Marineford, Marine Headquarters.
The sky was slightly overcast, heavy snowflakes drifting down. The entire Marine Headquarters had donned a blanket of silver-white, and a gust of wind brought a bone-piercing chill.
A warship slowly docked at Crescent Moon Bay in the military harbor and lowered a gangplank. Sephiroth led Kuro, Jango, and the Nyaban Brothers down from the ship.
"So this is Marineford, Marine Headquarters?
It really feels a little unreal..."
Kuro raised his right hand and gently pushed up his glasses with his wrist, his tone filled with wistfulness.
Three or four months ago, he, Kuro, had merely been a rookie pirate who had just set sail...
Who would have thought he would get a hell-difficulty start, encounter Sephiroth, the final boss, and immediately fall to his knees!
What he had never expected even more was that Sephiroth would take him in as a subordinate. In the blink of an eye, he had become a Marine soldier, doing the work of wiping out pirates...
Walking ahead across the white snow, Sephiroth suddenly turned back to look at Kuro and asked with a smile:
"By the way, do you want to enroll in the Marineford Military Academy for further study?
Although the military merits you've accumulated as a branch sergeant aren't quite enough yet, if I personally recommend you, you should be able to enter the academy directly.
After all, your current strength already surpasses that of ordinary military academy students..."
When the officers dispatched by Marine Headquarters arrived, Kuro was freed from his mountain of military duties. Sephiroth also formally taught the techniques of the Six Powers to Kuro, Jango, and the Nyaban Brothers.
Though the four of them had been minor characters in the original story, they could at least put up a fight or two. They were