"You bastard." Tokikake, somewhat agitated, lightly punched Doflamingo. "The name you told us was fake, the face you showed us was fake, even your Devil Fruit ability was fake."
"As expected of a famous illusion master. You really have a whole set of tricks for deceiving people."
"Ha!" Doflamingo shook his head. "There was no other way. Back then, my name, appearance, and Devil Fruit ability were all on the World Government's records. If I had shown myself without any disguise, they would have caught me and silenced me long ago."
"Silenced you? What secret of the World Government do you know that even your status as a former Celestial Dragon couldn't protect you?"
Gion spoke with a frown.
"Precisely because I was a Celestial Dragon, they couldn't leave me alive." Doflamingo spoke meaningfully. "Do you want to know what kind of secret it is?"
"Hahaha, forget it. I won't involve myself in you young people's affairs."
Tokikake and Gion both fell silent. Instead, Borsalino was the first to laugh and break the silence.
Borsalino had no desire to learn any of the World Government's secrets. Even a former Celestial Dragon and Admiral Candidate like Doflamingo could not withstand it; as a Navy Admiral, he might not be able to withstand it either.
Perhaps Borsalino had once believed the position of Navy Admiral was extremely important, that the World Government would never discard one without cause. But after visiting Mary Geoise and seeing that overwhelming Sea of Haki, he understood that the World Government's hidden cards likely far exceeded the world's imagination. A Navy Admiral like him was hardly indispensable.
No, it could even be said that the higher one's position, the more disastrous the consequences of learning certain secrets—and the sooner one would die.
With Borsalino's interruption, Doflamingo merely