When the Five Elders Suspect You Can Destroy Mary Geoise, You'd Better Actually Be Able To!
After chatting with an acquaintance for a few moments, Ortolan quickly pushed his way into the crowd with a dark expression, seemingly looking for trouble.
The other Marines were somewhat surprised to see this, but they dared not offend the Admiral, so they scattered. Then they saw Admiral Ortolan grab Vice Admiral Garp, who was hiding among the Marines and shouting "Standing in the sky" repeatedly.
"Old Deng, are you fucking never going to stop?" Ortolan grabbed Garp's shoulder fiercely and glared at him.
Garp wasn't afraid of Ortolan at all. After being captured by Ortolan, he laughed until tears streamed down his face, patting Ortolan's chest and saying, "Not bad, not bad. As expected of a man who has stood at the end of power and reached the other side."
Ortolan was furious with Garp, that stubborn bastard, but he couldn't do anything about it. He couldn't exactly kill him, could he?
After watching the excitement, and seeing the Admiral and Vice Admiral Garp mingling together, the Marines who had come to join the fun quickly dispersed and went about their own business.
And so, Ortolan and Garp set off together toward the Marine Headquarters' Fortress of Justice.
While they were on the road, Garp suddenly said, "You've done quite a few things in the New World..."
"The New World is not like other seas; it is turbulent and fraught with danger. Without some resources, how can one maintain order?" Ortolan smiled and said calmly.
From the moment he started that live broadcast, publicly rallying over 100,000 elite Marines from the New World to annihilate the Whitebeard Pirates, many things could no longer be hidden.
Garp sighed softly, took a few steps, and then said, "You shouldn't have come back, Ortolan..."
"Huh? What does this mean? Does the headquarters want to assassinate me?" Ortolan laughed.
"Headquarters doesn't have that idea, but the people on Mary Geoise do. You've been too strong in the New World, so strong that it's frightening some people. They're afraid you'll lose control and become a menace." Garp gave Ortolan a meaningful look.
Ortolan puffed out his chest and said confidently, "How could that be? Everyone knows that I, Ortolan, am famously loyal. As a general, even the old stars praise me for my loyalty and bravery. How could I become a scourge?"
"Is it meaningful for you to say that to me?" Garp rolled his eyes at Ortolan.
You're loyal? You've been secretly doing so many things with my traitorous son?
You're loyal, yet you inexplicably amass hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the New World?
You're loyal, yet you secretly opened a factory in the New World and built so many warships?
If it weren't for the fact that the Fleet Admiral Sengoku wasn't here, he might have joined Garp in making some sarcastic remarks.
You are loyal, yet you burn Mary Geoise?
You were loyal, yet you betrayed and murdered the former Fleet Admiral?
Hearing this, Ortolan rubbed his nose slightly, looking a little awkward, and then asked Yu, "So, how far have things gotten?"
"Old Star has Sengoku find a way to transfer you away from the New World, preferably by swapping places with Sakazuki. Sakazuki can stay in the New World, and you can stay in headquarters. After a few days, once your influence in the New World has diminished somewhat, we can consider other options..." Garp didn't hide anything and directly told Ortolan everything.
Then, before Ortolan could speak, Garp continued, "Actually, I don't think this is unacceptable, you..."
"I can't accept it." Ortolan shook his head. "I can't leave the New World, just like a fish can't leave water..."
"Huh?" Garp was stunned for a moment when he heard this, just as he was about to say something.
Ortolan chuckled softly, "Right, don't misunderstand, I meant, I am water..."
"The New World is a fish?" Garp frowned.
"Yes, the New World would be in big trouble without me..." Ortolan laughed and said no more before stepping into the fortress of Fortress of Justice.
Garp watched his retreating figure, then shook his head after a moment. "I don't know if it was right or wrong for this old man to bring you into the Marines..."
Of course, Garp only had his eye on Ortolan's dazzling talent and wanted to recruit a fighter capable of becoming Admiral for the Marines.
Who knew that this kid, Ortolan, would be so restless, actually achieving such a feat that even the Five Elders are starting to get restless.
