Marine Headquarters.
This was an important day in the history of the Elite Training Camp.
It was the day the camp's first class graduated together.
Even Sakazuki, Borsalino, and Dragon, who had graduated early, had been specially recalled to take part in this important event.
The Elite Training Camp ran a three-year program.
With the Navy's limited funding and the sheer number of students, three years of study at the Elite Training Camp was about the limit.
They would have to walk the rest of the road themselves. Those three years were enough to give them a solid foundation.
Besides, countless students at the Navy School wanted to enter the Elite Training Camp. The chance to become Zephyr's disciple was highly coveted.
This was the graduation ceremony for the Elite Training Camp's first class, and many members of the Navy High Command would attend.
Although the camp had produced three monsters, its true results would still depend on the quality of its graduates.
Monsters were monsters. They would eventually grow strong even without the training camp.
The other students, however, would form the Navy's future middle- and upper-level fighting force.
At the Navy School, on the Elite Training Camp's exclusive training ground.
Three hundred students stood in formation, holding military posture and looking straight ahead.
After three years of study, these students had undergone astonishing transformations in every respect.
The most obvious was their confidence. As outstanding talents among the students and disciples of Admiral "Black Arm" Zephyr, they had every right to be confident.
These were the Elite Training Camp's first students. Borsalino, Sakazuki, and Dragon, who had already graduated, had all returned. Wearing their Justice Capes, they stood at the front of the formation as examples for the others.
Around them were students from the second and third