Chapter 227 - Cybernetic arm!

While Ian and co had started to continue their journey from Wano, an important thing was happening in the marines' headquarters.

Kizaru who had been in a coma finally… woke up!

He slowly opened his eyes that were still a bit cloudy and looked at his surroundings…

No one was in the room right now but he did hear faint voices of people yelling earlier just when he got his consciousness back.

'Must be the nurses…' He thought.

He guessed they were the nurses and they probably went to call his doctors.

'Water…' His throat was parched he looked around searching for water.

He found one by the bed and he grabbed it and chugged it completely down.

He felt better afterward.

He stood up near the bed and started to check his body.

He didn't feel injured at all, and besides a bit of tiredness, he was relatively fine.

Left-arm, check. Right-arm, check. Both legs intact, check. No injuries, check.

He didn't feel any different for a while so his mood was turning for the better… until it clicked for him…

That memory came crashing down on him reminding him of what had happened, and his mistake…

He looked at his left arm in wonder…

As far as he knew there was no person alive who could heal such an injury.

'Then how?' he asked himself.

Right now it appeared just like a normal arm. There was practically no difference. Neither in looks nor feeling.

That is why he thought it had been healed…

But as he clenched his left arm all of a sudden, it changed form and from the wrist, a part opened and a sword started to come out before Kizaru grasped it in his hand.

It was just a short sword, close to 60-70 cm, but Kizaru noticed something else.

He moved his right arm towards it and as he touched it he started to feel weak.

"Seastone… Just as I thought." Kizaru muttered.

He was fine holding it with his left arm, but maybe that was because he was not holding it directly but rather with this mechanized prosthetic arm.

He found it easy to use this arm as if it was his real arm, and soon he was able to control its forms.

He changed it once again and this time it became some sort of gun with a lot of holes to fire from.

The next form he tried was some sort of cannon.

And Kizaru instinctively let his light energy flow through the cannon and a yellow glow started to surround the room while the sound increased.

He was just about to release it when he turned to look at the door of the room. His head titled.

It was then that the same door to the room was opened by Akainu and a doctor following after him…

He receded his energy before the sound and the glow died out.

"Finally you are awake Borsalino!" Akainu spoke up, his facial features as always hard, while he had a cigar in his mouth.

"Yeah… "Kizaru replied.

Akainu then saw his left arm that was transformed.

"I see you have gotten used to your new arm!" Akainu remarked.

Kizaru looked at it and had it change back to a regular arm. Before he gave him a nod. He was starting to like this mechanized arm.

"Anything happened while I was out?" Kizaru then asked.

It was not a lot of time so nothing big should have happened… right?

Akainu's eyebrows twitched for a second.

Kizaru had a bad feeling about this…

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Akainu told him about everything and he even included how Ian had beaten Fujitora and Ryokugyu.

Meanwhile, the doctor checked on him and explained everything the arm could.

He told him that it was made from the newest metal the marines produced based on research done by combining Wapometal and various others.

It could shoot Seastone bullets. And if he wanted to capture someone it could also fire Seastone nets.

The sword as he already knew, was made from Seastone. But what he didn't know was that the hand too can switch to a form where the fingers will be made from Seastones. But only the fingers, while the rest that is connected to him is made from metal.

As for the cannon it was made specifically for him. And it was capable of amplifying his laser attacks.

But Kizaru even though heard all that and was amazed, didn't care as much as hearing that Elene had beaten big mom and killed her.

"That guy was not the one who killed her?" Kizaru asked as his eyes widened…

Akainu shook his head…

"It was not him but the nightmare's sniper: Shadow Empress Elene," Akainu said.

Kizaru knew that Ian was in fact capable of doing that so his reaction was not really extreme to the part about him, though it was surprising that it had happened in the first place. As he had warned them to leave Ian alone. But his fellow admirals did otherwise.

His biggest surprise though came in the form that Elene had beaten big mom and not Ian…

"That crew is crazy…" He muttered.

He took a few seconds to let that sink in before he got his bearings back…

"Didn't I already tell you to leave Ian Louis alone?" Kizaru spoke up as he got up from his sitting position in the bed.

"Tsk. I already gave them the orders, those bastards ignored it." Akainu grumblingly muttered. He had given the order to leave Ian alone. This is the reason he and his crew were not meeting any marine sh.i.p.s recently… But that didn't mean that he was scared of him.

No Akainu had a lot to deal with at the current time, but he believed that with sufficient preparation he could take down Ian. And it was one of his goals as the felt admiral.

"Idiots!" Kizaru shook his head.

Akainu seeing this glared at him.

"Aren't you the same? As if you always follow your orders…" Akainu spoke in distaste.

"While the revelations of what had happened so far are important and serious, what I want to know is what you had decided about that Im?" Kizaru ignored what Akainu said as if he wasn't speaking about him at all… Instead, he brought the focus to another important subject.

Akainu didn't pursue it.

Instead, he did something anyone that knew him would say was impossible.

He smiled.

But it was not just a regular smile. No, it was a bloodthirsty smile that promised pain.

"I have let those two know about this. And we decided to make sure there is no hidden or known single ruler to the world government. The empty throne was named thus for the sole reason to imply no one ruler governs the world. We will make sure it means exactly that." Akainu spoke up.

From his tone, Kizaru could detect that he was excited about that and can't wait for it to happen.

Kizaru though noticed something else…

"So it will be just us?" He asked.

Akainu nodded his head.

"There are three elders left. And this Im. We will not include the marines and it will be a secret operation. There is no need for the whole world to know about this… So it will be just the four of us!" Akainu confirmed.

Four against four…

"We will first take care of the elders alone before we proceed to kill her. I don't believe she would beat all four of us!" Akainu explained to him.

And Kizaru nodded as he looked at his left arm.

Its form changed to a sword once again as he grasped it.

"I don't believe so either!" He slowly spoke each word regaining his usual talking manner.