What Minnie did next only confirmed Loa's suspicions.
Marines weren't pirates. This was a classified mission; not only were its details secret, but so was the identity of the person carrying it out.
It was strange that Minnie knew about it.
Besides, Loa's upcoming mission wasn't like his breakthrough to the Third Tier and the destruction of the Courtyard. It hadn't caused nearly as much of a stir, and precious few people knew about it.
Even the Marines sailing with him were in the dark, weren't they?
This was a contest between Marine command and the Dragon People of the World Government. Secrecy was paramount.
What's more, Zephyr had always told the Elite Camp that Loa was about to take his second Graduation Exam. He had never mentioned any mission.
So what had Minnie said?
She'd overheard it?
Loa could only say that Minnie had underestimated how much this mattered to Zephyr and overestimated her place in his heart.
Who was Zephyr?
A former Marine Admiral!
The current chief instructor of the Recruit Camp!
He might not have been as famous as Sengoku or Garp, but throw him into the sea and he'd still kick up a hundred-meter wave.
And she claimed to have eavesdropped on him?
Was she sure? His Observation Haki would have caught her in the act!
If Minnie tried to explain that Zephyr trusted his Elite Camp students and hadn't been on guard around them, Loa could only shake his head.
If it had involved only Loa, perhaps. But the World Government and the Dragon People were involved too. Zephyr wouldn't have breathed a word of it even to a trusted student like Ain.
Much less Minnie.
That ruled out the possibility that Minnie had overheard Zephyr.
So where had she learned that Loa was going