Garp was highly efficient. After bringing CP9 back to his warship, he watched the "interrogation footage" recorded by Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the others.
After some thought aboard the ship, Garp ultimately sighed and chose to help Yoriichi conceal what had happened in Water Seven for the time being. Information traveled through this world rather poorly. Aside from the unknown number of "News Birds" capable of crossing the oceans, there were few ways for news to spread.
To pass information between islands, one had to rely on Den Den Mushi or ships.
The CP9 agents in Water Seven had all been captured by Yoriichi and his group, leaving them no chance to send word out. As for the shipwrights who had witnessed what happened, they would not go looking for trouble by spreading the matter everywhere.
Even the families of the dead shipwrights, upon learning that their children had been killed by the World Government's CP9 and that the Marines had already avenged them, hastily buried the young men. They did not dare ask about the details, much less cause a scene.
Yoriichi, on the other hand, considered the fact that the young man's family had lost a breadwinner. The next day, he sought out Tom and had him deliver compensation to the family. While the payment could not erase the pain of losing a loved one, it was enough to ensure that Bolton's family would not have to worry about making a living.
It was precisely because there were so few means of spreading information in this world that Fleet Admiral Kong did not learn that the Marines under his command had done such a "good deed" until the newspaper was published.
The moment Kong saw Tsugikuni Yoriichi's name in the paper, he flew into a rage and summoned Yoriichi's