The navy's openness to all World Military Draft has attracted countless young people with righteous hearts to flock to it. Many of them who are capable choose to go to Marine Headquarters. Some of them can only choose to stay far away for various reasons and rush to the Marine Base that is closest to them.
In just ten days, according to the statistics of Four Blues and Grand Line branches, the number of people who applied for this time exceeded one million, far exceeding the plan of 600,000 military expansion proposed by Akira at the beginning.
Among them, the headquarters alone has an influx of 200,000 people. Faced with the flood of ambitious people who are coming one after another, the officers at all levels in the headquarters who are responsible for recruits are almost busy from morning to night. Even Akira, the headquarters Marshal, is so busy that he even sleeps in the office.
A new day arrived, and Gion, the busiest person in the department, walked quickly into Fleet Admiral's Office with a lot of documents in his arms.
Gion was unable to see clearly what was going on in the office because he was holding a thick document that blocked part of his sight. He walked in and said, "Lord Marshal, more than 10,000 people came this morning. This recruitment has far exceeded our budget. We must..."
Halfway through the words, after putting down the file and discovering that Akira had fallen asleep at some point, Gion blinked unexpectedly, then turned his head to look at the corner of the office.
In the lounge of the office, Hina and several other officers were gently sorting out the mountains of documents on the coffee table.
Seeing this, Gion picked up the file and walked over, lowered his voice and asked Hina: "How long have Lord Marshal been sleeping?"
"I just fell asleep for a while," Hina turned his head and glanced at the figure in front of the desk who was sleeping with his back on the chair, and said softly, "About ten minutes or so."
After a slight pause, Hina's eyes flashed with doubts, and he changed the subject calmly, "Gion, according to the statistics of the major branches, the number of people is almost twice the number of conscripts. Why hasn't Lord Marshal ordered a stop? If it doesn't stop, the budget for this conscription will seriously exceed the standard. Is the headquarters' finances sufficient now? Hina is very confused!"
Gion nodded. "It's definitely enough for now, but we can't just think about the present. With the end of this conscription, soldiers' salaries alone will become a big problem for us in the future. However, since Lord Marshal didn't order it to stop, I believe he has a way to solve it."
Before he finished speaking, Gion immediately changed the subject and asked, "Among the people who came to the headquarters to participate in the recruitment, are there any particularly amazing newcomers?!"
"Yes!"
Hina took out one of the many documents and handed it to Gion, "This is the information of a newcomer named Yixiao."
Gion said nothing, took the file and opened it.
What caught his eye was the profile of a recruit who had passed all aspects of the interview and physical examination.
In the name column of the information, there are two words "Yixiao" written, and his birthplace is a country in the first half of Grand Line, Paradise.
Gion couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that "Yixiao"'s age was actually forty-nine.
But immediately, her eyes were shocked by the power of "a smile" and her pupils shrank.
"Paramecia, Press-Press Fruit?"
After making sure that he was not dazzling, Gion suddenly raised his head and looked at Hina, "Did you interview?"
Hina shook his head, "It's not me, it's Kaki Vice Admiral. No doubt, it's gravity Devil Fruit User. The most important thing is that he not only developed Press-Press Fruit to the extreme, but his Observation Haki is even more unique because he is a blind man."
Hearing this, Gion held back the excitement in his heart and asked, "Has the background been checked?"
"After investigation, except for my love of gambling, there are no problems in all aspects."
"Great, this is Admiral candidate talent!" Gion picked up the information and looked at it again, then put it aside and pretended to be calm. "Are there any more?"
"Yes," Hina handed another piece of information to Gion.
Gion took it and glanced at it quickly. When she saw the name "Aramaki" written in the information, and "Wood-Wood Fruit ability" was marked in the ability column, she could no longer suppress her lips and said in a good mood, "I really want to know what Lord Marshal will be when he sees the result of this recruitment..."
"Eh?"
Before Gion could finish speaking, a familiar but lazy voice suddenly came over, "Gion is here."
The sound sounded. Akira, who had just taken a nap for less than twenty minutes, stood up and stretched. He immediately rubbed his red eyes and looked at a few people. "Hina is here too?"
Hearing this, Hina immediately raised a big question mark. The reason why she and several other officers appeared here was because they received orders from Marshal to help organize the documents. The most important thing is that they have stayed up all night here!
Without waiting for Hina to react, Gion picked up Aramaki and Yixiao's materials and stood up and came to the desk. He said excitedly, "Lord Marshal, do you want to see what we have gained from this recruitment of the headquarters?"
"Is there a surprise?" Akira took the information and opened it simply.
"A smile?"
As soon as he opened the first document and saw the word "" written in the column of the character's name, Xia Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, "Is this the gear of fate starting to turn in advance?"
"Eh?"
Gion blinked in confusion and asked tentatively, "Lord Marshal knows this person?"
Akira did not answer directly, but handed the two documents back to Gion, "If nothing else happens, the other document should be from the forest man Aramaki who has the ability of Wood-Wood Fruit!"
"Ah?"
Unexpectedly, Akira guessed it at a glance without looking at the other information. Gion opened her beautiful eyes and said, "Lord Marshal you... how do you know?"
Akira shrugged slightly and said with a smile, "Your Lord Marshal knows everything."
After a slight pause, Akira put away his smile and said seriously, "I'll wash my face first and wake up. You go and ask them to come to my office."
With that said, Akira went straight to the bathroom.
When he walked out of the bathroom, there were two more figures in the office. It was Yixiao and Aramaki who had passed the interview and officially became navy soldiers.
"Lord Marshal!"
As soon as Akira walked out of the bathroom, Aramaki immediately turned around and faced Akira, raised his hand and saluted, and shouted enthusiastically, "Loyalty! Honesty!"
"I didn't expect that this conscription would actually attract top powerhouses hidden among the people. It's worth celebrating."
Akira waved his hand to signal the two of them to relax, and looked at them carefully and smiled.
Jian Yixiao's ears twitched slightly when he lowered his gesture, and even though he also had the ability to reach the top of the world Observation Haki, he silently gave it a thumbs up.
You know, just now he secretly used Observation Haki Killer to seal his aura, but unexpectedly Yixiao still captured his gestures and movements, which is enough to prove that he is very accomplished in the field of Observation Haki, and can even ignore Observation Haki Killer to a certain extent.
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