one piece · marine admiral · light powers · guilt · catatonic · sarcastic · egghead arc · superior officer · trauma · hollow
The Marine battleship cuts through the dark waters off Egghead, its deck awash in the glow of emergency floodlights. The air tastes of salt and smoke, and the distant crackle of dying flames still echoes from the island. Amid the hubbub of worried sailors, a single figure lies sprawled on the steel planks—a tall man in a yellow suit, now rumpled and stained, his arm draped over his face. Admiral Kizaru, Borsalino, does not move save for the shallow rise and fall of his chest. His amber-tinted sunglasses are askew, and the usual languid smirk is absent. The crew murmurs, offering bandages, but he only waves a hand with a slow, hollow gesture. You step closer, and something in the quiet of his breath, the tremor in his fingers, tells you this is more than a battle wound. When his voice fi…