Aside from the upheaval among the Four Emperors in the New World,
the other two Admirals tasked with monitoring the Four Emperors' movements had also learned of the matter.
Navy Admiral Kuzan, who had been riding a bicycle across the sea, stopped and read today's newspaper.
"Ahh, Roya is really something else!"
"This guy is incredible. He actually managed to injure that monster, one of the Four Emperors, Kaido, this badly!"
"As expected, anyone Garp had his eye on couldn't possibly be ordinary."
Kuzan said in surprise.
After all, the newspaper clearly showed Kaido's appearance after suffering severe injuries. In the eyes of these powerhouses, they could tell the extent of his strength at a glance.
"Still..."
"Isn't it a little too casual to promote him exceptionally this quickly?"
Kuzan began to ponder.
Marine Headquarters had always maintained three Admirals. This exceptional promotion of Roya had been kept secret even from Marine Admirals like them, who were still out carrying out missions. It really did seem somewhat hasty and casual.
"Whatever!"
"Sengoku and Kong must have had their reasons for making this decision."
"With one more Admiral, maybe our work will get a little easier."
After pondering for a long time, Kuzan did not think much more of it. He put away the newspaper, got back on his bicycle, and continued riding across the sea.
Meanwhile.
Aboard Navy Admiral Akainu Sakazuki's personal Warship.
Sizzle, 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?!"
"Setting aside his exceptional promotion of this Roya to Rear Admiral, he's now directly promoted him to Admiral? The original Three Admirals have become Four Admirals?"
"What a joke!"
Sakazuki's face was filled with fury. He was extremely displeased with Sengoku's decision to promote Roya as the Marine Fourth Admiral.
"Hmph!"
"Just wait until I return to Marine Headquarters!"
"I refuse to believe this Roya is truly qualified to become the Fourth Admiral. I'll test his strength personally!"
Sakazuki said resentfully.
Marine Headquarters.
Roya, who had escorted the 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 his way there, quite a few Marines saluted him. Even Marines at the Rear Admiral and Vice Admiral levels saluted him.
That came as a slight surprise to Roya.
However, he did not dwell on it and continued toward Sengoku's office.
The moment he entered Fleet Admiral Sengoku's office, Sengoku immediately came forward to greet him.
"Admiral Roya, this is your uniform. Wear this from now on. Your personal Warship has also been arranged!" Fleet Admiral Sengoku handed Roya a cape symbolizing an Admiral's status.
To be honest.
When Roya heard Sengoku address him as Admiral, he was indeed completely baffled.
But 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 he would at most be promoted to Vice Admiral or something similar.
And judging from the cape and personal Warship, it was truly unavoidable that he would bear the title of Admiral.
Perhaps they had acted first because they were worried that, like Garp, Roya would refuse to become an Admiral?
But since things had come to this, there was no need for him to refuse.
Thus, Roya accepted the Admiral's cape 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 anymore."
"This time, the reason we gathered all the Shichibukai and Marine elites from all over the world at Marine Headquarters..."
"Our target is not the Four Emperor Kaido, but another Four Emperor—Whitebeard!"
Sengoku said righteously.
Before Roya could speak, Sengoku continued, "As the son of the One Piece, Fire Fist Ace will be publicly executed by the Marines. Whitebeard will certainly come to rescue Ace, so our true target is the Whitebeard Pirates!"
In truth, even if Sengoku had not explained all this to Roya, Roya already knew it perfectly well.
But Roya did not care, nor did he want to care. To him, only improving his strength mattered. None of this had anything to do with him.
"I'll slowly explain the details to you..."
Sengoku pulled Roya along and began a long-winded explanation.
During the short period that followed.
Roya finally got some peace and quiet.
Even so, Roya had not relaxed his training for a single day.
After several days of training, Roya's control over his power had become even more refined!
"System, show me my current training progress!" Roya awakened the system.
[Host: Roya]
[Navy Six Powers (Ability Strength): Top level (Twenty-threefold automatic training in progress)]
[Observation Haki (Ability Strength): Top level (Thirty-fivefold automatic training in progress)]
[Armament Haki (Ability Strength): Top level (Forty-fivefold automatic training in progress)]
[Swordsmanship Training (Ability Strength): Advanced level (Fifteenfold automatic training in progress)]
[Conqueror's Haki (Ability Strength): Advanced level (Thirteenfold automatic training in progress)]
[Dark-Dark Fruit power (Ability Strength): Advanced level (Fifteenfold automatic training in progress)]
[Venom-Venom Fruit power (Ability Strength): Advanced level (Fifteenfold automatic training in progress)]
[Tenseigan power (Ability Strength): Beginner level (Onefold automatic training in progress)]
[Physique Cultivation (Ability Strength): Beginner level (Fivefold automatic training in progress)]
After training for this period of time.
The training areas that had improved the most were mainly the Venom-Venom Fruit power and Swordsmanship Training.
"This Swordsmanship Training speed is still not enough!"
"Looks like I need to think of a way to speed it up!"
Roya shook his head with a dissatisfied sigh.
After all, one's own strength was what truly mattered. He could not use the Tenseigan in every battle whenever he encountered some opponent, could he?
Therefore, Roya still hoped to raise his Swordsmanship Training by another level.
Suddenly.
A Marine soldier burst in, panting heavily.
"Admiral Roya! This is bad! Something huge happened at the Sabaody Archipelago! A pirate struck a Celestial Dragon! Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Vice Admiral Garp are urgently discussing the matter!" the Marine soldier reported anxiously.
Sabaody Archipelago?
A pirate struck a Celestial Dragon?
Wouldn't that be 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 Navy 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 honestly continue training his Swordsmanship.
As it turned out.
Roya's personal Den Den Mushi rang at that moment.
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