The Marineford Disaster (Exploding Results, Bonus Chapter!)

Nine hours later, Marineford.

Sengoku stood stiffly at the office door, looking out at the distant sea completely shrouded in shadow.

He slowly rubbed his hands together.

"I'd heard this ship was indeed very large, but I really didn't expect it to be this big!"

After saying this, Sengoku sighed, and then, just like last time, he called each of the Vice Admiral who were still in Mary Geoise.

Ten minutes later, Sengoku, along with Borsalino who had just returned, and a group of Vice Admiral, waited on the dock.

As for Garp and Aokiji...

They just got back two hours ago and left right away, just like always.

Of the three Admiral, Sakazuki was stationed at headquarters, so his activities were mainly limited to a small part of the New World and the shipping routes connecting Marineford to the two Grand Line.

Those familiar with the Grand Line know that while the weather there is unpredictable, there are seven relatively safe routes that are well-documented in history.

Although Marineford only connects two of the routes, the Sabaody Marineford links all of them.

To facilitate his return to and defense of headquarters, Sakazuki generally does not travel to other routes via Sabaody, but only oversees the two routes connecting to the Marine Headquarters.

As for Aokiji, the remaining five routes of the Grand Line are all within his sphere of influence.

As for Kizaru, because of his extreme speed, he doesn't have a fixed suppression area, but stays in the Calm Belt near Marine Headquarters.

It wasn't that he liked the Calm Belt; it's just that there were a few special islands hidden within the Calm Belt near the Marine Headquarters.

That is, Vegapunk's experimental center.

Therefore, Kizaru was responsible for monitoring and protecting Vegapunk on one hand, and on the other hand, he was ready to support Sabaody at any time.

This is the scope of authority for the three current Admiral of the Navy.

There is no doubt that Aokiji is the Admiral spends the least amount of time at Marine Headquarters.

But logically speaking, Sakazuki should be the Admiral has stayed at Marine Headquarters the longest.

With a seasoned veteran like Kizaru around, Admiral Akainu, stationed at headquarters, frequently went out to carry out justice, while Kizaru happily took on the job of protecting headquarters.

What do they call this?

This is what we call a win-win situation!

At this moment, Kizaru stood on the dock, looking at Gawain and Gion.

As soon as Gawain stepped off the ship, he instinctively looked at Borsalino, who was wearing yellow sunglasses, had a lewd smile on his face, and was only bowing slightly to him, as if he was about to burst into a PPAP song at any moment.

Gawain pursed his lips and took a breath.

"Long time no see, Fleet Admiral Sengoku."

As soon as he finished speaking, he pursed his lips.

"And also, it's good to see you again, Admiral Borsalino."

"Oh, it's nice to see you again, Gawain."

These past few days of diligent duty on your ship have been the most dedicated I've worked in recent years.

I truly hope I'll have the opportunity to serve on your ship again in the future.

"Borsalino!!!"

As soon as Kizaru finished speaking, Sengoku glared at Kizaru with his big eyes. Faced with the old man's anger, Kizaru innocently spread his hands.

"How terrifying, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, but there's nothing I can do about it."

After all, it was a guard duty requested by the Celestial Dragon, and I had no choice but to agree.

"I think you just don't want to find a reason to refuse..."

Sengoku snorted irritably, then looked at Gawain and gave him a slight bow.

"Welcome Saint Gawain, to Marineford. May I ask what brings you here...?"

"No need for such formalities, Mr. Sengoku. The reason I'm bothering you all is that Gion wants to retrieve some items stored in Marineford."

I'm sorry to have troubled you all.

After Gawain finished speaking, he gave everyone in front of him a sincere smile and nodded.

Upon hearing this, Sengoku smiled knowingly.

"Gion, for the past three months, your room and its West City remained untouched. Apart from the cleaning staff, no one has entered that room."

"Take whatever you need, after all, this is your home."

"Yes, Fleet Admiral Sengoku."

Gion smiled and nodded, then patted Gawain's arm.

"Sir, I've gone to get something. Please wait a moment."

Go ahead.

