The Navy's Fourth Admiral! Roya!

Aside from the upheaval among the Four Emperors of the New World.

The other two admirals assigned to monitor the movements of the Four Emperors also learned of this.

Admiral Kuzan, who had been riding a bicycle across the sea, stopped and looked over today's newspaper.

"Ahh, Roya is really something else!"

"This guy is incredible. He actually managed to inflict such injuries on that monster, Kaido of the Four Emperors!"

"As expected, anyone Garp takes a liking to can't be ordinary."

Kuzan said in surprise.

After all, the newspaper clearly showed what Kaido looked like after suffering severe injuries. In the eyes of powerful people like them, they could tell the extent of someone's strength at a glance.

"Still..."

"Isn't it a little too hasty to promote him exceptionally so quickly?"

Kuzan began to ponder.

After all, Marine Headquarters had always maintained three admiral positions. This exceptional promotion of Roya had been carried out without even informing admirals from Marine Headquarters who were still away on missions. It did seem rather rushed and casual.

"Whatever!"

"Sengoku and Kong must have their reasons for making this decision."

"With another admiral around, maybe the workload will be a little lighter in the future."

After pondering for a long while, Kuzan did not dwell on it any further. He put away the newspaper, mounted his bicycle, and continued riding across the sea.

Meanwhile.

On Admiral Akainu Sakazuki's personal Marine warship.

Sizzle, sizzle...

After reading the newspaper, Sakazuki clenched it in his hand, and it was instantly melted into fragments by his Magma-Magma Fruit.

"What the hell is Sengoku doing?!"

"Forget about his exceptional promotion of Roya to Marine Rear Admiral back then. Now he's directly promoted him to admiral? The original Three Admirals have become Four Admirals?"

"What a joke!"

Sakazuki's face was full of fury. He was extremely displeased with Sengoku's decision to promote Roya as the Navy's fourth admiral.

"Hmph!"

"Just wait until I return to Marine Headquarters!"

"I refuse to believe that this Roya truly deserves to become the fourth admiral. I'll personally test his strength!"

Sakazuki said angrily.

Marine Headquarters.

Roya, who had escorted Four Emperor Kaido back, had returned.

The first thing that happened upon his return was that Sengoku summoned him!

Naturally, Roya did not refuse and headed straight for Sengoku's office.

On the way there, quite a few Marines saluted him. Even Marines at the rear admiral and vice admiral ranks saluted him.

That took Roya somewhat by surprise.

However, he did not think much of it and continued toward Sengoku's office.

The moment he entered Fleet Admiral Sengoku's office, Sengoku immediately came up to greet him.

"Admiral Roya, this is your uniform. You'll wear this from now on. Your personal warship has also been arranged!" Fleet Admiral Sengoku handed Roya a cloak representing the rank of admiral.

To be honest.

When he heard Sengoku address him as admiral, Roya was truly dumbfounded.

However, he quickly connected it to his defeat of Kaido. He just had not expected to be promoted to admiral so swiftly. He had originally thought that, at most, he would be promoted to vice admiral or something.

Moreover, judging from the cloak and personal warship, the title of admiral was truly unavoidable for him.

Perhaps they were worried that he would refuse to become an admiral like Garp, so they decided to act first?

Still, since things had come to this, there was no need for him to refuse.

Thus, Roya accepted the admiral's cloak and officially became the fourth admiral of Marine Headquarters!

"Roya, now that you've become an admiral, there's no need to hide this from you any longer."

"The reason we summoned all the Seven Warlords and Marine elites from all over the world back to Marine Headquarters this time..."

"Our target isn't Four Emperor Kaido, but another Four Emperor—Whitebeard!"

Sengoku said solemnly.

Without waiting for Roya to speak, Sengoku continued, "Fire Fist Ace, the son of the Pirate King, will be publicly executed by the Marines. Whitebeard will surely come to rescue Ace, so our target is the Whitebeard Pirates!"

In truth, even if Sengoku had not explained all this to Roya, he already knew it perfectly well.

But Roya did not care, nor did he want to care. To him, only becoming stronger mattered. None of this had anything to do with him.

"I'll slowly explain the specifics to you..."

Sengoku pulled Roya over and began a lengthy explanation.

During the short period that followed.

Roya finally got some peace and quiet.

Even so, Roya did not relax his training for a single day.

After several days of training, Roya's control over his strength had become even more refined!

"System, show me my current training projects!" Roya summoned the system.

[Host: Roya]

[Marine Six Powers (Ability Strength): Top-tier (Twenty-threefold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Observation Haki (Ability Strength): Top-tier (Thirty-fivefold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Armament Haki (Ability Strength): Top-tier (Forty-fivefold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Swordsmanship Training (Ability Strength): Advanced (Fifteenfold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Conqueror's Haki (Ability Strength): Advanced (Thirteenfold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Dark-Dark Fruit Power (Ability Strength): Advanced (Fifteenfold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Venom-Venom Fruit Power (Ability Strength): Advanced (Fifteenfold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Tenseigan Power (Ability Strength): Beginner (Onefold Automatic Training in Progress)]

[Physique Cultivation (Ability Strength): Beginner (Fivefold Automatic Training in Progress)]

After this period of training.

The training projects that had mainly improved were the Venom-Venom Fruit power and Swordsmanship Training.

"This Swordsmanship Training speed still isn't enough!"

"Looks like I need to work harder and figure out a way to speed it up!"

Roya shook his head with a sigh, somewhat dissatisfied.

After all, one's own strength was what truly mattered. He could not possibly use the Tenseigan every time he encountered an opponent in battle, could he?

Therefore, Roya still hoped to raise his Swordsmanship Training by another level.

Suddenly.

A Marine soldier burst in, panting heavily.

"Admiral Roya! Something terrible has happened! A major incident has occurred at the Sabaody Archipelago! A pirate attacked a Celestial Dragon! Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Vice Admiral Garp are urgently discussing the matter!" the Marine soldier reported anxiously.

The Sabaody Archipelago?

A pirate attacked a Celestial Dragon?

Wouldn't that mean the Straw Hat Pirates?

"It's fine. You may leave!"

Roya did not take it seriously at all, because he knew that Sengoku would send Admiral Kizaru Borsalino to handle the Celestial Dragon incident at the Sabaody Archipelago. It had absolutely nothing to do with him, so he might as well continue training his Swordsmanship honestly.

However.

At that moment, Roya's personal Den Den Mushi began to ring.