Chapter 184 - Chapter 186

The doors slammed open to Amell's office, Shiryu walked in with quick steps and stopped right in front of his captain. "Captain, urgent report from the kingdom of Alabasta!" He waited for Amell to finish whatever he was writing. He looked up after he was done and raised an eyebrow, "You said it was urgent, so..."

"Right!" Shiryu cleared his throat and did ones over of the report in his hand. "The Straw hat pirates invaded the Alabasta kingdom together with its princess, Vivi. An all-out war is currently ongoing between the royal army of the kingdom and the rebel forces. Minerva is requesting to know your orders at this time." Shiryu stopped talking and observed as Amell's face underwent rapid changes in expression.

"Crocodile is compromised. Tell Minerva to observe, for now, whatever the outcome of that war is, make sure Crocodile doesn't die or lands himself in the hands of the Marines. He is one of my future emperors after all."

"Yes, Captain! And another piece of information, Portgas D Ace, commander of the Whitebeard pirates was seen in Alabasta but has since disappeared. Should I have our agent investigate?"

"No, don't bother." Amell suddenly looked up at Shiryu with a puzzled expression. "I didn't tell you, did I?" He saw Shiryu tilt his head, "Tell me what, captain?"

"Ace and I are family!" No chock came over Shiryu, just a smile. "Yes, you did tell me. Not directly, but I know your family name, so connecting the dots wasn't hard." He said proudly.

"Oh, how wonderful. Now, hurry up, I am sure Minerva is dying to receive her orders." Amell waved away Shiryu and he left in the same hurry as he arrived.

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In Alabasta, Minerva stood on the street a pretty fair distance away from all the fighting. She stood leaning against the walls of a house with a hand to her ear. "Observe? How boring... Yeah, yeah, I got it!" She said to what seemed to be no one, but inside her ear was the tiny little device that the Gotei used to stay in contact with agents out in the field. "Have a good day, Sir!" She took down her hand and looked towards the direction where all the noises originated from. "Now, where is Robin?"

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Back on Amell's island, a massive dragon was approaching at high speeds. It was a black dragon with hints of pink in its hair and on its body. You would expect panic to insue if you saw a big dragon approach you, but nothing like that happened. Everyone remained calm even after the dragon landed on the island. The dragon started transforming and moments later, a half-naked pale-skinned woman stood where the dragon had been. "Is he in?" She asked the nearest pirate.

"Captain is in his office." The pirate said respectfully. Ginrummy nodded and made her way up. She had stopped being nervous around him a long time ago now, so after a heavy knock on the door, she made her way inside. "Boss, we need to talk!" Her gaze landed on the miserable-looking emperor that was completely buried in papers.

"Sure, what is it you want to talk about?" His voice was still calm and friendly despite looking like he could strangle someone alive. "Did you put me in charge of Doflamingo and Caesar clown? I got a very disturbing message from Byakuya that told me he would behead me if I failed a task I didn't know I had!" The anger in her voice was quite justified since getting death threats from Byakuya was something you generally took seriously.

"Right, I forgot to inform you about that. See, my wife just had twins so my mind has been preoccupied with that. Sorry, I'll talk to Byakuya and I'll give the duty to someone else." Amell did not look up at her, his eyes and hands were working in tangent to blaze through all this paperwork.

"No, don't do that! In the reason months, I've thought a lot on that. I want Wano back, I want to start the Beast Pirates up again!" This time she got him to look up from the paper pile. "You sure?" Was the first thing he asked.

"Yeah, definitely!"

"Alright, I'll get it done! Anything else you want?

"Kenshin, he is very liked over in Wano, so can you send him there to smooth things over when we move in?"

"I think he wouldn't mind. I'll talk to him as well."

"Okay, you're agreeing with everything I'm saying today. Are you okay?" She found his behaviour really strange, but again, maybe it had something to do with the twins.

"I am in a good mood. Do not expect this to last, so take advantage of it while it's here."

"Oh, great! Can I have the throne to the Gotei?" Ginrummy took a shot in the dark, Amell looked up at her, there wasn't any anger in his eyes, only confusion. "I'll think about it!" He said and returned to his reports.

'Wow, he's happier than I thought!' Ginrummy bowed to him before leaving the room again.

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