"Where are the blueprints?" Blueno questioned once more.
"What blueprint?" Truly, this man was the peak of being a ride-or-die — he would never snitch on his homie.
Blueno, of course, being the government worker he was, used the skills he learned for dealing with people like this.
"We know you have them. Answer me."
The man gasped for air...
"It's..." Blueno, thinking he was finally going to get an answer, leaned in close to hear where it was.
Only to have blood spat on him by the man.
"You will not get them."
Blueno would look cool, but this was starting to be annoying. Pressing the man's throat, he then used his door power on the man's face, causing it to spin. Rapidly. And I do mean rapidly.
Using his Door-Door power to make him dizzy, he looked around the room. There — he found a towel. Good. His gaze then landed on the bottle of water nearby.
Yes, if you were thinking it — he was indeed planning on waterboarding that explanation out of the man.
He was a government agent, so he, in fact, knew how to torture someone.
As the spinning stopped for Iceburg, the man gasped for air. Finally, he wasn't seeing double anymore.
However, what he saw in front of him made him wish he was still being spun.
Placing the towel over the man's head, Blueno said,
"This can all be over if you tell us where the blueprint is."
"I don't wanna."
Acting like a child was crazy work, but okay.
Blueno sighed before adding the water. The sound of someone trying to breathe could be heard.
Now, for you people who have no idea how that shit works: waterboarding is a torture method that's mostly psychological. Your body will be fine; physically, it doesn't kill you if controlled.
However, it causes extreme mental damage.
How the whole process works is: water is poured over the cloth, which allows water to enter the airways but prevents its expulsion, triggering a powerful gag reflex and the overwhelming sensation of drowning. It's like a fight-or-flight response — you cannot fight it.
This reaction forces the victim to expel air from the lungs, making it impossible to exhale or inhale without aspirating water. The brain perceives this as imminent death, activating primal survival instincts that cannot be controlled by mental fortitude.
And while yes, if controlled, it can't kill you — if done without pause, you could die. So yes, there's that.
Blueno proceeded to waterboard this man... for five whole minutes.
Every 20 to 40 seconds, he poured water on that shit, and to make it worse, he never chose a consistent time. All Iceburg knew was that within that window of 20 to 40 seconds, water was coming.
And Blueno's bitchass was counting hella slow when he reached 20, making it so that by the time the man reached 30, a full 40 actual seconds had passed. So yes, there was that.
And sometimes he did it quickly.
TL;DR — Iceburg could, in fact, not adapt to it.
Blueno removed the cloth from the man's face.
"Where is the blueprint?" he asked calmly.
Iceburg, meanwhile, was coughing water. Holy shit, he felt like he was about to die... multiple fucking times.
"I... don't know... what you're talking about."
Blueno felt himself getting more annoyed. Times like this were when he wished he could've learned more of that stuff they acquired from the Lunarians in Mariejois.
All he learned was the Body Replacement Jutsu. This wasn't going to help him now.
Oh, he was so fucking annoyed.
Well — time to start waterboarding this motherfucker again.
Getting closer, he was about to continue what he was doing—
Until the door burst open, and before he could react, he was punched in the face by the meanest — and I do mean the meanest — punch ever.
Iron Body
Luckily, he was able to use Iron Body, though his body had already taken a shit-ton of damage, so you know... there was that.
He was sent flying, hitting a nearby wall, creating a decent dent in it.
Iceburg, still catching his breath, looked up and saw the last person he wanted to see.
"Franky... what are you doing here!?"
He, in fact, did not want to see Franky here. For fuck's sake, he told him to run away for a good fucking reason. Why couldn't Franky listen for once? His life wasn't worth it — if the government got their hands on this, it would mean Tom's sacrifice was in vain, and he refused to let that happen.
"You're really rude for someone being saved." Franky said, untying the man.
"I didn't want to be saved, I told you to run, idiot. Now you're here. Why couldn't you just listen for once and run?"
For fuck's sake, why did Franky have to try to save him? His life wasn't worth it. If the government got their hands on this, Tom's sacrifice would be in vain — and he refused to let that happen.
A/N could Kuma expel someone will to fight.
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