"What a troublesome matter. It is just a dead pirate, so why do we still have to verify some insignificant details? All these pirates of the Shichibukai should just be arrested."
"Please do not say that, Captain Smoker. This is a mission assigned to us by headquarters."
Tashigi to the side hurriedly spoke in a flustered and persuasive tone, even though there were only the two of them nearby and not a third person heard Smoker's words.
When the corpse of Crocodile was delivered to the Marine Branch near Alabasta, it shocked the marines of the entire branch and even alarmed headquarters.
The Shichibukai were "legal pirates" recognized by the World Government, and almost all of them were powerful great pirates. Now that one had actually died, Marine Headquarters and the World Government had to investigate the matter thoroughly.
However, Cobra sent Igaram as a palace envoy to compile and present all of Crocodile's crimes in Alabasta to the Marine Branch. Robin even came to the Marine Branch together with him as a distant relative of the Nefertari Royal Family and the vice president of the Karn Chamber of Commerce.
They handed Smoker some files on the criminals of the former Baroque Works. With a royal family member testifying for Karn, and on top of undeniable evidence of Crocodile's crimes-including the unforgivable act of attempting to subvert one of the twenty kingdoms that founded the World Government-
The World Government and Marine Headquarters therefore instructed Smoker to check the person who killed Crocodile, and to invite the other party over if they had any intention of becoming a Shichibukai.
Sending Smoker also carried the intent of testing the other party's strength.
The Shichibukai were a system used by the World Government to check pirates with pirates. Wanting to crack down