At the Marine base in Area 66 of the Sabaody Archipelago,
Whoosh! Senga and Kalifa appeared in the office. The moment he arrived, Senga began grumbling.
"Is Shalulia sick in the head? Are all Celestial Dragons like this?"
Kalifa stood silently behind Senga, looking at him with a strange expression. She had actually noticed something, but she did not dare confirm it, so she could only remain quiet.
Suddenly, the Den Den Mushi on the desk began to ring.
Senga casually answered it, and Sengoku's voice came through.
"Is that Senga? What did you do tonight? Even the Gorosei specifically came to me to talk about you. They said you had been conscientious and dutiful lately, and that your rank was too low?"
Senga was stunned as well. Conscientious and dutiful lately? Did that refer to him destroying nearly an entire area of Sabaody with Super Shinra Tensei and Tengai Shinsei, or to him slapping Shalulia across the face tonight?
"I only went to meet a Celestial Dragon named Shalulia. Nothing else."
"What? You mean Shalulia from the Roswald Family?"
"Yes."
Sengoku fell silent on the other end of the Den Den Mushi. He knew about the Roswald Family. They could be called a typical group of Celestial Dragons, possessing every bad habit that Celestial Dragons had.
As the daughter of Saint Roswald, the head of the Roswald Family, Shalulia had always looked down upon other races.
Yet Senga had merely met someone like her, and the Gorosei had informed him that Senga was to be rewarded. He did not believe the two things were unrelated.
Still, the outcome was good. The faster Senga rose through the ranks, the more openly he could delegate power to him. The future Marines were destined to belong to young people like Senga.
"Fine.