The banquet ended amidst the clinking of glasses and the exchange of toasts.
The morale of the navy at G-3 fortress was reignited.
Yes, they are the Navy, and they will always be the Navy. As Navy personnel, they must fulfill their duties as Navy personnel.
After a satisfying meal, everyone went about their own business.
Inside the kitchen, a fire was burning on the stove, cooking a pot.
Kikyo was chopping vegetables and researching new recipes, glancing at the pot every now and then before looking at the large bow hanging on the wall and smiling.
...
In an open space near the sea, Donald swung his cross-shaped spear repeatedly, each thrust precise and clean, and he had already made countless thrusts.
As Lieutenant General Kuro said, thrust out the spear with full sincerity and all your might until you comprehend the level of 'momentum'.
Buzz!
He thrust his spear forward, the tip whistling through the air. Without wiping the sweat from his face, he took a few deep breaths, staring at the ocean waves, and murmured:
"I won't do that again next time."
The evenly matched fight with Bessie was exhilarating, but it also made Donald feel humiliated.
After all, he had witnessed a ship sink with his own eyes. He should have been able to defeat pirates much faster!
...
"ah..."
Moore yawned in bed, rubbed his eyes, and then closed them again.
But after a short while, he got up again, scratched his head, and said with distress, "Forget it, I'd better go practice. If I don't have enough stamina, I won't be a good messenger."
...
On the training field, Cass and Wilbur stood side by side, watching the Navy conduct their training.
"Not enough, still not enough! We need to train harder. In order not to repeat the previous humiliation, we need to train faster and better, and we need to find ways to make ourselves stronger!" Cass shouted.
"That's right. Mr. Kuro once said, 'Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime!' That means you should train hard and become stronger in peacetime so that you won't bleed in real battle!"
Wilbur was also shouting, "Mr. Kuro also said that even if you look at a woman a hundred times, she won't be yours, but if you do a hundred training sessions, your physique will become stronger, and your strength will be yours! What does this mean? It means that hard work is useful, and becoming stronger is something you can actually see!"
“Well said, Wilbur, that’s exactly how it should be!” Cass looked over, moved. “You’ve studied that book, ‘The Book of Justice,’ more deeply than I have. If you have any new insights in the future, please be sure to tell me!”
"No, no, no, Cass, you are more adept at upholding justice for Mr. Kuro than I am. In the future, if there is anything related to putting justice into practice, please be sure to include me!"
"Wilbur!"
"Cass!"
The two held hands tightly and said in unison, "All for justice! All for Mr. Kuro!!"
...
Glug glug—
Inside the lab, Fanny held up a vial of medicine bubbling with green light and nodded thoughtfully.
"So that's how it is. Adding germs can have this effect... After all, germs also have beneficial components. We can extract those and use them in medicine. However, we still need to conduct experiments. And now I am a patient with the epidemic, so no disease is effective against me. I can do more experiments that I didn't dare to do before."
As she spoke, she added several more reagents with even greater excitement, making the green bubbles in the medicine bottle appear even more concentrated.
Faintly, Fanny's excited laughter could still be heard in the laboratory.
...
Everyone was training, including Ain and Binz. All of them, whether they were Kuro's personal subordinates or his direct subordinates, were affected by what had happened before. They needed to become stronger in order to gain a foothold in the new world.
Sazier too.
"Mr. Clooney!"
Inside a dojo, Sazir looked excitedly at Kro across from him, "Finally, I get to fight you again!"
"Um?"
Kro raised an eyebrow. Wasn't this guy someone he often beat up? How could he say 'finally'?
He didn't understand Sazier's excitement, just as Mr. Kuro didn't understand his suffering...
"Alright, let's go."
Kro narrowed his eyes and transformed into a beast-human form, his claws radiating an aura of dominance.
"Huh?"
Sazir, who was in the middle of his excitement, was stunned and stammered, "Do I... do I need to transform? And use Haki..."
"Of course, you're an ability user too. Of course I'll use my ability to deal with an ability user. Besides, you'll also have a domineering aura, right? This is special training, not a fight specifically against you. It's different."
Kro stepped forward. "I will take this seriously."
"No, no... wait, Mr. Crow, what are you doing? Don't come any closer!!!"
...
Dressrosa.
At this moment, in front of the completed palace, squads of soldiers stood straight, forming rows, ready for battle.
On the balcony of the high-rise building in the royal palace, a man wearing streamlined armor but no helmet, with a heroic-looking face, looked down at the soldiers below.
"Do we really have to do this?"
Behind her, Viola, who was already married, came over with her hands clasped in front of her, and said worriedly, "This will cause trouble."
"This is the master's wish."
David, without turning his head, said, "My lord desires world peace, which I cannot guarantee right now, but we can start with local initiatives."
He also had a small booklet in his hand. He held it up, opened it, and said, "The master once said that if we seek peace through peace, peace will perish; if we seek peace through struggle, peace will survive."
"These are the quotes Colonel Wilbur gave to my master. He flips through them every day and ponders them carefully. He discovers that many things are true, and many words also represent my master's long-cherished wishes."
"My lord desires world peace, and as his knight, I will certainly fulfill his wish. However, world peace is too difficult to achieve and can only be achieved step by step. For now, what is needed is to strive for local peace for my lord."
He waved and asked, "Are the maps and intelligence ready?"
"Yes."
A servant came over, bowed, and handed over a map with both hands.
David picked up the map and said, "There are many countries in the waters near G-3. It doesn't matter whether they are members of the World Government or not. I have already issued a notice: submit to me or die. Dressrosa needs a large territory to contribute to world peace."
“If we do that, then at the World Conference…” Viola said worriedly.
"Then let's do it before the World Conference!"
David said, "I'll get those countries to surrender before the World Conference, and then I'll personally take charge. That way, when everything is settled at the World Conference, the World Government won't say anything. Absolute power brings absolute authority. As long as a nation is strong, the World Conference will be my domain!"
As he spoke, he gripped the map tightly, as if making a vow, and said, "All for the master's long-cherished wish!"
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