Sea Circle Calendar, 1499. Personnel changes swept through the Marines.
That year, Marine Headquarters Lieutenant Colonel "White Rabbit" Lipo Hope was promoted to Headquarters Commodore.
In the same month, Marine Headquarters Major "Gold" Gild Tesoro was promoted to Headquarters Captain.
Next came "Snake Princess" Toritoma, a former officer of the Kuja Pirates and a master swordswoman with a bounty of 920,050,000 Beli.
With Navy Hero "Iron Fist" Garp, former Admiral "Black Arm" Zephyr, and "Heavenquake" Gern jointly vouching for her,
the World Government was forced, despite its extreme reluctance,
to rescind her wanted notice and admit her into the Marines as a Headquarters Rear Admiral, though she would take orders directly from Gern alone.
Meanwhile, on Gern's recommendation, Enel, whose background was clean, successfully entered the Marine Elite Training Camp.
What shocked everyone, however, was that in just one week, this man used the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and his innate Mantra
to tear through every trainee in his intake without using Armament Haki!
His spectacular performance immediately earned him the title of "the Marines' strongest rookie,"
making him, after Sakazuki, Kuzan, Borsalino, and Gern,
another rising Marine star to be dubbed a "monster."
However, Enel's unruly disposition meant he spent only a month at the Training Camp before Zephyr personally took him under his wing for special training.
More astonishing still, Enel possessed innate, top-tier Observation Haki and Conqueror's Haki awakened through Gern's provocation,
and under Zephyr's strict guidance, he needed only four months to master the basics of using Armament Haki.
He then graduated ahead of schedule and, owing to his strength, was granted the rank of Marine Headquarters Lieutenant Colonel outright.
Also in June of that year, during its purge of the Roger Pirates' associates, the World Government discovered
that "Pirate King" Roger might have left