The Ghost Princess

"Roar! Roar!"

Raspy and violent sounds echoed around the castle. Because of the arrival of the living, the undead who were sleeping here was also restless.

Soon, a monster appeared on the corridor of the second floor.

Even Longinus and Mihawk were slightly surprised seeing this monster because this was a monster in the true sense of the word.

The face belonged to a middle-aged nobleman of about forty years old. But the torso was a tyrannical bear, with hands from mandrill, legs from cheetah, and even wings from the eagle.

The entire life form is like a complete patchwork stitching.

The stitching monster jumped down from the second floor and landed directly on the dining table in front of the two people.

Boom!

This antique dining table naturally could not withstand such an impact and directly exploded.

"I said, this place now belongs to my territory!" Hawkeye said quietly.

The stitching monster, still unaware of the danger, still roared and charged towards Hawkeye.

Bang!

The black blade that represented the highest reputation of a swordsman slashed violently, directly cutting the suture monster into pieces.

"Against this kind of trash, is it also worthy of you to use Black Blade Yoru?" Longinus said with a smile.

"It is too ugly, it is an eyesore to look at." Hawkeye said blandly.

Longinus shrugged his shoulders. Sure enough, ugly is the original sin!

As if stimulated by the smell of blood, dozens of monsters rushed out from corners of the ancient castle.

There are people with eagle heads, lion heads, and snake bodies; in short, it is like coming to a thriller theme zoo in general.

Hawkeye holds a sword with both hands across the slash, instantly will rush in the forefront of a few stitching monsters into meat paste, seemingly powerful slashing, but did not give the ancient fortress caused half damage.

Longinus also did not idle; both index fingers point out the powerful force of Tobu Shigan directly through these monsters' forehead bones.

In less than half a minute, all these scary-looking monsters lost their breath of life.

"I've seen the Marine Rokushiki before, but when used from your hands, the power is really different." Hawkeye said blandly.

"The same swordsmanship, in your hands and in the hands of second-class swordsman is also naturally a completely different power." Longinus boasted to each other commercially.

Just at this time, the crying maiden's sound before sounded abruptly, like a ghost, echoing in the empty hall.

"Horo-horo-horo-horo-horo!! Thanks for helping me take out these disgusting guys, and in return, I allow you to become the knights of this princess."

The hall was dead silent; only the sound of the wind was softly resounding.

Seemingly satisfied with the reaction of the two, the young girl once again spoke out, "Are you frightened by the ability of this princess? Don't be afraid, I won't eat your souls. Of course, the premise is that you have to be good and obedient."

"The little girl who was crying just now, is she starting to fool around now?" Longinus smiled while secretly thinking, why did she appear here?

However, another memory mentioned that Moria lost all his partners in the battle with Kaido before returning to Paradise to recruit people to re-form the pirate group.

Hearing Longinus' teasing, the voice that rang out again was filled with anger, "Bastard bastard bastard! I'm not crying; how dare you mock me? Let's show you what I'm made of it! Negative Hollow!"

Suddenly, many pure white ghosts appeared above the hall, and then, all these ghosts swooped down towards Longinus.

Longinus' eyes glared, and a terrifying aura came out through his body.

"Oooh!"

The swooping ghosts stopped with a sharp brake, and finally, surprisingly like puppies, they fled in all directions with a whimper, scrambling to hide behind some humanoid ghost.

"Bastard bastard bastard!" Gothic loli, whose position was exposed by her ghost, had to reveal herself, and the ghost princess, holding a burgundy umbrella, drifted back and forth in the space above.

"Little girl, who are you? Why are you here?"

"I'm not little!" The ghost princess muttered before she said with her head held high, "This is my home, so I should be the one asking you why you are here! As for me, you can call me Perona."

Although the gothic architecture does resemble her style, there's no reason why she wouldn't recognize her home after being carried away by Kuma in her original path ... Longinus pondered for a moment and then asked, "Are you the princess of the Kingdom of Shikkearu? What about your family?"

"The Kingdom of Shikkearu? What's that?" Perona muttered and then cried out in pain, "Mom and dad were killed by the big fat man, and made into monsters!"

The big fat ... Longinus asked without moving, "Is it a man with a stringed moon-shaped upward curved beard, hair up to his legs, and many stitched wounds?"

"Well! That's him!" Perona whimpered.

"Wait, are you working with him?"

"No, I'm here to capture him."

"Really?" Perona said, semi-convinced.

"Of course it's true." Longinus had a sincere face, "If you compare my style with that man's, you will know that he and I are not on the same side."

"Yeah! You do look much better than him!" Perona looked dazed.

Hawkeye couldn't help but interrupt, "Can someone tell me what the hell is going on here?"

"Simply put, the tragic situation on this island is all caused by a pirate named Edward Weevil, and I came to this island to capture him." Longinus explained.

After saying that, Longinus looked at Perona again and asked, "You said your parents were made into monsters, the ones who were just running around in the castle?"

"Well! Everyone was made into a monster!" Perona said and howled again.

"Is this that man's ability?"

"I heard my father say, he gave the big fatty something called Nui Nui no Mi, which can put the body together and stitch it up at will, and the body can be cut off and can be manipulated remotely through the stitching thread."

Longinus's eyes narrowed slightly; if he guessed correctly, the king of the Kingdom of Shikkearu probably is not a good person.

Previously, Perona did not even know what the kingdom of Shikkearu was and was probably imprisoned in this ancient castle since birth.

And then associated with this kingdom for more than a decade without stopping the war, but never affected the royal family, Longinus has in his mind to conceive a set of crazy anthropologist story.

However, he was not interested in the truth behind this; what he wanted to know was simply Weevil's fruit ability.

"Remote manipulation through the stitches, could it be that this is the reason why he defeated Zephyr-sensei?" Longinus secretly mused, even if Weevil had the power of Whitebeard when he was young, but for characters at the level of admiral, one-sided strength does not determine anything.

Not to mention, Zephyr-sensei has long proved this by defeating Weevil.

With the help of fruit power to stealthily attack, this is the only possible point of victory for Weevil.

PS: Tomorrow should be able to three more ..., right?

Published in Qidian, August 24, 2019