"Yeah," he says, wholly aware of the irony, which just makes his smile widen. It is sort of funny. If their lives had taken many different paths, and if they were both able to meet now for the first time, a Marine officer and a pirate captain, they would be enemies by definition.
"It's not what I would've wanted, obviously. But it's his life to live. From what the papers said, he's mostly causing trouble for the Marines and other pirates, but leaving civilians alone."
All of Law's targets reported on in the papers are familiar names - people in Doflamingo's underground trade network, or people Doflamingo had planned to include further down the line. One Marine officer killed - a man both he and Law knew to be his brother's spy. Law maneuvered himself into a position with enough power and allied support to put Doflamingo in prison, and is cleaning up the rest of the criminal underground, one name at a time. It is never what he would have asked of the boy because it's immensely dangerous, but he swears he can feel love radiating back to him, years and entire lives apart, when he links together every little detail in those articles.
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"It's not what I would've wanted, obviously. But it's his life to live. From what the papers said, he's mostly causing trouble for the Marines and other pirates, but leaving civilians alone."
All of Law's targets reported on in the papers are familiar names - people in Doflamingo's underground trade network, or people Doflamingo had planned to include further down the line. One Marine officer killed - a man both he and Law knew to be his brother's spy. Law maneuvered himself into a position with enough power and allied support to put Doflamingo in prison, and is cleaning up the rest of the criminal underground, one name at a time. It is never what he would have asked of the boy because it's immensely dangerous, but he swears he can feel love radiating back to him, years and entire lives apart, when he links together every little detail in those articles.