Gawain smiled and waved goodbye to Gion.

As soon as Gion took two steps, Vice Admiral Tsuru, who was standing at the front of a group of Marine Vice Admiral, waved to Gawain.

"Saint Gawain, may I leave first? My dear sister has gone home, and of course I want to stay with her for a while."

Hearing Grandma Tsuru's voice, Gawain smiled and waved to her.

"Vice Admiral Tsuru, hello Gion. Gion has been mentioning you to me a lot these past few months."

"No, Saint Gawain, Momousagi has said a lot of bad things about me, hasn't she?"

He smiled and said, to which Gawain responded softly.

"Grandma Tsuru, if it's considered a bad thing for Gion to say that you're getting younger and younger, or for her to say that you had the most beautiful black ponytail on the sea when you were young."

She certainly said a lot of bad things about you!

"Ha ha."

Gawain's words made the old woman laugh. She smiled, waved to Gawain, and then continued.

"I didn't expect Saint Gawain to be so witty. It seems that Little Momousagi will be chatting with me about a lot of your 'bad things' later."

"If that's the case, please don't tell me anything bad about her. I'm afraid I won't be able to resist saying those 'bad things' about her too, and then she won't be able to hold her head up in the Navy!"

Gawain said with a joking smile.

The moment those words were spoken, before Crane could even utter a sound...

Gion was not far away, blushed and frowned, and quickly said something to Gawain.

"My lord~!"

Even though Momousagi tried her best to appear serious, her voice betrayed her, and so...

"Hiss!!!" ×64!

The group of Vice Admiral around him all gasped in unison; such a sound was rare for Gion Vice Admiral!

They took a closer look at Gion.

Although Gion's uniform has changed to black, the design is now more sharp and sophisticated.

But her expression, a mixture of dissatisfaction and shyness, showed a significant increase in femininity compared to a few months ago!

For a moment, all the Vice Admiral mourned for Tokikake Vice Admiral had been on duty. Vice Admiral Momousagi, who had been rejected nearly eighty times, was now acting strangely!

However, the Vice Admiral Tokikake thought, "That bastard Kaji has recently started confessing his feelings to Hina again..."

Thinking this through, the Vice Admiral's expressions hardened; they looked at each other...

Serves you right!

After the word popped into their minds, they looked down at their noses, remained silent.

As for Gion, after uttering a small complaint about Gawain, she quickly grabbed Grandma Tsuru's hand and left the vicinity of the dock as if fleeing.

At the same time, the Sengoku period also extended an invitation to Gawain.

"Saint Gawain, Gion Vice Admiral and Vice Admiral Tsuru are chatting, it might take a while. How about... we sit in my office for a while?"

"Of course, but you'll have to wait a little while; I have something else to give you."

At this point, Gawain turned around and waved to the Little Dark Bird Landing Ship.

"Grandpa Rayleigh, is everything ready?"

"Cough cough!"

Rayleigh waved from the deck in the distance.

"The things are ready, but I'm a little unprepared!"

At this point, Rayleigh took a long breath.

"This is the Marine Headquarters after all. I never thought that an old pirate like me would actually end up here!"

I'm a little excited, haha!

As Rayleigh finished speaking, Jinbe, who was carrying two large boxes beside him, grinned.

"Old man, are you the only one on our ship who hasn't been to Marineford?"

Upon hearing Jinbe's words, Rayleigh instinctively responded.

"What, could it be that you came here... wait, you all seem to be Shichibukai, so you really came here!"

After speaking, Rayleigh looked around. Jinbe Hancock, Kuma were all Shichibukai, and during the years they served Shichibukai, they inevitably had to come to Marine Headquarters several times.

Lucci is a member of CP9. Before infiltrating Water 7, he inevitably had to deal with Marine Headquarters.

So, a smile...

Sensing Rayleigh turning his head towards him, he smiled slightly.

"Sir, although I have no official position, I have secretly come to Marineford a few times and observed some things."

Hearing this, Rayleigh turned away in disappointment, then looked at Shiryu expectantly.

Shiryu chuckled, puffing on his cigar.

