"Believers... it's fine. With my power, I'd still be like a god even if I went down to the Blue Sea."
Enel spoke with complete confidence.
"Huh? Have you already forgotten what I said? Even I'm only a third-rate powerhouse on the Blue Sea. Where did you get the nerve to think you can become some supreme god?"
"Really? I thought you were just trying to scare me before... Fine, forget it. But if you lied to me, you'll learn that the coming of fate cannot be stopped!"
It did not take much effort for Gato to talk Enel down and stop his Moon People antics. Since the man had eighth-grader syndrome, he might as well let him get deeper into character. No god would be willing to destroy all of his believers, right? A god without believers would feel as miserable as wearing splendid clothes in the dead of night.
And so, without meaning to, Gato became the savior of Skypiea's people. He felt he truly was a model pirate among the new generation of successors to pirate ideology: good at eating, good at having fun, and good at saving the world.
He had not directly used force to stop Enel because destroying Skypiea truly was Enel's dream, while Gato only wanted to preserve it for his own selfish reasons.
Wanting a place to vacation was certainly not for the pirate crew's development. As for Skypiea's strategic value, he had not even considered it. If the Marines wanted to, they could come up here whenever they pleased. Any island without magnetism in the New World would be far more hidden than this place.
With all his goals achieved, Gato decided not to linger. The Marines knew his whereabouts, and what if that crazy old man Garp chased him all