New Appointment
Marine Headquarters Building, Fleet Admiral's Office.
Sephiroth raised a hand and knocked on the door. Without waiting for a response from inside, he pushed open the office door and walked in.
At the sight, Sengoku immediately set down the documents in his hand. He adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with mild surprise:
"Didn't expect you to return to Headquarters so quickly..."
Sephiroth shrugged and sat down in the chair before Sengoku's desk, speaking casually:
"Well! You said you were giving me a promotion and a raise, so of course I had to get back quickly, didn't I?
That's why I brought the warship straight across the Calm Belt..."
The Calm Belt, which separated the Grand Line from the Four Seas, posed its greatest threat in the Sea Kings that could emerge from the sea at any moment to attack ships.
However...
When a ship had an expert capable of easily killing Sea Kings aboard, the Calm Belt was nothing to fear at all!
Experts such as Hawkeye and Rayleigh simply did not care about Sea Kings. They came and went freely through the Calm Belt, while Red-Haired Shanks was even more outrageous!
That guy often took a crew with him and used the Red Force's oars to drift back and forth between the Calm Belt and the Four Seas...
Thus, the terrifying Calm Belt in the eyes of the weak was no different from a backyard in the eyes of the strong.
Marine 16th Branch was not far from Marine Headquarters. Sailing in a straight line, crossing the Calm Belt from the East Blue to Marineford took only eight or nine days...
"Sephiroth, your three-year punishment period is over.
Therefore, I intend to promote you directly from Rear Admiral to Vice Admiral,