"Old man, you know me. Over the years, I've come to the Marine Headquarters to escort prisoners three or five times, so the only ones who haven't been here before are you and..."

Shiryu looked at the Dark Bird Ship in the distance.

"It's just you and that scientist Franky, right?"

"And there's Shirahoshi!" Shirahoshi wagged her tail excitedly.

"And Uta!" Uta's two-tone hair bun jumped up dramatically.

Hearing this, Shiryu exhaled a puff of smoke in frustration. For some reason, he felt that the two little girls on the ship were somewhat of a jinx to him!

But what else could he do?

All I could do was hold onto the box tightly.

As for Rayleigh, seeing that there were quite a few people like him, he smiled with satisfaction, then he picked up a large box and walked towards the dock with the others.

At this moment, watching Rayleigh, the first to carry a suitcase off the ship.

The feelings of the group of Marine Vice Admiral were incredibly complex...

Keep in mind, they're from the Navy, and they're still very young!

At this moment, most of the young Vice Admiral on the dock were outstanding young marines who, when they first joined the Navy twenty or thirty years ago, dreamed of becoming pirates like Roger and Rayleigh!

Countless youthful nights, these young marines dreamed of capturing those great pirates and taking them to headquarters, then sending them to Impel Down!

Now it's all good... my dream has come true!

But the more you look at this, the more unrealistic it seems?

Because they actually have to greet Rayleigh?!

"Dark King... Rayleigh!"

Welcome to... Marineford!

"Ahem, well, welcome, welcome!"

Seeing his subordinates becoming visibly uncomfortable, Sengoku subtly curled his lip.

Then he smiled and walked towards Rayleigh.

"Long time no see, Rayleigh. You old codger are still in great shape!"

Since you're already here, why bring anything? Isn't that too much of a favor?

Come on, everyone, catch it!

As they were talking, Sengoku took the box from Rayleigh and casually placed it in the hands of Onigumo, who was walking over.

Onigumo was taken aback. "You really just want to accept this?"

With a mental grumble, Onigumo, along with the other Vice Admiral, piled the crates far away on the dock.

Gawain then spoke to Sengoku at the opportune moment.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, I promised you before that I would give some nutritional expenses to the marines who suffered from heatstroke.

This place contains treasure worth approximately 10 billion, which hopefully will be of some help to the Marines' work.

You've worked hard.

"It's no trouble at all. We're just serving the Celestial Dragon. Saint Gawain is too kind."

Regardless, on behalf of my marines, I thank Saint Gawain for his generosity!

Please come with me, everyone. I have tea and rice crackers in my office. Please have a seat for a moment!

Borsalino, I'll leave the order of this headquarters to you for now. I'll take you all to rest!

Upon learning that it was a treasure worth billions, Sengoku's enthusiasm immediately increased, as this would allow the navy to add a dozen more ships.

However, upon closer examination, Sengoku realized that although the cost of the ships had increased, the shipbuilders he was cooperating with for the navy had raised their prices!

But why did Water 7 raise its prices?

Because Water 7 is now a top-tier shipyard that builds the Celestial Dragon's ultimate island ships!

Thinking about this, for some reason, the treasure beside me suddenly didn't seem so appealing anymore!

Not to mention the turbulent mood during the Warring States Period, Rayleigh was also extremely emotional at this time.

He raised his head and looked at the towering Marineford Justice Fortress in the distance.

For a moment, the image of the Shiki kept flashing through his mind.

Back then, that valiant enemy, for Roger's sake, single-handedly invaded this place and held out for several hours before being defeated by Garp and Sengoku?

And himself, and Gaban...

Although everything was Roger's order, I still feel a bit resentful that I wasn't able to join Roger in causing a ruckus at Marineford back then!

In the distance, Gawain, carrying Uta on his back and holding Shirahoshi's Gawain, looked at the two silent old people.

He chuckled and called out.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, weren't you going to invite us for tea?"

"Certainly!"

Sengoku quickly regained his senses and then simply waved his hand.

"Everyone, come with me, we're going to my office!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sengoku, preoccupied with his own thoughts, led Gawain and his group toward the distant Justice Fortress.

