Naval Headquarters, Marshal's Office.
The old man, who is over seventy years old and still majestic, wears a pair of toad glasses that ruin his image. There is a seagull standing above his head. He combs his feathers with his beak from time to time to show that it is not a doll.
"Oh? Are you going to take action so soon? Has he only had a few days of rest?"
Zhan Guo picked up the application in surprise, and suddenly laughed a little self-deprecatingly: "That's right, after all, it's that Ron..."
For Ron to be able to bring up the matter of fighting until now is already considered tolerable.
Then he laid out the application, paused for a second, and asked, "What do you think?"
In front of him was Momo Usagi, one of the Navy's strongest swordsman candidates for the Navy Headquarters.
As she said before, Ron's challenge to her and the tea dolphins must be approved by the Warring States Period. At their level, they are so destructive that they need to find another venue. Let's not mention it for the moment. The important thing is the meaning!
To challenge them is to challenge the status of candidate for general!
Candidates for generals also have three seats like generals. The three of them compete with each other to rank first, second, and third, always ready to take over the position of general.
To put it bluntly, the general candidate is a coffin built in advance while the generals are still alive.
Once any general encounters misfortune or retires due to injury, the first alternate will be directly promoted to general to take over all his duties.
He is the real ace reserve of the Navy!
If there is an emergency period of war, there is no need to go through this procedure. The candidate general has the same powers as the general and leads the entire navy to fight against the odds!
Of course, in hundreds of years, the navy has never been forced to that point of despair.
The candidate matter was of great significance. Sengoku asked himself, does he believe Ron
He felt trusted.
As a Marine, Ron couldn't be more qualified.
But Ron…
"The marshal is worried... will Ron be the next Dorag?"
Taotu's voice was cold and he did not answer the question. Instead, he and Sengoku discussed for the first time the name that was regarded as the greatest shame by the navy.
Dorag defected after becoming an admiral candidate. Before that, he was as dazzling in the navy as Ron is now.
Warring States was stunned and sighed after a long time.
"Yeah, after all, they are so similar..."
The same outstanding talent, the same confidence and pride, the same fearlessness.
There are so many similarities between the two...so much so that sometimes when Sengoku took Ron's information, he would mistake the person in the photo for Dorag.
"Twelve years ago, Dorag defected as a candidate for admiral. In the following ten years, the navy's new blood has almost stagnated. This is a nightmare that we can never get rid of."
The man who was originally regarded as a good young man to be trained by the general and regarded by Taotu as a lifelong challenge goal, suddenly defected that afternoon.
And his departure seemed to turn on a switch and cast a curse, which prevented the Navy from finding a second rookie who could take over the position of general in ten years.
A whole ten years!
In that era when the navy was in decline, the Warring States Period had to do everything possible to maintain the balance of the sea. Even if it was obvious that the navy was suffering losses and bleeding, it had to repeatedly make concessions to maintain the stability of the situation.
This is also the reason why the Warring States Period in the original work supported Aokiji's rise to power instead of Akainu.
Because the navy at that time could not afford to lose!
Can't bear any more losses!
It is conceivable what will happen to the Navy under the leadership of Akainu. Sengoku will not doubt that he is a loyal and reliable soldier, but the Navy no longer has the financial resources to lose.
Later, Akainu defeated Aokiji, and Aokiji's departure made the navy even worse.
If it were not for the appearance of Fujitora Green Bull in the "World Recruitment", the overall combat power of the Navy would plummet from the current 10 to 8 or even lower!
The strongest force in the Grand Line will become an empty talk, and the era of great pirates will only become more intense.
Taotu grew up rapidly during that period of lean years, and now she is also one of the candidates for general, but that man will never come back.
Secretly clenching his fists, Taotu took a deep breath and said solemnly: "I believe that Ron and Dorag are different."
"Oh? Tell me what you think..."
Warring States looked at her in surprise, suddenly became interested, and motioned for Taotu to continue.
After experiencing the Dorag incident, this strong woman who forced Cha Dou to admit defeat five years ago and became a general candidate in one fell swoop rarely made comments to outsiders.
