And you think I wanted that?! I let you free in Alabasta to go help the princess however you chose while I went to get proof so that the government couldn't fucking keep pretending Crocodile was their loyal little lapdog. I told them to take their promotion and shove it. And they learned NOTHING from it. Kept right on insisting the others were in control. "Helping." Bullshit. Blackbeard, Boa Hancock, NONE of them are loyal to the government or following orders. It's all just fucking politics.

I've earned plenty of promotions and you must have fought higher ranked officers by now. You think they're as strong as me? I prefer captain so I don't have to deal with as much of their idiotic orders. The ONLY reason I lost your trail for a while was because they forced me to get promoted no matter how MUCH I refused. But I did refuse it, no matter what you think.

Don't talk about things you don't know boy.