One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Rorschach squeezed next to Jonathan with a grin, enthusiastically picked up the teapot on the table, and filled his cup with tea.

He coughed twice towards Bogart.

This taciturn naval swordsman, though usually calm and collected, was now intimidated by Jonathan's boastful tone.

One hundred billion pegories.

The Navy Headquarters' annual military budget is only around several hundred billion peggs.

This seemingly ordinary old man is actually quite wealthy.

Of course, with his swordsman's intuition, Bogart could still sense the old man's prowess.

"Brigadier General Bogart, don't just stand there, quickly contact Marshal Sengoku and tell him this good news."

"But it seems a little too late now..."

Bogart hesitated for a moment before pulling a Den Den Mushi from his pocket.

"With so much money, he'd get up and answer the phone at 4 a.m., let alone 2 a.m. Give me the Den Den Mushi, I'll make the call!"

Rorschach took the Den Den Mushi from Bogart and quickly dialed Sengoku's private number.

The skill with which he moved made Bogart's lips twitch.

"Puff puff..."

The Den Den Mushi rang more than a dozen times before being answered by an old man with dark circles under his eyes and an afro.

Before Luo Xia could even speak, Sengoku's twisted and twitching old face was about to unleash a furious spittle on Luo Xia's head.

But the next second, the old man's face, which had been twisted in the Warring States period, wrinkled into a bright chrysanthemum, and his mouth almost stretched to his ears.

"What did you say? That old...hero Jonathan is going to sponsor the Navy Headquarters' 100 billion Berry military budget? Really? Am I dreaming? Wait a minute."

Then, Rorschach heard a dull thud, followed by Sengoku's gasp of pain.

A dozen seconds later, Sengoku, with a forced smile on his face, returned to the Den Den Mushi and began to frantically flatter Jonathan with the most obsequious language.

The tone was so nauseating that even Rorschach couldn't bear to listen to it.

He immediately began to reprimand the Warring States.

"Hey, old man Sengoku, is it really that big of a deal? It's just a hundred billion Berries."

Jonathan leaned back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and leisurely sipped his tea, casually saying, "I heard you want to build a large ship entirely from Adam Tree materials? It seems that because you don't have enough money, you can only dismantle the old warship and piece it together with the new ship. A ship built with two different materials doesn't seem very reliable in terms of stability and sturdiness."

"Is it really necessary to act like you've never seen anything like this before...?"

Rorschach's voice gradually faded.

“I can fund you 10 billion Berries so you can buy enough Adam Wood to build a treasure ship entirely made from the Adam Tree, just like the Margaret and the Oro Jackson.”

Jonathan spoke very casually.

"Godfather... no, Mr. Jonathan, are your shoulders sore? Let me massage them for you."

A bright smile immediately appeared on Rorschach's face. He got up, walked behind the sofa, and began to massage Jonathan's shoulders.

"How's that? Is the pressure just right? Should I use a little more force?"

"Hmm, a little to the left, yes, that muscle is a bit sore. As people get older, their bodies are prone to problems. No matter how much money you have, you can't buy health. Look at me, even if I had trillions of dollars in assets, I couldn't avoid getting old. Sigh, life..."

Jonathan sighed.

Sengoku: "..."

Rorschach: "..."

Bogart: "..."

After Bogart left with the Den Den Mushi, only Rorschach and Jonathan remained in the large hall.

Jonathan squinted his cloudy, old eyes, staring intently at Rorschach until the man felt uneasy, before finally letting out a snort, somewhat annoyed:

"Young man, are you really not going to reconsider becoming my granddaughter's husband?"

You've seen the wealth in the treasury; with so much money, you could buy several small countries and become king yourself.

Isn't this better than being a brigadier general, no, a major general?

That's right, Rorschach got promoted again.

After helping Queen City of Spring win the great battle and providing the Marine Headquarters with a military aid of hundreds of billions of Berries, Sengoku generously promised on the spot that once Rorschach returned to Marineford after completing his graduation exams, he would promote him to the rank of Rear Admiral.

This meant that the brigadier general's uniform that Garp had just brought for him was one rank lower than his actual military rank.

Once a Rear Admiral is appointed, their status in the Navy is completely different from that of Commodore and officers below the rank of Commodore.

Rear Admirals and above are the true elites of the Navy Headquarters.

Above that are the high-ranking naval officers: Vice Admiral, Admiral, and Marshal!

The rank of general candidate is not a military rank; it is the same as that of lieutenant general in the same unit.

