Only after watching everyone disappear did he speak:
"Vice Admiral Sakazuki."
"Isn't this a bit... questionable?"
Sakazuki shook his head:
"It's fine. I gave the order."
Aboard the warship that night.
With Sakazuki overseeing the escort, the warship slowly sailed out of Karakuri Island's harbor.
It followed the sea channel, several nautical miles wide.
Bound for the Sabaody Archipelago.
Inside a room hastily prepared for the voyage.
Rustle!
Sakazuki was reading a newspaper.
Click, click!
The door handle turned.
Enel pushed the door open, his face alight with excitement:
"Old man, Dr. Vegapunk is incredible!!!"
Sakazuki put down the newspaper:
"It's only been half a day, and he's already won you over?"
Enel nodded, a little embarrassed:
"Seriously, those blueprints and designs of his."
"They're just...!!!!"
"So far ahead of their time!"
"At least two or three hundred years ahead of today's technology."
"And he even has designs for flying machines."
"The specs look way better than the Ark Maxim's."
Sakazuki said:
"Then do your best to learn from Mr. Vegapunk."
"We're still quite far from the Sabaody Archipelago."
"You have over a month."
"Come to think of it."
"You didn't come here this late just to tell me that, did you?"
Only then did Enel remember what had been weighing on his mind all day.
After a moment of silence, he said:
"Old man, I saw the people they experimented on."
Sakazuki looked at Enel and said:
"What about them?"
Enel looked troubled:
"It was awful..."
He opened his mouth, but couldn't find the words to describe that brutal laboratory.
Sakazuki said:
"So you want to ask."
"Why we aren't executing those scientists?"
In Enel's short life, the worst people he had encountered were the pirates who had killed Admiral Zephyr.
But the cruel experiments those mad scientists