One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

I should seek advice from my father.

Or rather, if her father saw Luo Xia touching her head, he would definitely punch Luo Xia in the face.

In Bonnie's memory, her father, Big Bear, would fight anyone who tried to hurt her without hesitation.

But this time, for some reason, Big Bear didn't seem inclined to beat up Rorschach.

So Bonnie just sat there dumbfounded, without resisting.

Luo Xia felt a little embarrassed, but if he withdrew his hand now, it would seem like he was doing something wrong.

So he could only continue patting Bonnie's head, putting on a natural, elder-like expression.

As he touched it, Rorschach got the hang of it.

It's very easy to handle, and it feels very obedient, almost like petting a cat...

Looking at Bonnie, who had been touched so much that she had turned back into a little girl and was now shyly looking down.

Rorschach thought for a moment and decided to continue.

Oh well, let's just treat it as petting a cat...

He composed himself, coughed, regained his composure, and continued the previous topic, looking at the bear as he said:

"Big Bear, I suppose you already know, that's right, Straw Hat Boy is the person your Bakania tribe has been waiting for for generations."

I understand why you wanted to save him. Whether it was based on your own expectations or your feelings for your comrade, your actions were perfectly justifiable.

But I want to tell you that people need to save themselves, rather than placing all their hopes on others and passively waiting for some vague and uncertain fate.

He glanced at Bonnie, who was listening in a daze.

"Think about Bonnie, can you really bear to let her live alone in this world?"

Even if the savior you've been hoping for really appears, would Bonnie really want to live with him, or with you, her father?

The sun god is a god, and gods can be worshipped as a faith, but ultimately they are not family.

Bonnie, one of Rorschach's underlings, trembled slightly, her eyes reddened, and she looked up at Big Bear with a tear-streaked face, her voice choked with sobs, "Daddy, are you... leaving Bonnie again?"

After a long silence, the bear's mountain-like body trembled. He stretched out his large hands, picked up Bonnie, and held her in his arms.

“Daddy will never leave Bonnie.”

Tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, which were hidden by the brim of his hat.

Large tears streamed down his rock-like cheeks, dripping onto Bonnie's head and wetting her pink hair.

The modified metal parts inside his body suddenly emitted a sharp alarm, accompanied by a large amount of black smoke billowing out of the bear's body.

The bear's body became stiff, and its movements became stiff as well.

But the tears welling up in her eyes didn't stop; instead, they increased.

Those cold, emotionless metals seemed to be resisting the intense emotions rising in the bear's heart, trying to drag him into an abyss and turn him into a killing machine devoid of emotion and self.

Bonnie seemed to sense this as well, and she buried her face in the bear's arms and burst into tears.

She felt her father's warm and broad chest gradually becoming cold and hard.

This feeling terrified Bonnie.

"Dad! Daddy!"

She called out to Big Bear loudly, tears streaming down her face.

She suddenly turned to look at Luo Xia, crying and pleading, "Big brother, please save my father! You are the all-powerful hero that Sister Lark talked about. Are you Nika, the sun god in my father's story? Can you save my father? I don't want to lose him again."

Rorschach sighed and stood up.

“I am not Nika, the sun god, but... I’ll give it a try.”

He leaped behind the bear, placing his hand on its back. Tiny arcs of electricity emanated from his hand, penetrating deep into the bear's body to investigate the cause of its strange transformation.

With the amplification of the lightning power, Observation Haki allowed him to perceive the modified body structure of Kuma with exquisite detail.

As time passed, Rorschach's brow furrowed more and more deeply.

Bonnie looked at him nervously.

Noticing Luo Xia's expression, her heart sank further, and the light in her eyes dimmed.

Just as Bonnie was about to despair completely, Rorschach stopped what he was doing, turned around and shouted.

"Luo! Come here for a second! Hurry up!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Bonnie saw a familiar figure suddenly appear beside Big Bear, holding a long, slender sword.

Bonnie was startled at first, then her eyes widened in terror, and she cried out, "No! You're the bad person who hurt Daddy!"

Rorschach reached out and touched a spot on the bear's back, saying to Rorschach:

"Luo, here, in his heart, there is an abnormal node. That should be the device that caused the bear to gradually lose its self-awareness."

Try to see if you can remove it without affecting its normal operation.

