"...That's not what I meant!"
Dragon explained with a thoroughly exasperated look, "Even if we use Nika as bait, we don't necessarily need the real thing. We could simply fabricate some information to get the World Government to act."
"But the Five Elders know the truth about the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika. More importantly, Luffy has already set sail. They must have noticed him long ago, so fabricating information now wouldn't help, would it? It might even make the Five Elders, who haven't been paying much attention to Luffy, start targeting him instead."
Xie Wen looked at Dragon in puzzlement. Given the intelligence he had displayed so far, he couldn't possibly have overlooked all this.
Well, Xie Wen couldn't be certain, either. After all, judging solely by the Revolutionary Army's development in the original manga, Dragon's performance as its leader had been rather hard to describe...
"I'm not suggesting we fabricate another user of the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika," Dragon continued to explain. "I intend to fabricate news about the previous Nika, the Joy Boy you mentioned. I also plan to transport a Poneglyph there from somewhere else. With two 'taboos' appearing at once, there's a good chance the Five Elders will take the bait. Then we'll launch an attack on Egghead Island at the same time, tying down most of the World Government's fighting forces. That way, if they want to deal with Joy Boy and the Poneglyph quickly, they'll very likely deploy Uranus."
"If the World Government doesn't deploy Uranus and instead diverts personnel to deal with the problem, we'll try to seize Vegapunk for real!"
Lindbergh, the South Army Commander, added from the side, "We spent days discussing this before coming up with this plan to kill two birds with one stone!"
"Hee-haw! If we're lucky, we