Dracule Mihawk boarded the ship with Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the others, though not as a Marine recruit.
Although Yoriichi called Mihawk a "labor camp prisoner," after Mihawk came aboard, Yoriichi did not actually assign him any menial tasks. Nor did he put him in the shackles reserved for prisoners, or even restrict his movements.
Mihawk was like an ordinary civilian who had come aboard for a visit—he was even freer than many of the Marines.
After returning to the ship, Yoriichi privately asked Garp's intelligence officer to investigate Mihawk's past. He figured that if Mihawk had already become a "Marine Hunter," then his labor camp sentence would have to become real.
However, the intelligence officer's findings were vastly different from what Yoriichi had expected.
The young Mihawk was actually a bounty hunter.
Or rather, the Marines had records of Mihawk turning in wanted criminals' heads in exchange for bounties.
As for anything else about Mihawk, the Marines had no further records. Mihawk, only around twenty years old now, was still completely unknown in this world.
No one knew why he would later be called the "Marine Hunter," or why he would become such close friends with one of the Four Emperors, Red-Haired Shanks, but none of that mattered anymore.
Since Mihawk had now been brought into the Marines by Yoriichi, then no matter what identity he had boarded under, he would have only one identity in the future: Marine!
Yoriichi had already silently planned things out for Mihawk.
Not long after Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the others returned to the ship, two familiar figures appeared at the port.
The master of Isshin Dojo, Shimotsuki Koushirou, arrived at the dock with his father, Shimotsuki Koushirou. Each carried a bundle on his back.
When the two reached the dock, Yoriichi was meditating at