Kuma Restored and the War Council

Rain took one last deep drag on his cigar, his eyelids lowering slightly as his vast, refined Observation Haki spread out like a web in an instant, silently piercing through several meters of pink ley lines and the sterile underground operating room.

Within Rain's vividly perceived sensory world—

Before the operating table piled with cutting-edge equipment, Tyrant Bartholomew Kuma, once cold and dull like a soulless steel weapon, had now completely shed his mechanical sluggishness.

Back on Egghead, if Rain had not forcibly intervened to interrupt the final severing of Kuma's brainwashing, Kuma's last trace of human emotion would have vanished long ago. Now, reassembled and activated by the Ancient Energy Spark, that warmth locked deep within his underlying code finally grew wildly like a dead tree bursting back to life in spring. The gentle, towering "Tyrant" Kuma, willing to embrace the entire world, had completely returned!

Warm, loving light like sunlight flowed from his reborn human eyes. Facing Bonney, who had thrown herself into his arms and was crying her heart out, reduced to a little bundle of tears, the steel giant, as burly as a mountain, revealed a long-lost, heartfelt, gentle smile.

He raised his heavy yet incomparably tender hand and lightly stroked Bonney's beautiful pink hair. Then, steady and solemn, he pulled the most precious daughter of his life deep, tightly into his embrace.

"Bonney... you've suffered so much... Daddy's back."

The deathly zombie commands had been completely purged, and the severed bond between close family was restored in that moment.

Outside the operating room, Ivankov wiped away tears and wailed, wildly shaking his enormous purple-haired head in ecstasy. A rare, sincere smile appeared on Dragon's composed face. Sabo and Vegapunk's satellites exchanged smiles as well.

Sensing the scene, Rain exhaled a thick cloud of smoke, and