Besides the three of them, two others sat at the round table: Gan Fall, the leader of Sky Island, and a massive blue fish-man.
As Doflamingo's secret base, Sky Island's importance went without saying. Thus, Gan Fall, the Old God, had worked closely with Doflamingo and was half subordinate, half ally.
As for that plump fish-man, he was none other than Jinbe, the future Shichibukai known as the Knight of the Sea and currently the Vice-Captain of the Sun Pirates. He served as the intermediary between Doflamingo and the Sun Pirates.
Over the past two years, the Sun Pirates had flourished. Under Tiger's leadership, large numbers of fish-men, members of minority races, and rebels who could no longer endure Celestial Dragon oppression had joined them, causing the Pirate Crew to swell as if it had been inflated like a balloon.
Normally, the World Government would never have tolerated the Sun Pirates growing so powerful. But they had no time to spare for anything else now. The Mary Geoise Explosion Incident orchestrated by Joker was several hundred times worse than the Mary Geoise Slave Liberation Movement.
That explosion had not only turned one-third of the Celestial Dragons into Imu's food. Two of the Five Elders had also been reclaimed by Imu and were utterly finished. Most importantly, it had thoroughly shaken the World Government's prestige and severed the vast majority of its intelligence network.
Under those circumstances, during the first year after the explosion, the World Government had devoted nearly all its efforts to getting this force, which had nearly been decapitated, running again.
Then, in the second year, after the World Government had recovered somewhat, it immediately launched an unrelenting manhunt for World, leaving it with no time to concern itself with the Sun Pirates.
Of course, World was finished