I don't want those old bastards to find out I did this.

"Don't worry, I can make sure the heart beats normally even after I take it out, let alone just a component."

Luo was full of confidence and did not do any preparation. He used his surgical space ability to wipe the blade of the Ghost Cry in his hand, and directly plunged the Ghost Cry into the back of the bear.

"No! Daddy!"

Bonnie's eyes widened to their limit, then suddenly rolled back and she fainted.

Chapter 637 In Bonnie's Heart, You Are Nika

"laugh!"

The long, wailing blade in Luo's hand plunged completely into the back of the bear.

With a flash of hazy blue light, a metal coil the size of a finger bone appeared out of thin air in mid-air in front of Rorschach.

Luo Xia reached out and caught it, looking curiously at the strange metal structure in his hand.

"What is this? Is this thing causing the bear to gradually lose itself and turn into a mindless killing machine?"

Luo drew his Ghost Cry and looked at the back of the bear's head.

"No, you're mistaken. What you've detected is simply a self-destruct device."

"Huh? A self-destruct device?"

A question mark appeared above Rorschach's head.

Luo pointed to the bear's head and said in a very professional tone.

"There's some kind of signal receiver inside, not just metal, it seems to be related to some kind of science and technology I don't understand. Anyway, its function is to receive signals and then explode, destroying his heart. I think, no matter how strong the Bakania's physique is, if their heart is destroyed, they probably won't survive. And the consciousness erosion device you mentioned may have been implanted in his brain."

"A consciousness erosion device? That name is surprisingly fitting."

After Luo's explanation, Luo Xia suddenly understood.

He glanced at Bonnie, who was unconscious in Big Bear's arms, then looked at Big Bear, who was frozen in place with no movement and just kept crying, before turning his head to look at Law.

"Can you fix this?"

Luo thought for a while, then shook his head in disappointment.

"I can't operate on injuries or changes to consciousness, spirit, or soul with my current abilities. Unless my Op-Op Fruit power reaches the level of fruit awakening. Of course, I can try, just like when I treated you in Alabasta last time, as a last resort, maybe it will succeed."

Luo's words made Luo Xia's lips twitch.

What does "trying to revive a dead horse" mean?

So when you saved him last time, you weren't really confident at all, were you?

Ignoring the resentment on Luo Xia's face, Luo pointed the Ghost Crying Hand at the bear's head.

"Should we give it a try? I feel that his current ability is not far from awakening his Devil Fruit, which might help stabilize his current mental state. Although it can't bring him back to his normal thinking before the modification, it won't cause him to continue to deteriorate."

"Are you sure?" Rorschach was unsure.

"I'm 50% sure."

"That's too little. What if the surgery fails..."

“If the surgery fails, he will simply revert to his original state and continue to deteriorate until he loses consciousness completely. That is his current condition.”

Rorschach was somewhat perplexed.

This is for treating the bear, not for treating himself.

Luo Xia felt that he should at least ask the patient himself or his relatives for their opinions.

However, given the current state of Big Bear and Bonnie, it's clearly not the right time to ask for their opinions.

To be honest, Rorschach didn't have a bad impression of Big Bear.

Logically speaking, Kuma should harbor resentment towards the World Government and the Navy.

However, in the G1 Great Battle, he was the only Shichibukai who accepted the summons and came to participate in the battle.

At that time, his body had not yet been formally modified by Vegapunk, and he still had a complete sense of self. He could have refused, but he came anyway.

Not only did they participate in the war, but they also contributed greatly, helping to destroy many fallen islands and saving many naval lives.

Despite being called a tyrant, he actually had a gentle and kind heart.

But Rorschach felt that Big Bear was a bit too cowardly.

Or perhaps it's a case of being too kind.

Despite possessing immense power, he never dares to solve problems once and for all.

King Bekli of the Sorbet Kingdom was just an ordinary man, yet he was able to repeatedly stir up trouble at the hands of the bear.

He clearly loved Ginny deeply, but he didn't dare accept her confession and could only watch helplessly as the person he loved died in agony.

He should have hated the world, but he chose to endure all the suffering and pain, and silently raise Bonnie.

He was born as a collection of suffering.

From birth until now, they have only silently endured suffering instead of actively striving for and changing things.