Still locked in a drawn-out battle with Sabo, Kizaru turned his hand to fire a laser beam at Luffy.
The instant Kizaru raised his hand, Sabo swung his pipe at him, forcing his attack off course.
"As long as I'm here, you aren't interfering!" Sabo said grimly. "I won't let you stop Luffy!"
"Ooh, getting serious, are we?" Kizaru chuckled. "How frightening. Give it a few more years, and you'll probably become a threat to the world too."
Kizaru had barely finished when an impatient voice came from his left. "Old man, what are you doing? You've let some brat hold you up this long? I'm here to help!"
Sentomaru, a stocky man nearly two meters eighty tall, a little taller even than Enel, hurried over with two identical Pacifistas modeled after Kuma, one of the Shichibukai.
At the sight of the two "Kumas" Sentomaru had brought, Sabo was startled. "Kuma? Wait, why are there two Kumas?"
"They aren't Kuma!" Ivankov, who had already sent Luffy up to the Execution Platform, returned and nimbly leaped to Sabo's side. "I don't know what got into Kuma, but he actually agreed to let the World Government modify his body. The Kuma we have now is a cold killing machine, not the Kuma we knew. These are all replicas of him."
"How could this happen!" Sabo's brow tightened, his expression darkening. "You did something this horrible to Kuma? Unforgivable!"
"Sabo, listen to me." Seeing Sabo's anger, Ivankov hurried to reason with him. "The two of us can't do anything about it right now. Everything else can wait until this war is over."
"I know." Sabo clenched his fists and turned his gaze toward Luffy, who was unlocking Ace's cuffs. After a moment of silence, he suddenly looked back at Ivankov and said solemnly,