Shichibukai, Put bluntly, they were a grotesque product of the World Government's compromise with the Great Pirate Era. Among the World Government's and Navy's high-level officials, quite a few people disapproved of this strategy of using pirates to control pirates, and they loathed these pirates who had been granted legal status even more.
In the eyes of the opposition, pirates were ultimately uncontrollable.
Every one of those fools drawn in by that damned freedom was a potential bomb.
No one knew when those bombs might suddenly explode.
"...But it's useless. No matter how many people oppose it, they can't outweigh the Five Elders' resolve. The establishment and operation of the Shichibukai system have been approved by the Five Elders. As long as the Five Elders don't intend to make changes, the Shichibukai system will stand as firm as Reverse Mountain. Not even all the water of the Four Seas could shake it in the slightest."
"Still, Aleus, you actually persuaded the Sea Knight... You've really set your heart on becoming a Shichibukai, huh?"
The Den Den Mushi's mouth opened and closed, accurately translating the information carried in the biological waves it received.
"Yeah!"
Aleus held the receiver in his hands, casually chatting with his grandfather Worlek, who was on the Red Line Continent.
"Since I've already come this far, it'd be such a waste to give up... Whether this works out in the end or not, I have to keep going for now. Giving up halfway isn't a good habit. Even just considering all the effort and resources invested early on, I can't simply stop now."
"Shichibukai... Aleus, you sure have strange interests."
"I don't want to hear that from an old man who married a teenage girl."
"HAHAHA! Aren't a man's 'interests' all the same? Aleus, don't tell me