This unexpected twist had spurred Charlotte Smoothie to strive harder, turning a bad thing into a good one. But for Charlotte Mousse, who had been traveling with her, it probably only made him even less motivated to seek out the biological father he had never intended to find in the first place.
So Mousse threw himself even more wholeheartedly into training and research, though this peaceful life did not last long.
"Doflamingo finally couldn't resist making a move against King Riku?" Mousse was not surprised at all when he saw the special report in the World Economic News Paper:
Although the "Heavenly Yaksha," Donquixote Doflamingo, had long been Dressrosa Kingdom's de facto ruler, and the authority of a Shichibukai seemed no less than that of a king of a minor nation like Dressrosa, the reason "Shichibukai" bore the prefix "under the king" was naturally because it could never truly compare to an actual king.
Besides the most fundamental difference—that a Shichibukai only had the right to pillage freely, without the right to rule or administer territory—the greatest distinction between the two was that the Shichibukai system had only existed for a very short time.
To put it bluntly, the Shichibukai were merely a temporary emergency measure. When the World Government needed them, it could establish those positions to win over powerful figures on the seas. Once that need was gone, it might abolish the posts and send those former pirates back to their old trade.
In comparison, the throne of a World Government member nation was far more secure. So long as one fulfilled the obligation of paying Celestial Gold, even the Five Elders had no way to directly depose them. And as the world's foremost military force, Marine Headquarters could not enter their territory without permission under any circumstances,