Dragon Slayer

On the walk from the coast back to the town of Marineford, the battered recruits, one by one, had dull eyes, arms dangling in front of them, swaying as they walked as if they were zombies infected with a virus.

Among the group, Les, who had a mohawk, leaned in next to a serious-looking Doberman and said, "You're a bit of a strange guy today."

"What are you trying to say?" Doberman's hands were equally sore and weak, but his face was always stern and solemn.

"You and that Herbert guy were in detention for assault the first day you came in. Isn't it logical that pricks like you should be jumping out today against the teachings of Longinus-senpai?"

"Idiot!" Doberman spat out two words in an icy cold voice before looking at the figure in front of the team with a burning gaze, "To suppress Impel Down riot. To be able to kill thousands of escaped pirates without changing face. To eliminate the effects of the event, To be able to iron-bloodily and decisively kill the world's number one most beautiful woman, with a proper marine instruction like Captain Longinus, is something I couldn't ask for more! "

Les paled and said speechlessly for a long while, "I didn't realize you guys were as big an admirer of Captain Longinus as I am. I was planning to show off in front of the seniors when you were picking on them."

"Unlike shallow guys like you, I believe in true justice, and if the Captain's actions ever go against the idea of justice, I will not hesitate to stand up to him!" Doberman said coldly.

"Haha! You won't be able to wait for that day. After all, senpai is as much called a hero as Vice Admiral Garp!"

"A hero? I wish I could measure his strength!" The raspy voice sounded beside him, making Les startle a little.

Turning around was a man with a square face, drooping eyelids, and a fierce expression that could send a chill down one's back with a single glance.

"What do you mean, Hubert? Planning to get in trouble with Longinus-senpai?"

"Idiot!" Hubert didn't even look at him, "You're also a small, powerful swordsman, you should know how far away the level of the Swordsman is from us, and he's a monster who is above the Swordsman in his first year, what kind of trouble do you think my challenge will cause the Captain?"

"Ah crap, that seems like oh!" Les accosted.

"This senpai of ours probably expected someone to challenge him even more. After all, not everyone has the insight that I do, and not everyone is as blindly worshipful as you are. A battle will allow me to know the difference between myself and the peak level of the boot camp, while at the same time making other idiots realize reality."

"We're going to be fighting side by side for another three years from now. And the idiocy and all that is just too much to say!" Les frowned.

"You expect someone who can't even recognize himself to stay in this camp for too long? The weak will only be a hindrance to justice!" Hubert said coldly.

"Hey! Strawberry, you know the general strength of Captain Longinus, don't you?" Doberman seemed to get in the mood and asked a frighteningly high-headed monster of the G2 branch.

"Unfortunately, even if we all went together, we wouldn't be able to see the limits of Boss Longinus, and those who haven't fought the boss can't know that kind of desperation."

Dalmatian, who had been silent, spoke up, "In the evaluations given by Zephyr-sensei, only the five of us are A-ranked combatants. But don't forget, those three monsters from the last session could be S-ranked, and Captain Longinus is even more powerful completely above the other two!"

Dalmatian hid some envy that he was just an ordinary Zoan ability user, and if he had gotten Mythical Type in the first place, he might have become a veritable monster.

At this point, several people were silent.

Indeed, the last session was so sparkling that they were somewhat unremarkable in this session.

...

A group of recruits soon began to eat in the Marine mess hall, which didn't make Longinus, who had been one of those sitting in it a year ago, feel any sense of loss.

"What? How is that possible?"

"It's true. I didn't expect this."

As Longinus lamented, he suddenly heard several other adjutants whispering in alarm, as if something had happened that surprised them.

"Rear Admiral Weiss, Commodore William, is something big happening?" Longinus leaned in and asked.

Weiss and the two knew that Longinus would be at least a vice admiral in the future, so naturally, they wouldn't treat him as an ordinary captain. After a slight hesitation, they whispered, "It's Vice Admiral Dragon. He's probably going to have a hard time coming back this time."

"Not only did he kill the king of the government affiliate Atran, but he also ..."

"Vice Admiral Dragon?" Longinus was a bit curious, but he knew that Dragon was a completely different personality from Luffy and Garp, a reasonably stable man. Even if he were unhappy with that King Atran, he wouldn't be able to do such a foolish thing.

"King Atran is fine, but the point is that Vice Admiral Dorag killed even Celestial Dragon, who was a guest of the royal family at the time, and that's big trouble!" Weiss sighed.

"Killing the ... Celestial Dragon?" Longinus also took a deep breath. Dragon was more fierce than his son. Killing a Celestial Dragon and wounding one were completely different concepts.

It's not that the dead Celestial Dragon was so crucial to the Government, but the gesture had to be made, and if the killer of the Celestial Dragon were still able to show up swinging, it would undoubtedly inspire others to get away with it.

If it's okay for someone else to kill a Celestial Dragon, it's not too much for me to hit him, right? It's not too much to stab him, is it? Isn't it too much to cut a piece of dong?

However, Longinus could now understand why even someone like Dragon would do something impulsive. Still, the Celestial Dragon was a man with his aura of mockery that no one could endure, let alone someone like Dragon who aspired to freedom and liberation.

And it was also clear from the time Dragon had talked to him a year ago that he would have wanted to do this kind of thing for a long time.

"This is true, a problem. Does Vice Admiral Garp know about this?"

Hearing Longinus ask this, Rear Admiral Weiss had an odd look on his face, "Vice Admiral Garp was woken up while he was sleeping, and his reaction to hearing about it was surprising 'just a dead piece of trash scum, no big deal, you have nothing else, I'm going back to sleep'. "

Longinus choked, then smiled, "That does fit with Vice-Admiral Garp's usual style, and with Vice Admiral Dragon's strength, he could live anywhere. Even if the Government wanted to capture him back, it wouldn't be an easy task."

As far as Longinus was concerned, if Garp hadn't been so influential and powerful enough in the Marine, he would have been capable of doing such a thing as grabbing him to force Dragon to appear, given the Government's lower limits.

It was especially true after Dragon became the head of the Revolutionary Army.

It is also clear from here that the Marine is right to take orders from the Government, but is by no means a dog of the Government, as some arguments suggest.

If the Marine has no status just because Gorosei doesn't give a face to Akainu, then many pirates don't look to Akainu. Does it mean that the Marine is also the dog of the pirates?

Also, the name of the hero of Garp is not as important as it seems, and the Government that controls public opinion can even erase history, so it's effortless to discredit Garp.

The reason Garp is still getting by and no one has ever dared to make fun of his awkward status is primarily due to his strength and influence in the Marine.

And that power and influence are what Longinus craves.