Pirate: I was just slacking off, do you really think I'm bad?

Late at night in the Beihai office, two figures were still busy at their desks.

"Raleigh, bro, you're really not up to it anymore. Why don't you keep going, and I'll come over tomorrow morning."

Borsalino said weakly.

He often slacked off, and his adjutant would organize these things and then report the results to him.

Basically, the piles and bundles of documents were sorted out by the adjutant.

He only needs to give a report in ten minutes or so to get what he wants.

Borsalino is finding it hard to keep going by having to read everything word by word on his own.

"Brother, I don't want to make things difficult for you, but this is something that concerns our own interests. I'm a little uneasy about leaving it to the people below to handle."

Raleigh yawned as he flipped through the documents in his hand.

He was also used to slacking off.

However, this time the situation is different. Only those at the level of deputy admiral or above have the right to view these confidential documents stored in Beihai.

Neither Borsalino's lieutenant nor Raleigh's lieutenant, Cleveland, were able to get involved.

All the documents could only be read word by word by Raleigh and Borsalino.

"Sometimes I really don't understand what you're thinking. These things have nothing to do with you, and you're used to slacking off, so why have you suddenly become so motivated?"

Borsalino couldn't understand his little brother at all.

Because from the time he first met him until the last few years, he had almost never seen Raleigh so concerned about anything.

Raleigh poked his head out from a pile of documents and said with a serious expression:

"I usually slack off because I'm confident I can control the situation and handle any kind of enemy."

"But this time we're facing the World Government. Neither your strength nor mine can harm them. If we can't handle this properly, we might lose our status as the Navy."

Raleigh certainly didn't want to lose his navy uniform, and Borsalino felt the same way.

After years of hard work and struggle, the two of them finally rose to the position of mid-level naval admiral.

Asking them to give up their identities now is worse than just killing them.

No other identity on the entire ocean can compare to that of the navy.

High pay, low risk, and you can enjoy slacking off.

All you need to do is learn to build good relationships with your superiors, get a wanted poster like Garp, and go to the Grand Line to capture pirates. That's practically a perfect job for slackers.

"Look at this record, I feel there's something wrong with it."

Raleigh pulled out a file from the densely packed documents in front of him.

He lightly pinched one corner of the document with his right hand and tossed it onto the table in front of Borsalino.

Borsalino opened the old document, which was about 50 years old.

The record above is of an event that happened in Beihai back then.

Because it involves the Celestial Dragons, the level of secrecy is quite high.

A naval admiral, while serving in the North Blue, rescued a slave belonging to the Celestial Dragons.

The reason for this is that the previous admiral of the Navy took strict measures against pirates during his tenure, which severely cracked down on pirate groups that trafficked people.

The human auction houses in the Sabaody Archipelago rarely sent slaves due to naval intervention.

For this reason, the Celestial Dragon nobles living in the Holy Land of Jorgmare often choose to select their favorite slaves from all over the world.

The young general at the time, unable to tolerate this situation, intervened against the guards protecting the Celestial Dragon nobles and rescued the slave.

Afterwards, the Celestial Dragons were furious and used forceful methods to remove the naval commander from his post.

After Borsalino finished reading the document, Raleigh pulled out several more documents from some corner.

Pointing to the top, he said:

"Following this incident, there were several more instances of Celestial Dragon nobles expressing dissatisfaction with naval commanders in various regions."

The World Government then convened a meeting and replaced the still-serving Fleet Admiral with a moderate.

From that time onward, this moderate naval admiral took office, and the power of pirates around the world began to grow stronger day by day.

Even towards the end of this moderate admiral's term, a pirate force gave rise to a pirate named Rocks.

The growing power of pirates has forced the World Government to reconsider its attitude toward the Navy, and they are looking for hardliners among the admirals.

Thus, the man known as "Steel Bones" from the previous admirals became the current Fleet Admiral.

Raleigh shared his analysis with Borsalino.

Borsalino opened his thermos, took a large gulp of hot goji berry water, and then said:

"None of us can guess what the World Government is thinking, but based on your analysis, after the Air Marshal's term ends, the next Marshal should be a moderate general."

Borsalino was a little confused. In his mind, Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr were not moderates.

If we're really going to talk about it, he thinks the moderate might be Garp, after all, Garp has been chasing Roger for so many years and has repeatedly helped Roger escape safely.

Raleigh didn't say, because since he had traveled through time, he couldn't be sure if it would affect the later plot.

He is a very cautious person; unless it is a certainty, he will not say anything even if he knows it.

It's really strange, most people in the Navy thought Zephyr was a moderate.

Because Zephyr is known as the Admiral who doesn't kill, and his behavior in the Navy is that of a moderate.

However, sometimes the World Government doesn't choose someone based on their achievements or their personality towards pirates.

Because a Sengoku period figure, ruthless and merciless towards both pirates and criminals, would be the moderate.

Even if Raleigh said it, many people would not believe it, because in their minds, it was impossible for a moderate to awaken Conqueror's Haki.

It can be said that the Conqueror's Haki that Sengoku possessed was the strongest evidence to dispel the notion that he was a moderate.

Only Raleigh knew that this ruthless hawkish leader would listen to the World Government so readily.

Furthermore, Raleigh didn't believe that the Sengoku Association, later known as the strategist, couldn't see through the World Government's intentions.

After the Rocks Pirates were defeated by Garp and Roger, Sengoku, contrary to his usual behavior, did not strongly suggest that he lead his soldiers to the New World.

In fact, that was the best time for the navy to attack the New World.

A dominant figure has died, and the captains on his ship have not yet come of age.

The New World has such a large territory that it can serve as a naval outpost, so building more branches along the Grand Line is definitely achievable.

But then something strange happened.