The news of Sora's retirement as marshal of the navy gradually spread across the sea, but among the civilians, few people knew that Sora was not retiring, but going to Marigio to serve as the commander-in-chief of the entire army.

Warring States can be regarded as taking office, and the title has not been changed. On the one hand, it is a matter of procedure, and on the other hand, the World Government wants to hold a title ceremony for Warring States on a suitable enough occasion.

Especially since the sea seems to be calm, the World Government is not in a hurry, and the three candidate generals have also entered the final assessment stage. Once the Warring States period is awarded, they can also be appointed and promoted to generals by the Warring States Period.

Sengoku's first order after taking office was to start a worldwide conscription, which delayed the recruit training camp that was supposed to start in October until the following year.

Zefa also got a rare break, and followed Garp to the East China Sea. While instructing Garp's two grandsons, he was recuperating. Although he had medicine, Zefa's strict demands on his work and rest and the heavy burden of being a chief instructor still made him

His asthma gradually became serious, and the Navy took this opportunity to let Zefa rest.

With the arrival of the New Year, since the Zhanye detachment did not take turns during the Chinese New Year last year, after all, the commander Skyler was "insulting" the Tianlong people, and the entire Zhanye detachment was forced to "show loyalty".

However, since Skyler was promoted to Lieutenant General of the headquarters and led the Zhanye detachment to guard the G-5 branch, he has performed well. The number of pirates captured by the Zhanye detachment and the G-5 branch is higher than that of the other four New World branches combined.

many.

The merits and demerits were balanced, and there was even a surplus of merit. Moreover, Sengoku was having trouble with the World Government because he was forced to change the justice he pursued. In anger, he gave Skyler and the Zhanye detachment a month's leave.

On New Year's Day, Skyler also returned to the Kingdom of Goa. This time, not even Nurkic came with him. It was a holiday shared by the entire Zhanye team.

Skyler also arrived at Windmill Village on the warships of other generals who were cruising in the East China Sea.

After saying goodbye to the general who brought him here, Skyler jumped off the warship, pulled his suitcase, and walked into Windmill Village. The villagers greeted Skyler frequently when they saw him.

Skyler dealt with it all the way and arrived in front of Maginot's tavern, because when he just spoke to Cap, Cap told him that they were all in the tavern.

Pushing open the door of the tavern, he saw two old and strong men having a drink there. Skyler walked over and said disdainfully: "Fist-sized wine glasses, where are you two keeping healthy?!"

"Hahaha~Skyler, this is wine!"

Zefa knew that Skyler didn't drink, so he said deliberately. At this time, Maginot, who saw Skyler's arrival, also quickly prepared a glass of fruit punch and came over.

It was said to be a cup, but in fact it could be said to be a bucket. He placed the fruit punch in front of Skyler. Skyler smiled and said: "Teacher Zefa, this is called fruit punch. It is a new type of cocktail. Look at it.

Ha~"

Skyler said, about to act like a dragon sucking water, but Zefa looked at her disdainfully and said: "Fruit punch? Is it still new? How old are you? When my grandma was young, fruit punch was the most popular thing."

It’s all over the streets!”

"Ah hahaha~"

Skyler, who had his lie exposed, did not feel the slightest embarrassment, nor did he act out the dragon's desire to drink water. Instead, he took two sips with the attached straw, looked at Garp, whose face was red and his eyes were out of focus, and asked:

"Lieutenant General Garp, are you drunk?"

Maginot explained: "It was embarrassing that Lieutenant General Karp mistakenly mixed the water spray gun and the vodka spray gun and poured a bucket of vodka."

Some commonly used drinks in pubs are usually packed in buckets and equipped with pressurized spray guns, which will be more convenient when mixing drinks. When there are many people, it can even replace the stirring or shaking action.

Skyler burst out laughing when she heard that Garp had mistaken water and vodka. She was not worried. Although ordinary people might have serious problems after drinking a bucket of vodka, Garp was not an ordinary person.

At most, he would just stare for a while, and then he would probably wake up.

Skyler didn't bother Garp. Anyway, Garp probably wouldn't be able to listen to what he was saying now. Instead, he asked Zefa: "Teacher Zefa, where are Ace and Luffy?"

"They? They met a kid who wanted to be a pirate, and now he's playing navy in the village to catch pirates."

After Zefa finished speaking, a smile appeared on his face, and there was a hint of nostalgia in the smile. This was his favorite game when he was a child, and the happiest thing was to get the chance to become a navy.

"A kid who wants to be a pirate?"

Skyler frowned, thinking of someone, but at this moment there was a sound of opening the door of the tavern. Ace was walking in front, Luffy was walking behind, the two of them were carrying a stick, and another child was tied to the stick.

"really!"

Seeing this dejected, tied-up child, Skyler recognized him, the future second-in-command of the Revolutionary Army and Dorag's successor - Sabo.

But at this time, Sabo was not the second-in-command of the revolutionary army. He was just a child who ran away from a noble family. At this time, his strength was obviously very weak, and he was defeated by Ace and Luffy.

"aunt?!"

When Ace saw Skyler, he immediately dropped his stick. Sabo fell directly to the ground. Before he could cry out in pain, Luffy, who was out of balance, fell directly on top of him.

"ah!!!!"

Sabo let out a cry of pain. Luffy stood up and scratched his head, a little embarrassed. Ace looked back, but still walked quickly towards Skyler, came to Skyler, and stretched out his hand directly.

