"Damn it!"
"That brat from the Donquixote Family actually dared to steal the Heavenly Tribute!"
Inside a luxurious castle in Pangea Castle, on the Red Line, the five old men with the greatest power in the world angrily discussed the report they had received.
"Getting angry here won't help. What we need to consider now is: what is he trying to do?" Saint Marcus got straight to the point.
"What else could it be? That brat just wants to come back again, doesn't he?"
"That's impossible! His father left the family, so there's no way we'd let him come back." Saint Saturn, who had rejected Doflamingo back then, immediately objected.
"Agreed!"
"We can talk this over all day and it still won't help. That brat must have had a reason for stealing the Heavenly Tribute. Why not contact him directly and ask?"
"Agreed!"
"Agreed!"
"Then let's send someone from CP0 over!"
"Wait!"
"What is it, Saint Nusjuro?"
"I just received some news. It seems the fleet led by Tsuru of the Marines suffered a setback at the hands of that brat."
"When Kizaru was sent after him, problems with the intelligence meant the brat managed to withdraw just ahead of him every time."
"So Kizaru took the opportunity presented by this latest Heavenly Tribute incident to return to Marine Headquarters. Then Sengoku sent Aokiji, who was on leave, to the North Blue in secret, intending to wipe out the organization that brat had established."
"Why don't we pretend we still don't know about it and wait for Aokiji to find them? Once he wipes them out, he can bring back the Heavenly Tribute at the same time."
Nusjuro's proposal won the other four over. If their subordinates could recover what they'd lost, there was no need to go to any