Barn spoke in his emotionless voice deep within Kizaru's mind...
Kizaru's face grew ever paler, cold sweat trickling down it. He seemed to have aged years in an instant, his features filled with an inexplicable terror...
Then Barn's voice rang out in Kizaru's mind once again...
"You've missed this feeling, haven't you? Having no way to fight back, being completely at someone else's mercy... I haven't used this move in a long time, either. Want to know why?"
Kizaru did not answer. His lips remained tightly shut, but his throat moved unnaturally. When he received no answer, Barn continued calmly.
"Because, just like your awakened ability, this move became an indiscriminate attack after I strengthened it. Quite a headache... But since you just said you and I were the only ones left here, I don't have to worry so much..."
The instant Barn's voice faded from Kizaru's mind, countless terrifying eyes flashing with electricity appeared in the curtain of darkness. They were bloodshot, as though filled with rage, and stared fixedly at Kizaru, whose body twitched incessantly at the center of the darkness...
Hidden within that darkness, Barn slowly extended a hand toward its endless depths. A streak of lightning shot from his palm, pierced the dark canopy, and reached the world outside.
At that moment, vast banks of black clouds gathered once again above Island 27, where the sky had cleared thanks to the awakening of Kizaru's Devil Fruit Ability. They were even larger than before. Wild currents of electricity darted and exploded within them, unleashing roars like the fury of the Thunder God.
Unfortunately, Kizaru could no longer hear them. As Barn lowered his outstretched hand, the lightning between the clouds outside the dark curtain went berserk. The clouds gathered together, and a head resembling a furious lion