After Gion and others left Holy Land, Gunko also went to the Knights of God conference hall to attend the meeting. Akira, who had no idea where to go for a while, went straight to Flower Chamber.
Although Flower Chamber clearly had well-armed palace guards, and many people were secretly on guard, no one dared to step forward to stop Akira.
In the pavilion in the garden, Imu seemed to know that Akira would definitely come. He had arranged for his servants to prepare a table of sumptuous food and was just waiting for Akira to sit down and dine.
However, Imu did not make a sound, but sat quietly at the dining table, holding a thick book in his hand and reading very seriously, as if he did not know that Akira had entered the pavilion.
"Stop pretending!"
Akira walked into the pavilion and sat down at the dining table. He picked up a piece of Water Water Meat with his chopsticks and criticized it mercilessly. "Poor acting! Even if you didn't see me, you could already sense my aura based on your strength."
After saying that, Akira threw Water Water Meat into his mouth and tasted it carefully.
Imu stopped pretending, put down the book and looked up at Akira, "Did you surrender that thousand-year-old elephant in New World!?"
Akira nodded. "Just do it, don't worry about it."
"Just... do it by hand?" Imu's mouth twitched slightly under the face mask, "Did you know that Zunesha came from ancient times and was ordered to keep walking?"
Akira threw another piece of Water Water Meat into his mouth and said with some slurred words, "No matter what period it came from or why it was ordered, from the moment it was surrendered by me, the past is no longer important. In the future, Zunesha will become a sharp knife stuck in New World, becoming a nightmare for all pirates who enter its attack range."
Imu was moved in his heart and asked, "Are you ready to cleanse the pirates of New World?"
"There's no rush."
Akira waved his hand, "Recuperate for a while to replenish the navy with fresh blood."
Imu nodded and said, "When the conscription is over, you will preside over this session of Reverie. Before that, your identity needs to change."
Akira was stunned, "How else do I need to change my identity?"
Imu didn't explain too much, just read out a name: "Akira Saint."
Hearing this, Akira couldn't help but laugh and said, "First you gave me the small treasury, and now you want to give me the identity of Celestial Dragons. Why, you want to use sugar-coated bullets to tie me up? If you show your courtesy for nothing, you are either raping or stealing, Imu!"
"It doesn't have to be like this. As long as you don't stab me in the back and maintain the agreement that "Holy Land is your decision except Holy Land, I have the final say." If you want to sit on Void Throne, or become a superior god, it's up to you."
Having said this, Akira put down his chopsticks and stood up, "I'm full, I'll go out for a walk."
Before Imu could react, Akira simply turned around and left.
Huh?
Just as he turned around, Akira seemed to have discovered a new world. He suddenly turned around and walked to Imu. He looked down at the thick book placed next to Imu and asked curiously, "What kind of book is this? Let me borrow this book and read it for a while!"
"No."
Imu reflexively picked up the book and held it in front of him.
Realizing that he was overreacting, Imu quickly explained, "I haven't finished reading yet."
"I seem to have seen this book somewhere before," Akira looked at the thick book Imu was protecting in his arms, and said with a serious expression, "I heard that this book has magical power. Not only can it forcibly sign a devil's contract with people to quickly create an army of devils, but it can also take out weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds."
Unexpectedly, Akira knew so much about the book in his hand. Imu's pupils were shaking, and he lost his voice. "How did you..."
Before Imu recovered from the shock, Akira suddenly changed the subject, "Hurry up and read it, and let me study it after reading it!"
After saying that, Akira stopped staying, simply turned around and left without a trace of cloud.
Until Akira walked out of Flower Chamber, Imu did not completely recover from the shock, and stared straight at the figure that gradually went away and finally disappeared from Flower Chamber.
It's no wonder Imu had such a reaction. In fact, this book is one of Imu's biggest trump cards.
I thought that Akira didn't know the purpose of this book, but I didn't expect that Akira could guess it just by looking at it.
This means that in front of Akira, this magic book or Three Ancient Weapons is no longer a secret.
As the Marine Headquarters News Department released the recruitment announcement to the world and Big News Morgans newspapers around the world published it immediately, the massive World Military Draft began.
A new day has arrived.
Because Gion is taking care of matters related to military recruitment, Akira is relatively free when he returns to Marineford.
However, he still got up early as usual and came to Fleet Admiral's Office early.
The office was kept spotless, and the documents on the desk were neatly arranged, because some documents had to be reviewed and signed by him as Marshal. Akira, who sat at the desk, did not delay, picked up a document, read it, skillfully signed his name and stamped it with the Marshal seal of the headquarters.
Before I knew it, the morning passed quietly.
Akira, who had finished reviewing all the documents, stood up and stretched his muscles. Just when he was about to do some eye exercises to relax his eyes, a large group photo hanging on the wall opposite the desk suddenly caught his eye.
The group photo in the photo is not the one he took with Marine Headquarters officers and soldiers after he launched the mutiny, but a dozen naval soldiers wearing recruit uniforms.
Before Akira could react, the office door was pushed open, and Gion walked in with a pile of documents in his arms.
Seeing this, Akira quickly raised his hand and pointed to the photo and asked, "Gion, why is this photo... hanging here? I remember it was kept at home!"
"Eh?"
Gion blinked and explained, "You made me hang here, on the day you replaced Master Sengoku as Marshal!"
Akira nodded, keeping his gaze on the photo hanging on the wall, and said softly, "It has been six years, if even one of them is still alive, now..."
Having said this, Akira suddenly felt his throat was a little dry, so he walked over silently and took off the photo frame.
Because Akira has been well preserved over the years, the photos look like they have just been developed, and everyone's face in the group photo is clearly visible.
There were a total of sixteen people in the group photo, and Akira, wearing a navy recruit uniform, stood in the middle with a childish smile on his face, because he had just traveled through time and was still making gestures habitually.
On his left and right sides, there stood two big men over two and a half meters tall, like two Dharma Protectors, protecting Akira, the most "petite" among the sixteen people in the group photo, in the middle.
They did the same.
During their first internship after the recruit training, they had a narrow encounter with a pirate group. One of the two of them took a bullet for Akira and died, while the other was pierced through the heart by a pirate with a sharp blade while trying to protect Akira in the melee.
During the year of the recruit's internship, it was precisely because the fifteen comrades in this group photo built a high wall for him with their lives that he was able to enter the officer training camp a year later and gradually became Marine Headquarters Colonel, Rear Admiral, and Vice Admiral.
And Marine Headquarters Marshal, who now holds all the power.
After staring at the photo for a while, Akira secretly took a deep breath, then looked up at Gion.
Gion, who knew what Akira wanted to ask, took the photo frame from Akira's hand, and while hanging it carefully back to its original place, he said, "Don't worry, I have been sending money to their families according to your instructions over the years. I was not sure before I took over, but after I took over, it has never stopped."
After saying that, Gion, who hung up the photo frame again, took two steps back, raised his hands and saluted towards the photo frame with a pious expression.
As the person Akira trusts most, she certainly knows the relationship and past between the soldiers in the photo and Akira.
Except for Akira in the photo, the other fifteen people all died one after another during their missions, all to protect Akira, who was still a "little one" at the time.
Although they died unknown, they were extremely great.
Because they successively used their lives to protect an unprecedented young commander for the navy.
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The third update ends today and will continue tomorrow.
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