White Tiger

After dinner, King Vaca excused himself first as he had something to do, leaving Kimimaro and Tiana to their own discretion.

"Kimi-sir!" Tiana suddenly pounced at Kimimaro's back and clung to it like a monkey.

Kimimaro sighed helplessly as he felt Tiana's proud mounds pressing on his back, Tiana put her chin on Kimimaro shoulder and whispered in spoilt voice, "I miss you, you know?"

"Tiana, could you please stop clinging to me like this? Everybody will have weird idea you see." Kimimaro walked as he let the voluptuous monkey on his back.

Tiana harrumphed, "Humfh, Then let them see our intimate moment!"

"You....." Sighed Kimimaro once more.

As if realizing something, Tiana smiled mischievously, "...ah, Could it be our Kimi-sir is shy? Come on, don't be shy...Let this big sister care for you?"

Kimimaro shudders as he heard Tiana seductive voice close to his ear, no matter how distant he was seen, Kimimaro was still a healthy 17 years old young adult.

Supressing his impending desire, Kimimaro shook his body gently, letting Tiana slid down his back in surprise.

"Kimi-sir!!!" Tiana felt agrieved on the floor.

"Lets go, enough with your joke." Stretching his hand, Kimimaro help Tiana back on her feet.

When Kimimaro about to pull his hand back, he felt Tiana grip tighten, wondering on what this woman want, Kimimaro shown a helpless smile.

"...What if i'm not joking?" Tiana had teasing tone on her voice, still Kimimaro could see a hidden hope inside her eyes.

As one of his first crew to join, How could Kimimaro not aware about her feeling? Alas, Kimimaro focus right now was not on those thing, for him, having a romantic relationship was still a luxurious thought for now.

For a moment, Kimimaro locked his gaze with Tiana, Kimimaro was about to say something when Tiana quickly cover his mouth.

"Don't! e, he, ehheheehe. I'm just joking Kimi-sir, why so serious?" Tiana giggled as she skiped backward. Despite her cheerful charade, Kimimaro saw a hidden bitterness she tried to cover.

"You....hahaha, anyway, lets go to hospital." Kimimaro cast aside his thought and turned around.

Looking at her superior back, Tiana smile turned bitter, nonetheless she slapped both her cheeks and adjusting her mood, soon she followed behind Kimimaro with light step.

Kimimaro and Tiana walk side by side witnessing bustling scene of "White City" in the night, throng of people could be seen wearing descent clothing, their face were content as if there was no hardship in the world.

Thanks to their national resources called Amber Lead, a natural substances of ore which formed underground, its value had lead Flevance Kingdom to prosperity.

Amber Lead possessed a shiny white coating that made it a highly-coveted mineral, leading to mining operations in Flevance which allowed the city's economy to flourish.

The mineral could be used to color a wide range of products, including paint, pottery, makeup, and weapons.

However, behind its beauty and value. Kimimaro knew that prolonged exposure would lead to complicated health issue.

Amber Lead was not harmless If left unearthed, but when handled, it erodes the body from inside out, though rather subtly and developing slowly in the long run.

The poisonous effect of Amber Lead was already known by the higher-ups of World Government since long time ago. Alas, driven by greed, The truth regarding the mineral poisonous nature was kept tight in secret lest they lost another substantial amount of income from the ore trade.

At first, Kimimaro was feeling conflicted whether to help Flevance or not, so he went and tried to find out Flevance King atitude and his usual behavior before he steps in and help Flevance out of its predicament.

If King Vaca shown a rather difficult personality, Kimimimaro would just turn blind eyes for his family predicament and concoct another plan to help the people. Thankfully, for now the king has quite amicable conduct and gave himself a rather satisfactory point from Kimimaro.

He doesn't rush and rather took his time as planning to help Flevanese need quite some time, having the slaves treated in royal hospital should give enough times for Kimimaro and King Vaca to grew closer.

As for why Kimimaro wanted to help Flevance was rather easy, it wasn't only driven by his sense of justice. Saving a lot of innocent people from their impending doom was something he swore to do ever since he became aware of his surrounding as long as he had power to do so.

Now, Kimimaro had already become a Marine Vice Admiral, this position gives him enough power and freedom to do whatever he wanted.

Actually, there was another reason for Kimimaro to save Flevanese. It was because he need a stable supply of Amber Lead himself! Not from his identity as Marine, rather, it has something to do with his persona as "Null".

Several poisonous compound of Null were actually having Amber Lead as basic ingredients, he did not wish Flevance Kingdom downfall in future after Amber Lead poison breakout and stir a rather massive trouble for his stable supply of Amber Lead.

True that he could also let Flevance destroyed due to the poison, however, at what cost? Rather than having a need to involve himself in lawless island due to the chaos only to mine some ore, he still prefer the current status quo.

When Kimimaro was still deep in thought as he walk, Tiana tugged his sleeve gently,

"Tiana?" Kimimaro turned his head toward the lady.

Seeing her attention was on something else, Kimimaro followed her sight only to see a massive royal hospital of Flevance, stood proudly in the heart of the city.

The reason Tiana tugged his sleeve was not because of how majestic the hospital was, rather Kimimaro saw huge spectator in front of the main gate looking towards the hospital main balcony.

Wondering where the people attention were at, Kimimaro saw Brook playing his violin on the balcony as if it was some sort of concert!

"Yohohohoho! Good evening ladies and gentlemen, for tonight entertainment. Let me play some music to soothe your heart! Are you ready?!" Brook confidently steps on a box as he shouted toward the spectators.

"Waaaaa! Yeaaah! lets go Señor Skeleton!"

"Iyaaaaaa....Brook-san! I love you!"

"Waaaaaaaa..."

"aaaaah, Let me have your baby Brook-sama!!!"

Cheering voice immediately broke through the night as citizens jumping around in excitement, looking forward on Brook's performance.

"Yohohoho! I can't give you baby my lovely ladies, but i accept your love for tonight, Ready?" Brook replied to some unsettling voice among the crowd, then he turned around as there were several people with accompanying musical instrument.

Kimimaro noticed on those people with instruments behind Brook, he couldn't help but felt relieved and smile widely as some of them were slaves they had rescued!

They wore a descent outfit now, there were no collar, and despite they still have vaccant eyes, Kimimaro could see a little smile plastered on their faces.

*Bzzzt...

"Brook did a good job! Yahahaha..." Enel suddenly appeared besides Kimimaro, startling Tiana as she whacked Enel arm with her small fist.

"Stop surprising people like that Enel!!!" Tiana scowled as she threw away her head.

"Yahahhaa, sorry Tiana!" Enel apologized awkwardly.

"Brook inded had done something amazing." Kimimaro nodded, praising the skeleton who played music.