Three months had passed since the War for Supremacy that shook the world, and the world's timeline had finally drifted into Marineford Era 1501.
That year, Longinus underwent two major changes.
First, after the previous war, his rank had skipped lieutenant commander and been promoted directly to captain. Although a fifteen-year-old captain was indeed absurdly young, his dazzling record was enough to make everyone obediently shut their mouths.
Second, after the training camp entered its second year, Zephyr began leading the recruits into real battle. This was no petty scuffling in Paradise, but pirate wars in the New World that could destroy families and nations at a moment's notice.
Thanks to his prior experiences, Longinus had been granted permission to act freely—in other words, the right to go out alone and capture pirates.
Marine Headquarters, mission hall.
Marine Headquarters was not a place that kept idlers. While it did not force every officer of commander rank and above to go out and capture pirates or maintain public order, there were still minimum annual quotas assigned to them.
Otherwise, judging by Kizaru's habit of clocking in every day, how could he possibly have taken the initiative to care about capturing the Sun Pirates in the future?
Wasn't it because the adventurer Fisher Tiger's rampage through Holy Land Mary Geoise had made the government lose face, making the bounty hunt especially urgent? Capturing that one target alone would let him easily complete an entire year's quota.
The mission hall was precisely a place that made it convenient to hand missions over and accept new ones.
"Captain Longinus, thank goodness! Now that we see you returned safely, we can finally stop worrying!"
"Exactly! You completed missions every two or three days during the previous two months, but this month, you disappeared for a