Saturn put forward his suggestion and waited for the others to respond.
“What if Doflamingo is still alive?”
Nusjuro raised his concern. Saturn’s arrangement was fine overall, but only on the premise that Doflamingo was already dead.
If Doflamingo was still alive, then certain matters would not be so easy to deal with.
“That’s simple. Just make him die. I don’t think the people from Fishman Island would want to protect Doflamingo, would they?
“That man Nereus has never been softhearted.
Rather than wondering whether Doflamingo has already been killed, I’d say Doflamingo was already lucky that he never ran into one of Nereus’s subordinates over the past few years.”
Doflamingo had never been taken seriously by the Five Elders. He was nothing more than a joker who had gotten hold of a weakness of the World Government. The Five Elders had no reason to think about how to preserve his life.
“Speaking of which, Sengoku seems to want to use this matter to raise some objections to the Shichibukai system.”
With Doflamingo’s matter already settled among them, the next thing to deal with was naturally the aftermath.
“Hmph. Hasn’t the Marine been opposing the Shichibukai system from the very beginning? Whether it’s the system itself or the individuals chosen as Shichibukai, the Marine has always had plenty of objections.
But when we do things, do we need to care about their opinions?”
Warcury showed no concern whatsoever. The Marines were nothing more than the World Government’s dogs. There was no need for the dog to offer opinions on decisions made by its master.
“Indeed. Sengoku has not been Fleet Admiral for very long. It seems Kong did not teach him very well.”
Peter agreed with Warcury and felt there was no need to care at all. The Marines could protest as much as they wanted. They would simply continue doing whatever they intended to do.
“This time is a little different. Mariejois still needs the other affiliated nations to provide Heavenly Tribute. If word gets out that Doflamingo attacked an affiliated nation this time, it would still be quite troublesome.
There’s no need to abolish the Shichibukai system, but as for Doflamingo’s case, we really should make some new arrangements.”
Mars had a slightly different opinion.
If a problem could not be solved, then solve the person who raised the problem. That was a method the World Government used all the time.
But whether it was the Fleet Admiral or the many affiliated nations, neither could simply be replaced at will.
“Hasn’t this matter remained contained? Just come up with some excuse. We can dump all the blame on Doflamingo.
More importantly, the Shichibukai roster that was only recently filled now has another vacancy… Who should we choose to fill it? Perhaps this time, we should find someone… who isn’t quite so clever.”
Not only did the Five Elders have no intention of abolishing the Shichibukai system, they directly began discussing who should become the next member.
After all, under the current circumstances, if the Shichibukai system were abolished outright, the resulting gap in military strength would be difficult to fill. They could hardly have the Celestial Dragons of the Knights of God handle that sort of work instead, could they?
Even in the original timeline, the abolition of the Shichibukai system was not purely for political reasons.
The actions of Crocodile and Doflamingo were indeed catalysts, but the more fundamental factor was the creation of the Seraphim.
These artificial soldiers were more obedient and could fill the vacancies left by the Shichibukai far more effectively. That was what ultimately led the World Government to decide to abolish the system completely.
At present, however, the World Government had no intention of doing so.
A CP0 unit received orders from the Five Elders and departed directly from Mariejois for Dressrosa, while Sengoku once again received an answer full of perfunctory excuses.
Although they left Sengoku a little face, they made it very clear that abolishing the Shichibukai was impossible and there was no point in bringing it up again.
Meanwhile, in Dressrosa, Nanamo had arrived at her favorite part: taking inventory of the spoils.
According to Doflamingo’s original plan, after tonight he would become the king of Dressrosa, so he had brought along the more important parts of his fortune.
That certainly made things more convenient for him, but if he failed, it also made it much easier for his enemies to clean him out.
With Rosinante acting as an undercover agent, the members of the Donquixote Family had long since been thoroughly exposed.
After confirming that, aside from Senor Pink and Vergo, there were no other members of the Donquixote Family left, Hermes completed the work of cleaning out their assets.
“Princess Nanamo, there are quite a few valuable treasures. Once converted into money, they’ll be more than enough to repair all of Dressrosa, with plenty left over.
Besides that… there are also three Devil Fruits!
I compared them with the encyclopedia. They are the Logia-type Snow-Snow Fruit, the Paramecia-type Gol-Gol Fruit, and the Paramecia-type Hobby-Hobby Fruit.”
Doflamingo often used some decent Devil Fruits as attractions for auctions. Although he never sincerely intended to sell the fruits, accidents still happened from time to time.
In the original timeline, Tesoro had led people to steal the Gol-Gol Fruit. This time, Tesoro had not gotten involved, so the Gol-Gol Fruit naturally remained in Doflamingo’s possession.
Monet and Sugar had also never joined the Donquixote Family, so the Devil Fruits that originally belonged to them had naturally been left behind as well.
“There’s even a Logia-type one. Not bad. Does that Gol-Gol Fruit have any special abilities?”
“Uh… Princess Nanamo, this is a fruit suited for rich people. It can only control gold and cannot create gold out of thin air. You need to spend a great deal of effort building up a suitable environment before it becomes useful.”
Among these three Devil Fruits, Hermes had expected Nanamo to be more interested in the Gol-Gol Fruit, so it had looked into its information in more detail and explained everything clearly.
“Better than nothing. What about those people?”
“Well… Diamante was killed by Princess Chloe. As for the ones you dealt with, Pica and Machvise can be confirmed dead. The rest were frozen, so we don’t know whether they’re alive or dead yet.
As for Doflamingo…”
At this point, Hermes suddenly looked carefully around. After confirming that Alber had not come over, it floated to Nanamo’s ear.
“Princess Nanamo, I suggest that after we go back, you recommend to Lord Nereus that Alber be sent to a psychologist.
“Deep down… he has some very serious perversions.”
“Hm?”
“To put it simply… some of it isn’t suitable for children.”
Hermes did not know what Doflamingo had gone through, but Hermes could be certain that no carbon-based life-form could survive under those circumstances.
It had to do with Alber’s method of interrogation. He would first hypnotize the target and make them enter a nightmare. Then, at the instant they woke from that nightmare, he would materialize whatever they feared and attack them with it in the real world.
Once the target could no longer endure it in reality and their body fell unconscious, he would trigger another round of nightmares, repeating the process again and again.
In the end, both body and mind would be left utterly broken by such methods…
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