Out at sea beyond Onigashima, aboard a battered ship floating on the surface.
Bright, Charlotte Linlin, and Kaido sat around Doflamingo on the deck, learning from him a great secret that almost no one in the world knew.
"The Government actually has something like that hidden away?"
Charlotte Linlin's eyes turned solemn.
"If it did not have some foundation, how could the World Government have ruled the world for eight hundred years?"
Bright chuckled softly. "This world has always followed the Law of the Jungle. Since the World Government has dominated the world for so many years, that naturally means it has been the strongest throughout that long history."
"The strongest?"
Kaido grinned, his teeth nearly bone-white. Whenever he smiled, he always looked terrifying. "Wororororo! Isn't that perfect? To become the supreme king, nothing could be better than defeating the strongest enemy! Wororororo! I'm the strongest!"
Quite confident.
The suggestion here was to get past the Marines first, then talk about the Government.
Bright felt somewhat grim.
If Doflamingo had not lied, then the World Government truly held power beyond imagination.
The Five Elders probably had not been boasting. The Marines were merely the World Government's surface.
Deeper down, the Government possessed other forces that were no weaker, perhaps even stronger.
CP0 aside, Bright had also heard an unfamiliar name from Doflamingo: the Knights of God, stationed at Mary Geoise and truly responsible for protecting the Celestial Dragons.
Doflamingo said that the leader of CP0 was indeed the Celestial Dragons' Strongest Shield, but the Knights of God were the true high wall guarding the Celestial Dragons.
Bright was even more curious about how Brother Fisher Tiger had caused such chaos at Mary Geoise back then.
Probably because the slaves' area was separate from where the Celestial Dragons lived.
Aside from