Quote Originally Posted by TwisT View Post
Kimblee was eaten by pride and his soul added to the many others in his Philosophers Stone. So he worked from the inside of Pride. Those scenes with Kimblee was from Prides mind.
I was sort of confused myself by that at first since it had been so long having read that part of the manga, but the last episode of the anime shows where Pride eats Kimblee and takes him as a part of him, like he did Gluttony.