14.1
It's cold. Where am I anyways? Marco slowly opened his eyes as he felt the pain all over his body. Damn my body hurts . He looked up and saw that he is inside of a prison cell. He shut his eyes and tried to remember what happened.
He didn't speak. Why Ace? Why? As I looked into his eyes, it was emotionless. There's no life in it. I may not know what happened to you Ace but I'll make you snap into your senses. I got up and started to attacked Ace. He dodged every attacked easily. Damn, his fast! I kicked him in the head but he blocked it with his arm. He then engaged into attacked. I was hit a lot of times. My body cannot regenerate because of this sea stone cuffs. I fell into the ground. I panted heavily. I tried to stand up. I felt a hand in my neck. I chocked. Thinking that he is gripping my neck making me lose my breath, he sheathed his knife. My eyes widened. I screamed in pain as the blade sliced the skin of my chest.
Marco opened his eyes and somewhat tried to looked into his chest. He saw a bloody X mark carve in his chest. He bitterly laughed. He didn't know what to feel. Anger? Confusion? Maybe all of it. He gritted his teeth as tears started to form in his eyes. With all the silence he heard footsteps coming towards his direction. The footsteps stopped. Marco looked up and saw a tall man looking down at him.
"Aokiji." He call Ed the man's name. Aokiji looked at the man in front of him. He saw the X mark carved in his chest. He knew very well who did it. He silently sat down outside the prison cell and spoke.
"First Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. Never picture to see a pirate of Whitebeard here inside the Impel Down." Marco stared at the man. Aokiji continued to speak not minding the stare of the man.
"I think you already know who brought you to us. I know you also felt betrayed." Marco looked away. "But Ace-" By the time Marco heard the kid's name he cut him off.
"If ever hear that name again I will escape through this chains and kill you." Aokiji expected this reaction but didn't mind it and continued to speak.
"You shouldn't be angry at him." Marco snorted.
"And why is that? Who wouldn't be angry to someone who just put you here inside the prison cell?"
"You don't have the right to be angry at him in the very first beginning Marco especially if you don't know him that well." Marco was caught off guard in Aokiji's statement. He doesn't want to admit it but it hit the bull's eye.
"Before you judge him, know him first. But it's not your fault if you didn't know his past." Marco looked at the man with a question look on his face. His past… Ace didn't tell him anything about his past. He didn't dare to asked anyways. Aokiji spoke again and this time he told Marco everything about what happened to Ace. By the time he was taken away from his brother Luffy in a very young age. The way that the Marines tortured him and sexually assaulted him. By the time he became a cold blooded killer. Everything that had happened to Ace, he told Marco.
Marco was left speechless. He didn't spoke the whole time that Aokiji was telling him everything. He didn't know and he never knew that past of Ace. The main reason why he shut his mouth the whole time. The main reason why there's no longer life in his eyes. He shut his eyes and for the rest of his days in the Impel Down, he filled his heart with remorse and guilt for everything he thought of Ace. Ace loves him. The kid never wanted to hurt him in the very beginning. Everything that Ace showed him was purely his love. And nothing about the mission to take him down.