Garp didn't chase after Ortolan's figure anymore; he needed to talk to Ortolan, and he already had.
After standing in front of the Fortress of Justice for a while, Garp suddenly laughed and said, "Who cares about all that? Anyway, the one who should be having a headache right now isn't me, it's Mary Geoise."
After muttering something to himself, Garp turned and left with a flourish.
On the other side, Ortolan quickly took the elevator to the top floor, stood in front of the office of the Fleet Admiral Sengoku, and knocked on the door.
Soon, the voice of the Fleet Admiral Sengoku Yi Ying could be heard from inside.
Ortolan didn't linger and pushed open the door to enter.
At this moment, Fleet Admiral Sengoku was wiping his glasses with a glasses cloth. However, he didn't actually have any serious vision problems. The reason he liked to wear glasses was because when he was young, everyone praised him as a wise general. In order to show the difference between himself and the rough guys like Garp, Sengoku secretly put on glasses.
"You're here?" Sengoku glanced at Ortolan, then refocused his attention on the glasses in his hand, and casually said, "Sit wherever you like."
Ortolan didn't sit down; he felt completely at home there, without any sense of restraint.
He chuckled and said, "I used to have a pair of treasured gold-rimmed glasses. If you like them, I'll bring them to you next time, Fleet Admiral."
Sengoku was also amused by these words, glared at Ortolan, and said nothing.
Ortolan wasn't embarrassed at all. He walked over to Sengoku's desk with a smile, picked up a blank piece of paper from the desk, and waved it back and forth in front of Fleet Admiral Sengoku bleating sheep's mouth like he was feeding a small animal.
"Don't always try to take advantage of me as soon as you arrive!" Sengoku said, putting on his glasses and slapping the table with a hint of helplessness.
"Fleet Admiral, if you don't eat now, you'll get too old, and the taste won't be as good then!" Ortolan said, looking at him with a disappointed expression.
"I'd rather eat you!" Sengoku scooped Meimei into his arms, stopping Ortolan from teasing it, before saying, "With your abilities, you should have already covered your tracks, right?"
Sengoku never doubted that Ortolan had connections in Mary Geoise; if he didn't have that ability, he wouldn't have been able to achieve such greatness in the New World.
Ortolan turned around, took two steps, and plopped down on the sofa. He started making himself tea as he spoke, "Of course I'll take you in. So, you five want to transfer me out of the New World?"
"You knew that, yet you still came?" Sengoku picked up his teacup from the table, took a sip, and said.
He had initially Den Den Mushi Ortolan to tell him to come and receive some kind of award, but since then, he had never urged Ortolan once. This was why Ortolan had been able to dawdle from the end of September until almost the end of the year before finally arriving at headquarters.
The meaning of "Sengoku Period" is quite clear here.
"If I don't come, wouldn't that put you in a difficult position? If I don't come, wouldn't I seem disloyal?" Ortolan put two sugar cubes into his black tea, stirred it gently with a teaspoon, and replied with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Sengoku's heart softened, but he still said with dissatisfaction, "I'm not so easily overwhelmed by this little bit of pressure. If you can just give me any plausible excuse, I'll have a reason to decline the offer from the Five Elders..."
After a slight pause, before Ortolan could speak, Sengoku continued, "Those five people now have mixed feelings about you—a love-hate relationship. But precisely because you're so assertive, they can't easily try to control you, lest they create trouble where none existed..."
The reasoning behind the words of the Sengoku Fleet Admiral is very simple.
That is when the Five Elders believe that you may rebel against the World Government and possess the ability to cause serious damage, major blows, or even destruction to the World Government.
You'd better really have that kind of ability!
If you don't have it, they will abuse you indiscriminately; but if you do have it, they can sit down and talk to you gently and kindly.
For example, right now, the Five Elders don't even want to face Ortolan, lest the talks become awkward and everyone lose face.
That's why we need to start from the Sengoku period and see if we can mediate. Whether it succeeds or not, it won't directly tear up our pride.