After completing the 'transaction' with Moria, Link's group settled down on the Thriller Bark.
Since the castle had been destroyed by Link, he used 'Wood Style: Six Rooms and One Hall Jutsu' to create a house.
Outside the wooden house, a small tree was planted.
But this tree had a face growing on it, which was none other than Gecko Moria's.
That's right, this tree was also a jutsu, called... Wood Style: Tree Bind Eternal Burial.
This move could be a killing move, or a sealing jutsu, equivalent to a more advanced version of the Smothering Binding Technique.
The person sealed inside the tree not only couldn't move their body, but the moment their stamina recovered, it would be absorbed, keeping the target in a constant state of unconsciousness.
Link used this Wood Style move to seal Crocodile and Blueno in the brig of the sailboat.
He only needed to give them a little nutrient solution every day to keep them alive.
"Lord Captain, when are we leaving here?"
Outside the wooden house, Perona was kneeling on the wooden floor of the pavilion, massaging Link's legs, and asking with a fawning expression.
Looking at the sycophantic Perona, Link couldn't help but pat her twin-tailed head, as if stroking a pet, and smiled, "Don't be nervous. Although I'm not a good person, I'm not one to go back on my word."
"Since you've become my companion, I won't do anything to Moria, who has been kind to you."
"The reason I sealed him is only because I'm afraid you'll attack Carina."
"After my business is done, I will let him go and leave him a sum of money to start over."
After speaking, Link pinched Perona's small face and teased, "Instead of flattering me, you should be apologizing to Carina right now. After all, you made her lose a lot of face earlier."
"Hehe... Actually, she's already forgiven me," Perona said, sighing in relief and sticking out her tongue.
After a short period of getting along, Perona had a preliminary understanding of Link's group.
She had thought it would be the beginning of a nightmare, but unexpectedly, after some questioning, the attitude of those four 'sisters' towards her changed, and they were so easy to get along with.
Perona, who had been well-protected by Moria and was as innocent as a blank sheet of paper, quickly accepted them. Now, she was only afraid of Link.
Now that she had Link's guarantee, the innocent Perona was completely relieved.
Little did she know, she had been completely handled!
Robin and Carina, with their astonishing experience, had seen through the girl's innocent personality and her severe lack of love with just a little questioning and Perona's answers!
Perona, who was picked up by Moria when she was young, was undoubtedly happy.
But at the same time, she was also lonely.
Staying on the Thriller Bark since she was a child, and having been in the Florian Triangle for ten years, Perona didn't even have a single person her age to talk to.
For this reason, she could only keep a zombie doll as a companion.
Robin and Carina saw at a glance that Perona desperately longed for friends.
So Robin and Carina took the initiative to let bygones be bygones, leading Nami and Vivi to show goodwill towards Perona.
As victims of the Negative Hollows, they didn't need Link to explain why he wanted Perona.
The ability of the Hollow-Hollow Fruit was simply too overpowered.
If Link hadn't known about the Hollow-Hollow Fruit's ability, he probably would have been hit too.
If he had even a little less information, it was very likely that they would have been wiped out by Perona alone.
For such an ability to appear on an enemy was undoubtedly terrifying.
But if it was on their side, it would be filled with a sense of security.
So after discovering how innocent Perona was, Carina and Robin, who were initially wary of her and thought she was a time bomb, tacitly cooperated with Link.
Link was responsible for being the bad guy, using force to intimidate Perona so that she wouldn't have any thoughts of resistance.
They, on the other hand, used a candy offensive to make the innocent and love-deprived Perona quickly rely on them.
At that time, they would slowly resolve Perona's fear of Link, and this girl with an overpowered ability would be theirs.
Back to the main topic—
After getting a guarantee from Link, Perona, who was terrified of him, immediately found an excuse to go into the wooden house.
Link didn't mind, his eyes fixed on the diary in his hand.
The diary was filled with writing, and the content was precisely... the Haki cultivation method.
While the four girls were questioning Perona, Link had secretly used the lives of Perona and Hogback to threaten Moria into giving it to him.
This Haki cultivation method was very comprehensive. Apart from not having the advanced applications of the three types of Haki, it recorded how to awaken Armament Haki and Observation Haki, as well as the initial methods of using the three types of Haki.
That's right, the three types of Haki.
This diary even had techniques for using Conqueror's Haki.
From this, it could be seen that Moria once had the qualities of a king.
Thinking about it, it made sense. As the former Hero of the West Blue, who could compete with Kaido, who had eaten the Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Form, and was rooted on Onigashima, for the territory of Wano Country, if Moria didn't have Conqueror's Haki, he wouldn't have been qualified.
Perhaps because he had obtained the cultivation method for the three types of Haki so easily, Link felt a little regretful.
If only Moria had stayed in Wano Country a little longer and dug up more 'treasures.'
In that case, he might have been able to get Wano's Ryuo, which was also an advanced application of Armament Haki, from Moria.
But being able to obtain the method for using Conqueror's Haki was an unexpected joy.
Next, he just had to wait for the key figure to appear, and Link could start the next step of his plan.
At this, Link slowly stood up, then formed hand seals, and his body erupted with a substantialized blue aura of chakra.
Whenever this blue aura appeared, it meant that Link was consuming a huge amount of chakra.
Usually, when Link consumed such an astonishing amount of chakra, he was using Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence.
But this time, Link did not use Deep Forest Emergence, but...
"Wood Style: Wood Clone Jutsu!"
Two sections of branches extended from Link's back, quickly forming two Wood Clones.
After creating two Wood Clones with a huge amount of chakra, Link lifted his chin and said, "Go!"
The Wood Clones nodded, then both vanished in a flash.
From a bird's-eye view, one would see the two Wood Clones turning into afterimages, leaving the Thriller Bark and the Florian Triangle in opposite directions.
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