Kuma watches a younger Luffy train and remembers a conversation he once had with Dragon and realizes that Luffy is Dragon's son. Kuma continues sending Bonney letters, unaware that Alpha had been intercepting and tearing them up. Conney has Bonney keep her powers a secret from Alpha. Just before Bonney's tenth birthday she is fully cured of her disease but Alpha refuses to let her to go outside. Having discovered that Alpha's group are government agents Conney enacts a plans for Bonney to escape on a ship. Alpha attempts to stop them, but Bonney remembering Kuma telling her about Nika, uses that power to stop Alpha.