At the desk beside him, Carol removed the receiver from his left ear and said:
"Could they be accumulating their strength?"
"After all, the next Reverie isn't far off."
His hands kept moving as he sorted and categorized information on paper, recording some of the government's secrets.
The equipment on the desk held the Recording Storage Device that had been used to eavesdrop on the former Commander-in-Chief of the World Government for years.
Sakazuki shook his head:
"I don't think so."
"The Revolutionary Army has spread itself too thin."
"Dragon is being pushed forward by it now."
"This sudden halt... he's probably realized there's a problem."
"He's likely trying to find a solution."
Carol thought for a moment:
"A problem, huh..."
"Then is there anything we need to do?"
Sakazuki said:
"What do you think?"
Considering the state of the world, Carol said:
"Nothing?"
Sakazuki chuckled:
"Then we'll do nothing..."
The world had entered a strange state, with no obvious clashes between the three publicly known powers.
On the pirate front, the New World was in turmoil. Red-Haired Shanks was surging ahead, having just escaped Charlotte Linlin's pursuit, and stirring up a storm.
Many followers flocked to his side, and calls for Shanks to become an Emperor grew louder. If he truly became a new Emperor,
the chaos in the New World would continue for several more years.
To become a new Emperor, he would have to either defeat an existing Emperor or carve territory directly from the other three pirate Emperors...
Either choice, however, would mean continued chaos...
On the government front, eight hundred years of accumulated resources and powerful intelligence capabilities had allowed it to identify one Revolutionary Army stronghold after another across its sprawling network.
After withholding the locations of several bases suspected of being the Revolutionary