"That was way too lewd..." Fukurou glanced at Kalifa's hand, his old face flushing as he blurted out, "Oops, that slipped out..."
Only then did the somewhat airheaded Kalifa realize that her current posture was rather inappropriate.
Calmly lowering her hand, she straightened her clothes before kicking Fukurou hard in the side of his big face. "That's sexual harassment!"
Bang!
Fukurou toppled to the ground and started to get up, ready to say something.
Kaku reacted quickly, reaching out and pulling shut the zipper over his mouth.
"Mmph mmph mmph—"
Ignoring Fukurou's protests, Kaku looked at Kalifa. "Kalifa, is what you said true? The World Government will hypnotize and brainwash us?"
"Yes. My father, Laskey, and my older sister, Alpha, were both agents of the CP organizations. I was taken away when I was young and trained alongside you all on Guanhao Island. Later, I met them a few times. Once, my father told me about what he'd discovered. But after that, I never saw him again..." Pain surfaced on Kalifa's face once more.
Clearly, her father had been purged by the World Government for some reason.
Just like them, after their mission had failed.
And originally, if things had not turned out this way, she might never have dared reveal something like this for the rest of her life.
"Yohoho... but that still doesn't prove what you're saying is true, does it? Brainwashing and all that..." Kumadori still found it hard to believe.
As an orphan raised by the World Government since childhood, even if he had never been brainwashed with Devil Fruit powers, his loyalty to the World Government remained extremely high.
The others largely felt the same way.
Their experiences had all been similar.
They had all been orphans found and adopted by the World Government, then