Chapter 173 - 173. A Wandering Spirit (2/2)

But this one is fine. Oh wait...

He checked again and found wisps of energy slowly vanishing from the spirit.

I... want to... sail...

Leo was thinking what to do when he heard a voice in his head. He quickly understood that it was from the floating spirit.

”Who are you?”

He asked through his spiritual sense.

It took several seconds before the voice replied.

Merry? Isn't that the name of their ship?

Leo was familiar with the ship of strawhats. It was included in the reports he got.

He was confused for a while before he thought of something. His eyes widened in surprise.

Shinobu who was beside him sensed the changed in him and asked, ”What's wrong?”

Leo didn't reply, he stared at Luffy and his crew before saying, ”These guys are really something.”

He told her what happened and Shinobu also widened her eyes in surprise.

”Their ship gave birth to a spirit?”

Leo nodded, ”The conditions for an inanimate object to birth a spirit is very stringent. There are no set rules to follow, however there is one one concrete rule that is a must. The object must be deeply attachments to it's owner.”

”The chances for an object to birth a spirit is very high when the emotions it's owner has for it is pure and unconditional.”

Shinobu asked back in surprise, ”Then how is it possible for the emotions of several people give birth to a spirit?”

Leo stared at the strawhats and said with smile, ”That's why I am very interested in this crew. Their attachment to their ship is so pure and unconditional that it resonated with each other, and created a spirit.”

”Ah, spirit resonance. That explains it.”

Leo opened his palm and grabbed at Merry's spirit. His 'Breath' gently flowed through his palms.

No one saw his action. He grabbed Merry and walked out.

”Garp-san, see you later.”

Garp looked at Leo curiously. He saw what Leo did but he didn't know what he did and frankly he was too lazy to ask about it.

He waved his hand, ”Yeah, just go away.”

Leo smiled and left.

Right after Leo left Zoro woke up. He felt a sharp pain in his head. A second later it faded away and he looked around.

”Where is he?”

He asked.

Chopper was standing close to him and heard him.

”Zoro, you woke up!”

”Chopper, where is he?”

Zoro asked again.

Chopper said, ”He left.”

Zoro didn't say anything and laid against the wall. He thought back to the moment when he pushed Leo to take a step back.

I finally took a step forward.

Walking back to the docks Leo stared at Merry's spirit in his hand.

Only he could see it through his spiritual sense. To others he was just walking around with his palms spread out.

”What are you going to do with it?”

Shinobu asked curiously.

Leo grinned, ”Since this spirit separated from it's body, it's safe to assume that their ship is gone. So they must need a new one. I am going merge this spirit with their new ship.”