwise, I would have long been killed by those bastards."

"ARGH!"

Dark red energy suddenly started entering my body.

"WHAT IS THIS SHIT! IT F*CKING HURTS!"

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[Nice job, Ken. Who goes and tries to open a coffin with a talking dude inside of it.]

(I just realized that I hit 100k words on this novel. So how about you guys be kind and donate me some power stones.

This time not for any girl. But just for your kind Author.)

Anime Quotes:

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