Vidal's Profile

"Fleet Admiral, this report came from Vice Admiral Amyz, the commander of the G-2 Branch."

In the Fleet Admiral's Office at Marineford, a field officer wearing a Justice Coat placed a document on the desk.

Kong was already over sixty, with white hair at his temples and a white beard. He didn't rush to read it. Instead, he finished the paperwork in his hands before picking up the report.

"Hmm?"

"Byrnndi World came out of the New World?" Kong was surprised after scanning the first part.

Ever since the Rocks Pirates disbanded five years ago, those unruly great pirates had begun fighting to carve up the New World's territory.

The main contenders were former officers of the Rocks Pirates: Golden Lion Shiki, Edward Newgate, Charlotte Linlin, and the apprentice Kaido.

Gol D. Roger didn't fight for territory, but he basically went wherever he pleased, without caring whose territory it was.

Chinjao led the Happo Navy in plundering treasure in the waters around the Flower Country, fighting anyone and any force that dared approach.

Strangely, John, Ochoku, and Silver Axe, who had also been officers of the Rocks Pirates, had made no moves at all.

That was especially true of John. Rumor had it that he had taken advantage of the chaos to steal most of the Rocks Pirates' treasure.

So, for the past few years, both the Marines and the government's Cipher-Pol had made the search for the John Pirates a priority.

Could it be that this guy couldn't beat them, so he withdrew from the New World of his own accord? Kong wondered.

Even if that were true, though, he couldn't be left alone. A pirate with a bounty over a hundred million was considered a monster in the first half of the Grand Line.

At the very least, one or two Vice Admirals definitely couldn't deal with him on their own!

Kong picked up a Den Den Mushi on his desk, made a call, and said, "Sengoku, come to my office."

"All right." The Den Den Mushi answered and promptly hung up. Kong paid his attitude no mind.

In terms of rank, although Kong was Fleet Admiral, he held the same Admiral rank as Sengoku, and on a personal level, Sengoku was also the one he admired most.

Sengoku was not only exceptionally strong but also very levelheaded and skilled at handling government affairs. Over the years, he had helped shoulder much of Kong's workload.

"Oh, Byrnndi World was actually held off by two young men?" Kong finished reading the entire report and became very interested in Vidal and Issho.

"Fleet Admiral."

A knock sounded at the door. Immediately afterward, a burly man nearly three meters tall walked in, wearing a white suit, a Justice Coat, and a Marine cap topped with a seagull.

"Take a look at this report." Kong handed it to Sengoku and said with a smile, "Byrnndi World has come out of the New World. I want you to deal with him."

Sengoku didn't answer. Instead, he carefully scanned the report first. A moment later, he slowly said, "That's no problem, but we have to find out where he is first."

He wasn't surprised that Kong had assigned him the task. The Marines really had no one else available right now.

Ever since what happened to Zephyr's family, he had lost interest in everything the Marines and the government did apart from the Marine Academy's affairs.

Tsuru held posts in both the staff and logistics departments. Her daily workload was heavier than even the Fleet Admiral's, and when she had to go to sea, she kept working aboard her warship.

That bastard Garp was even worse. Just so he could defeat Chinjao's cone-shaped head head-on, he had irresponsibly dropped everything and gone into seclusion to train his fists!

How ridiculous was that? It wasn't as though he couldn't beat him. If the cone-shaped head was troublesome, why not hit somewhere else? Why insist on going up against the other man's strongest point?

"I'll talk to Cipher-Pol about tracking him, but don't get your hopes up. Their main target right now is John." Kong sighed helplessly.

"Mm." Sengoku nodded in understanding and said, "But this isn't the New World, after all. With help from our Marine intelligence department, it should be much easier."

"That's settled, then. Next, there's Forest Vidal, who was mentioned in the report, and his swordsman friend Issho."

Kong tapped the two photographs on the desk that had come with the report. They showed Vidal and Issho in the cafeteria, talking to Vice Admiral Amyz while waiting for their curry.

"Stop by the bounty department later and tell them to keep an eye on this Issho. As long as he hasn't done anything too outrageous, have them suppress whatever they can."

Sengoku, who already thought like a Fleet Admiral, naturally understood what Kong meant, but his attention was focused more on Vidal.

"A swordsman alone couldn't have held Byrnndi World off for that long. Vidal was probably the main force."

One page of the report provided Vidal's information in great detail.

Name: Forest Vidal

Sex: male

Age: 20

Birthday: April 21, 1471

Blood type: AB

Height: 303 cm

Status: confirmed trainee of the first special training camp

Position: Headquarters Senior Sergeant

Fruit: Special Paramecia Woods-Woods Fruit

Haki: Armament Haki

Taijutsu: Six Powers, Konoha Style taijutsu (self-created)

Family:

Forest Cornell, Headquarters Vice Admiral, commander of the G-8 Branch

Enid, Headquarters Major, head of the G-8 Branch medical department

Forest Bullet, adopted son (suspected to be from the South Jialuz Kingdom on Garuzburg Island)

Forest Enel, adopted son (origins unknown)

Evaluation:.

If Vidal could see this profile, he would probably be surprised. It even included Enel and Bullet, whom he had only adopted a few days ago.

They had even dug up every detail of Bullet's identity, and there was a separate page on him later in the report.

Yet both Kong and Sengoku tacitly avoided mentioning the Garuzburg Kingdom.

That was despite the report's speculation that the recent mysterious disappearance of Douglas Gray, a troop commander of the South Jialuzibao Kingdom, might have had a great deal to do with Vidal.

The reason was naturally obvious. Setting aside Vidal's impeccable background as a child of the Marines, his own strength and talent were immensely valuable.

Besides, didn't the report say so too?

Vidal planned to bring the equally gifted Bullet to Marineford next year and enroll him in the Marine Academy!

So the speculation in the report couldn't be right. Garuzburg Kingdom? Could they stop making wild guesses?

This was clearly one of the Marines' own children. Couldn't they see his surname was Forest?

So Bullet's information would definitely have to be changed a little later.

But Vidal's habit of adopting sons reminded Sengoku of the intelligence he had seen on Edward Newgate a few days ago.

It said that the man had recently adopted two boys, only fourteen and eleven years old.

The key was that one was an extremely rare Mythical Zoan user, while the other had the Paramecia Diamond-Diamond Fruit!

In terms of the quality of their adopted sons alone, Vidal seemed far behind. Bullet looked pretty good, but Enel was truly unremarkable.

This kid must be the first to bring two sons along on his very first visit to Marine Headquarters, Sengoku thought with amusement.

There was no need to think about it. When the time came, this would surely be a source of amusement in Marineford for a while. He was starting to look forward to meeting Vidal.

The protagonist Vidal's fruit name has finally appeared!! The Wood-Wood Fruit is too lame—it only has two wood characters, while Woods-Woods has a whole six! In Japanese, it's the Woods-Woods Fruit (Mori Mori no Mi). Send some recommendation votes my way!

This book is now seventeenth on the overall new books chart for unsigned authors! The overall chart, not just the light novel category anymore! Thank you, everyone~!

But I want to reach the top ten! The top five! Even the top three! Once I sign a contract, let's take on the signed authors' new books chart together!

Let the other new Qidian books from the same period experience Ryokugyu's savage charge! Shout it out: Apis Divine Bull!