In the afternoon, in the Kuja Pirates' room.
Gloriosa and Shakky, the captain and vice-captain of the Kuja Pirates, were in the same room discussing countermeasures.
"Gloriosa, are we just going to do nothing?" Shakky asked.
"What can we do? If we're not careful, the entire Kuja Pirates could get dragged into this."
Gloriosa, who had feelings for Roger, naturally wanted to help, but compared to Roger, she cared more about the Kuja Pirates as a whole.
If Makoto wasn't even afraid of the World Government, what could they do?
Especially with Nayuta, whose terrifying level was no less than Makoto's.
Shakky thought for a moment and said: "How about after Rayleigh and the others are thrown into Impel Down, we go break them out?"
If there was any good news, it was that Makoto didn't plan to kill all the Roger Pirates, his blood bags. Instead, he was going to throw them into the underwater prison. Although that wasn't exactly a great outcome, it at least left a glimmer of hope.
So they could wait until Roger and the others were locked up, then go break them out of Impel Down.
Gloriosa looked at her friend incredulously.
'Although every generation of the Kuja Pirates' Empress was a lovesick fool, this was a bit extreme, don't you think?'
'Do you think Impel Down is a public toilet?'
'Come and go as you please?'
'And even if we wanted to break in, the Kuja Pirates didn't have the ability.'
'Unless someone on the level of Rocks, or at least Whitebeard, was willing to help, how could the Kuja Pirates possibly break anyone out?'
Gloriosa thought Shakky's idea was completely foolish, but Shakky felt it was worth a try… at least it wouldn't offend Makoto.
Shakky thought for a moment and said: "I think we can try to convince Makoto to let Rayleigh stay behind."
'After Roger and the others are imprisoned, we can team up with Rayleigh to break them out. That would increase our chances significantly, wouldn't it?'
Shakky felt that it was highly unlikely that a powerhouse like Rocks or Newgate would agree to help them with this. It had to be one of the Roger Pirates' own.
If they could convince Makoto to spare one of the 'Big Three', their chances would undoubtedly be much higher.
Gloriosa was completely speechless, 'So after all that, you just want to save your beloved, don't you?'
'And why would Makoto specifically spare one of them?'
'And why Rayleigh instead of Roger? Well, Roger was the leader, so that was probably impossible.'
"Anyway, let's go talk to him first." Shakky was a woman of action. She stood up and headed towards Makoto's office.
"Hey! Don't do anything rash!"
It was still afternoon. The girls were busy with their own things.
Utaha was writing a novel. Yotsuba was learning combat skills from Ran. Other girls were either flipping through the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia or listening to the Kuja Pirates' members explain how to use Haki.
After all, they had their own lives... they weren't thinking about that kind of thing all day long.
Even so, there was still a girl in Makoto's office… Tritoma.
But what they were doing now was proper.
"Stronger Armament Haki can hit the opponent from a distance, striking their internal organs. I've heard that in Wano, this advanced form of Armament Haki is called Ryuo."
Tritoma, who had taught Makoto basic Armament Haki, was now explaining the training method for advanced Haki.
But she hadn't learned this move herself... she was just talking theory, explaining the principles to Makoto.
Makoto smiled and suddenly said: "So, does that mean I could pierce your cervix without even going in?"
Wasn't the characteristic of Ryuo hitting from a distance?
Piercing from a distance should be possible too, right?
Tritoma's face turned bright red: "Nishikawa-sama, what are you saying?!"
As she spoke, Tritoma started feeling a bit aroused.
Because there are two stages in a woman's life when her sex drive is strongest:
One is the stage of 'thirty like a wolf, forty like a tiger, fifty sucks the earth'.
The other is right after tasting the forbidden fruit for the first time, just having experienced that pleasure, unable to extricate herself.
Tritoma belonged to the latter.
Tritoma bit her lip. Just as she pressed herself against Makoto, she suddenly heard a knock on the door behind her.
"Nishikawa-sama, may we interrupt for a moment?"
"U-Um, there's something we'd like to ask you."
"Gloriosa-san, Shakky-san."
Hearing the voices of her captain and vice-captain, Tritoma was startled, not knowing what to do.
Seeing this, Makoto pushed her head down and stuffed her under the office desk.
"Come in."
Click—
Ssrrkk—
Along with the sound of the door opening came the sound of a zipper being pulled.
Makoto pushed her down again and asked the two Kuja empresses who entered side by side: "What's up?"
Shakky was about to speak, but Gloriosa spoke first: "Nishikawa-sama, you don't actually plan to wipe out the Roger Pirates, do you?"
Makoto blinked: "So what?"
That was actually true… at least for now, he didn't plan to kill Roger.
If he died, how would Ace be born?
How would the Great Age of Pirates begin?
So Makoto's current attitude towards Roger was: he could mess with him, but try not to kill him.
Gloriosa continued: "We don't mean to interfere in your affairs, but could you please spare one of Roger, Rayleigh, or Gaban? We plan to break them out of Impel Down after you've tired of them and thrown them in."
Shakky looked at her sister in shock, 'No, seriously, why did you just say that outright?'
But Gloriosa felt this was the optimal solution. Playing petty tricks in front of someone far stronger than you was useless.
It was better to be honest from the start... then, maybe out of sympathy, the other party might let you off.
Clearly, Gloriosa's choice was correct.
"Break them out?" Makoto couldn't help but laugh at this.
Actually, Makoto had already decided to completely fall out with the Marines and the World Government.
He could keep all of the Roger Pirates, not handing over a single one. But he couldn't let them go either... otherwise, capturing them would have been for nothing.
So, he thought throwing them into Impel Down was the best option.
But he hadn't expected Shakky and the others to want to break them out. That was somewhat interesting.
However, given the Kuja Pirates' capabilities, a jailbreak was highly unrealistic. That's probably why Shakky and the others came to beg him, hoping he would spare at least one of the 'Big Three'.
"And why should we agree to that?" Makoto smiled.
After much hesitation, Shakky said: "I-I can help you..."
Knock knock knock—
"Senpai, may I..."
Just then, Yu's voice came from outside the door again.
Shakky and Gloriosa were startled.
They didn't dare let Yu know they had come to beg Makoto… in some ways, Yu was even more terrifying than Makoto and Nayuta.
Just as Shakky and Gloriosa were looking around nervously, not knowing what to do, Makoto beckoned them over, then pushed both of their heads down...
Suddenly, the three generations of Amazon Lily's Empresses under the office desk looked at each other.
After being stunned for a long time, Tritoma looked at her two leaders and voluntarily shared what she had.
"U-Um... Gloriosa-san, Shakky-san, would you like some too?"
Feeling the pressure from three sides, Makoto's breathing became labored.