Four Months Later.
One by one, large warships continuously circled and patrolled the sea around Marineford island. All ships approaching this island needed to be stopped and inspected to verify the identity of everyone on board.
As soon as suspicious-looking ships approached and refused to stop for inspection, the warships patrolling the sea would fire their weapons directly, sinking them.
From the sea outside, a medium-sized warship slowly sailed into the crescent-shaped Marine port bay and docked at the pier.
Sephiroth, wearing a large white justice cloak and two long swords attached to his waist, as well as a black suit, along with three Junior Officers, descended from the gangway.
It was at this moment that Sakazuki, an Admiral Akainu in a red suit, with five Junior Officers, happened to pass by.
"Hmph!"
With a cigar in his mouth, Akainu suddenly glanced sideways at the silver-haired youth and let out a cold snort.
Seeing the other person leave his back, Sephiroth frowned slightly and muttered, "Inexplicable!"
On weekdays, he and Akainu did not have much contact. They had only seen each other a few times from a distance at Marine Headquarters and never had a conversation. Neither party had even nodded.
However.
In his Observation Haki perception, Akainu had a very obvious dislike for him...?
After Sephiroth walked into the Marine Building with his three officers, he turned and glanced at the three officers following him before speaking:
"I'm going to a meeting. You can take the ledger to the Logistics Department and hand it over to them. Once you're done, you can head straight back to base. You don't need to wait for me!"
"Yes!" x3
After finishing speaking, Sephiroth turned and walked towards the meeting room.
This meeting was a Marine Headquarters meeting convened by Kong, the former Commander-in-Chief. All General-level officers stationed at Marine Headquarters were required to come and participate, while General-level officers from other branches were required to watch the live Den Den Mushi broadcast simultaneously.
The content of the meeting, Sephiroth, through the corrupt forces at the top of the Marine, also received news.
It was said that Kong was preparing to begin delegating power to Sengoku, allowing him to handle the Marshal's military affairs on his behalf.
This move was essentially equivalent to telling everyone that, barring anything else, Sengoku would definitely take over the position of Marine Marshal in the future.
In fact, Kong had no other choice but to choose Sengoku for the position of Marshal.
Because Lieutenant General Garp always refused to be promoted to Admiral and refused to be a direct subordinate of the Tenryuubito, and the others did not have this supreme power. The positions of the three Admirals preferred to remain vacant rather than making up the numbers. There were only two Admirals, Sengoku and Zefa.
Of the two remaining choices, Kong did not hesitate to exclude Zefa!
Seventeen years ago, a pirate captured and imprisoned by Zefa himself. After escaping from prison, in order to retaliate against Zefa, he tried his best to find Zefa's wife and child, and killed them in a very cruel way.
After that incident, Zefa's heart suffered a major setback, and he even greatly doubted the "no-kill" principle he insisted on.
After all, if he had been more ruthless and directly killed those pirates, his wife and son would not have been brutally murdered!
To this end, Zefa also offered his resignation to Kong, but he was retained by the other party as much as he could, and while maintaining his Admiral rank, he was transferred to Marineford Academy as an instructor.
In Kong's view, Zefa was too naive and too benevolent to hold the position of Marine Marshal.
In contrast, Sengoku was far more perfect. He adhered to the justice of the World Government, was flexible in handling matters, knew how to make choices, had a very broad view of the situation, and played tricks and conspiracies at his fingertips.
Therefore, Kong still acknowledged Sengoku's takeover as Marine Marshal.
When Sephiroth entered the spacious meeting room, he glanced up and saw that more than fifty Generals had taken their seats.
Most of them were Brigadier Generals and Major Generals, with only a few Lieutenant Generals.
Sephiroth was in the conference room, in the back row, in the farthest right seat, and found the chair where his name tag was placed, and sat on it.
To his left sat a man with a Major General rank insignia on his shoulder, a taupe suit, a vertical scar on his left face, and a cigar in his mouth.
His name was "Mosambia." He was a member of the corrupt high-ranking Marine officials. His family was very powerful in the World Government, so even if his achievements were mediocre and his strength was ordinary, he became a Major General the previous year, when he was only thirty years old.
Perhaps for Mosambia, compared to Akainu, the rocket type who only took ten years to be promoted from ordinary soldier to Lieutenant General was a little slower.
However.
Compared to ordinary officers who were promoted, he was actually very fast!
"Brigadier General Sephiroth, would you like to...?"
"A special royal offering from the Ilusia Kingdom in the West Blue, a high-end product that's hard to buy even with money..."
From his suit pocket, Mosambia took out a cigar and handed it to the silver-haired youth.
Hearing this, Sephiroth raised his eyebrows, pretending to be very interested, and said with a smile, "Oh!? Then I must try it!"
After taking the cigar, instead of pulling out his lighter, he bent his right index finger and wiped it from the inside of his thumb.
An orange-red flame erupted from his fingernail in an instant, lighting the cigar.
"Tsk! How did you do that?..." Mosambia said with a surprised look on his face.
"Tekkai, Shigan, and Life Return, just a few tips for using Rokushiki simultaneously!" Sephiroth smiled and wrote lightly.
In fact, at close range, this taijutsu technique was only slightly higher than the average Shigan, and it was impossible to play mid-range and long-range at all. Beyond a certain distance, the flame would disappear.
"If you can perform so many Rokushiki skills at the same time, your physical skills are truly..."
In his tone of voice, Mosambia was filled with emotion and admiration.
Regarding Sephiroth, he was actually quite curious.
When this person graduated from military school, he was the top of that class.
Logically, Sephiroth had this talent. As long as he didn't die prematurely without any accidents, sooner or later he would be able to become a Major General or Lieutenant General, or even an Admiral!
However.
Sephiroth, on the contrary, chose to join them in all kinds of shady deals.
Perhaps, the other party wanted to use their connections to prepare their descendants to enter the upper echelons of the World Government and become a bureaucratic family.
There were not a few examples of this, and they had achieved hereditary power substitution through the efforts of one generation, or generations.
That was true of Mosambia, where he would be able to become a Vice Admiral and reap greater benefits for the family as long as nothing else happened to him and he operated with the help of his family's power at the top of the World Government.
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