"Senior Longinus's experiences are shocking no matter how many times you hear them!"
"A rear admiral at nineteen! When I was nineteen, I wasn't even a major!"
"I came here precisely because I wanted to follow in Senior Longinus's footsteps!"
Rather than being discouraged by Sakazuki's words, the new recruits began discussing them among themselves in low voices.
"Are these idiots even listening to what I'm saying?" Sakazuki glared darkly. Were these bastards treating him like some storyteller?
The commodores and rear admirals nearby secretly wiped away sweat. Should they say this batch of recruits had unyielding resolve, or simply thick nerves?
"Smoker, do you think you can do what Vice Admiral Sakazuki described?"
"Yeah, you're the strongest in our class!"
"Rob Lucci might be manageable, but Senior Longinus..." Smoker said speechlessly, his shirt hanging open at the chest and his hair already silver-white. "I ate the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, not some daydream fruit. How could anyone possibly do something so inhuman?"
"True. Senior Longinus's experiences are just too absurdly beyond human!"
"Hey, Hina, I heard you know Senior Longinus?"
"Hina met Big Brother Longinus seven years ago!" said the beautiful young woman with short pink hair, brimming with youthful radiance.
"No way! I heard Senior Longinus joined the Marines seven years ago!"
"Hehe! Hina even went to the G2 Branch with Big Brother Longinus back then!"
"Waaah! That's cheating!" a girl beside her said enviously.
"Quiet, all of—" Sakazuki was roaring when he suddenly turned to look toward one side of the training ground.
Longinus walked in step by step from the entrance. "Vice Admiral Sakazuki, it's been a long time."
"Longinus... It's rare for Borsalino to be willing to let you leave." The hard lines of Sakazuki's face softened slightly. He had always thought highly of Longinus, who possessed