The Journey of Freedom After the Awakening of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit

The moment those words were spoken, the atmosphere in the hotel instantly became tense.

Thinking of the carnage on the Great White Shark Pirates' ship, everyone secretly warned their subordinates not to provoke Moria, that bloodthirsty madman.

Chapter 9 "Hehe" Perona's Nighttime Assault (Updated every night at 8 PM)

In the hotel room, the little girl lay comfortably on the table with her round little belly, having already finished a single serving of food beside her.

"What's your name?" Moria asked the little girl, resting his chin on his hands on the table.

The little girl wasn't intimidated by Moria's enormous face; instead, she smiled warmly at him.

At the age of two or three, she already had some basic judgment; she knew that the adult in front of her was the one who would feed her.

The little girl clearly didn't know what name Moria was referring to.

Staring at Moria with his adorable big eyes, he kept grinning foolishly.

"Is this guy an idiot?" Moria thought to himself, feeling somewhat annoyed.

"Do you know what a Devil Fruit is?" Moria asked, unwilling to give up. He then offered to explain, "It's a kind of fruit that's said to be very hard to eat, with bright colors and strange patterns."

"hehe!"

Have you ever eaten it?

"hehe!"

Can you talk?

"hehe!"

"Call me Dad!" Moria said, somewhat annoyed.

But before she could finish speaking, the little girl didn't chuckle this time; instead, she replied, "Eh!"

Moria's face darkened instantly. This was intentional; it was definitely intentional.

But seeing the little girl still grinning foolishly, Moria thought he might be overthinking things, and that it was just an accident.

After a moment of silence, Moria tentatively said again, "Call me Dad!"

"hehe!"

"Uh..." Moriah was taken aback, then chuckled, realizing he had been too hasty.

"Alright, let's just pretend this girl can't speak and doesn't understand!"

After thinking for a moment, Moria had an idea and summoned his shadow servant Victor from the shadows.

He first pointed to himself, then to Viktor, and finally to the little girl and then to Viktor again.

what!

This time, the little girl didn't chuckle or say "eh." Instead, she blinked her bright eyes, as if she understood Moria's gesture, and struggled to come to Moria's side.

But trapped by her round little belly from eating, the girl couldn't climb over, and finally rolled over towards Moria.

With a "plop plop," the little girl rolled to Moria's big face, steadied herself, sat up, and then stretched out a small hand to Moria.

He just stretched out his eyes and stared at Moria with his big, adorable eyes.

"What does that mean???" Moria was full of questions. He meant that the girl should use his Devil Fruit ability like him.

But looking at the little hand that was stretching out towards him, he felt that the girl seemed to have understood something else.

However, Moria still extended his index finger and pointed at the little girl's hand.

The instant Moriah's index finger touched the little girl's hand, Moriah felt a chill run through his body, as if something had passed right through him.

Then Moria's expression changed.

thump!

Moria knelt on the ground, pounding his fists repeatedly, muttering to himself, "I want to die. As a transmigrator, I can't beat Kaido, and I'm being whipped by some lowly minions. I'm too weak. I don't deserve to live in this world. I've disgraced all transmigrators."

"I want to die. I haven't taken a single woman yet. How can I face living in this world? I've disgraced the Transmigrator Harem Association!"

I want to die.

"I really want to fuck her!" Moria jumped up suddenly, moving away from the cute, chubby little girl.

After a while!

Teng!

Moria covered his entire body with Armament Haki, then approached the girl who was grinning foolishly, and threatened with a grim face: "Tell me, what did you see?"

"hehe!"

"Don't think I don't know you can talk just because you chuckle. Tell me, are you laughing inside?"

"hehe!"

"No laughing!"

"Hey!"

"Moria."

After a long silence, Moria withdrew his Armament Haki and instructed his shadow servant Viktor, "Put your clothes on. Later, take Perona and wait for me in the mountains behind the town."

"Yes, Master!" Shadow Servant Victor went to the clothes rack next to him, took a hooded trench coat and put it on. Unless you looked at his face, no one would recognize him as a Shadow Servant.

“From now on, your name will be Perona!” Moria said, pointing at the little girl and enunciating each word clearly.

"hehe!"

"You!" Moria pointed at the girl again and emphasized, "Perona!"

