In the meeting room, the four Road Island affiliates who had taken part in the Sabaody "team-building trip" reacted differently upon seeing the "results."
Unlike Shiryu and the Crescent Moon Hunter, whose eyes shook with shock.
Apoo and Urouge, the two "old hands," were not overly surprised by the Red Count's rejuvenation.
Apoo even spotted a lull in the conversation and, with a remarkable lack of self-preservation, decided to bring up the sore subject.
"Ababababa-may I ask what we're doing about those two~?"
Apoo raised his hand like a schoolboy, bobbing his head as he asked.
He was referring, of course, to the Great Battleship and the Great Sake Barrel.
Those two had been unlucky. One had been intercepted on a bridge by Kizaru and turned into an accomplishment for his report. The other had fallen asleep in the street, then been pried out of opportunistic slave traders' hands by the Marines and added to their "haul."
Shiryu glanced at Apoo, bit down on his cigar, and lit it. He exhaled a puff of smoke.
"Under the circumstances, even if they weren't killed, they're unlikely to be sent back to Impel Down."
That was Shiryu's assessment as its former Chief Warden.
What he meant was, "We don't know where to go to rescue them."
Impel Down had also been hit hard during the Paramount War.
Based on his professional experience, Devil Fruit Users should have been transferred to other secret prisons or research facilities under these circumstances.
For all they knew, Impel Down might only house relatively "ordinary" criminals from now on.
"Rescue them when feasible. Don't act rashly."
Bondrewd spoke gently, setting the tone for the matter.
In truth, to "Sephiroth," only two of Road Island's "ordinary officers" had particularly useful abilities.
The fortune-telling "Magician, Hawkins," and the shapeshifting