Zaibatsu chairman, Mitsukado, and the other leaders of the top four zaibatsu were watching the game in the VIP room on the ship. The Destroyal was also a proxy war between the zaibatsu to decide who'd get the decision-making power for the theriomorphosis business which is likely to yield huge profits. On the island, Ratel and Cheetah were in an unthinkable state because of Civet's Civetone Trap.