Chapter 9: Chapter 9: The Great Wronged Smoker
Marinford.
Dylan, who completed his commissioning under Aokiji's leadership, finally had a cloak and an independent office.
Bellmère's file was also retrieved from the Navy Department, and with Aokiji's help, he completed the re-enlistment procedures very smoothly.
And was awarded the rank of major.
"What is this!? Can this be considered 'justice of the navy'? Asshole, how is this different from pirates!?"
A roar was heard in the huge corridor, and Aokiji rubbed his forehead in distress.
"Oh my, it's really…"
BANG!!
There was a sound of a door slamming, and a man with short white hair and a cigar in his mouth, like a gangster, walked out of the office angrily.
"Smoker, are you quarreling with the people in the inspection department again? Don't you want to think about why you are still a major?"
Because he is too weak.
Dylan looked at the guy in front of him who was walking towards them with a heartless step - the number one enemy of One Piece - the shame of the Nature-type Fruit - Smoker.
"Things like military rank..." Smoker exhaled a large puff of smoke nonchalantly.
Walking up to the two, Smoker looked at Dylan, who had changed into a major general's cape, and said, "Are you the guy Kuzan has been thinking about? You look very thin."
"Ah, this guy…"
Aokiji looked at Smoker with a headache, then said to Dylan, "He's my friend, be gentle."
"Asshole Kuzan! Who are you looking down on?"
Smoker was furious. Although he was currently only a major, as a natural ability user, he had made great contributions. However, because he was too willful and reckless, he was stuck at the rank of major for several years.
After all, the "Mad Dog Navy" is not called that for nothing.
But Dylan didn't give Smoker time to react. Before Smoker could finish his words, a dark arm grabbed his collar.
"Bai… huh!?"
"Abilities are not omnipotent." Dylan grabbed Smoker and pressed him against the wall.
The powerful armament domineering completely suppressed Smoker's elementalization.
"You bastard..." Smoker pulled out his seastone ten hands.
Kuzan told him that this guy was also a natural ability user.
Although Haki can catch him, as long as the seastone touches him, his ability will be instantly imprisoned.
Ten hands whizzed down towards Dylan, and Aokiji next to him narrowed his eyes slightly.
Is it seastone? How to solve it?
Dylan held down Smoker with his left hand and tightened his right hand, instantly covering him with the pitch-black armament color.
"Seastone...is not omnipotent either!"
The pitch-black right hand fearlessly reached out to the ten hands inlaid with seastone.
"What...what!" Seeing Dylan grabbing the top of his ten hands, Smoker's anger disappeared, leaving only a look of astonishment on his face.
He had tried to touch himself with seastone, which basically made him lose strength instantly and restricted his abilities.
Crack! There was a cracking sound coming from the top of the ten hands.
Smoker's astonishment turned into horror, and Aokiji's eyes next to him narrowed slightly.
"Hey, is this true?"
Bang!
Dylan twisted the palm of his hand that was holding the Ten Hand, and the part inlaid with seastone was broken off by him.
Then Smoker and Aokiji saw Dylan's palms clenched, and tiny pieces of metal powder fell from his palms.
"Seastone is really hard." Dylan put down the completely dazed Smoker, studied the small seastone in his hand, and threw it to Smoker: "Give it back to you, go and forge a new weapon."
"A newcomer? What an amazing skill."
"Hahahaha, if Kuzan wasn't calling for conscription all the time, I would have wanted to keep him in the East China Sea. That way I would have less worries."
At one end of the corridor, Sengoku, Garp, Akainu, and Kizaru walked towards the three people side by side.
"You are very powerful. Have you ever considered joining my team? I know your past. Your style is very similar to mine. You should not be under the command of a lazy guy like Kuzan."
Akainu looked at Dylan.
He really admired Dylan's attitude towards pirates, and this guy Kuzan... Humph!
"Ah, Sakaski, are you going to rob people openly like this?"
"Hahahaha," Cap laughed as he stuffed a donut into his mouth, "Forget it, Sakaski, this guy is different from you."
Sengoku glanced at Garp in confusion.
This guy has basically not been in the headquarters in recent years and rarely asks about the headquarters' affairs. Why did he directly reject the opinion of Sakaski, the general, this time?
