Especially now, during his working hours.
Without hesitation, he set down his pen, pushed the documents he needed to handle aside, grabbed the Den Den Mushi on his right, and quickly picked up the receiver.
"Moshi moshi! This is the Fleet Admiral's Office. This is Sengoku speaking. What is it?"
Just then, a serious voice came through the receiver. "Fleet Admiral, Silver Hair is calling and wants to speak with you. Shall I put him through?"
"Who did you say?"
Sengoku's expression visibly turned solemn.
"Silver Hair, the captain of the Silver Hair Pirates—Silver Hair Kuta."
Holding the receiver, Sengoku straightened up, his eyes filled with gravity.
"That guy had been quiet for a month, and the moment he appeared, he called me. Did something happen?"
He thought of the crack from a month ago, the one that had seemed to split the sky and affected nearly half the Grand Line.
A month ago, the Silver Hair Crew had rescued a girl at the Auction House in the Sabaody Archipelago. According to the report, that girl was the princess of Cocoludo, Sophie of Cocoludo.
And according to information from the New World a month ago, the explosion that had created the crack had apparently occurred above Cocoludo.
Later events confirmed this.
Cocoludo had disappeared.
Although Cocoludo had vanished, the Silver Hair Pirates and the people from Cocoludo had not.
They had all moved to Gus, an island that had been destroyed decades ago.
Most people in the world knew nothing about these matters.
But the Marines were not among them.
Although the Marines did not have much territory in the New World, their intelligence network was still beyond what other forces could match.
They still did not know exactly what had happened above Cocoludo.
But Silver Hair had definitely been