After sweeping through his mental fragments, Doflamingo belatedly realized that his fragments seemed to be everywhere throughout the entire world of seafaring. Without ever leaving home, he could learn about most of what happened across the world.
There was no helping it. Some things were inconvenient for him to handle personally. Even though he knew Imu probably would not act directly now, Doflamingo had no idea whether he would be killed outright if he pushed things too far. So he could only rely on alts.
That was why, by now, the pieces and alts under his control had spread across the entire sea.
Time passed, and several months quickly went by. On this day, Doflamingo finally received word that an agent under Stussy had pinpointed the location where the Gum-Gum Fruit had appeared: the Calm Belt near East Blue.
After receiving the news, Doflamingo rode Sancho through an Anywhere Door and swiftly headed for East Blue.
At the border between the Calm Belt and East Blue.
A state-of-the-art World Government ship, with Sea Stone embedded into its hull, sailed out of the Calm Belt.
On the deck at the bow, Foz-Fu lay in a recliner with his arms crossed, his face full of impatience.
"Seriously, why did they have to send me for something like this? It's just an ordinary Paramecia Devil Fruit."
"They actually sent a trump-card CP9 agent like me over something like this..."
"Enough complaining," another agent beside him said. "You don't really think it's just an ordinary Paramecia Devil Fruit, do you?"
Of course Foz-Fu knew it could not possibly be an ordinary Devil Fruit. If nothing else, the very fact that the World Government knew about it was highly questionable.
They had found this Gum-Gum Fruit on an uninhabited island in the Calm Belt.