One Piece: Starting with the Black Hole Fruit

At every step along the Ghost Path, one must bow and kowtow. None who enter the underworld ever return.

In the Underworld, Zhong Kui and Meng Po gaze together at the middle-aged man before the Ghost Gate, dressed in a Sun Yat-sen suit and performing the kowtow ritual. They say coldly, "Your family will never repay the debt from a thousand years ago!" The Ten Yama Kings discuss among themselves: "Someone from that family has come again. Do they want to repay the debt?" "But the debt is too great. They'll never repay it!" "That once-mighty family in the mortal realm was at the height of its power, yet it did such a thing. What madness!"

Deep within the Eighteenth Level of Hell, a coffin bearing the buried Ksitigarbha begins to rumble...

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