Lyliana had only come to keep an eye on these people and see whether the Op-Op Fruit was in their possession.
When she first saw Rosinante secretly meeting with the Marines, she had thought they were conducting a transaction for the Op-Op Fruit. It was not until they removed their hoods that Lyliana saw who they really were.
That hood was precisely what had affected Rosinante's judgment.
He only knew that Vergo had left the Family years ago under Doflamingo's orders to carry out a special mission. He had no idea what Vergo was actually doing.
Moreover, Vergo had been walking at the front just now, wrapped in a cloak that shielded him from the wind and snow. That was why Rosinante had failed to recognize him, leading to everything that followed.
As for why Gaspardi was here, he had slipped away from the group to slack off, never expecting to stumble into an even more dangerous situation.
Gaspardi had originally intended to quietly sneak away under the principle that less trouble was better, but he had not expected to run into Lyliana.
"An opportunity? What do you mean, Princess?"
"See over there? The man getting beaten up is the adopted son of Marine Admiral Sengoku, and he is currently carrying out a secret mission.
"And the one attacking him is an undercover agent the Donquixote Family planted in the Marines.
"If you help the Marine undercover agent defeat the pirate undercover agent, then Sengoku, who is destined to become the Marines' next Fleet Admiral, will owe you for saving his adopted son. With that favor, do you still need to worry about your path to promotion being difficult?"
"How do you know something like that?"
Gaspardi had never heard of what Lyliana was describing. If those people were all