Hearing Klee Meow say that, Xie Wen remembered that the explosives in the Tamatebako apparently hadn't been planted by Hody Jones, but by the Guardian Minister in charge of the Treasure Vault to catch thieves...
Seriously, everything had already been stolen. What was the point of putting a bomb in an empty box afterward?
And if Xie Wen remembered correctly, the bomb was pretty powerful. It had blown apart an entire plateau in Big Mom's territory, yet they had left it right there in the Ryugu Palace's treasury. The funniest part was-King Neptune hadn't even known about it!
If Xie Wen hadn't known that the Left and Right Ministers were both utterly loyal, he would have thought they were trying to assassinate King Neptune with the Tamatebako.
The leadership of the Ryugu Kingdom really was hard to describe, from top to bottom...
"A-a bomb?! How is that possible?!" King Neptune was startled, and he didn't think the two cats were making things up. "Could it be Hody Jones?! That fellow is truly devious!"
Xie Wen, who knew the truth: "..."
Only after hurriedly summoning the Seahorse Mermaid Right Minister to check the treasury for any other bombs did King Neptune learn what had happened from him.
This time, even Hua Mei Meow couldn't help criticizing them. "How many years has it been? You never once thought of reporting this, meow? Weren't you afraid King Neptune or Fukaboshi might suddenly decide to look inside the Tamatebako one day and get blown to death, meow?"
"Ah!"
The Right Minister looked shocked. Clearly, that possibility had never even occurred to him.
It was only because King Neptune was excessively kindhearted that he wouldn't hold such things against him. Never mind those kings in the One Piece world, each less human than the last-even