Marine Headquarters.
Training Ground No. 1.
A large crowd of Marines had gathered there.
At that moment, every one of them stood frozen in place.
"What the hell…"
"What happened here? How did an entire training ground get destroyed like this?"
"Are we sure this is Training Ground No. 1? Not some abandoned ruin?"
They were stunned.
In their memories, Training Ground No. 1 was one of the largest and most important facilities in Marine Headquarters, a place used specifically to train elite Marines.
Yet now…
the entire place had been reduced to rubble.
"Good grief…"
"You're telling me this was caused by a fight between two people?"
"What kind of monsters can cause destruction like this?"
The Marines stared blankly at the devastated field.
Everywhere they looked, there were only ruins.
The earth had cracked open.
The ground had collapsed.
Across the entire area, there was not a single intact patch left.
Gulp.
Many Marines swallowed hard.
"I'm starting to believe it now."
"Kai really might be a monster."
"If this was caused by his fight with Admiral Zephyr, then his strength must be terrifying."
"Otherwise, Admiral Zephyr would have ended the fight instantly. There's no way the field would have been damaged this badly."
"That means…"
"Their battle must have been incredibly intense."
The crowd fell into shock.
A Marine's lips trembled as he blurted out, "So… five-year-old Kai really fought Admiral Zephyr almost evenly?"
"At the very least, he must have been able to clash with Admiral Zephyr for a short time."
"Otherwise, there's no way the battlefield would look like this."
The entire crowd erupted.
"My God…"
"A five-year-old kid fought Admiral Zephyr to this extent?"
After seeing the ruins with their own eyes, no one could deny Kai's power anymore.
Hearing rumors was one thing.
Seeing the aftermath was another.
If Kai had been crushed instantly, this kind of destruction would never have appeared.
Clearly, the battle had been fierce.
Within a thousand-meter radius, the entire field had been scarred beyond recognition.
That alone proved everything.
"I heard it from some of the trainees."
"Kai fought Admiral Zephyr for a full half hour without falling behind."
"That means…"
"Kai temporarily possesses enough power to clash with an Admiral!"
"At the very least, he's definitely Vice Admiral level."
"No, not just an ordinary Vice Admiral. He's already among the stronger ones."
Now it was confirmed.
That day, Marine Headquarters experienced a rare and massive shock.
Countless Marines who had spent years striving toward the rank of Vice Admiral felt their mentality collapse.
"This kid is seriously five?!"
"A five-year-old with Vice Admiral-level combat power?"
"What are the rest of us supposed to do?!"
"We've been training for more than ten years and still haven't reached that level. He only trained for one year and already got there?"
"Compared to him, we look like useless trash!"
Many Marines lost their composure.
Kai's achievement was simply too outrageous.
It shattered their understanding of common sense.
Among them were strong Marine officers like Onigumo, Strawberry, Doberman, and Momonga. They were all still working hard toward the goal of becoming Vice Admirals.
But before they could even reach that level…
a five-year-old kid had gotten there first.
For a moment, they began questioning their lives.
"We worked hard for more than ten years…"
"We finally barely saw the threshold of Vice Admiral-level strength…"
"And now a kid surpassed us in a single year?"
Even the usually good-natured Strawberry was stunned speechless.
"So this is what a genius looks like…"
Doberman, Momonga, and the others fell silent.
"So…"
"The position we've chased for decades…"
"was reached effortlessly by a five-year-old?"
"So this is the gap?"
"Before this, I never understood what it meant for someone to be called the strongest genius in Marine history."
"Now I finally understand."
"That kid is simply a monster."
At the same time, another piece of news spread.
Admiral Zephyr had personally declared in public:
Kai possessed the strongest combat power of any trainee in history.
He was the strongest trainee Marine Headquarters had ever produced.
Even the former trainees Akainu, Kizaru, and Aokiji, those three natural-born monsters, could not compare to five-year-old Kai at the same stage.
The moment this news spread, the already shaken atmosphere exploded again.
"Even Akainu, Aokiji, and Kizaru back then couldn't compare to Kai?"
"That's terrifying!"
"And don't forget, when those three took their graduation trials, they were already close to twenty."
"In other words…"
"The strength they had near twenty years old can't compare to Kai at five?"
"My God…"
Countless Marines were stunned.
That day, Kai's name once again resounded throughout Marine Headquarters.
Every Marine in Marineford came to know it.
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