"What?! What the hell is Fleet Admiral Kong doing? And the World Government?!"
Inside the Fleet Admiral's office in The Black Order.
Makima sat in the main seat, looking at the documents in her hand, while Sengoku stood before her, feeling incredulous and angry.
At this moment, he was venting his anger at Makima about the Marines' dissatisfaction with the Zephyr incident. "If we can't even protect an Admiral's family, where is the security for being a Marine?!"
"Pirates are just like that, they have no bottom line. No matter how well you protect, there will always be oversights."
Makima was still looking at the documents in her hand, seemingly not taking the matter to heart. She simply said calmly, "You were a Marine Admiral before, you should know the Marines' deployments, and you should understand Zephyr's personality."
"I'll be blunt, with a personality like Zephyr, suffering losses is only a matter of time."
Zephyr is known as the non-killing Admiral. Even when facing vicious pirates, he does not kill. If you want to be captured by an Admiral, then actively seek out Zephyr. At least he definitely won't kill you.
It's a miracle that someone like this can survive in the pirate world, thanks to his strength.
"This…"
Sengoku was speechless. As Makima said, he knew Zephyr too well.
"I only hope that he won't waver in his beliefs because of this. You know, although this belief is stupid, if he immediately discards his past self because of his own pain, that's also a joke, right?"
"A joke?" Sengoku frowned.
Makima put down the documents and smiled faintly. "That would only make me think that the reason he was able to uphold 'non-killing' in the past wasn't because he had such a noble belief, but purely because he hadn't suffered any pain himself."
"He can pat the shoulders of survivors whose families and friends have been slaughtered by pirates and lightly say that everyone's life is precious, so he won't kill that pirate, even if he has done countless outrageous things, even if he has killed countless people in a frenzy. So why can't he explain it to himself like that after he has encountered such a thing?"
"That's right, life is precious, it is the most precious thing given by God, and no one is allowed to take it away arbitrarily."
"But the reason why people are different from animals is because people know how to look at life. Only by cherishing other people's lives can they have the right to survive. Blindly not killing, blindly cherishing the lives of others regardless of good or evil, then it is destined to allow evil people to take away the lives of others again, and this plunder of life will sooner or later return to oneself."
"…" Sengoku didn't know what to say for a moment. He didn't expect Makima to say these things to him.
The anger in his heart gradually turned into regret, and finally he sighed, "Zephyr's usual behavior is indeed problematic, but I thought that he is now an Admiral, and his family should be properly protected."
"Entrusting the lives of those you value to the protection of others, and allowing evil people who have grudges against you to roam freely, will those people who Zephyr doesn't kill feel grateful for Zephyr's non-killing once they escape judgment, once they successfully break out of prison?"
Makima continued softly, "No, they will only become more resentful, transferring the pain they suffered in prison to Zephyr. Being targeted by these people, it is inevitable that there will be problems with his family."
Sengoku now understood this principle, and he finally stood up and sighed, "No matter what, we are old friends for many years, I want to go to the Marine headquarters."
"Of course." Makima picked up the documents again and continued reading, saying, "Remember to say hello to Kong for me."
Sengoku nodded and then gradually retreated.
Sitting in the Fleet Admiral's office, Makima was thinking, she was thinking about whether Zephyr had any place where he could be used.
But for now…
The pain Zephyr has suffered is not enough.
According to the normal trajectory, Zephyr's family was killed, his students were also killed, and the pirate who killed his students even became a Warlord of the Sea before he finally couldn't bear to erupt, and even conceived the idea of destroying the New World.
Only then did he finally have a mental breakdown.
A former non-killing Admiral, a person who doesn't even kill pirates who have done many evil things, eventually wants to sacrifice countless civilians in the New World in order to kill pirates. Thinking about it carefully, it's really ironic.
It can be said that he went from one extreme to another.
But…
Genichi doesn't hate such people.
Because it is precisely these extreme people who can provide benefits to Genichi. The previous non-killing Admiral was useless to Genichi, but Zephyr after 'corruption' often has various extreme emotions, and this is when he is most useful.
Should I add fuel to the fire now?
Makima smiled. In fact, the things she said to Sengoku before were essentially meant to be said to Zephyr.
For so long, she has completed a general control over Sengoku, so she subconsciously hinted to Sengoku before that he would relay Makima's words to Zephyr.
Sengoku would only think that he wanted to advise this old friend, and would not notice anything unusual.
Makima's words are equivalent to burying a wedge in advance, adding a little fire, so that Vice Admiral's hatred in the process of transformation is not only aimed at pirates, but also at himself.
Only a person who hates himself can be better taken advantage of.
Makima continued to look at the documents in her hand and turned to the next page.
What was recorded on this page was not an order from the World Government, nor was it a task she was going to issue, but a very simple letter.
A letter…
A letter from Rayleigh.
Makima smiled slightly. She had previously signed a contract with Rayleigh, and Rayleigh was considered her subordinate.
And now Rayleigh hadn't even started working for her, and he was already asking for some rewards.
This reward…
Of course, it was about the curse on Roger!
Since talking with Toguro before, basically everyone in the Roger Pirates has been worried about this matter, except for Roger himself, who seems to not care at all.
Roger didn't care, but as his old partner, Rayleigh couldn't be as careless as him.
So he seized an opportunity and secretly sent a letter to The Black Order.
Toguro said that if there is anyone in this world who can do anything about Roger's curse, then it is only Makima.
So Rayleigh had to do this, even though he knew that Makima was also exceptionally dangerous, even…
It is possible that the curse on Roger was released by Makima!
But he had to do this, because he had no other way!
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