One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The Naval Academy occupies a huge area, and fresh blood pours into it every year, and the training instructors in it are served by the Navy with a major and above.

The moment Steel Bone led Gray stood on the training ground, the lieutenant colonel in charge of supervising the training had already spotted them.

After seeing the steel frame, the lieutenant colonel was taken aback for a moment, and then shouted: "Rest in place for 5 minutes!"

After shouting, he ran towards the steel frame excitedly, and asked after a standard naval salute: "Hi, general, the recruit training is going on as scheduled, please give instructions."

When the recruits who were training heard the order to rest in place, they all involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief. They had been exercising in the sun non-stop for several hours, and their eyes were darkened from fatigue.

Someone beat their sore arms and looked this way, quite curious about who their serious and rigid instructor saw just now, so he ran over so excitedly.

As a result, after seeing the person coming, he immediately opened his eyes wide, and his voice couldn't help but amplify, "Yes, it's the admiral! It's the admiral's steel frame."

"What, Admiral?"

"Fuck, it's really him."

The recruits started to stir up a commotion. Not long after they joined the navy, they had the most contact with the major and lieutenant colonel ranks of the navy. Even major generals were rare, let alone the only general in the navy.

Cyborg—— Kong, admiral, as the absolute genius of their navy, or from their period so far, no one can surpass his talent, and no one can surpass his promotion speed.

He's a legend in the Navy, even more popular than the current Admiral, and indeed there are rumors that Cyborg will soon succeed him.

But the Admiral of the Navy is still in good health, and no one knows whether this rumor is true.

"By the way, who is the kid next to him?"

"I'm so envious, you're so close to the general, relative?"

"Haven't you heard? The general recently adopted a child. I heard that his hometown was destroyed by pirates, and he is the only one left."

"It's so pitiful, the general is too kind."

"I really want to be adopted by the general, with such a strong backing."

"Tch, the general is not the kind of person who pretends to be self-serving, but that kid is indeed lucky."

"Looking so weak, why did the General adopt him?"

Because of the distance, the sound of the recruits talking was more like the buzzing of flies.

This made the lieutenant colonel frown, but he also knew that everyone was exhausted, and if they were not allowed to speak, it would probably be even more chaotic.

Steel Bone didn't respond either, and just said to the lieutenant colonel, "Don't worry about us, I just brought this kid on a tour."

Gray, who was called "this kid", stopped looking around, and his eyes shifted from the messy group of recruits to the lieutenant colonel in front of him.

The lieutenant colonel was also looking at him curiously.

"Slightly~" Gray stuck out his tongue and made a grimace.

"Boom!"

"Oh~" His head hurt, and he immediately covered the top of his head, because he was punched by the steel bone again because of his rudeness just now.

Steel Bone withdrew his hand and said to the lieutenant colonel, "I'm sorry, the discipline is not strict."

"Ah, it's okay," the lieutenant colonel hurriedly waved his hands, and then said: "Then general, since I'm fine, I'll go back first."

"Well, please excuse me."

The lieutenant colonel gave the military salute again, and ran back to the recruits to supervise the training.

"Instructor, what is the general here for?" A lively recruit asked curiously.

"Are you curious?" The lieutenant colonel didn't answer, but asked with his hands behind his back.

"Yeah yeah."

"Of course I'm curious, that's a general!"

"Tell us instructor."

Everyone joined in curiously.

As a result, the next moment, the lieutenant colonel suddenly raised his voice, glared at them angrily, and said, "You are so curious, you must still have strength! Gather—ready to run with a load!"

Amidst the unbelievable wailing of the recruits, Cyborg was also teaching Grave the rules of the Naval Academy.

"This is the training ground. As recruits, they will have a whole day of physical training during the day, and they will study the "Navy Behavior Manual" uniformly at night. After the study, they will take an audit test. After the exam, the evening time will also turn into physical training."

Gray nodded and asked, "Will I train with these people in the future?"

"Well, your current physical fitness is too poor." Steel Gu paused.

Children may need encouragement, Steel Bones thought about his past, okay
His father went out to sea as a pirate, a past he didn't want to think about.

That irresponsible man left the young him and his mother behind, and went to sea to pursue freedom and wealth. His mother was depressed, but supported him with her thin shoulders.

Steel Gu became sensible at a very young age, because he hated his father all the time, so he set his goal of becoming a navy. Unfortunately, his mother passed away a few years ago due to overwork.

If he wants to be the father of this child, Cyborg hopes that he can be a good father.

He comforted: "With your current physical fitness, don't talk about being an admiral."

In fact, this kind of negative tone is the most shocking, not to mention that the tone of the steel frame has always had a slight blunt feeling, which seems very serious.

But Cyborg himself didn't realize this. He was not good at words, and he didn't know how to express his concern correctly.

".I will work hard!" Gray was shocked enough, he was eager to prove himself, "I can go to the Naval Academy tomorrow!"

"It's a good thing to have this enthusiasm, but this week you need to receive some basic training." The steel bone simply said the training plan for Gray this week.

"Get up at six o'clock in the morning for a run, and run around the entire Marin Fondo. After breakfast, I will teach you basic fighting skills. Can you learn to affect your training plan for the next day?"

"I can definitely learn!"

"...don't interrupt someone, it's rude."

"sorry."

"If you don't learn the fighting skills of the first day on the second day, then there is no rest time for this day until you learn it."

After Cyborg finished speaking, he waited for Gray to answer, but after a long time, Gray said cautiously, "Dad, have you finished?"

".Um."

"I'm sure I can learn it!" Gray straightened his back, imitated the lieutenant colonel's salute just now, and replied aggressively.

Cyborg sighed, and stretched out his hand to shake Gray's right hand on top of his head until the palm was completely facing backwards—because the navy often touches the cables of warships, causing the palms to turn black. For the sake of beauty and etiquette, the navy's salute stipulates that the palms should be completely facing the back, so that the people on the opposite side will not see the blackened palms.

"That's the right kind of salute."

"Yes!"

Even after being corrected, Gray didn't feel depressed at all. He followed the steel frame with big strides, his face flushed with excitement.

"This is the school's internal cafeteria." Cyborg explained as he passed a building.

"Dad." Gray waited for Cyborg to finish his sentence, and then shouted.

"Ok?"

"You can, I mean, do you want to hug me?" He quickly ran a few steps to block the steel frame, his eyes were bright, and he raised his hands high.