Buster Call Town was completely empty. Only various new-style buildings remained; not a single person had been left behind.
The merchants who had originally planned to come trade after the Summit War no longer dared visit Buster Call Town after learning what Enel had done. They feared the World Government would come knocking if they were thought to be connected to Enel.
At the same time, they could not help feeling relieved and grateful that Enel had not abandoned them, but had instead allowed them to stay out of the matter.
Otherwise, Enel could have withdrawn his men and used them as disposable pawns for cover. Once the truth came out, they would likely have become unlucky scapegoats.
Thus, the once-prosperous Buster Call Town had become the desolate town it was today. Even some of the ordinary people who had originally lived there had evacuated.
If the World Government's intelligence agents had not possessed extensive resources and numerous information channels, and had not learned this open secret from a merchant, they might not even have known what had happened on the island.
This was also related to the previous war with Whitebeard. Under normal circumstances, the CP organizations would never have failed to notice Enel's movements, but during the war, most of their personnel had been assisting the Marines in investigating Whitebeard's intelligence.
Enel had even openly stated during the Shichibukai gathering that Buster Call Town's trade would be suspended during the war, supposedly because he feared some blind fools would take the opportunity to cause trouble and make him suffer unnecessary losses.
But who could have imagined that Enel would casually reveal such an important move while chatting and laughing?
At the Thunder God Pirates' base in Buster Call Town, CP0 intelligence agents even saw mocking expressions painted on