One Piece: I'm a Hunter on the Grand Line

Is someone in the Navy interested in her?

Yelena was taken aback. Wasn't this normal? After all, she wasn't exactly an unknown person anymore.

It's not surprising that the Navy Headquarters wanted to get all her intelligence.

Wait a minute, something seems off.

Yelena suddenly realized that if it was an order from Naval Headquarters, it was unlikely that Colonel Lind would have told her this message.

The two are probably not that close yet.

"Who's investigating?"

"A former subordinate... well, calling him a subordinate doesn't quite fit. He's in a high position now, and he probably wouldn't have contacted me so easily if he didn't want to get information about you from me."

Colonel Linde did not specify who the man was.

Yelena remained silent, her mind racing.

Who in the navy would be so eager to know her background?

It's highly likely someone who has a grudge against her.

Colonel Varucha's friend?

No, nobody knows that Valucha died at her hands, otherwise she would have been wanted by the navy long ago.

That leaves only one possibility.

That man happened to be from Beihai, so it's not surprising that he became Colonel Linde's subordinate.

Commander of Navy G5 Branch Base - Oni-take Vergo.

Vergo is an undercover agent sent by Doflamingo into the Navy. A little over a month ago, Yelena offended the Donquixote Family, and they may have contacted Vergo to probe her information through the Navy system.

Thinking about this, Yelena looked speechless. Was it really necessary to make such a fuss over an ordinary Paramecia-type Devil Fruit?

They even used undercover agents.

"So how did you reply?"

Colonel Linde slowly exhaled a smoke ring, leaning back comfortably on the sofa. "Svalo Island has multiple ports and docks, with so many people coming and going every day. How could I possibly know who the Black Robe Hunter is?"

"I told him that I would investigate carefully and notify him immediately if I had any news."

Yelena's eyes flashed with surprise; she hadn't expected him to keep her secret.

Colonel Lind glanced over. "What kind of look is that? Do I look like the kind of bastard who would betray his savior?"

Savior?

Yelena remembered, "You mean those two times we teamed up to fight pirates? Please don't say that, I was only doing it for the bounty."

She received considerable benefits on those two occasions, and her intentions were not primarily to save the navy; she felt embarrassed to accept the debt of gratitude from her savior.

"No matter what, without your help, I'm afraid I wouldn't be sitting here smoking right now, and I don't know how many of the navy members in the branch would have survived."

"Revealing information about my savior is against my sense of justice, so please rest assured, I will keep your secret."

"Can I ask who's investigating?" Yelena wanted to confirm, but she still felt that using an undercover agent for a Devil Fruit wasn't worth it.

It seems rather strange that a vice admiral in the New World would pay attention to a bounty hunter in the North Sea.

"No, betraying my colleagues' information is against my principles."

Yelena waved her hand to brush away the smoke that kept drifting towards her, a hint of dissatisfaction in her expression. Is it your sense of justice to make your savior inhale secondhand smoke?

"What if it's an order from the Naval Headquarters? For example, an order from Fleet Admiral Sengoku."

Colonel Linde paused for a moment, then slowly straightened his back, fixing his gaze firmly on Yelena's eyes, his tone becoming extremely serious:

"As long as you don't oppose justice, I will never betray you!"

"..."

A hint of genuine admiration flashed in Yelena's eyes. She exclaimed, "Uncle, it's a waste of your talents for you to stay in the North Sea. The Navy Headquarters should promote you to general."

Colonel Linde slumped back in his chair. "Stop mocking me. With my abilities, I wouldn't even be a captain at headquarters."

The highest-ranking soldier among his cohort has already become an admiral. Some of his former subordinates have even risen to the position of base commander in the Grand Line; what about him?

Sigh, let's not talk about it.

"Speaking of which, are you really not planning to join the Navy? Marineford is recruiting new soldiers, it should still be possible to go there now." Colonel Linde tried again to persuade Yelena to embrace justice.

"I refuse."

"Sigh, what a pity. With your current strength, you could very well become the strongest recruit in this batch."

Speaking of strength, Colonel Linde suddenly realized something and quickly leaned forward to close the distance with Yelena.

"Speaking of which, your skills have improved so quickly! Do you have any secrets?"

The person in front of me went from joining forces with him to kill a pirate with a bounty of 18 million Berries to single-handedly defeating the White Bear Pirates in less than two years.

That's way too exaggerated.

It's worth noting that the total bounty of the White Bear Pirates exceeds 200 million Berries!

How did you get promoted?

Yelena answered in her mind: Of course it's cheating.

She doesn't possess extraordinary talents like Luffy or Big Mom.

"Ahem, it's nothing, I just work harder than the average bounty hunter."

That's not entirely untrue; she didn't forget her daily training even when she was injured.

However, these training methods only result in a very slow improvement in skill.

"I see, I understand now."

Admiration flashed in Colonel Linde's eyes. There are indeed no shortcuts in the world. If you want great strength, the only way is through hard work!

It seems that his training intensity was too low when he was young, and he was lazy, which is why his strength is so weak now.

No, we can't let the navy in the branch follow in my footsteps!

Starting tomorrow, we must increase the amount of training!

Train until you drop dead!

He was determined to fully tap into the potential of all his subordinates and train them into outstanding naval officers!

Yelena didn't rush to leave Swallo Island. After leaving her luggage at the naval branch, she returned alone to her birth town.

She didn't know when she would return. She bought several bouquets of flowers, went to her parents' graves, and cleaned their tombstones.

In the following days, she planned to train with the sullen sailors and experience the feeling of intensive training that she hadn't felt in a long time.

But Eve used the excuse that it would be difficult to meet again in the future to drag her around the city, making up for the invitation she had refused earlier.

That afternoon, the two had just come out of a specialty shop near the dock and were about to return to the naval branch when Yelena's nose suddenly twitched.

Sniff.

She smelled a faint perfume scent, a completely unfamiliar fragrance, unlike anything from Beihai; at least, she had never smelled it before.

Not long after they caught a whiff of the scent, a roaring sound came from the air, like a fan spinning at high speed. The sound grew louder and louder, and even Eve, who was standing nearby, noticed something was wrong.

"What is that?!"

The two looked up and saw a brownish-yellow object that looked humanoid.

The other party quickly entered the airspace above Svalo Island and flew towards the dock.

As the object drew closer to the dock, Yelena gradually came to see what it looked like.

Her eyelids twitched instantly.

Flying in the sky was a burly, obese man with relatively short and thick limbs, who looked like a barrel.

His propeller-like hair and beard were spinning rapidly.

What's most striking are his two rows of front teeth, which are tattooed with black circular smiley face logos.

Yelena recognized the newcomer as Buffalo, a member of the Don Quixote Family's Spade Army.

But what gave her a headache wasn't this seemingly funny guy, but the three people on his back.

Doflamingo really went all out to deal with a rookie bounty hunter!