Shirahoshi and Uta were extremely excited; to them, the Marine Headquarters was no less than a mysterious place from storybooks and legends.

So they pounced on Gawain, excitedly looking around at both the lazy marines with shining eyes and the honest marines continuing their training and duty.

All of these elicited shouts from the two little ones.

Rayleigh followed behind Sengoku. The old man looked around with emotion, and finally couldn't help but ask Sengoku a question.

"Sengoku, where did you fight that Shiki battle back then?"

"Oh, that battle, huh? It's something to remember, old man."

As he responded, Sengoku let out a long sigh, then casually pointed to the Debris Town in the southwest.

"Nineteen years ago, on a Thunderstorm day, Grandpa Kong, because of the Great Pirate Era that Roger created before his death, went to Mary Geoise to meet the Five Elders for months on end."

Garp was transporting a group of pirates to Enies Lobby at the time, while Zephyr was transporting a group of pirates who had been tried to the end to Impel Down.

As for me, I was stationed on Sabaody Island at the time. The Celestial Dragon were very unhappy about the rapidly increasing number of pirates crossing the border, so I had to go there to keep an eye on things.

In this situation, when we were all too preoccupied with the Great Pirate Era to keep our energy up, Shiki burst into Marineford.

And the first gift he gave Marineford was the flagship of the Flying Pirate Crew!

At this point, Sengoku's eyes reddened slightly, and anger slowly rose behind him. He looked intently at Rayleigh.

Sengoku managed to suppress his anger only after noticing the Dark Bird Emblem on Rayleigh's chest and the patterns on Rayleigh and his group's clothes!

Then, Sengoku exhaled sharply and pointed towards the distant Debris Town.

"That place was originally a small town for the families of marines, where many families of marines who were in financial difficulty lived, as well as some families of mid- to high-ranking officers."

But ever since that attack nineteen years ago, that town has been called the Debris Town!

Sengoku took a deep breath.

"Because nineteen years ago, on that day, countless marines' families and that small town were crushed to wreckage by a massive ship sent by a disaster called the Shiki!"

At this point, Sengoku gave Rayleigh a cold look, and then he continued.

"When I received the news, I rushed back to Marineford immediately. The ship wasn't fast enough, so I used Geppo to get back!"

Garp and I were about the same speed; we sped off in opposite directions and returned to Marine Headquarters almost simultaneously.

Even though we used our fastest speed, Shiki had already been slaughtering people in the Marine Headquarters for a full hour and twenty minutes!

When Garp and I arrived, all we heard was a wail of agony, and all we saw was a mountain made of marine corpses!

The torrential rain, carrying blood, turned Marineford a river of blood, while Shiki...

He stood atop the mountain piled high with the corpses of marines, holding his Oto and Kogarashi, staring at me and Garp with a crazed expression!

And from that day on, I could never wash his crazed face out of my dreams.

Along with that nightmare, there is an indelible pain and boundless hatred!

I don't hate Shiki, he's a pirate!

He has a thousand reasons to hurt me and my men!

I only hate myself, I hate Garp, Zephyr, the Fleet Admiral Kong, and the three Admiral candidates Borsalino, Sakazuki, and Kuzan!

My only regret is that none of us stayed in Marineford then!

I hate Roger even more, and I hate the Great Pirate Era you started!

If it weren't for that damned era that kept us all so incredibly busy.

Then... how could we possibly neglect the protection of headquarters and the safeguarding of our families?

Sengoku gritted his teeth, then turned around and continued leading the group, speaking coldly as he spoke.

"From that day on, it was me, and Sakazuki and the others."

No matter how busy we are, we will always keep at least one truly strong person at Marine Headquarters.

In that case, even if the headquarters is still breached, at least those of us capable of taking on greater responsibility can bleed alongside those who are bleeding!

Instead of being like Garp and I back then, helplessly watching the mountain of corpses and venting our anger on Shiki!

Do you know why, even when Garp and I fought together, we still battled Shiki for so long?

Because if the two of us don't unleash all our anger...

"We will not stop!"

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