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Deciding that you should probably break the awkward silence. Though you're not sure who to talk to. But then Lyda starts tugging at your suit and points meekly at the living pile of bones. That should be good enough.
"Hey. Skellington."
"Erm. Me?"
"Ye. Have we met before? I can't remember. I hit my head a lot recently."
"Erm. I believe we did but briefly."
"Are you related to Soul King by any chance?"
"Actually I am him. I've been performing as a minor celebrity for the better part of the last two years. Yohoho!"
"Cool!"
"HNNNNNNG! Enough! Ask him how he's moving NOW!"
Lyda erupts impatiently.
"Sheesh."
"Yohohohoho! Are you interested in me young lady? Why thank you very much for your attention. I will answer immediately! But may I ask something in return?"
Stitches nods.
"May I see your pan-"
The skeleton then gets beaten into the ground by all the ladies around. Fearing for him Lyda digs him out and makes sure that nothing happened to the remarkable specimen.
"T-Thank you young lady. You're a real life saver! Now... what were you asking? I believe I may have suffered a concussion."
"W-Well. I would like to know how it is possible for you to move around like that without any connective tissue is all."
"Ah. I have a very simple answer to that."
Soul King then stands up on the table and starts musically shouting.
"The secret is THE SOUUUUUUL~!"
"E-Eh?"
"I know it may be hard to believe but I ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi. It's a legendary fruit which allows the person who eats it to resurrect once."
"A-And it revives you as a skeleton?"
"Ah. No. You see this was a little mistake. When my soul returned to the land of the living my ship was stuck in the Florian Triangle, a quite foggy area. And well, I couldn't find my body until it was nothing but bones. But through the magic of the fruit I was still reborn! At first not even I could believe my own eyes, even though I have no eyes to speak of YOHOHOHOHOHOHO!"
"Ah. That makes sense. That falls in line with standard Devil Fruit behavior."
"E-Eh?"
"Still. To think there are multiple fruits that interact with something incorporeal as the soul."
"M-Multiple?!"
"Erm. Mister Soul King Sir. May I-"
"Y-Yes?"
"May I-"
Lyda gulps.
"May I DISSECT YOU?!"
"WHAAAAAAT?! NONONONONONONO! WAIT A MINUTE! Even though I don't have any flesh I still can't let you dissect it! That is way too scary!"
"Please! Pretty please! I simply must know how the soul functions! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!"
"NO! NO! NO! I REFUSE!"
