Half an hour later, the tardy Borsalino finally appeared at the door.
"Ha!" Borsalino yawned comfortably. "Commodore Longinus, you arrived quite early!"
"Not too bad." Longinus smiled. "The sea breeze in the early morning is a rare pleasure."
"Young people really are full of energy!" Borsalino said, rubbing the thermos in his hand. "An old man past forty like me needs to pay more attention to keeping himself in shape."
"Vice Admiral Borsalino is becoming more and more humorous." Longinus shook his head with a smile. Someone who would still be flying around atop cannonballs and bombarding everything fifteen years later had no right to say that.
"All right, enough of that." Borsalino turned serious. "You should already know why I called you back this time, right?"
"I heard. King Kakarichi violated the ban and entered the Peach Blossom Island, Kama Baraka Kingdom, as a man. As a result, the Okama King Ivankov turned him into an okama."
"This incident caused a tremendous uproar in the Kakarichi Kingdom. Quite a few schemers even incited riots on the grounds that an okama was unfit to be king. In order to quell the unrest, Rear Admiral Danitz went to the Kama Baraka Kingdom at King Kakarichi's invitation to mediate."
Longinus stroked his smooth chin and smiled. "And in the end, even Rear Admiral Danitz was turned into an okama by the Okama King."
"That so-called Okama King really has no respect for our Marines. That won't do. What happened to the last person who showed us no respect again..." Borsalino pondered with a troubled expression for a moment, then suddenly realized. "It seemed Sakazuki blew up ten volcanoes on him!"
"Did he provoke Vice Admiral Sakazuki? Then he was truly unlucky beyond measure." Longinus sighed.
"But the results of that lesson were