Less than a month has passed since Rorschach left Marineford, and his rank has already risen from colonel to major general.

It has been a little over two years since he officially joined the Navy.

It upgrades faster than Kobi.

As Jonathan expected, Rorschach flatly shook his head and refused.

This greatly disappointed Jonathan.

However, remembering Rorschach's earlier suggestion to him to go to the East Blue to see if there were any promising talents who could inherit his mantle and the great responsibility of becoming the King of Hunters.

Jonathan pondered for a long time before making up his mind.

"It would be good to go to the East Blue for a visit. Garp's hometown is there, right? Let's go there and see if that Roronoa guy is any good prospect. Hmm? Oh right, if all else fails, didn't that rascal Garp say he has two outstanding grandsons? How about that?"

Jonathan's eyes suddenly lit up, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

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the next day.

The port of Queen City in Springtime was deserted; the two sea trains and three warships that were docked had long since disappeared from the sight of the people in the port.

Rorschach, Garp, and the others all left.

Many bounty hunters and civilians stood on the harbor, gazing at the sea, motionless for a long time.

Sera's resentful gaze held a hint of melancholy.

She finally fell in love, but that naval girl named Hibari made her lose so completely.

Jonathan felt a pang of sympathy as he looked at his dejected granddaughter.

“Sera.” He stepped forward, smiling as he patted his granddaughter’s shoulder. “Grandpa is planning a trip to the East Sea and needs a good ship. Could you go to Water Seven and order one for me?”

"Really?" Sera's eyes lit up instantly, and a look of joy appeared on her face.

She knew that Rorschach and the others would be staying in Water Seven for a while, waiting for their ship to be built.

"Of course it's true."

Seeing the somewhat excited Sera, Jonathan's old face immediately broke into a smile.

Behind him, Andrei stood silently.

Suddenly, he spoke in a deep voice: "President, should we... also build a Qilin statue in the port? The shipwrights from Carrera Company said it can ward off evil spirits and calm the sea."

"A Qilin?"

Jonathan paused for a moment, then a smile crept onto his face.

"Great! If we're going to build one, let's build the biggest Qilin statue in the park! Let it become a landmark of our Holy Poplar Kingdom!"

"I have plenty of money!"

Chapter 279 Influence

Over the next few days, Rorschach used the 10 billion Berries he received from Jonathan to commission the Franky family to buy up large quantities of Adam Tree timber throughout the park.

Since money is not a problem, there is indeed no need to dismantle the warships and use the materials to fill the new ships.

Not only do they not need the materials from the warship, but Iceberg and Franky also plan to replace Rorschach's new ship with a more powerful steam engine.

They had extensive experience in building steam-powered sea trains and a very high level of understanding of steam power.

So, during the days while waiting for the warship to be completed, Rorschach, besides leading his soldiers in their daily hellish electric body-forging training, spent his time wandering around Water Seven and the surrounding island cities, fighting small-time pirates and training his troops.

Life was more leisurely than ever before.

What he didn't know was how much of a sensation the great battle that took place in the Queen's City in Spring had caused in the world after a few days of fermentation.

And the name Luo Xia officially came into the view of most of the top powers.

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New World, G1 Naval Branch.

In the open space in front of the majestic and towering fortress, rows of fierce and awe-inspiring naval soldiers trained hard, their backs drenched in sweat, on the spacious training ground.

Under the parasols on the naval port, three tall, slender men sat on a row of deck chairs, their gazes either indifferent, bored, or asleep with their eyes closed.

On the training ground in the distance, a short, sleazy-looking middle-aged man with a blade of grass in his mouth was grinning as he instructed the naval soldiers on training methods.

A shirtless man covered in burn scars is expressionlessly carrying a wrecked warship on his back, doing squats again and again.

A blood-red longsword was stuck in the ground not far in front of him.

"Hurry up! Shiryu! You've only squatted 632 times. You still need 2368 more before you can eat. If you don't finish your training today, you'll be soaking in lava! Admiral Sakazuki said that if you lose to a swordsman other than Hawkeye again, he'll confiscate your weapon. With this kind of strength, you think you can kill Hawkeye and become the world's greatest swordsman? Are you trying to make us laugh?"

Vice Admiral Kake, codenamed "Tea Pig," constantly taunted the man who was squatting with the warship on his back.

This man, covered in burns, was none other than Shiryu of the Rain, the former warden of Impel Down, who had been recruited by Akainu from Impel Down to serve as his adjutant.

Kaji still remembers how arrogant Shiryu was when he first came to G1, with his nose in the air.