"The other Marines are all yours, but this guy belongs to us."
After cleaning up the battlefield, Xie Wen began dividing up the "spoils" with Sabo.
He gestured casually at the other Marines, then pointed at Sakazuki, who had been trussed up like a dumpling in Seastone chains with a wad of rags stuffed into his mouth. "This guy is utterly loyal to the World Government anyway. There's no way you could persuade him."
"You and your companions did all the work in this battle, Mr. Xie Wen. Naturally, how to handle the prisoners is entirely up to you." Sabo thanked him tactfully. "We already feel undeserving of having all these Marines handed over to us."
Xie Wen nodded in satisfaction, then handed Akainu, who was still glaring furiously at him, over to Meow Jūshirō, telling him to throw Sakazuki into the Dudu's hold and lock him up for now.
The remaining Marines were also moved aboard the Toot Toot Forward. With Suika Meow's Density-Density Fruit ability, space was no problem at all.
Of course, as expected, Ai Haibara Meow drew several tubes of blood from the few Devil Fruit Users among them.
Whether Xie Wen and the others needed those abilities was another matter. They would collect them first regardless.
Likewise, the cats had drawn blood from the Revolutionary Army's few ability users too, without even making an exception for the Logias they could not yet replicate... What if they made a technological breakthrough someday?
Only after dealing with the prisoners of war did Xie Wen contact Dragon again to discuss where to hand over these Marines and pick up Cat Princess.
Their headquarters at Baltigo was certainly out of the question, so Dragon chose a "branch base" relatively close to Egghead Island that was not particularly important to