"Hmph!" After hearing what Garp said, Akainu did not argue. He snorted coldly and walked through the crowd and left first.
"Oh~ The young people nowadays are so powerful~"
Kizaru looked at Dylan with a crooked mouth but didn't say much. After saying hello to Kuzan, he left.
As for the great enemy Smoker?
He was just a major, so Akainu and Kizaru ignored him.
It's not that they don't know him, but Smoker doesn't have a good reputation within the navy. Besides, his rank and strength are not enough to be taken seriously by the two admirals.
This severely hurt the self-esteem of the Navy Mad Dog.
"Am I really that weak…?"
A light flashed under Sengoku's lenses. Although Smoker's strength was not good, as a user of the nature-type fruit ability, he still had potential.
Can't let him give up on himself easily.
"Smoker! You are also Zephyr's student. You should know that there are many ways to fight. In this sea, there is almost no one who can develop Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Haki, and Fruit to the extreme at the same time."
"So you have to choose what you are best at…"
"Hahahaha… There are still some. Aren't Newgate and Lingling like that?"
Garp interrupted Sengoku with a laugh, then turned to look at Smoker: "But what Sengoku said is also right. If you want to become strong, you need to know yourself first and find your own path. After all, there are only a handful of monsters with outstanding abilities in the sea from ancient times to the present."
Cap glanced at the "Shura" that Dylan had slung around his waist, and thought silently, "Maybe now there's going to be one more."
After listening to Garp and Sengoku, Smoker fell silent. Although the natural fruit was powerful, his development level was indeed very poor. In terms of physical skills, because of the ability of the fruit, he had hardly practiced the six styles of the navy, and his swordsmanship was zero. As for Haki...
Up to now, he has not even mastered the armament color coverage, and still relies on the seastone embedded on the top of the ten hands to fight against the ability users.
"I understand, Mr. Cap, Marshal. I will think carefully about my path."
Facing Garp and Sengoku, even someone as arrogant as Smoker humbly lowered his head and accepted their opinions.
Zhan Guo turned and stared at Dylan: "What about you?"
"I?"
Dylan didn't quite understand what Zhan Guo meant.
"To be honest, after you accepted Aokiji's call to come to the headquarters and obtained the Thunder Fruit, the headquarters conducted two rounds of investigations on you."
"It has been confirmed that you were born into a merchant family in the West Sea. Later, your merchant ship was attacked by pirates and you drifted to the East Sea. You have done very well in the East Sea over the years and maintained Garp's style. The East Sea still retains the title of 'the weakest sea'."
Dylan smiled but didn't respond.
Donghai is not as weak as imagined. During his more than ten years of cleansing, he has encountered many guys with potential.
Moreover, he could not guarantee that he could completely clean up the East China Sea. After all, the sea area was so large that it was difficult to be comprehensive just by relying on the branch's warships. Something like Creek was about to become king.
"You are strong enough. Although you are currently under Kuzan, you can choose to become a major general directly under the headquarters, or we can make an exception and send you to become the branch base chief."
"The Grand Line's base is not the Four Seas."
"Ah! Sengoku-san, this isn't very fair to me."
"Kuzan, I know you have doubts in your heart. You still doubt the navy and the government's actions, but for the peace of the majority of people, sometimes I do need to make some sacrifices."
Aokiji scratched his head and looked at Garp.
"Let's put it this way. I am willing to accept the position of base commander, but I need to choose the position myself, and I will still be under Kuzan's command. I will go on missions on his behalf, but..." Dylan looked at the increasingly serious expression of Zhan Guo and continued:
"I need you to agree with the promise Aokiji made to me, that is, I still need enough autonomy."
"What do you mean by autonomy?" Zhan Guo frowned slightly.
He had also heard about this young man's style. His attitude towards pirates was almost the same as Sakaski's. If this guy was placed in the New World...
No, even in the first half of the Grand Line, this guy would definitely cause a stir among the pirates and even start a war.
"It's just what you think, Mr. Sengoku." Dylan chuckled.
"But you don't have to worry too much. I'm not crazy. Even if I want to start a war, I will wait for a good time."
"The timing..." Zhan Guo looked at Dylan and smiled meaningfully: "So, where is the place you chose?"
"G5!"