Vice Admiral Tsuru was a very kind person.
Knowing that Lucas had nowhere to go, she let him stay at her home.
Lucas spent that entire month at Vice Admiral Tsuru’s house.
During that month, Lucas was either training or on his way to train.
However, his gains over this month were enormous.
While his other abilities didn’t grow, his physical strength had gone from ☆ to ★, and a second ☆ had also appeared.
[Name: Saris Lucas (Logia Forest-Forest Fruit)]
[Age: 15]
[Height: 170]
[Physical Strength: ★ ☆]
[Swordsmanship: ☆]
[Devil Fruit Ability: ☆]
[Haki: None]
[Skill: Gale Swordsmanship (Beginner)]
[Combat Power: F]
In the world of One Piece, physical strength is the foundation of everything.
Fighting requires physical strength, swordsmanship requires physical strength, Devil Fruit abilities require physical strength, and Haki requires even more physical strength.
Especially for Armament Haki, only extreme physical strength can give birth to it.
…
A month later, the enrollment period arrived, and Gion took Lucas to the registration office.
As soon as they stepped out, they encountered a man wearing yellow striped clothes, with bowlegs, looking a bit like a toad, holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand.
“Hey, hey, Gion, please go out with me!”
Seeing the person, Gion raised an eyebrow and said, “I refuse, Tokikake.”
This man who looked a bit like a toad was none other than Marineford Vice Admiral, Tokikake.
Hearing Gion’s words, Tokikake was greatly devastated and said, “Why, Gion?
This is already my 67th time confessing my love to you.
Can’t you accept me?”
“No, you’re too ugly!” Gion said mercilessly.
This sentence hurt Tokikake deeply, and the flowers in his hand wilted instantly.
Beside them, Lucas listened to Tokikake’s words and thought to himself, “67 times, huh?
Then Tokikake will be rejected another 33 times.
Gion rejects him a full hundred times after all.”
Gion ignored Tokikake and continued walking with Lucas, instructing him as they walked, “The ones coming to Marineford this time are promising recruits sent from various Marine branches.
You are someone recommended by Tsuru and me, so don’t embarrass us.”
“I understand!” Lucas nodded and said.
Before long, the two arrived at the registration office.
Along the way, Gion, dressed in her Rear Admiral uniform with a young boy in tow, attracted the gaze of many Marines.
“Who is that?
She’s wearing a Rear Admiral’s cloak!”
“Idiot, that’s Rear Admiral Gion, the strongest female Marine among our Marineford’s younger generation.”
“Rear Admiral Gion is taking that boy to the registration office.”
“Who is that boy?
Could he be Rear Admiral Gion’s son?”
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Don’t you dare insult our Rear Admiral Gion.
Do you want to duel?
You guy from the West Blue!”
“Draw your sword, you guy from the West Blue, for the sake of the goddess’s purity!”
“Count me in!
Draw your sword, Goddess Gion must not be blasphemed.”
Just because of a single guess, it nearly sparked a massive brawl among the Marines at Marineford.
It’s evident that at this stage, Gion is the dream lover of the entire Marineford.
With Gion there, Lucas’s registration went very smoothly.
While there, Lucas saw a boy wearing sunglasses, carrying a bundle of luggage on a bamboo pole.
He also saw a cocky, delinquent-looking white-haired boy who was already smoking a cigar at such a young age.
“Lucas, from now on, it’s all up to you.
Good luck!” Gion patted Lucas on the shoulder and said.
“Yeah!
I will!” Lucas nodded calmly.
…
After registering, Lucas had to part ways with Gion and enter the Marine Academy.
They would undergo three months of closed training here.
During this time, it would become crystal clear who was worth cultivating, who should be focused on, and who was useless and needed to be eliminated.
Soon, all the boys sent by the branch warships were brought to a huge plaza.
Suddenly, in the sky not far away, a figure stepped through the air repeatedly and then landed on the huge podium in the plaza.
The person wore the Admiral’s cloak of justice, had short purple hair, and muscles bulging all over his body.
It was Black Arm Zephyr.
At this time, Zephyr had not yet had his arm cut off.
“Quiet.”
Zephyr looked at the boys below.
With just those two simple words, he suppressed the noise below.
Seeing that everyone was quiet, Zephyr said loudly, “Hello, future pillars of the Marines.
I am Zephyr, your instructor.”
“I believe that many of you here chose to join the big Marine family because you loathe pirates…”
A passionate speech was meant to tell the boys present that the Marines are justice, that they should become Marines, protect their homes, let the brilliance of justice cover the earth, be loyal to the Marines, and take pride in the Marines.
Hearing Zephyr’s words, many boys were filled with excitement, looking as if they were ready to become Marines, shed blood for the Marines, and uphold justice.
Lucas also looked excited, but in his heart, he was dismissive.
You, Black Arm Zephyr, believe in not killing.
In the end, not only did your whole family die, not only was your arm cut off, but you were also killed by the students you taught.
He would never follow Zephyr’s ways.
Lucas had his own justice, and he would use his own methods to practice it.
But to practice his own justice, the prerequisite was power.
…
Marineford Marine Academy is divided into two classes: one is the regular class, and the other is the elite class.
Those who graduate from the regular class will be the backbone of the future Marines.
And those who graduate from the elite class will become the leaders of the future Marines.
Former members like Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji, Dragon, Gion, Tokikake, Onigumo, Yamakaji, Momonga, etc., all came from the elite class, so the elite class also has a nickname: the Monster Class.
However, because Pirate King Roger started the Great Pirate Era, leading to more and more pirates, there are fewer and fewer promising recruits joining the Marines.
Most people choose to become pirates.
In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer people in each class who can be called monsters; the last class only had one.
For the first two months after new recruits enter the Marine Academy, there is no distinction between the regular class and the elite class.
Only in the final month will they be divided into classes.
At that time, whether they are a dragon or a worm will be determined.
Next came the brainwashing lessons every morning, followed by intense physical training.
At the Marine Academy, one lap around the field is 1,000 meters.
The first order Zephyr gave was to run 30 laps.
“Now, start running!
Thirty laps!
No food until you finish!” Zephyr roared.
“Roar!” Everyone shouted in unison and started running.
Thirty laps is 30 kilometers, which is longer than a half-marathon.
On Earth, except for professional marathon runners, almost no one could finish it.
The physical constitution of humans in the One Piece world is generally higher than on Earth, but running so many laps for a bunch of teenagers, or even younger children, is like reaching for the sky; it can be said to be absolutely deadly.