A Man in One Piece: Watching Roger's Execution at the Start, Chapter 59

Atlas was still the same as ever...

East Blue, Loguetown Marine Base.

Atlas had been gone for nearly five years. That was neither a long nor a short time. After all, Atlas, now twenty-two years old, had spent half of his time in this world in this little town. (The protagonist had transmigrated here ten years ago.)

Loguetown itself had not changed much. It was still filled with the same people coming and going, and the architectural style remained as it had always been.

It was just that some of the Marines in the base seemed to be unfamiliar faces.

The Marines always stood on the front lines against the Pirates. And war... how could there be no deaths?

The base colonel's office.

The owner was still Colonel Randall, but although he was only around fifty, his temples had already turned gray. His face remained as stern and resolute as ever.

At that moment, Colonel Randall was sitting behind his desk, puffing away. Through the billowing smoke, a slightly yellowed newspaper could be seen pasted to the office wall. Its publisher was faintly recognizable as the World Economy News Paper.

Colonel Randall was rather idle at the moment. No, he had been quite idle for the past few years. The main reason was that, for some unknown reason, Vice Admiral Garp had kept coming to the East Blue. Naturally, a mere branch colonel like him had no way of finding out why.

Ever since Zephyr's family had been assassinated by Pirates, information about the families of important Marine officers had been kept strictly confidential. Some had even been brought directly to Marineford for protection.

Randall did not dislike this kind of leisure, though. So what if the East Blue was known as the Weakest Sea? Wasn't fewer Marine casualties a