"It was him!" Anger appeared on Sakazuki's face. Red light flickered in his hand. The scissors he had been holding nearly melted into molten iron and dripped onto the potted plant he had been trimming, instantly setting the entire plant ablaze like a pillar of fire.
"Not only that," Doflamingo continued. "He probably wasn't the mastermind either. The ones who truly took that child away were two men in black. This guy was likely just some kind of bodyguard."
"...A bodyguard?" Sakazuki fell silent for a moment before speaking in a somewhat hoarse voice.
Although Sakazuki's methods were harsh and his personality could even be called cold-blooded, he was still a smart man. He quickly understood Doflamingo's unspoken implication.
What sort of force could make a Shichibukai candidate serve as a bodyguard? Sakazuki was not clueless.
"Yes, that's everything I found. If we want to know where that child ultimately ended up, we can only ask this Shichibukai." Doflamingo's expression turned somewhat grave. "After some time, I plan to use my position to go question him."
"...I understand. Thank you." Sakazuki heavily hung up the Den Den Mushi. His expression was incomparably grim, and his eyes flickered uncertainly.
"Hmm, perhaps it's time for me to add a little more fuel to the fire." Doflamingo looked at the disconnected Den Den Mushi, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
Although Akainu now had some suspicions in his heart, even Doflamingo could not guess exactly when he would act. But now, Doflamingo could give him a push.
"Then let's first determine the whereabouts of this newly minted Shichibukai!"
Ever since becoming a Shichibukai, Modock had been searching the New World for a base of his own—essentially, a country that was not among the World Government Member States.
The Shichibukai's right