Of course Akira doesn't like the eighth set of broadcast gymnastics. Even if Hancock, the most beautiful woman in the world, dances for him, he won't be able to appreciate it.
You know, before time travel, when he was in junior high school and high school, every time he heard the music of Radio 8 playing on the school radio, his head would buzz.
Especially during morning exercises, he would hide whenever he could. If he couldn't hide, he would stand in the middle of the queue of classmates and think about life.
It was he who had been exposed to the rain of the eighth set of radio gymnastics that allowed Shichibukai people to experience it too.
Because there was still some time before lunch, Akira did not go home, but went straight to Fleet Admiral's Office on the top floor of the headquarters building.
Akira just walked into the office and before he could sit down, Mihawk followed him in quickly.
Without waiting for Akira to react, Mihawk went straight to the point and said, "Akira, I want to quit! You can let me continue to participate, but I can't do the eighth set of radio gymnastics!"
"Eh?"
Akira, standing in front of his desk, blinked and asked, "It's difficult? Can you learn it?"
"This is not a question of whether it is difficult to learn or not!"
Mihawk waved his hand and then said, "But I can't accept it!"
"Don't get excited, don't get excited!"
Akira took out a bag of walnuts from the drawer, walked to the coffee table and sat down, then said, "Sit down and eat a few walnuts first, and chat while eating!"
After saying that, Akira took out a few walnuts and put them on the coffee table. He looked around and found that there was no tool that could be used to smash the walnuts. He immediately stood up and walked to the right wall, took down the Supreme Grade Sword hanging on the wall, then raised the back of the knife and smashed the walnuts neatly!
"Hey, hey, hey, are you holding the Supreme Grade Sword that you surrendered to?"
Seeing Akira actually hitting walnuts with Supreme Grade Sword, Mihawk's eyelids jumped uncontrollably, and he quickly walked to the coffee table and said emotionally, "As a swordsman, how can you use a sword to hit walnuts? This is disrespectful to the sword!"
"Look how anxious you are."
Akira picked up the smashed walnut, took out the walnut kernel and threw it into his mouth. He said nonchalantly, "For you, the sword may be a second life, but for me, the knife is just a tool!"
"Mihawk, do you know why your swordsmanship has not made much progress until now? It's because you rely too much on whether you have a knife or not in your hand, and you regard the knife as more important than anything else. Your understanding of the way of the sword is still at the elementary stage, and you only have the qualifications to cross the threshold to meet me."
"In my opinion, if you have a sword in your heart, everything can be transformed into a sword. This is the ultimate secret of kendo!"
Mihawk's face changed slightly, and he stared straight at Akira. He forgot about Akira smashing walnuts with Supreme Grade Sword, and said thoughtfully, "If there is a sword in the heart, everything can be turned into a sword?"
Akira smiled and nodded, "This is the romance of a swordsman!"
"Go and understand it yourself. You don't need to participate in thought reform next, but you must teach me those swordsmen officers who are clamoring to kill you."
Mihawk's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard that he no longer needed to participate in thought remolding.
However, he didn't show it too obviously. He went straight to sit opposite Akira, picked up a few walnuts and crushed them into pieces. As if to show off to Akira, he placed the walnut shells on the coffee table closer to Akira.
Akira pretended not to see it and continued to pick up Supreme Grade Sword and start smashing it.
Seeing this, although he strongly agrees with the "ultimate theory of kendo" proposed by Akira, Mihawk can't help but tighten his heartstrings. You know, the one who is being used by Akira to smash walnuts at this time is Supreme Grade Sword who once followed Pirate King Roger in galloping Grand Line!
Although the Conqueror's Haki stored in Roger was suppressed by Akira, and the aura of the previous owner remaining in the blade was wiped clean as Akira straightened the blade, it was Supreme Grade Sword after all!
You know, many swordsmen are unable to master Supreme Grade Sword throughout their lives. It is for this reason that Twelve Supreme Grade Blades is regarded as a treasure by all swordsmen, but in the hands of Akira, it is just a tool!!!
"Don't feel bad~"
Akira seemed to know what Mihawk was thinking, and said calmly, "Don't talk about the late Roger's saber, whatever comes next is Whitebeard's Murakumogiri Whether it's or Shanks's Griffin or Kaido's eight fasts and other twelve and twenty-one works, they will gradually be hung on the walls of this office."
Hearing this, Mihawk instinctively wanted to protect his own Supreme Grade Sword.
At this moment, the office door was suddenly pushed open.
Immediately afterwards, Gion quickly walked up to Akira and said solemnly, "Lord Marshal--"
"What happened?"
Akira picked up two walnuts and continued, "But it doesn't matter, Mihawk is not an outsider, he is now the swordsmanship instructor of our headquarters."
Hearing this, Gion no longer hesitated and went straight to the point. "East Blue just sent back the news that Colonel Stock, who was going to 16th Branch to serve as base commander, was ambushed by Arlong Pirates during an operation to eliminate pirates in the waters under his jurisdiction."
Having said this, Gion paused slightly, his eyes dimmed, and he even lowered his head, not daring to look at Akira again, and said softly, "All the officers and soldiers on the ship... none of them survived."
Click--
The sound of walnuts being crushed suddenly came out, and the two walnuts held by Akira turned into powder and fell from the gap between his fingers.
As the walnuts in Akira's hands turned into powder, the office suddenly fell into an oppressive quiet atmosphere. Neither Mihawk nor Gion dared to make a sound at this time.
Especially Gion, because she knows Akira very well and knows that Akira is very, very good to her subordinates, especially the veteran subordinates who have been following Akira all these years, and she treats them as relatives and brothers.
And Colonel Stock happens to be one of them.
After dozens of seconds of silence, Akira suddenly stood up and walked toward the door without saying a word.
After just a few steps, Akira turned back as if he had forgotten something, and said in a hoarse voice, "Gion... I... I seem to have lost something, please help me find it."
Hearing this, Gion quickly picked up Supreme Grade Sword·Zhengyi which was placed on the coffee table and held it in his arms.
"Yes, yes, my knife!"
Akira nodded, his voice still hoarse. "Let's go to East Blue."
Shichibukai dormitory building.
Doflamingo carried the lunch box brought back from the cafeteria, and pushed open the door of the dormitory with a step that disowned his relatives. There was a touch of excitement in his words, "I heard a news in the cafeteria, East Blue Colonel 16th Branch Stock was attacked by Arlong Pirates during the operation to eliminate pirates. All officers and soldiers including Colonel Stock survived!"
Before he finished speaking, he immediately swept his eyes from Crocodile and Moria, and finally stopped at Jinbe, "Jinbe, if I remember correctly, you have a person named Arlong is the subordinate of shark Fish-Man, right? Unfortunately, the captain of Arlong Pirates is named Arlong, and he is also a shark Fish-Man!"
"Oh, by the way, I also heard that Colonel Stock was not only sent to East Blue personally by Akira Marshal, but he was also one of the earlier officers who followed Akira Marshal!"
"What do you think Akira Marshal will do when he hears this news?"
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