Chapter 17: Schemes

James ' head rolled into the ground and there was a look of amazement on his face, he never expected that he would die for no reason, his body fell to the ground as blood filled the place.

The Holy Knight's strike was so fast that his sword was not stained with a single drop of blood.

The Holy Knight returned his sword to its sheath and began to walk towards the giant palaces of Mary Geoise, but the loud sound of the footsteps of dozens of people made him stop and turn around to take a look at the slave prison.

The prison gate was smashed and dozens of slaves came out and began to flee in all directions, when the Holy Knight saw this sight he was disgusted.

"I think I have to clean up this mess while I'm here," the Holy Knight threw Arthur away without paying attention to him, then pulled out his sword and headed towards the prison whenever one of the slaves passed by him or tried to attack him, he would kill him immediately without hesitation.

His sword attacks were fast and powerful, and sometimes he sent a cutting wave of Haki and cut all the slaves who were far away from the prison.

After 5 minutes all the slaves who came out through the prison door died and only a few people escaped, the Holy Knight was too lazy to pursue them so he left them alone, corpses and blood filled the place around the holy knight in a chilling sight.

He returned his sword to its sheath, picked up the unconscious Arthur and headed towards Don Bernardo's Palace; he wanted to make sure the information that the guard had told him was true.

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In the middle of a giant palace decorated with white marble and furnished with the finest silk, the Holy Knight sat on a comfortable sofa and in front of him a small table on which he put some dessert dishes and a jug of fine tea, on the other side sat don Bernardo and tension began to build on him, the Holy Knight visited him personally for no reason, so his mind is now full of dozens of ideas.

'Does it make sense that they knew that I was financing Doflamingo's activities' all the money don Bernardo made from betting was sent to Doflamingo to finance his schemes, don Bernardo was from the same family as Doflamingo and they had a close working relationship.

The Holy Knight took a sip of Fine Tea enjoying its delicious taste, having finished putting the cup of tea on the table in front of him and looked at Don Bernardo with his indifferent gaze.

"Don Quixote Bernardo I want to ask you about something" the words of the Holy Knight were quiet, but don Bernardo felt a lot of tension when he heard them.

"Yes, sir Tristan, what is it that bothers you and you would like to know," the calm began to return to don Bernardo, if Tristan had come here about the issue of smuggling money and information, their conversation would not have been so calm.

"My question may seem strange, but have you involved any child in your little games lately" when Sir Tristan asked this question he was not sure if he would receive a useful answer.

"Boy?", "No, I haven't involved any children in my games lately, " Don Bernardo was perplexed.

'Why did this Knight suddenly become interested in slave children and my games' the more Bernardo thought about it the more mystery grew in his mind.

'Was that guard lying to me, maybe I should have let him live to find out more information from him' . The Knight Tristan killed the guard James only because he hated seeing a guard with such a disgusting look, his condition and manner of speaking were unkempt and provocative.

"To mention it, there was a boy who participated in my games, but that was a long time ago, I don't know, but I think he's dead by now, his body has been destroyed and his hand has been cut off" after a short period of silence don Bernardo spoke, The information he has just given is not a big thing, but the only child who participated in the games during this year was Arthur, he was remembered by Don Bernardo only because his actions that day were unforgettable.

"Did you say that he lost his hand, what does this child look like?" A slight expression of enthusiasm appeared on Sir Tristan's face; he would get a lot of appreciation from the Gorosei if this boy who held him could actually regenerate.

"Yes, he lost his hand, it was eaten by the Iron Mountain Lion that I own, for his figure he is an ordinary boy with an average appearance, brown eyes and black hair, nothing special about him" the description of Don Bernardo was short and laconic, but it was enough for Sir Tristan.

"Well, thank you for your cooperation," Sir Tristan got up and left don Bernardo's Palace without explaining the reason for his questions, which left Bernardo sitting confused. He kept wondering why a holy knight would do such a ridiculous thing.

"What's the point of this, why is he asking about that child?" "No matter what Bernardo thought, he did not find a convincing reason, but in the end he decided to give it up and look into it later, because the movements of the Holy Knights are something to be monitored.

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Sir Tristan left don Bernando's Palace and headed towards the second section of the slave cells. he held Arthur there while he gathered information.

When Sir Tristan arrived in front of the prison, he found a young knight standing near the door, he had short white hair and sky-blue eyes, his face was handsome and noble, he wore a white armor with a small red flower printed in his chest.

When the young Knight saw Sir Tristan, he made a respectful greeting and said:

"Welcome back, sir Tristan," the young knight's eyes were shining as she looked at Tristan in front of him, he considered him his ideal and sought to become a holy knight like him.

"Pelleas bring me that slave" Tristan ordered the young knight in front of him to bring Arthur, the Holy Knights are allowed to take some people directly under their command, the followers of the Holy Knights can be considered strong people with a high status, their combat strength is no less than a Vice Admiral.

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With blurry vision, Arthur slowly opened his eyes and looked at the bright white light shining on him, the light was so bright that Arthur's eyes couldn't look at him, it was like staring at the sun.

Arthur tried to turn around and turn his head away from the light but he could not, he could never move, his body was constrained by something.

"Hmmmmm" Arthur tried to talk but could only utter incomprehensible words, his mouth was shackled with a belt that prevented him from talking.

"It looks like you woke up, this is very strange," came a man wearing a medical apron and putting a mask around his mouth, round glasses were reflecting the bright light emitted by the lamp hanging above Arthur

When Arthur saw the man in the doctors ' uniform, a hazy idea began to loom in his brain, but he didn't want to believe it because he was desperately trying to avoid it and falling into it meant that his fate became even more miserable than it was.

"What's going on, Dr. William, is there a problem?" came a group of people wearing white aprons and covering their faces with some medical masks, their heads were full of gray hair and most of them were wearing glasses.

"Yes, there is a small problem, the test sample woke up from his anesthesia," William said with strange expressions, he anesthetized Arthur well and should not wake up until 4 hours later, but he woke up only half an hour after his anesthesia.

"It doesn't matter, get him drugged again and let's start experimenting," said one of the people, whose head was bald from the middle and the rest of his head had grown some streaked whit hair. He was wearing glasses with round lenses.

"Well" Dr. William took a large syringe with a transparent liquid and injected Arthur with it. Arthur was angry because of what was going on. He heard their conversation and knew that they wanted to conduct experiments on him. As for the reason he woke up from the drug, it was the white light that removed the effect of the drug.

When Arthur was injected with the drug, his vision began to blur little by little, but he quickly regained clarity as if he had not been drugged.

The group of doctors came forward and surrounded Arthur, they thought he was drugged, so they took medical knives and started dissecting his hand, which had grown again, one of them took a small sharp knife and made a big cut in Arthur's hand،

"Aaah" it was incredibly painful for Arthur.

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