User blog comment:DancePowderer/Roids and Romance/@comment-1908942-20110203054550

Even though we have Jones and Decken in a Alliance, Neptune and his sons as somewhat unwilling antagonists, Caribou the Wild Card, and if Linlin's factory has security like Kaido's island, an allied Captain and his/her crew who may get involved if this gets big, and maybe others, I don't think any of them are the true villain.

Who it is the manipulator of this "shadow"? I think the two Ministers are in on it, trying to goad Neptune in the wrong way to weaken his reign, and someone paying off/holding something valuable or someone valuable to her hostage to force Shirley (She does seem to be good, so to me, she's more unwilling) to make up that prediction to have all these forces kill one another with Luffy being the "trigger", but who? If it's just not the Ministers themselves, that is.