As the days passed, the World Government acted as though nothing had happened.
Aside from raising the bounties on the people (and cats) involved at the outset, they neither tried to retake the five countries occupied by the Revolutionary Army nor sent anyone else to continue clearing out the pirates at sea...
Of course, this might also have had something to do with Sakazuki's entire fleet being captured, leaving the Navy desperately short-handed.
But regardless, the World Government's response was far too calm. They had not even tightened their control over the affiliated nations.
There had been no word from Vegapunk either. It was unclear whether Uranus was still usable, or whether the Five Elders simply did not want anyone other than the Celestial Dragons to know of its existence.
Since he really could not figure out what was going on with the World Government, Dragon chose a relatively cautious option for his next plan: continuing to probe the World Government.
As for how they would probe them, it was actually the tactic the Revolutionary Army would use later in the original manga-cutting off Saint Mary Geoise's food supplies.
Of course, Xie Wen had transmigrated too early to have read that part, so he did not know exactly how the World Government would react and naturally could not offer Dragon any advice.
Before that, however, they planned to rescue the slaves in Saint Mary Geoise first and burn down its granaries while they were at it.
Xie Wen did have some recollection of this part of the story. In the original, the Five Elders had probably stayed out of it to maintain their mystique, or perhaps because they had felt no need to act. Things were not necessarily the same now, though. Their circumstances had long since been exposed, and