'They're hiding something from me. Rose, find out what it is,' Ace mentally instructed Dame Wasp using his sense share skill after leaving the McSuile Trio to retrieve DD.
From their earlier conversation, Ace sensed that Janice was fully aware of the cult members camping outside the town. However, her staff and agents were pretending otherwise, acting as though it was news when Ace discovered it. As a result, he suspected that the country's curse community wasn't just using him as bait to wipe out the remaining cult members—they were lying in wait for the whale.
