Sea Calendar 1507
Sabaody Archipelago, Marine Base, Commander-in-Chief's Office.
"Three years already!... Good thing it wasn't three years, then another three years!"
Sephiroth wore a black leather coat, his long silver hair draped casually over his shoulders. With his hands behind his back, he gazed at the plaque on the wall bearing the words "Flexible Justice," his heart filled with emotion...
He had spent three years climbing from colonel to brigadier general before finally taking the position of commander-in-chief of the Sabaody Archipelago Marine Base!
Normally, for a Headquarters colonel to be promoted to brigadier general, even if they had not performed any major achievements but received excellent evaluations every year, it would generally take four years...
Of course, if you had no background, no strength, and no influence, then you could just keep grinding away slowly!
If you made it to your fifties or sixties without committing any major mistakes, perhaps you would finally be promoted to brigadier general!
Even Smoker, whom the Five Elders had forcibly credited with saving the Alabasta Kingdom,
had only been promoted from colonel to brigadier general rather than directly to rear admiral or vice admiral. That alone showed how difficult every promotion after colonel was!
Back then, Sephiroth had been promoted to colonel upon graduating from the Military Academy because, in political terms, he had saved Dressrosa and preserved the Marines' dignity.
Otherwise, simply wiping out those pirates would have earned him a major's rank at best!
Logically speaking, Sephiroth was stationed at the Sabaody Archipelago, the unavoidable route for pirates from the Four Seas heading into the New World. If he wanted to earn military merit by killing pirates, then with the Door-Door Fruit and Vampire Fruit working together, it would basically take no effort at all!
But...
If Sephiroth truly dared