A Cook, A Doctor, A Ghost and A Ronin.

En Garde

Firstly, Uzui is shocked at what he is seeing. His jaw dropped. He had never sees something like this. A tall skeleton, wearing white kimono appeared at the end of the hallway. What makes Uzui much more dumbfounded is the fact that the ghost  got an afro. How the hell did he got an afro even though he's a skeleton?

Most importantly, why is there a skeleton inside the Voyager's mansion. Is it actually a ghost? Uzui thought. He didn't take his eyes off the skeleton at all. The skeleton seems to be carrying a cane.

No. There's no such thing as ghosts that exists in this world. It must be some kind of trick that one of the voyagers tried to pull off on him to scare him away. Like hell it worked on him. That must be a prop that they found somewhere and controls it like a puppet!

Well then, Uzui get along with their little games and reveal their tricks on controlling the skeleton. The skeleton crept closer and closer to Uzui. Uzui need to admit, the prop that Voyagers made is really tall!

"Now, can you please leave this mansion?" The skeleton politely asked Uzui to get out from the said property. Uzui is stunned at how the skeleton talk. He started to have doubts. Is this thing a ghost or just a fake?

Thinking back again if demons exists, spirit's existence won't be too far fetched to be called nonsense, right. It's all just a theory, but Uzui needs to beat it before knowing what is actually is. This might actually be a real spirit!

"No can do. If you really wanted me to leave, you need to do it by yourself! And make sure you drive me out flashily!" Uzui posed with his blades on his hands, with sparkles radiating out from the Sound Hashira.

Brook scratches his afro. He is confused by Uzui's behavior. This guy just breaks in to their house. After he got spotted, he JoJo posed. Is this how every Hashira is? If so, they're really bunch of weirdos.

Brook noticed that someone broke in their house. He exited his body and wanders around in specter form. Then, he noticed the Sound Hashira that's peeking from the roof. Brook is curious at why a Hashira is spying on them? 

Brook thought that he should greet and surprise the Hashira for fun, but he gets a better idea. And that is to really scare the hell of Uzui. He asks Uzui to leave as Brook didn't really have any intent to fight him. 

Then Uzui replied that there's only way to kick him out of the house. Oh dear, Brook is not a fan of much violence. He prefers to negotiate beforehand. Violence is only used when there's no choice left usually.

Hearing the answer, Brook realizes that this could only end one way. Well, this is his chance to fight one of the Hashiras. He haven't fought one before, so he really wanted to know how strong is Uzui.

"Well, should we take this outside? Then, we could have more rooms. We didn't need to hold back." Brook suggested that they took this business outside. So they don't have to hold back in the cramped hallways.

"After all, neither of us want to wake them up." Uzui didn't expect that. The skeleton could inform and wake the others, but he chose not to. Uzui didn't understand that. The skeleton knows what is worrying Uzui the most.

Uzui nodded. He agreed with Brook's suggestion.

"Then, shall we? Follow me." Brook turned his back on Uzui then he took a step leading Uzui to the outside. Uzui just follows him. Uzui could just attack him right now, but he didn't. He felt that it is disgraceful. He unsheathed his swords.

Outside, Zen Garden

Brook and Uzui stand tall on their feet outside of the mansion in the Zen garden under the beautiful night. Both of them stand 10 meters away from each other. They stared at each other for a few seconds until Uzui decided to open his mouth.

"Why?" Uzui asked. He didn't understand.

"Hmm? What is it?" Brook wondered.

"Why don't you just wake them? That way, you could screw me over." Uzui knew that he went against all three of them, he won't stand single chance at all.

"You see, Law-san just came back from Butterfly Mansion treating the sick. He's really tired from everything that had happened. Same could be said to Sanji-san." Brook know that they are very tired. He did not want to disturb their rest.

"I do not want to disturb their rest. I hope you can understand." Brook hope that Uzui could understand his reason.

"You're pretty considerate, even for your enemy." Brook is considerate in Uzui's eyes.

"Aren't we allies?" Brook didn't see Uzui as his opponent. Brook thought of this as a spar, but with real swords instead and injury that could case death.

"Sound Hashira, Tengen Uzui?" Brook spoke of his name. Uzui didn't seem surprised.

"Oh, you know my name, huh?" Uzui replied. 

"Of course I did. There's one question that I really wanted to ask you. What are you doing here? Why are you spying on us?" Brook demanded an answer. He knows?! Uzui thought.

"Wait, do you by any chance....swing the other way?" Brook questioned. The questione make Uzui boil in anger.

"I'm not into guys!!" Uzui shouted. He's married for god's sake and why the hell did he is accused by that?! He's married to a three beautiful woman already!

"Oh, I see. Sorry. I thought you swing that way. Then why the hell did you peep at us?" Brook interrogated. If he's not gay, then why is he here?

"You know what? Forget about it and let's cut to the chase, okay?" Uzui told Brook to forget what happened and focus on their fight. There's no need for any useless questions.

"I hope you could put up some challenge. Don't bore me." He told Brook to put up a fight. Uzui sheathed his swords. 

"Yo-ho-ho-ho-ho! Pretty bold, eh? Very well then." Brook find Uzui's provocation to be amusing him. The Sound Hashira is pretty confident with his abilities, eh?

"En garde." Brook sheathed his cane sword. Uzui raised his eyebrows. So his cane also doubles as a blade. Pretty cunning.