"Because their ideals are different!"
Peach Rabbit's eyes were firm, and the phantom of Dolag seemed to appear in front of his eyes. Ron and Dorag are indeed similar, and it is even said that they both played an important role in a war with the Four Emperors.
But there is a heaven and earth difference between them.
"Dorag pursues justice, Ron pursues strength!"
"The justice in Dolag's heart could not be explained by the Navy, so he defected. And the Navy can definitely bring him the power Ron wants..."
At this time, a voice suddenly broke in.
"That's right!"
"Ron is not pursuing and thirsting for power from the perspective of an inferior, nor is he using the Navy as a springboard. What he yearns for is a powerful body, no matter where it comes from!"
"He is the embodiment of power!"
"Dorag is the enforcer of justice in his own chest, and Ron only punches for greater power!"
The person coming was Zefa. When he knew that Ron was going to challenge Peach Rabbit and Tea Dolphin tomorrow, he hurried to the Marshal's office and heard Peach Rabbit's comment at the door.
Several guards looked at Warring States anxiously, feeling sorry for not being able to stop Zefa. Warring States waved his hand and motioned for them to leave.
Boom!
The door is closed.
Zefa looked at Warring States deeply, with a bit of heaviness and heartache, and sighed.
"It's time to let it go, Sengoku!"
"How many more years do us bad old men have to live? I have given up, and so has Garp, but you are the only one who still can't let go."
"Hmph! That's because your good apprentice avenged you! The Garp family is called breaking the jar! What about me? What do I have?!"
Hearing the corner of Sengoku's mouth twitching, he suddenly snorted angrily and rolled his eyes in disdain.
There is indeed no evidence that Ron ordered Fujitora to kill Edward Weeble, but that does not mean that Sengoku believes that Ron did not instruct Fujitora to kill the two fools.
"Hey you old thing! Are you still paying for this after all?!"
Zefa's face darkened instantly and he banged the table.
"Do you have evidence? If you don't have evidence, you're just making it up! You're planning your own soldiers behind the scenes. How dare you be a marshal? Bah!"
"Asshole! Do you want to fight Zefa?!"
"Come just come, aren't you afraid?!!"
The two old men, who together were almost 150 years old, soon started arguing from the corners of their mouths and started a fist fight. Things changed so suddenly that Taotu blinked in confusion.
Suddenly, she found that the application form had fallen to the ground.
I picked it up and looked at it, and laughed.
On the last page, the ink of Warring States' autograph was still wet, and the handwriting was majestic and powerful.
…
"The windless zone, the Sakarat Islands... is that place where there is no grass growing?"
In Zefa's office, Ron held the chart curiously, looking confused.
Although the iron triangle formed by Marineford, Impel Down City, and Judiciary Island can quickly lead to the windless zone, is your utilization rate too high
The last time I went to Hell Island, I passed many islands along the way, but it was only a three-hour flight from Impel Down. Ron was deeply impressed by that deserted archipelago.
More than a dozen turtle-like Neptunes are clustered on the islands, each with a bare head the size of a giant war beast. It's hard not to be impressed.
Ron deeply suspected that the reason why there was no grass growing on the Sakarat Islands was probably because it was compacted by these sunbathing bastards!
"That's right, that's it... Anyway, there's no ghost around. You can let go and go... Hey, touch Ai Yin, it hurts!"
On the large chair, Zefa was leaning back on the recliner, and Ai Yin was holding the medicine box and applying medicine to him.
Ron glanced at Zefa, who had a bruised nose and face, and chuckled.
"This little injury hurts. You are really getting more and more... uh... younger as you live longer!!"
There is murderous intent!
Ron quickly changed his tune.
"Hmph! Little bastard!"
Zefa snorted coldly, paused for a moment, and said: "Go ahead and do whatever you want! Ron! If that bastard from Warring States continues to be gibberish, I'll beat him up next time!"
"Are you sure you weren't beaten?"
Ai Yin rolled her eyes at him and wrapped the bandage tightly.
During this process, Zefa grimaced in pain and did not dare to speak.