Handed.

"Duang~Duang~Duang~"

Skyler hit Ace three times on the head, and then took out three Bailey's worth 10,000 and gave them to Ace. After all, there were three people in their small group now, and Skyler definitely didn't want to hit Ace more.

.

Ace happily took the money, not wanting to chat with his aunt who had been away for two years. Instead, he ran back to Luffy and Ace and began to untie Sabo's rope.

After untying the rope, while Sabo was still arranging his clothes and ropes, Ace raised three Baileys high and said to Sabo and Luffy: "I'll treat you to ice cream!"

Sabo looked at the gourd above Ace's head and said with some uncertainty: "Ace, are you really okay?"

Ace patted his forehead proudly and said, "I make money with my brain! My brain is very useful!"

Hearing Ace's confident words, Luffy had a look of admiration on his face, Sabo had a look of doubt on his face, and Skyler and Zefa couldn't hold back their laughter.

"Ahem~"

Zefa suppressed his laughter so as not to cough. He took out the spray and sprayed it. He took another sip of wine to calm his breath and said, "The kingdom of Goa is really good. There are geniuses one after another."

Zefa felt that Skyler didn't know Sabo, so he said: "The other child, named Sabo, I thought he was just an ordinary child, but I have recently observed... that he is also a good candidate for the navy.

His body is particularly sharp, and the training effect is also very good. Maybe he can follow the path of me and Karp."

Hearing Zefa's inference, Skyler nodded. In her impression, Sabo was already very powerful before he obtained Ace's Burning Fruit. He had extremely high talents in Armed Haki and Wisdom Haki.

Especially after entering the Revolutionary Army to study and train, he was able to defeat a palace guard alone at the age of 17. Skyler lamented that in that era of great changes more than ten years later, geniuses really appeared frequently.

On the other hand, Skyler and her peers did not have that kind of talent and achievements. They were at the top of the world in their teens and twenties. Skyler herself had never seen this kind of talent.

Even he and Mihawk, who were the first to realize their talents, could not become the top experts at the age of twenty. Shanks, who would become the Four Emperors in the future, did not know where he was wandering around now.

"When did you come?!"

Before Skyler could answer Zefa, suddenly Garp asked in surprise. Skyler looked and found that the red on Garp's face had faded, his eyes became brighter, and he could not see the appearance of the fragment a few minutes ago.

"I've been here for half a month, and you've been sitting here motionless for the past half month. People thought you were dead."

Skyler's smile faded as he turned back, his face serious, with a hint of surprise.

"Scared~"

Garp suddenly looked frightened and looked at Zefa. He clearly remembered that he came here with Zefa, but when he looked over, he saw Zefa clearing up the heavy emotions on his face.

Zefa put one hand on Garp's shoulder, put his hand into a fist in front of his mouth and nose, and said sadly: "Old friend, I didn't expect... you could actually wake up, I still... I still.

..everything is fine now..."

With that said, Zefa gave the frightened and confused Garp a bear hug. Maginot turned around and her shoulders twitched. Skyler could see that Maginot was suppressing a laugh.

But... the back of Maginot that Garp saw looked like she was sobbing.

Skyler herself didn't expect that these people would actually cooperate with her. She looked around and said, "Originally, everyone came to say goodbye to you today. Now, let's treat it as a banquet for your return!"

Garp was shaken for a moment, because he remembered that when he and Zefa came over, Skyler hadn't come yet, and there weren't so many people in the tavern.

Garp even began to rejoice in his drunken life, and even took the initiative to hug Zefa who was holding him. Just as he was about to say something, he caught a glimpse of his own wine glass from the corner of his eye.

There is still some condensation on the outer wall of the wine glass!

"Bang~"

Garp punched Zefa in the back of the heart and said angrily: "Do you think I am a fool?! Half a month? Why is the cup still cold? Also, how can I not be hungry without eating for half a month?

!”

"Ahem~ah hahaha~ahem~ahahaha~"

Although he couldn't help coughing, Zefa just wanted to laugh, but couldn't stop laughing. He watched Garp making various inferences, but his eyes kept glancing at the clock, looking a little unconfident. He just couldn't bear it.

Stop laughing.

After laughing until the muscles on both sides of his cheeks began to swell, Zefa rubbed his face, using the pain to stop himself from laughing, then pointed at Skyler and said: "Your good daughter started it all.

!”

"It was obviously Mr. Zefa who used a trick to get Lieutenant General Zefa drunk and planned all this. I just helped you complete this scene because of the friendship between teachers and students."

Skyler's face was full of righteousness. Garp came back to his senses, glared at Zefa, and said: "You not only deceived me! You also dared to let my daughter do bad things?! I will let you taste my iron fist."

!”

Maginot turned around and said: "Lieutenant General Garp, don't be angry. It's Ace's birthday party tonight, you won't want to miss it, right?!"

Hearing this, Kapa, ​​who was rolling up his arms and sleeves, paused, scratched his head and said, "Oh! I remembered it!"

Then, he looked at Zefa and said: "I will spare you today! I will make you look good tomorrow!"

Zefa glared at Skyler angrily, but he didn't care. After all, Garp's punch wasn't too hard for him. The reason why he coughed was just because the hit was in the back of his heart.

And he already suffered from asthma and coughing, and because he was laughing too anxiously, he just coughed, so it was nothing serious.

Only then did Skyler remember that today was Ace's birthday!
To be continued...