The Future Holds Only Merit Nobles?!

Three-Year Combat Power Assessment Outline

Sengoku, Zephyr, and the others instinctively focused their gazes on the title in the third row when Kong brought it up.

They could sense that this might be the most important item among them.

But Garp did not care much about any of that. He laughed heartily. "So does that mean Issho, Bullet, Crocodile, Aramaki, and the rest are about to be promoted to Admiral?"

Kong shook his head.

"Ahem, ahem. While combat power is the primary requirement for promotion to Admiral, merits and seniority are also required. So we still need to consider whether Issho and Aramaki can be promoted."

Then he revealed something surprising, yet not entirely unexpected.

"As for Crocodile, there is no issue with promoting him to Admiral. After all, he is a candidate for Army Headquarters Admiral."

"Oh, right. The High Command has decided to formally promote that kid Bullet to Army Headquarters Admiral next year. His codename will remain 'Demon Shark.'"

There was not much to say about Crocodile. What everyone cared more about was Bullet's promotion to Admiral.

Sakazuki frowned directly, his mood instantly turning sour, though he knew this was bound to happen sooner or later.

Crocodile would most likely become an Army Headquarters Admiral in the future as well.

That made him resent Onigumo, Doberman, and the other proper, homegrown Vice Admirals for being so useless that they had given these pirate-born bastards the chance to become Admirals.

Honestly.

If the military had even one or two of its own people whose strength rivaled Bullet's or Crocodile's, Sakazuki would definitely have obstructed the latter's promotion and fully supported the former instead.

Unfortunately, there was no such person at present.

"And regarding the Air Force, that newly arrived Colonel Enel will be directly promoted to Brigadier General