Ortolan: Tokikake, Listen to Me-Get Treated Early If You're Sick!
Marine Headquarters & Intelligence Staff Department.
Many intelligence specialists were busy in the office at this moment. Although they rarely went out on field missions, it was still a tiring task to sift out useful intelligence from a massive amount of information.
This can be seen from their generally poor hairlines.
However, their work atmosphere is quite good. After all, there is a Gion named Gion in the office who is known as the most beautiful girl in the Marines. I wonder how many Marines envy their work environment.
At this Gion was dealing with the matter at hand, her brows furrowing from time to time. Even so, she still had a unique charm.
Just as everyone was quietly doing their work, the door to the Intelligence Staff Department was pushed open. Then, Ortolan peeked inside, looked around, and when he spotted Gion, he smiled and waved to her, "Gion, come here, I have something to show you."
Upon hearing the voice, Gion looked up and saw Ortolan. A smile appeared on her face, and she nodded, got up, and walked over.
After Gion left the office, some of the Marines inside asked each other, "Who was that? She seemed to have a close relationship with Gion?"
"You don't even recognize him? You're doing intelligence work? That's Bane Ortolan, Logia-type Devil Fruit User with the Rumble- Rumble-Rumble Fruit. He's known as one of our Marines's 'Four Great Monsters' along with Rear Admiral Kuzan and Rear Admiral Sakazuki. He was even featured in the newspaper a few days ago."
"I see. You're the one whose promotion speed is almost catching up with Admiral Zephyr, right?"
"Yes, he's only been in our Marines for less than two years, and he's already gone from Rear Admiral officer to a rear admiral. Wow, that's some speed we can only envy."
Admiral Zephyr had a remarkable achievement: he had the fastest promotion in the Marines in nearly a century. He joined the Marines at the age of seventeen, went to the front lines for the first time at eighteen, and served as an ordinary Marines soldier until he was twenty-eight, when he became a Marines, officially leaving the category of ordinary marines and entering the officer system, even as the lowest-ranking officer.
From that point on, he was unstoppable. In just ten years, he rose from a Marines corporal to the position of Marine Admiral at the age of thirty-eight.
Jane is a miracle!!!
It is evident how terrifying and dreadful Zephyr was during the prime of his life!
He has held the record for nearly a century, and now, with the emergence of Ortolan, there is a possibility that he will break Zephyr's promotion record!
Of course, these are just rumors circulating within the Marines; Ortolan himself didn't hold out much hope.
Around 1510, Borsalino was still a Vice Admiral, responsible for capturing Fisher Tiger and others. He, along with Sakazuki and Kuzan, were likely promoted to Marine Admiral at that time. In other words, at least before 1510, there was no possibility of a younger generation being promoted to Admiral within the Marines.
Unless you're exceptionally talented and achieve something extraordinary, like completely quelling the Great Pirate Era, you might be promoted despite not meeting the usual requirements.
The whispers in the office did not affect Ortolan and Gion in the corridor.
Seeing Ortolan's mysterious look, Gion couldn't help but chuckle to herself. "When I told you it was my birthday today a couple of days ago, you looked completely unmoved, like a block of wood. But it seems you did remember it after all. Did you prepare a gift for me?"
Although she wasn't interested in dating yet, Gion considered that Ortolan was a rugged man who fit her aesthetic, and that he was also outstanding in talent and potential, and that they got along well in terms of personality. Gion felt that she might as well give him a chance to pursue her.
Therefore, Gion, feigning arrogance, raised her delicate chin, revealing her perfect jawline, and looked at Ortolan, asking in a leisurely tone, "What is it? What do you want to show me?"
Ortolan smiled and took out a handkerchief from his pocket, "From today onwards, under the orders of Admiral Sengoku, Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral Gion of the Navy Headquarters will assist Rear Admiral Bane Ortolan of the Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral in comprehensive intelligence cooperation for secret missions. In other words, the two of us can now work together. How about that? Pretty impressive, right? I specifically asked for your help!"
