In mid-October, autumn is getting stronger.
The breeze mixed with light rain, and a mist of rain and fog enveloped Marineford in the early morning.
On the dock of the navy headquarters, a middle-aged man was sitting on a pier, looking up at the empty sea. His white cloak of justice was blowing in the wind, and the drizzle wet the man's purple hair.
"Ka... Ka..."
"Hey Zefa, why are you sitting here?"
"Is there nothing going on at school today?"
At this moment, a burly middle-aged navy man walked up behind the purple-haired man and asked doubtfully.
"Oh, Garp!"
Zefa turned around and saw Garp standing behind him, chewing senbei in his mouth, looking at him suspiciously.
"It's nothing. Calculating the time, that boy Yuanyi should be arriving this morning."
"Anyway, it's okay to sit here. Let's come to the pier and have a look."
Zefa replied casually, and then seemed to remember something, and asked Garp: "What are you doing at the dock? Do you want to go sailing?"
"Hehehe."
"No, I haven't heard from Roger during this period. Why are you sailing?"
"I came to the dock...hehe, the purpose is the same as yours!"
Hearing Garp's words, Zefa couldn't help but frown, and asked in a deep voice with a somewhat wary tone: "Are you picking up Yuanyi? Why are you picking him up?"
"What are you talking about? I brought Enichi Jiguo back to the navy. I care about him. Isn't this a normal thing?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Garp swallowed the senbei in his mouth and answered with a laugh. However, Zefa's expression changed when he heard this. He stood up from the pier and said to Kaplan:
"Asshole Garp! Can you stay away from that boy Yuanyi?!"
"He has only been sailing with you for three months, and he has learned all your bad habits!"
"Don't you know what that kid did in Xihai?!"
"He is a cadet of the Naval Academy, a third-class private who went to the West Sea for training. He did such an outrageous thing. Isn't it because of your influence?!"
Hearing this, Garp calmly stretched out his little finger to pick his nose. He didn't care about Zefa's attitude. He turned his head and stopped looking at Zefa. He looked at the sea and replied with a smile:
"Don't say that. How can this be influenced by me?"
"It's obviously your permission, don't think I don't know."
"The Warring States Period told me, but you still asked him to give the order to promote Yuanyi to the rank of major."
"Haha, a 12-year-old major in our headquarters has been promoted really quickly!"
As Garp spoke, he flicked the boogers from between his little fingers with his thumb and did not take the blame. Instead, he glanced at Zefa teasingly. Garp's little eyes were caught by Zefa, which made Zefa, who was already a little angry, suddenly become furious.
"Isn't that just to wipe that brat's ass?!"
"If it weren't for that kid's willfulness, would this matter have become such a big deal?"
"Things like internal investigations should be carried out secretly. How about he catch them all? Are you afraid that others won't know?"
"What a good kid he was! He had a calm and calm personality. How did he become like this?!"
"Garp, you guy should stay away from fate. Your stupidity has already infected him."
"Go...go..."
As Zefa spoke, he made a driving gesture towards Garp, and made a "go...go" sound from his mouth, as if he was driving away some wild cats and dogs.
"Hahahahaha!"
"You're doing pretty well, you're very decisive, like someone who does big things!"
"Zefa, I can't influence that kid. Although that guy is young, it's obvious that he has something to persevere in his heart."
"You should, you can feel it!"
As Garp spoke, a mast appeared on the empty sea surface in the distance, and a few sails with the logo of Navy Branch 133 appeared on the sea surface. Garp noticed the sails appearing on the sea, turned his head and looked at the sea, grinning.
"Something that sticks..."
"You don't need to tell me about this kind of thing. I also know that he has his own understanding of justice. That's why I chose to wipe this kid's ass."
"My vision is absolutely not wrong. Yuanyi is the future of our navy!"
"Because of this...I will never allow him to become a bastard like you!"
After Zefa finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the warship on the sea. His sullen face softened at this moment.
...
"I didn't expect to come back so soon."
"It's only been more than a month. I haven't done anything at all, and the internship is over."
"It feels anticlimactic."
On the warship of Navy Branch 133, Ji Guoyuan stood on the bow of the ship, with his hands on the railing, looking at Marine Ford who had appeared in the field of vision, and couldn't help but sigh.
It has only been more than a month since I left Marineford for the West Sea in early September, and the voyage to and from the West Sea and my headquarters took nearly twenty days.
In other words, Yuanyi actually only stayed in Xihai for twenty days.
In such a short period of time, Enichi's military rank had indeed risen from third-class private to major, but Enichi Tsukuni knew that he really didn't learn anything during his apprenticeship.
Practical sailing knowledge? No. Mingle with lower-level naval officers and soldiers? nor.
Perhaps what he gained from his apprenticeship was that the sharp blade in his hand gave him the aura of "Major of the Headquarters" and established his reputation as one of the successors to the country.
As for digging out the worms in the branch, this was just a convenient thing for Yuanyi, and this incident made him very bad, and his impression of the navy was deducted. It can't be considered a gain.
The biggest gain from Xihai's trip was his current rank of major, and... he met Nicole Olbia, Robin's mother.
Yuanyi still vaguely remembers Kuzan’s depressed look after sending Nicole Olbia back to O’Hara. Every time he thinks about it, Yuanyi finds it funny.
At this time, he couldn't help but have a smile on his face.
"It's really rare, Yuanyi, look at the pier."
Just when Yuanyi was thinking about Qingzhi's mournful appearance, Victor walked up to Yuanyi's side, pointed at the two figures at the military port pier, and reminded him in a surprised tone.
Yuanyi looked in the direction Victor pointed and saw Zefa and Garp. The smile on his face became even bigger and he couldn't help but whisper:
"I'm back."
...
The warship of Navy Branch 133 approached the military port and began to slow down. Not long after, the warship entered the port and stopped steadily in the center of the military port. The anchor had just been lowered into the sea, and the wooden ladder had not yet been lowered. Enichi Tsukikuni's figure had already disappeared from the bow of the ship.
On the dock, Zefa and Garp both looked up at the stationary warship in front of them. The next second, they noticed it almost at the same time and looked away.
"It seems like you've made some progress over the past month or so, kid!"
Garp turned his head slightly and looked behind him with the corner of his eyes.
"Ah! Indeed, the speed is much faster. The combination of armed color domineering and shaving is already perfect."
Zefa also smiled and turned his head, looking behind him in admiration.
Behind the two of them, Ji Guoyuan was wearing a straight white navy uniform and the navy's cloak of justice. He had a long sword on his waist and was looking at Zefa and Garp with a smile.
Different from the "minion"-like image of him wearing a sailor's uniform more than a month ago, today's Jiguo Enichi really looks like a naval commander.
"Lieutenant General Garp."
"long time no see."
"Teacher Zefa, I'm back."
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