Chapter 20 Newcomer Moria
After carrying the unconscious Moria back to the boat and throwing him directly onto the bed in an empty room, Gel and Weeble went back to their rooms to sleep.
I'm not worried about anyone dying at all. This guy has such a good physique, this minor injury should be healed by a good night's sleep.
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The next day
"Huh? Where am I?"
"Damn it! My head hurts!"
Moria woke up, covered his dizzy head and slowly climbed out of the bed, looking at the unfamiliar room with a dazed look.
"Hey!"
Moriah walked to the window and gently pushed it open with his right hand. A beam of dazzling sunlight shone on his face. As the user of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, he didn't like sunlight very much.
Moria had to stretch out his hand to block it in front of his eyes.
After adjusting to the light for a while, he slowly opened his evil triangular eyes.
All I saw outside the window was the deck and the blue sea, and I was temporarily sure that I was on a ship.
Moria opened the door and came to the deck, where he saw four people gathered together eating barbecue, including the two people he met last night!
Moriah's face was solemn.
Did I really get knocked down by that muscular man with a punch last night?
Is this really happening? This is not a dream!
Thinking clearly about the cause and effect, Moria could not help but take two steps back. When he was hesitating whether to run away, he heard Gel calling out to him:
"Hey! Lao Mo, you're finally awake. If you don't wake up, you'll miss lunch. What are you still standing there for? Come over and have lunch with us!"
Biya and Fate were also a little surprised to see Moria:
"Wow! So tall! Even taller than Lord Weeble!"
I don’t know where Captain Gul picked up such a giant.
"Hey, my name is Moonlight Moria! Not Old Mo. Also, I don't want to sit with you guys for dinner! We don't even know each other!"
Moriah spoke in an arrogant tone, and he had obviously forgotten that he was a person who had just woken up after being knocked unconscious by a punch. He walked out while speaking.
"Hey, hey, hey, Lao Mo, you seem to be being polite when you say that."
Gel stood up with a skewer of barbecue in his hand, and looked up at Moria, who was much taller than him.
"Also! You should call me Captain Gul now! Or are you, a 7-meter-tall sea man, going to go back on your word and become a person who doesn't keep his word?"
Gel's aura suddenly rose, with a hint of domineering aura leaking out.
"I…"
Moria's heart skipped a beat, as he then remembered that before the fight, the two sides had agreed that whoever lost would become the other's younger brother!
He hesitated, his face flushed red.
I agreed to the bet, and the other party won fairly. In addition, I was not harmed or imprisoned after I fainted, so the other party had shown enough sincerity.
Moria finally felt that he could not betray his promise, and he said awkwardly:
"Captain G...el!"
Wen Yanger's expression eased a little, and he handed the barbecue to Moria and said with a smile:
"Hahahaha! Welcome to join us, Moria. From now on, we'll be a family!"
"Hey, family?"
Moria took the barbecue and silently said the word "family" in his heart. He felt that it was surprisingly good. He opened his mouth wide, took a bite of the barbecue, and then exclaimed:
"Delicious! So delicious! How can it be so delicious!"
Moria's eyes widened. He swore that he had never eaten such delicious food in his life.
After eating a piece of marbled, tender and juicy roast beef, every cell in his body seemed to cheer for joy. He immediately felt that the pain in his neck and his dizziness were gone!
After finishing the skewers in his hand in two bites, Moria could no longer wait to apply to join the dinner. He sat down with a familiar manner and began to wolf down the food with both hands, without any courtesy at all.
"Haha, Uncle Moria, your eating habits are even uglier than Brother Weeble's."
Bi Ya said with a smile.
Moria didn't care about his eating manners. He babbled something indistinctly and continued to eat the meat in big mouthfuls.
Everyone laughed at his inexperienced look. Weeble had a serious look on his face, and when he saw that there was one more person eating, he quietly quickened his hands.
"Boss! What's the name of our pirate group? We have such a strong lineup, we will definitely be famous in the sea in the future!"
Moriah asked as he stuffed meat into his mouth.
"We are not a pirate group, we are an adventure group."
"Hey, aren't you a pirate? Never mind, it doesn't matter. You're the captain and you decide."
"Hahaha, don't worry, there is definitely a future for you if you hang out with me!"
After saying that, Gel bought five bottles of ice cola from the system mall, three in cans and two in 5-liter plastic bottles, otherwise they would not be enough for Weevil and Moria to drink.
"Beer~"
The sound of opening the lid of a carbonated drink is always so pleasant to the ear.
Gel raised his Coke and said:
"Come on! Cheers! Let's celebrate that we have a new partner today!"
"cheers!"
"Gudong, gudong!"
"Hey!"
After taking a few sips of happy water, Gel burped comfortably.
"Come on, Lao Mo, say something."
Hearing the boss' words, Moria reluctantly put down the big pig's hoof in his hand.
I thought, why are you suddenly speaking when you can't eat the delicious meal?
He quickly swallowed the meat that filled his mouth, burped, and said with a smile:
"Everyone, please take care of me. As a newcomer, I will work hard to become stronger and protect every member of my family! I will kill whoever Boss Gel tells me to kill!"
“So reliable!”
"Well said! Applause!"
Everyone continued to chat and laugh while enjoying the food!
At this moment, perhaps only Gel knows that a real man like Moonlight Moria can really risk his life without hesitation to protect his family!
In the next few days, in addition to making training plans for Weevil, researching new dishes with Uncle Fate, helping Bia with housework and eating snacks together, Gel spent most of his time teaching Moria to practice Haki and discussing some ideas about the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.
For example, Moriah's Shadow Revolution, the principle is that the shadow and the entity are synchronized, so when the entity makes an action, the shadow will do the same action. Shadow Revolution reverses this phenomenon and controls the shadow's actions to make the entity make the same action.
In the original work, Moriah once used this skill to sneak his shadow into Oz's shadow, and then control Oz's shadow to change shape, allowing Oz to change his body shape at will just like a real rubber man.
Gel's idea was to see if it could be used on the shadow of a living person, to control the enemy by controlling the enemy's shadow, just like Mingo's parasitic line. If he couldn't control it, it was okay to imprison the enemy, and it would be good to freeze the enemy's shadow and make the enemy temporarily lose the ability to move, while he himself could still move. It was much stronger than the Nara clan's shadow imitation ninjutsu.
There is also Shadow Warrior, which allows the shadow to swap positions with the main body, which is very useful when dodging the opponent's attack. Moria's own shadow can obviously split into countless black bats, so can each of the split bats be able to swap positions with the main body? It would be great to develop it into a weakened version of Flying Thunder God.
There is also the shadow box. Moriah turns his own shadow into flying bats, and then surrounds the target with these bat shadows, forming a black box-like cube to trap the opponent. So, can this skill be made bigger and stronger to directly open a shadow field like the room of the surgery fruit, where it is dark and convenient to do whatever you want.
And… and…
After listening to Gel's crazy ideas, Moria's jaw almost dropped to the ground. Are there so many awesome uses for the Shadow-Shadow Fruit? Why didn't he think of it before?
"Hey, boss, why do I feel like you are more familiar with the Shadow-Shadow Fruit than I am? You didn't intend to kill me and become the next Shadow-Shadow Fruit user, so you did a thorough study of this fruit!"
"Get lost! I've said so much to you that my mouth is dry. If you can't develop even one of them, I'll blow your head off."
Gel cursed with a smile.
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