Reading this name, Akainu's fist slammed onto the desk with a "bang," "Good... very good!"
He abruptly grabbed the Den Den Mushi on the desk, his voice boiling like hellish magma: "Order! Demote Master Sergeant Koby to Private First Class immediately, transfer him to the recruit camp, and assign him to clean all toilets at Marineford! For ten years!"
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, at the recruit camp dormitory,
"What?!" The "Pirate King" novel in Koby's hand fell to the ground with a "thud," his pink hair standing on end from shock, "Clean, clean toilets for ten years?!"
Helmeppo patted his friend's shoulder sympathetically: "Be content..."
He opened the tenth or so chapter of the novel, pointed to the passage describing him as "bullying others based on his power, abusing recruits," and his face turned pale,
"Look at my image, it's exactly like my father Morgan!
I suspect the author was monitoring me 24 hours a day!"
Koby picked up the novel, on the verge of tears: "How could Admiral Sakazuki do this! That's just a novel!" He pointed to the chapter where he blocked Akainu, "How could I possibly have the guts to do something like that?!"
"This is a completely baseless accusation! No, I won't accept it! I want to appeal!"
"Shh—keep it down!" Helmeppo nervously covered his mouth, "Can't you tell? This book is seriously messed up!"
He lowered his voice, "Red Hair's severed arm, Ace's background, Blackbeard's conspiracy... it's written too accurately! My father might actually do something like that, like a peeping tom..."
Koby suddenly shivered, "Could it be that I really will block Admiral Sakazuki? Am I really a deserter???"
Helmeppo also looked at Koby with disdain: "Koby, I think you need to calm down. I don't want to be friends with a deserter."
"...." Koby frowned and thought deeply for a moment. If he was a deserter, he might as well kill himself!
"I will never be a deserter, Helmeppo. If I ever become a deserter, please kill me on the spot!"
"OK!"
Koby's scalp tingled. He agreed so readily, "Have you wanted to get rid of me for a long time?"
"What are you saying, Koby! We're good friends!"
Helmeppo quickly stopped Koby from overthinking.
A moment later, Koby suddenly remembered the description in the book of "mastering advanced Observation Haki two years later"—wasn't this the power he had always dreamed of?
"Wait..." His eyes suddenly lit up, "If this book is really a 'prophecy book'..."
Helmeppo's face changed drastically: "Hey! You're not thinking of practicing according to it, are you?!"
A piercing whistle suddenly came from outside the window: "Private First Class Koby! Go clean the toilets immediately! Admiral Sakazuki is personally inspecting!"
Koby desperately grabbed the mop, but before leaving, he secretly stuffed the novel into his Arms.
Perhaps... cultivating Observation Haki in the reflection of the toilet bowl is also a good option?
Meanwhile, in the Admiral's office, Akainu was sneering and giving the novel a bad review: [Seriously inaccurate! How could this old man be beaten so badly by Whitebeard! Does the author dare to write a sequel?!]
...
The next day,
At seven fifty-nine in the morning, the morning mist in Marineford had not yet dissipated.
Kizaru stepped into the Marineford headquarters building slowly, just making it before the start of work.
He was holding a cup of milk tea with triple sugar, his eyes half-closed behind his sunglasses, looking like a lazy fish that hadn't woken up.
"Admiral Borsalino!" The messenger nervously stopped him, "Fleet Admiral Sengoku has summoned you urgently! Staff Officer Tsuru has been waiting for you for half an hour!"
"Yeah~ That's scary~" Kizaru drew out his words, taking a sip of milk tea, "Having a meeting so early, is it to pay overtime~"
Pushing open the door to the Marshal's office, Kizaru keenly sensed that the atmosphere was off—a phone was spread out on the desk in front of Sengoku, displaying the "Pirate King" novel,
At the same time, Staff Officer Tsuru was holding a thick stack of documents, and even the usually laid-back Garp had a rare stern expression.
"Explain." Staff Officer Tsuru pushed up her reading glasses, her fingertip tapping on a passage in the "Sabaody Archipelago Arc," "Now the entire Marineford is spreading rumors that you are Monkey D. Luffy's 'Uncle Kizaru.'"
Kizaru's milk tea dropped to the ground with a "thud."
"Yeah~" His mouth twitched, "The imagination of this generation of Marines is even more outrageous than my Yasakani no Magatama~"
Sengoku snorted coldly, flipping to another page: "Then how do you explain this sentence?" He read, "'Kizaru usually slacks off, but as long as the salary is right, he can take down even the Four Emperors.'"
The office suddenly became terrifyingly quiet.
Kizaru's sunglasses slid down to the tip of his nose, revealing his rarely widened eyes. He opened his mouth, then closed it, and finally managed to squeeze out a sentence: "Sengoku-san~ The salary you give..."
"Is indeed too little." Garp suddenly chimed in, casually taking a bag of senbei from Sengoku's drawer.
Staff Officer Tsuru's glasses glinted with cold light: "Borsalino, Marineford has compiled your mission records." She unfolded a table, "In the past three years, the number of Pirates you've captured is 1/3 of Kuzan's and 1/5 of Sakazuki's."
"But—" She suddenly turned the page, "Every time it involves Celestial Dragons incidents, your mission completion rate is 100%."
Kizaru's fingertips unconsciously condensed a particle of light: "Yeah~ The overtime pay the Celestial Dragons give..."
"Is twenty times the Marineford standard." Sengoku added through clenched teeth.
Outside the window, a group of Marine soldiers were secretly watching this The Trial of the Century, someone whispered: "No wonder Admiral Kizaru went easy at Sabaody Archipelago..."
"Nonsense!" Kizaru suddenly flashed to the window, scaring the onlookers into scattering and fleeing, "That's all nonsense written in the novel! This old man's dedication to salary... no, to justice is witnessed by heaven and earth!"
Garp suddenly slapped the table and burst into laughter: "Pfft hahaha! Have you seen the latest chapter? It says Kizaru is the security captain at Mary Geoise, specifically guarding the gate for the Celestial Dragons!"
"Is there?"
"Hahaha, you believed it even though this old man just made it up."
"..."
Sengoku's temples throbbed. He took a deep breath and took out an exquisite money bag from the drawer: "Borsalino, from now on, you are responsible for tracking down the author of 'Pirate King.'"
Kizaru's eyes were instantly drawn to the money bag: "Yeah~ This mission fee..."
"Is fifty times the usual." Sengoku revealed a devilish smile, "But if I find you slacking off..."
"Guaranteed to complete the mission~" Kizaru's figure had already turned into a stream of light and disappeared, only his voice echoing in the office, "Once I find the author, I'll 'invite' the author for tea~"
Staff Officer Tsuru watched the fleeting golden light outside the window and said faintly: "Where do you think his first stop will be?"
Sengoku rubbed his temples: "Hopefully not a milk tea shop in Shambles."
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