After finishing their complaints, Binz and Ain suddenly turned to Zephyr. "Teacher Zephyr, say something!"
Hearing his two disciples' indignant complaints, Zephyr turned his sunglasses-clad face toward them.
Looking at the puff-cheeked Ain and the teeth-gritting Binz, he did not get angry. Instead, he let out a gentle laugh.
"Hahaha..." Zephyr shook his head. "Young people are hot-blooded. A little arrogance is perfectly normal."
With that, he stepped forward and patted Binz on the shoulder, then gave Ain a reassuring look.
As for Aramaki's arrogant, even somewhat insulting remarks,
Zephyr, a former Admiral who had weathered countless storms, was long past being easily angered by such superficial provocation.
As a half-retired old man, what mattered to him now was no longer personal honor or disgrace, gains or losses, but something deeper...
So Zephyr raised the clipboard he had been holding, with two freshly compiled reports attached to it.
These were not ordinary introductory profiles, but records of preliminary "personality and views on justice assessments" conducted on Issho and Aramaki.
Of course, since Issho was blind, Zephyr had personally read him the questions, while Ain recorded his answers.
"These two fellows have utterly different ideas of justice!"
Zephyr's gaze first settled on Issho's report, and sincere admiration and relief appeared on his stern face.
In his answers to core questions such as "What is justice?", "How should civilians and pirates be treated?", and "Under what circumstances would you use force?",
Issho had demonstrated a generous philosophy filled with concern for humanity.
Almost all his answers emphasized restraint in the use of power, protection of the innocent, and the compassion and mercy that lay beyond law and order.
Benevolent justice.
Zephyr silently repeated his summary of Issho's philosophy.
It aligned extremely closely with the "non-killing justice" he himself upheld, a philosophy forged