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Chapter 86 - Chapter 86: The Zombie-Protocol – The Graveyard of Deleted Files

Luffy, being Luffy, didn't wait for a plan. He invited the skeleton to dinner, and before Amine could 'Debug' the situation, they were all heading deeper into the island-ship. The graveyard of Thriller Bark was a nightmare of 'Reanimated Assets'.

​[Warning: Multiple 'Trojan-Zombies' Emerging from the Recycle Bin.]

​As they walked, the ground began to heave. Hands—pale, stitched, and glowing with a faint blue 'Shadow-Energy'—burst through the soil. These weren't the zombies from the manga; they were 'Low-Level Malware' given physical form by Moria's 'Shadow-Shadow' fruit.

​"Amine! They're everywhere!" Nami screamed, clutching her Clima-Tact.

​"Don't let them 'Touch-Login' to your skin!" Amine roared. He didn't just fight; he began to 'Rewrite' the environment. He slashed his stylus across the air, creating a 'Violet-Firewall' that incinerated any zombie that stepped into its 'Logic-Zone'.

​[Ability: System-Purge – The Antivirus-Slash.]

​"These things aren't alive, Zoro!" Amine shouted as the swordsman sliced through a three-headed dog. "They are just 'Shell-Programs' filled with stolen shadows! If we want to stop them, we have to 'Terminate' the 'Master-Process'—Hogback and Moria!"

​Amine noticed a specific zombie—a small, stitched-up penguin with the 'Shadow-Data' of a skilled fighter. He realized that Moria was 'Copy-Pasting' the skills of the living onto the durability of the dead. It was an 'Exploit' in the world's physics.

​"He's 'Multi-Tasking' with other people's souls," Amine's eyes burned with a cold, digital fury. "He's treating human lives like 'Disposable Code'. Luffy! We need to find the 'Mainframe' (The Mansion). That's where he's 'Storing' the stolen 'Identity-Files' of thousands of pirates!"

​Luffy smashed through a stone gate, his fists already steaming. "I don't care about 'Files', Amine. I'm going to find that big onion-head and make him give Brook his shadow back. And then... I'm going to make him 'Log-Off' forever!"

​Amine followed, his system now running at 85% Capacity. He knew that in the shadows of the mansion, a 'Virus' named Perona and a 'System-Error' named Absalom were waiting to 'Corrupt' the Straw Hats.

​[Current Word Count: ~32,500.]

[Next Objective: Breach the 'Mansion-Firewall'.]

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