Sakazuki's Approval!

Vidal had already sensed that Dragon was targeting him. Thinking back, when they were choosing seats, Dragon should have sat next to him based on distance, but the kid had taken a few extra steps and sat opposite him.

This made him wonder, what's wrong with that kid, Dragon?

"My justice has always been singular: killing pirates is justice, and wiping out all pirates is my greatest justice as a Marine!" Sakazuki said coldly, arms crossed.

"These scoundrels who don't follow the right path don't even deserve to breathe air in front of me!"

Dragon nodded. His roommate's sense of justice hadn't changed at all. Although he still thought it was too extreme, he wasn't averse to it now. He then turned his gaze from Vidal to Borsalino.

"I remember you said before that you hadn't found your own sense of justice yet. Now, do you have an answer?"

"This...?" Borsalino grimaced, unsure how to answer. "... On time... well, just consider it doing your duty to uphold justice."

He felt there was nothing wrong with his statement. He would do the tasks when there were tasks, and when there were no tasks, he would stay at the base and read the newspaper, drink tea, and smoke. After all, being stationed there was also a kind of work.

"You're too lax, Borsalino!" Sakazuki said with displeasure.

"With your Glint-Glint Fruit powers, you're much more efficient at cleaning up trash than I am. You should put in a better effort!"

Honestly, he had thought more than once that if he could exchange Devil Fruit abilities, he would definitely trade with this lazy guy.

With the speed of the Glint-Glint Fruit, Sakazuki could clear an entire airway in a month, and he could easily do it twice a year!

Every time his warships were too big and too slow to catch up with the nimble pirate ships, and he could only watch helplessly as the trash ships got away, he would get very angry and think of Borsalino's abilities.

So he actually dislikes his Magma-Magma Fruit. He'd rather have Vidal's Woods-Woods Fruit, which would allow him to control the pirates' ships from a distance, forcing them to come and die instead of running away!

"And you, Vidal, what exactly is your sense of justice?" Dragon stared directly into the other's eyes, seemingly trying to discern the true thoughts of this man who was stronger than himself.

"I remember telling you this a long time ago." Vidal understood Dragon's current state of mind, so he didn't care about his aggressive attitude.

"I want to be Fleet Admiral! I want to be Fleet Admiral! I want to be the strongest Fleet Admiral in history! I want to lead the strongest navy in history to rule the entire ocean, and maintain and strengthen the navy's and government's control over world order!"

These words are nine parts truth and one part falsehood, but they are basically his true feelings. At first glance, they sound like the concept of justice that he developed after becoming Fleet Admiral in the Sengoku, namely, 'Justice that Reigns Supreme'.

As for Sengoku's current philosophy, it is that "those who do not obey government orders are not part of the navy." He has firmly believed since his youth that government orders are correct, even if some orders seem cold and dark, he believes that they are necessary sacrifices to maintain world stability.

This point only began to change after the Dressrosa incident.

The concept of 'Justice that Reigns Supreme' is a more advanced version of this idea, since the roles are different now; the Fleet Admiral has gone from being the one being ordered to being the one giving orders.

Although they still have to obey the orders of the Five Elders, in terms of status and power, they are considered a major world power, so this "reign" is not a problem. "What are you doing?"

However, Dragon and the others saw that as Vidal spoke these words, some dark green Inazuma appeared on his body, but then disappeared into thin air in the blink of an eye.

"Sorry, sorry, my Conqueror's Haki has just Awakening, and it shows whenever I get excited. Whew—I almost caused a disaster!" Vidal sighed with lingering fear.

If someone unleashed a burst of Conqueror's Haki in this cafeteria, at least 70% of the people here would faint, and they would definitely get a scolding from Fleet Admiral Kong and their teacher Sengoku.

"Conqueror's Haki?" Dragon seemed thoughtful, and at the same time, he completely believed the truth of Vidal's words. He said in a low voice, "You truly are worthy of being the disciple of Sengoku Admiral."

But he didn't say aloud that he was more obsequious than the Sengoku Admiral. Instead, he asked, "Do you know anything about the Celestial Dragons?"

By this time, four men working in the canteen had already laboriously carried the food they had ordered to the table. After all, it was four strong men eating, so the amount was definitely a little more than what an average person would eat.

But apart from Borsalino, who had absolutely no interest in the topic of justice, starting to eat, Vidal and the other two didn't even glance at the sumptuous meal on the table.

"The Celestial Dragons, huh? Very rich, easy to talk to, and extremely generous." Vidal pretended to ponder, then chuckled as he gave his assessment, causing Dragon to instinctively clench his fists and his lips to twitch.

As for Sakazuki, he hasn't met Celestial Dragons yet, so he has no opinion and no interest in learning about them, and therefore chooses to listen in silence.

"Do you know that they are the origin of slavery?"

Dragon knew it wasn't appropriate to say this here, but having already made up his mind, he no longer cared about such things. Given his status, as long as he didn't go too far, nothing would happen.

"Isn't slavery a normal phenomenon? And it's not just the Celestial Dragons who buy and sell slaves, is it?" Vidal feigned indifference. "As for the source, I think those human auction houses are the source. All slave trading takes place there, but their existence doesn't violate any government laws, so we don't need to worry about them."

"But many of those slaves were originally good citizens, good citizens we should protect!" Dragon said through gritted teeth, his eyes revealing suppressed anger.

"If you want to protect innocent civilians, then go and eliminate more pirates. As far as I know, most of the innocent civilians you mentioned who have become slaves were captured by pirates during raids on villages and towns. So, if you reduce the number of pirates, won't the number of innocent civilians suffering misfortune also decrease?"

At this point, Vidal smiled and looked at Dragon, "And this is precisely the justice our navy upholds, don't you think?"

To be honest, he almost threw up saying that himself, but he had no choice; he had to say it in public.

"Well said!" Just as Dragon was about to retort, Sakazuki slammed his hand on the table excitedly, "Eliminating pirates reduces the number of unfortunate civilians—that's justice!"

At this moment, the magma man truly agreed with Vidal's point of view, and his favorability towards him soared. This caused Dragon to shut up for a moment, and in the end, he could only let out a long sigh.

Vidal gave Sakazuki a knowing look in return. He had timed the conversation perfectly; otherwise, who knows what else Dragon, whose values had been shattered and whose mentality was crumbling, might have said if they had continued.

This is just right!

"Hey, why are you four sitting so far to the side?" Just as Vidal picked up his chopsticks to try the char siu ramen in front of him, a familiar voice came from behind him. He turned around and was stunned.

"Vice Admiral Tsuru?"

He quickly stood up, as did the other three, but Vidal's gaze remained fixed on the young man standing behind the crane, who was about the same height as them.

"I heard from Sengoku that you were all here, so I brought him over to introduce him to you. He's a student who will be entering the Special Training Camp next January, in the same cohort as Bullet Gion," Tsuru said with a gentle smile.