"Hm?"
Kizaru tilted his mouth with a troubled look. "But my mission this time is to protect the government commissioner, you know~"
The smile on Araki's face did not change. Instead, he looked at the trade document on the table, lacking only the final signature, and sighed. "In that case, my subordinates probably aren't a match for such vicious enemies. I'll have to go take a look myself. I'll sign this document after I get back."
"How can that be allowed?"
The World Government's special commissioner immediately grew anxious. They were clearly only one last step away from pushing down the crystal, and now you were saying you had to go farm a jungle camp first?
That was not how this worked!
So he looked at Kizaru. "Lord Borsalino, since General Araki has already reached an intention to cooperate with us, protecting their interests is also something the government and the navy ought to do. Since General Araki can't get away right now, why don't you help handle it?"
Kizaru stared at the two men in front of him, dumbfounded.
All that was left was signing one name, and you were telling me that counted as being unable to get away?
Even he had never used such an absurd excuse to slack off!
But looking at the utterly serious expression on the government commissioner's face, Kizaru, backstabbed by his teammate, opened his mouth, yet could not think of anything else he could say to keep putting it off. He could only sigh in self-pity.
"Ah, what a hard-working life this old man leads!"
Then he turned into light and left.
Outside the Flower Capital.
Four or five colossal creatures were locked in a fierce battle with the Blackbeard Pirates.
"Damn it, how do they have so many Mythical