Chapter 131: So Spandine, What Is The Price?

Following Spandine's explanation Doflamingo understood the overall situation now.

It seems that the Five Elders still have a strong control over Mariejois. They already want to enter into a partnership by promoting him into a Seven Warlord of the Sea.

It turned out that the Five Elders knew about his ambitions.

But this is also normal. From Doflamingo's point of view, matters concerning Mariejois that are of interest to the Gorosei can't be hidden. 

As long as they want to know, they will find out. Otherwise, this so called 'supreme power' is a sham.

The five Elders have been in power for more than 20 years from what Doflamingo remembers. In the future, there will still be five of them. He didn't ask when he was young how many elders there were previously, and it's not easy to ask now. The Five Elders , maybe they are all old monsters who have lived for an unknown number of years. (Spoiler, we know they're most likely demons).

After so many years, if they can't even handle matters concerning their own people they should stop meddling with the sea.

But this time Spandine came to look for him, obiously there is a deeper meaning behind this action! Spandine was specially commissioned by Saint Topman Warcury to do this.

What does this mean? It means that Doflamingo's path at this time has deviated greatly from the original story.

In the original story, Doflamingo only wanted to become a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea a few years later, after the Minion Island incident had passed.

Even at that time, he didn't make much trouble outside of North Blue. Of course, Mariejois did not pay attention to him.

He wanted to become a Seven Warlords of the Sea, but Marine disagreed, and the world government held contempt againts him, so they repeatedly denied Doflamingo's self-recommendation.

Later, Doflamingo reacted ruthlessly and directly robbed the heavenly tribute originally delivered to Mariejois by the North Blue countries. As a threat, he coerced the world government to appoint him as a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

In the end, the World Government caved in and gave Doflamingo the status of Seven Warlords of the Sea.

After obtaining this status, Doflamingo can be said to have officially expanded externally. But It's different now. Doflamingo hasn't stepped into the New World yet, but the Gorosei have paid special attention to him, and it seems that they are quite optimistic about him.

After all, as long as Doflamingo isn't braindead, he can intepret this situation as the Five Elders 'expressing kindness' to him!

Don't you want to be Seven Warlords of the Sea?

Then I will give you the identity of Seven Warlords of the Sea, go ahead and continue to roam the sea, and let us see how far you can go!

The first investment has been made, as long as Doflamingo does not push his luck maybe in the future he can ask the Gorosei for support?

These aren't matter to ponder at this moment. At this time, what Doflamingo is thinking about is his attitude towards the world government and his future plans. Should he make some adjustments?

No plan is ever perfect. No plan can freely adapt to the ever changing world. Maybe the perfect plan made in the last second will be completely overthrown in the next second

At this time, Doflamingo was also thinking about his current position. Initially, he put himself and the world government in an opposing position, with his plans reflecting his current position.

But now, it seems that the situation has changed and he might have the opportunity to further integrate with the world government in a more legal relationship, but Doflamingo dismissed the idea quickly.

While it is true that the original plan needs to be changed, Doflamingo can't be hasty and will have to carefully make adjustment at a later time.

There are thousands of thoughts going on through his head, but in reality only a few seconds have passed.

Doflamingo quickly came back to his senses and said, "So that's how it is. Spandine, don't forgot to convey my gratitude to Saint Topman Warcury for me.

Spandain immediately said: "Young master, please rest assured I will convey your gratitude."

Doflamingo then asked again: "Then what is the process for becoming a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea now?"

"Cough." Spandain beckoned, and one of his subordinates rushed forward holding a roll of partchement.

Spandine took the parchment and respectfully handed it to Doflamingo, saying: "This is the letter of appointment for the Seven Warlords of the Sea organization currently established by the World Government. As long as you leave your name on this parchment, Young Master Doflamingo, then the contract will take effect, and from this moment on, you will become the first Seven Warlords of the Sea under the world government, and the... uh...cough... crimes you committed in the past will be expunged".

When Spandine said this, he was cautious, as if he was afraid of offending Doflamingo, but it was obvious that Doflamingo didn't mind his previous words at all.

Seeing this, Spandain also continued to say: "Your past wild behavior will be completely pardoned, and from now on, you will enjoy extrajudicial immunity.

Although he already understood this Doflamingo still smiled and said: "Fufufu, please explain this extrajudicial immunity in detail."