"hehe!"

Moria sighed. Oh well, as long as the little guy doesn't make a sound later.

If people find out that he cares about Perona's existence, then what he's about to do will put her in danger.

It's best to be sent away quietly, so no one will know!

If she made a sound and her whereabouts were discovered, and she ended up being killed, then she could only lament her bad luck.

A cold glint flashed in Moria's eyes. Even though he already knew that this was Perona, the Ghost-Ghost Fruit user who would be loyal to Gecko Moria in the future, he would not compromise for her.

Thinking about all this, Moria pointed at his shadow servant Victor and said seriously to Perona, "Wait, you go with this person and don't say a word, understand?"

"Hehe!" Perona replied as always.

This time, Moria nodded. She understood. If she didn't understand, she wouldn't be able to blame anyone when she died.

late at night!

It was a dark and stormy night for murder. Although the moon wasn't dark tonight, but rather very white, large, and bright, it was indeed a night for Moria to kill.

Because the shadows of various buildings and the mountain behind were very clear under the moonlight.

As mentioned earlier, after Moria awakened his Shadow-Shadow Fruit ability, he couldn't transform the surrounding matter into threads or rice like Doflamingo and Katakuri.

However, he can control the shadows of surrounding objects to temporarily merge into his own shadow, gaining powerful shadow abilities.

The moonlight is at its brightest tonight; it's time to hunt. First, we need to send Perona away.

"Take her to the back of the mountain!" In the alley, Moria handed Perona over to the shadow servant Victor.

"Yes, Master!" Victor picked up Perona with both hands and left, hiding her inside his large trench coat.

Perona remained silent, neither crying nor speaking, which made Moria smile. "It seems she just can't speak, but she's not stupid."

Ten minutes later!

Sensing that Shadow Servant Victor had arrived at the back mountain of Pirate Town, Moria went to a secluded corner of the town that was not easily noticed.

"Let's begin!" Moria murmured, his expression solemn. With a thought, the shadow beneath him split into countless thin shadow tentacles, extending into the shadows of the nearby buildings.

Then the shadows of those buildings seemed to come alive, and under Moria's control, they continued to split into countless shadow tentacles that spread outwards.

Under the white moonlight!

From high above, one could see countless shadowy tentacles spreading outwards from Moria's position, densely packed, like countless pythons writhing.

Fortunately, it was late at night, and most people were asleep. Those who weren't asleep were either drinking or exercising in their rooms, so no one had noticed anything unusual yet.

"This consumption is enormous!"

As Moria gained control over more and more shadows, the stamina he consumed using his abilities increased, until he could only replenish his strength by absorbing the life energy stored in the shadows and continue using his abilities.

Thanks to the generosity of those human traffickers like Onig, there are now hundreds of doses of life energy in Moria's shadow.

Each person's dose of life energy can restore Moria to his peak physical condition.

A few hundred people should be enough for him to use his abilities to cover the entire pirate town.

Three minutes later!

Moria's shadow tentacles almost covered the entire shadow of the pirate town, including the shadows of ships anchored at sea, all of which had merged into his shadow and were under his control.

Then, Moria's feet became shadows, merging into his shadow.

In this way, he seemed to become a shadow tentacle monster, able to perceive the situation of the entire pirate town through his shadow tentacles.

“About 60,000 people!” Moria smiled. “That’s quite a lot. They’re all adults, no children.”

Through his shadow tentacles, Moria sensed that over 50,000 people in the entire pirate town were currently asleep.

Around ten thousand people are still active; this is Moria's rough estimate.

The largest number of people at the event were from the Happy Street area, probably around seven or eight thousand.

These people consist of abalone, abalone merchants, abalone diners, and guards from some dark forces.

There were also two or three thousand people, who were pirates drinking in various taverns and tavern managers.

Moriah's shadow deliberately avoided these places.

"Start with those who are sleeping!" Moria thought to himself.

At this moment, in the town, some were sleeping in beds, some on the decks of boats, and some were drunk and passed out on the streets.

Beside these people, two black shadows, like venomous snakes, slithered silently along the ground and walls, approaching them without a sound.

Then it coils up like a cobra, its head transforming into the blade of the black sword, Shusui.