At Baltigo, the Revolutionary Army gets a backup request from South Blue, where forces are struggling with the Tumi uprising. Ivankov says they can’t help—too many injured in Goa Kingdom. Kuma offers to go, but Ivankov warns him he’s being reckless, more so since “that day.” Turns out, Ginny was captured by the World Government and forced to marry a World Noble. Ever since, Kuma’s been filled with rage.
Two years later, Ginny contacts the army. She’s sick. The Celestials tossed her out of the Holy Land. The call is her goodbye. Kuma begs to know where she is so he can see her, but she says she’s dying and doesn’t want him to. Kuma goes anyway—he’s sure she’s at the chapel in Sorbet Kingdom. He’s right, but it’s too late. She’s already gone. Locals say sunlight turned her skin blue and hard like stone. She must’ve used up the last of her strength to protect something—her baby, Bonney. Kuma buries Ginny and promises to raise her child.
Kuma raises Bonney
Kuma did his best to raise Bonney, who inherited her mom’s insane appetite, and pretty quickly, she started seeing him as her real dad. He was still active in the Revolutionary Army, but no matter what, he always made time for her. Then one day, he boards up all the windows in the church—they find out Bonney somehow got the same weird illness that killed Ginny. Kuma took her to doctor after doctor, but none of them knew how to treat it. Eventually, he decides to leave the army to take care of her full-time. Dragon’s surprisingly cool with it—even says he’ll try to find doctors too.
By the time Bonney turned five, the local kids started picking on her for never going outside, calling her a vampire and all that. But Bonney wasn’t the type to take it—she’d beat them up no problem. Kuma had to remind her it’s dangerous for her to be out there, and she apologized. Then she tells him the kids made fun of the mark under her eye. Kuma tells her it looks like a jewel and those kids are just jealous, which actually cheers her up. While they’re playing around, Kuma asks her where she’d want to go once she’s better. Bonney says the sky islands, since they’re closer to the sun and maybe they could meet Nika there. Kuma says they’ll go for her twentieth birthday—Fish-Man Island will be for her nineteenth.
Bonney potential death
Kuma meets with a doctor who tells him Bonney has something called “Sapphire Scales.” It’s incurable, and even if she stays out of the sun, she probably won’t live past ten. The news crushes him. While Kuma is trying to figure out what to do next, Bonney overhears the conversation. He explains her condition will last until she’s ten, but she misunderstands and thinks she’ll be cured by then. Kuma can’t bring himself to correct her, so he lets her believe it.
A year later, Kuma hears that Bekori is at it again—this time trying to get rid of the weak and elderly, and now he’s completely lost it, going so far as to burn people alive in their homes.
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