In year 1517.

Place--

In the East bule.

Somewhere in a calm sea.

A huge ship was moving slowly.

Hanging high in the sky was a huge flag of justice with a white background and the Seagulls holding a scales in their mouths. It was equipped with countless turrets and masts and sails towering across the sky.

This is a Marine ship.

at this time.

On the wide deck, an old man with white hair and beard, tall stature, broad chest and well-developed muscles was leisurely resting his hands on his head with his eyes closed. He seemed to be sleeping quite comfortably, and bubbles came out of his right nostril from time to time.

Sudden.

A gust of sea breeze from the East bule blew slowly, bursting the bubbles on the old man's nostrils, and suddenly waking him up from his sleep.

After looking at the sea view around him with sleepy eyes, he took out a donut from the small coffee table beside him and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

While chewing roughly with big mouthfuls, he asked the Marine officer standing by his side without any image, "Smoker, have you arrived at the Loguetown Marine Base?"

Large warships of the Marine Headquarters would not normally appear in the East bule, which is known as the weakest sea.

This trip to the East bule was not only to send the Marine hero Garp back home for vacation, but also to send Captain Smoker and his subordinates to the logueTown Marine Base, which is known as the "town of beginning and end" and leads to the Grand Line in the East bule,for garrison rotation.

At the same time, we have to stop by the Loguetown Marine Base

"Yes, Vice Admiral Garp."

The man called Smoker casually wore a biker jacket with the word "Justice" written on the back, which was completely different from the navy's standard justice cape, and had goggles hanging around his neck.

With his exposed chest and abdominal muscles, his silver-gray hair combed back, and a thick cigar dangling from the corner of his mouth, he doesn't look like a captain of the Marine Headquarters, but rather a gangster.

Looking at Vice Admiral Garp, who had finished his snacks, simply reminded himself "Call me when you get there", and then lay down lazily again, Smoker couldn't help but reveal a trace of helplessness on his serious face, but he didn't say much, just shook his head.

Even Marshal Sengoku couldn't control Vice Admiral Garp, so what could a mere Marine captain who was assigned to a lower position do?

Flipping through a file in his hands, Smoker's gaze fixed on the profile of their next target.

Name: Dante

Age: 23

Born: logueTown, orphan

Position: Head of Loguetown Marine Base

Rank: Captain of the Marine Headquarters

Evaluation: He was once a prodigy in the training camp of the Marine Headquarters.He has exceptional talent for kendo. After only two and a half years of training, he was awarded the rank of Marine Captain by the Marine Headquarters as an exception. However, he was demoted for offending his superiors. Since then, he began to degenerate, lost his will, doubted his strength, and his talent declined. In the past seven years, he has not had any record or merit.

Note: This department suspects that this person is colluding with pirates and violates the justice of the Marine. Please ask the inspection team to investigate carefully!

There is also a photo of him wearing a Marine uniform on the right side of this file.

The man in the photo has black hair and black pupils, deep facial features, clear lines, eyes as deep as the night, and he exudes a confident and free and easy temperament.

"Is this captain Dante? He doesn't look like someone who would go along with pirates."

Just as Smoker frowned and looked at the photo in silence, a female Marine officer who was waiting nearby came over and looked at it with the same curiosity.

She had a cute short black hair, wore rustic square-frame glasses, and was not wearing a Marine uniform. She was just casually wearing a plaid shirt and suit pants.

She looked like a cute and amiable girl next door, but with a serious expression on her pretty face and a famous, grade sword - Shigure - slung around her waist, she gave off a bit of the aura of a Marine officer.

She adjusted her rustic glasses and looked at the photo with curiosity. "And I heard that captain Dante had already become an swordsman back then. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding by our headquarters."

Smoker frowned, taking the cigar from his mouth. "As Marines, we can't just judge people based on their appearance. We need to understand the whole picture".

He didn't see anything from the files, but as a talented Marine captain, he had no record of any battles in the East bule for seven years, but he was suddenly transferred from the 315th branch of the Navy to the logueTown Marine base

So, what is this guy doing?

And the Mok Pirates...

Is it really so difficult to catch this extremely vicious pirate group that he has been using to extort military funds from the Marine Headquarters?

In addition, what was his relationship with the previous base chief of the logueTown branch, and why was he recommended to take over the logueTown Marine base ?

While Smoker was thinking.

"Almost there!" Tashigi's voice snapped him out of his thoughts. Looking up, Smoker saw the familiar silhouette of Loguetown's Marine Base emerging from the mist.

…

Conomi Islands.

This area is under the jurisdiction of the 16th Navy Branch.

now.

Cocoyashi Village... No, it should be called Cocoyashi Town now.

""Captain Dante's here! Captain Dante's here!"

"Nami's back too!"

"Idiot! It's 'Chief Petty Officer Nami' now! She's really made something of herself. Bell-mère will be so proud when she hears this!" Go and call Mayor Nojigo!"

As a Marine warship docked at the newly built pier in Cocoyashi Town, a group of people walked down from the Marine warship, and cheers suddenly broke out across the entire pier.

The leader was a black-haired man wearing a navy-style white suit, a black fur coat, and a knife on his waist. He was followed by several people with a smile on his face. He walked towards the town of Cocoyashi amid the cheers of the crowd.

"Damn it, who is so useless!" Nami, who was also wearing a white shirt and a black skirt, heard everyone's comments about her and immediately raised her fist at her fellow townspeople with an angry face, ""You idiots better watch yourselves, or I'll arrest all of you!"

She even changed her usual simple short-sleeved striped top and her hip-length skirt that had turned pale from being starched, and put on a nice outfit, but these guys still said she was a loser.

Of course,

arresting him was just a joke.

After Nami [viciously] threatened a fellow townspeople, she turned her head. Her beautiful orange curly short hair was tightly adorned on her delicate white collarbone. Her gem-like brown eyes looked at the man walking in front of her, then at the changes in Cocoyashi Village... and her heart was suddenly filled with emotion.

Unexpectedly, everything would change so much that it even made her feel like she was in another world.

She was a member of the Arlong Pirates a year ago, but now she has become a marine Chief petty officer.

The once poverty-stricken Cocoyashi Village has now become a prosperous town, and all of this was brought by the man in front of him.

Thinking of this, Nami raised the corners of her mouth, and secretly approached dante, who was walking forward with his hands in his pockets, wearing a cloak and a majestic look. After hesitating for a moment, she whispered, "Hey, thank you~"

"???"

Why did you suddenly say thank you?

Dante looked at Nami beside him in confusion, and then seemed to understand something and said, "She's just a Chief petty officer in the Marine. The young master from the Shell town next door has two dogs that are taken care of by the Marine because his father is a marine captain. If I didn't have a dog, my dog would have to work at the Marine headquarters!"

Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it. Instead of being used by the Marine Headquarters to protect the Celestial Dragons, it would be better for him to use it to raise dogs.

What's more, Nami is quite talented, and there is nothing wrong with being a marine Chief petty officer.

As for identity...it's no big deal!

In this world, being a thief, especially a thief who only steals from pirates, can be considered as having a clean background and being incorruptible.

only.

The words fell.

"???"

Hearing Dante inhuman words, Nami's beautiful eyebrows suddenly raised and she was completely stunned.

Who is the dog!

She put her hands on her hips, looking angry, but before she could say anything.

"Boss, Mayor Nojiko is here!"

A voice with a hint of elegance came from beside me.