Gion paused for a moment, glanced at the hand in Ortolan's hand, then at Ortolan's smug expression, and frowned slightly. "Is that all you wanted to tell me?"
"That's right!" Ortolan nodded naturally, then said excitedly, "Although this mission is relatively low-key, it concerns the image of our Marines and the reputation of Admiral Sengoku. If we succeed, the credit within our ranks will definitely be considerable. You were the first person I thought of for this kind of mission!"
Gion took a deep breath, trying to calm her terrible emotions. The more she looked at Ortolan's smiling face, the angrier she became.
My heart has been wasted on you, you dog of a man! If I could beat you, I would have stabbed you a couple of times to vent my anger!
"I'm sorry, I have some important intelligence work to finish, so I can't cooperate with you immediately. However, our Intelligence Staff Department has many skilled experts. I'll arrange for two to hand over the work to you." Gion said coldly.
"Huh?" Ortolan was taken aback, somewhat surprised.
He felt that his relationship with Gion was still pretty good, but he didn't expect to be rejected so soon.
This woman seems a bit angry. Is she on her period these days? Or is she in a bad mood?
However, seeing Gion's reluctant expression, Ortolan couldn't force her, and could only sigh with slight regret, "Alright, then let's cooperate again when there's an opportunity..."
After a brief pause, Ortolan seemed to remember something and grabbed Gion, who was about to turn away from the office. "Oh, right, there's something personal. Isn't today your birthday? I prepared a small gift for you, as a token of our friendship, for..."
As he spoke, Ortolan took out a flower-shaped ornament from his pocket and smiled, "I see your sword hilt is missing an ornament. If you don't mind, you can take it."
Gion looked at the hyacinth in her hand. It was a hyacinth, and its flower language was 'victory'. Although it was different from the flower language she had expected, a sweet feeling still swept through her heart. Her original unwilling and annoyed expression quickly disappeared, and she put on the gentle smile that she had at the beginning.
"Uh, I didn't expect you to remember my birthday... Thank you." Gion said, her tone slightly unnatural.
"You told me this just two days ago, how could I forget so quickly?" Ortolan smiled, then said, "Well, happy birthday. Since you're busy, I'll be going now."
As Ortolan finished speaking and prepared to turn and leave, Gion grabbed his shoulder again. "I've thought about it. Since it's an order from the Admiral Sengoku, I can't refuse... I'll just hand over my affairs to someone else and fully cooperate with you."
"Huh?" Ortolan was puzzled again. Why are you acting so unpredictably?
"Alright, wait here for a moment, I'll go and hand over the duties." Gion patted Ortolan on the shoulder, a smug smile on her face, and turned to go into the office.
At that very moment, around the corner of the corridor, Kajiki clutched his heart in anguish and screamed, "No~~~".
He arrived earlier Ortolan and had previously asked Gion to come out. He even wanted to give Gion a carefully prepared gift and take the opportunity to confess his feelings.
As a result Gion said that she never accepts gifts on her birthday and refused him.
He didn't give up. Kajiki planned to wait for Gion to get off Gion and then ask her out for a meal. He then waited for Ortolan and saw what had just happened.
Suddenly, a ghostly scream was heard, Ortolan was startled. He turned around and saw that it was Kajiki kneeling on the ground, howling to the sky. Ortolan almost thought that Yuan Hua was shouting that he couldn't do math problems.
"What are you doing? You suddenly yelled like that, it almost gave me a heart attack." Ortolan glared at Kajiki.
Kajiki gritted his teeth and glared at Ortolan, then roared, "Altoren, I'll fight you to the death!!!"
Two minutes later, Kajiki covered his eyes and said in a flat tone, "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."
"Well, as someone who's been through this, I have to remind you with concern, my good brother, if you have any mental abnormalities, get treatment as soon as possible so you can recover quickly and avoid developing some serious illness." Ortolan rubbed his wrist and Kajiki his shoulder affectionately, giving him his advice.
Kajiki Ji's lips twitched slightly, and he nodded, saying, "I understand."