Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
In the second-floor study of Sakazuki's home.
Standing by the window, Sakazuki looked toward Mary Geoise.
"The Reverie should have started by now."
Carol shrugged and said,
"I suppose."
"I always feel like the Reverie is pretty useless."
"It doesn't seem to have made any useful decisions."
Sakazuki gave a quiet chuckle.
"The so-called Reverie."
"It's just a fig leaf for dictatorship."
"Those kings are nothing but a bunch of fools being placated."
"The government simply gives them a suitable reason to cough up money every year."
"Eight hundred long years is enough for anyone with the will to replace and take control of any power."
"The World Government is no exception."
"The ones who truly control the World Government... are those people in the Holy Land."
Carol sighed.
"That's terrifying..."
Sakazuki said,
"There's no use thinking about that right now."
"By the way, where's Bullet?"
Carol said,
"He'll reach Headquarters this afternoon."
Sakazuki nodded.
"Go to the archives in a bit and sort through the records."
"Compile a list of the known Paramecia users out at sea. Prioritize pirates."
"From now on, keep track of every newly discovered Paramecia."
"It's time we started recovering Devil Fruits."
Carol said,
"Yes."
"But aren't we collecting Zoans and Logias?"
Sakazuki shook his head.
"Aside from those few Mythical Zoans, the other Zoans aren't much use."
"The same goes for Logias. They're not particularly useful."
"It's those Paramecia fruits that matter."
"Many of them operate on rules. Raw strength alone can't resist them."
"Those are the dangerous ones. We have to keep them under our control."
The Slow-Slow Fruit, Lucky-Lucky Fruit, Return-Return Fruit, Hobby-Hobby Fruit, and highly useful ones such as the Melt-Melt Fruit, Munch-Munch Fruit, Barrier-Barrier Fruit, and so on...
They were all Paramecias. Troublesome fruits like those had