Donquixote Doflamingo was in a very foul mood...
Only when he answered Vergo's call just now had he learned that the merfolk he had wanted to capture were aboard that damned Sapphire Star's ship.
Doflamingo had never imagined that Xie Wen could recruit merfolk companions after just one trip to Fish-Man Island. Even if he had rescued two Fish-Men from him, it was still far too unreasonable!
Before this, he had always assumed that the target was an exclusively Fish-Man force like the Sun Pirates.
But Doflamingo had no time now to wonder how Xie Wen had recruited the merfolk, much less concern himself with whether Baby 5 and Buffalo were dead or alive, because another piece of news Vergo had brought him was even more aggravating.
"What exactly is the World Government trying to do?"
Doflamingo frowned deeply.
As a former Celestial Dragon, he might have been able to intimidate the Marines and some pirates, but to the other Celestial Dragons, Doflamingo was no different from the other "commoners." Nor did he want to see other Celestial Dragons lording it over him, so the Heavenly Yaksha had absolutely no channels through which to learn about certain internal decisions of the World Government...
Even though some Celestial Dragons bearing the Donquixote surname still remained in Saint Mary Geoise.
However, Doflamingo did not agonize over it for as long as Xie Wen had imagined. In his view, whatever the World Government's reasons, Nico Robin being aboard Xie Wen's ship was a fact, and that would naturally make him everyone's target.
And, just as Hua Mei Meow had guessed, Doflamingo intended to add fuel to Xie Wen's fire.
"Trebol, leak the news that Nico Robin has joined the Sapphire Star to those people..."
Doflamingo gave the order. Those people he referred to