[A small stare. He's not really sure taxes can compare to literal stick-ups of "your money or your life." Surely that's hyperbole. Smoker just shakes his head as Ikki stalks off.
If a pirate is going to decide to kill both sides, it's not going to be to save humanity. It'll destroy everything. Isn't that the World Government is trying to prevent? They wanted to make sure the weapons buried deep and hidden far away couldn't be dug up by anyone, it wasn't that they wanted to use them, right? Then again, small memory about C.C. nagged at him. There was a lot Smoker still didn't know about what they were planning. But then... if they did go too far, wouldn't it be better to try to stop them from the inside. Keep your enemies close.
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If a pirate is going to decide to kill both sides, it's not going to be to save humanity. It'll destroy everything. Isn't that the World Government is trying to prevent? They wanted to make sure the weapons buried deep and hidden far away couldn't be dug up by anyone, it wasn't that they wanted to use them, right? Then again, small memory about C.C. nagged at him. There was a lot Smoker still didn't know about what they were planning. But then... if they did go too far, wouldn't it be better to try to stop them from the inside. Keep your enemies close.
Oh well, justice wasn't easy.]