Spandine immediately said: "The so-called extrajudicial immunity means that after you become a Shichibukai (it's getting annoying writing the title in english, so I will just use the Japanese version), any pirate behavior conducted by you and all your members will no longer be punished by the law, this is your legal right."

In other words, from now on, Doflamingo's burning, killing and looting will be legalized, and Marine cannot target him for any of his piracy.

And Doflamingo has a more thorough understanding of this. In fact, it can be said that not only piracy, but basically all laws can no longer bind him as a Shichibukai.

Of course, it doesn't mean that he won't face scrutiny for his actions and is completely lawless. Let's say you beat up Celestial Dragons, burn the world's government flag, search for poneglyphs, investigate the void century, and so on. The government will still find trouble for you. (Basically no taboo things).

Therefore, this so-called 'pirate behavior' and 'extrajudicial immunity' is very flexible, and the definition is in the hands of the world government.

But as long as your interest represents the world government and you have value, this extrajudicial immunity can be defined like "as long as you don't challenge the bottom line of the world government, you can do whatever you want".

Doflamingo is not surprised by this, but Neptuns beside is quite surprised!

Seven Warlords of the Sea? Although he seemed to have read this before in the newspaper, Neptune didn't take it seriously at the time. Now, he seems to understand the horror of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

A pirate organization that is completely exempted from pirate behavior. If the person in this position is too indulgent in this type of behavior, it will bring disaster to many islands, is the world government not considering this point!?

But he doesn't care about this matter right now. What he's thinking about now is the matter discussed during the meal, Doflamingo, who seemed to belonged to a camp opposing the world government, has now become an ally of the world government. In other words, all the cooperation between fish men island and Seven Warlords of the Sea, Heavenly Yaksha·Don Quixote·Doflamingo is now completely reasonable and legal!

Not only can he be protected by the laws of the world government, but he can even enjoy the prestige of being a Shichibukai!

Doflamingo raised his eyebrows and said, "Any right comes with an obligation. By just being one of the Shichibukai you can enjoy such formidable power. So, what is the price?"

Listening to Doflamingo's deep voice, Spandine swallowed a little nervously, and said softly: "The price is worth it, Master Doflamingo".

Soon, Spandine explained the obligations of the Shichibukai.Speaking honestly, it's nothing too compromising. First of all, meetings are not compulsory unless strictly summon by the Gorosei and orders are more like transactions. 

At a critical moment, if the World Government thinks that there is a matter that can only be dealt by a Shichinukai, then they will issue a compulsory summoning and order the Schibukai, otherwise their status will be revoked if they refuse.

Doflamingo once made a deal with the World Government, and what he had to do was to kill Moria, but he failed.

In addition to this mandatory summons, the Seven Warlords of the Sea were initially also obligated to engage in private plundering and pay tribute. In other words, they could participate in piracy and plunder, but if discovered by the World Government, they were required to contribute a portion of their earnings as tribute.

But obviously, this is not mentioned in the parchment belonging to Doflamingo. It can be seen that his treatment is better than the rest of the Seven Warlords of the Sea?

In the original story, the veteran Shichibukai were taken as models for the Seraphims.

Now, it is estimated that the World Government has not launched this plan. After all, Vegapunk has only recently been captured. Let alone the Seraphim, the pacifistas haven't been designed yet.

Doflamingo doesn't care about this. As far as Doflamingo is concern, the ability used by the Seraphim can only be a Paramecia ability through the lineage factor.

If he was a String-String Fruit user, then he might be worried. Now he is a mythical beast, user and has a more friendly relationship with the government.

Secondly, Doflamingo really doesn't know how the Shichibukai were cloned to begin with. Firstly, the possibility of being forced to extract blood can be ruled out.

After all, if this condition was present to become a Shichibukai, the original Doflamingo and Moria might accept, but people like Mihawk and Hancock won't accept being forced to donate blood.

It should be through many ways to secretly collect some blood, right? Judging from the time when the Seraphim were born, it should have happen during the war of the best.

Both Jinbei and Crocodile were captured, so extracting blood was easy, but during the battle at Marineford, the remaining Seven Warlords all participated in the battle, if they pulled some trick, it is not impossible to extract some blood.

But now Doflamingo is able to manipulate blood...he doesn't believe that the world government can get his blood. 

He might even be able to use this to open some kind of 'back door' with his own blood, and after providing it to the world government to study, he might be able to directly suppress the control of the Seraph through his bloodline suppression!