One Piece: Shadow of the Navy

For the next ten days, Cohen stayed in Heywood Latifah's camp. Every day he slept, hunted, barbecued, ate, watched Heywood Latifah practice swordsmanship, and looked at the cave. surrounding situation.

After more than ten days in a row, I haven’t been to any other place.

Heywood Latifah also stayed in the camp for more than ten days in a row, practicing physical skills, swordsmanship and the like. He did not go to other places to practice with wild beasts. The furthest he went out every day was to hunt.

In the past ten days, two more groups of people came to the cave to challenge the tiger-shaped beast. Of course, the results were no different from those who came before.

However, after defeating them these two times, the tiger-shaped beast directly left them at the entrance of the cave and made no further moves to add food, so Cohen did not move out again.

The day before the training camp assessment assembly.

After practicing his swordsmanship, Heywood Latifah put away the knife, walked to the bonfire and sat down.

By the campfire, Cohen was already sitting there.

A calf-sized beast that Heywood Latifah went to hunt had already been set up on the campfire, and it was already roasting "sizzling" and the grease was splashing.

After Heywood Latifah sat down, he stared at the blazing flames and said nothing.

Cohen turned the beast over, took out a dagger from his waist, cut a small piece of meat from the beast, threw it into his mouth and chewed it.

While chewing Coen, he nodded, "Well, that's all."

Cohen said something to Heywood Latifah, then chopped off one of the beast's hind legs with a wave of his hand, inserted the dagger into a piece of wood next to Heywood Latifah, and gnawed on it. stand up.

Heywood Latifah pulled out the dagger from the wood, cut a chunk of flesh off the beast's hip near the leg, and then stuck the dagger back into the wood.

The two of them were minding their own business and nibbling the barbecue in their hands. For a moment, except for the sound of gnawing meat, the "beep" sound of the flames burning, and the "sizzling" sound of the barbecue, there was no other sound between them. sound.

Finally, after most of the beast entered their stomachs, Heywood Latifah stopped.

"Instructor Cohen, what do you think of me?" Heywood Latifah looked at Cohen who was still chewing meat and asked.

"???" Cohen swallowed the meat in his mouth and looked at her doubtfully, unable to understand the purpose of her question.

Facing Cohen's doubtful eyes, Heywood Latifah just looked at him blankly, waiting for his reply.

After looking at Heywood Latifah with doubtful eyes for a long time and getting no answer, Cohen put away his doubtful eyes, thought about it, and organized his words, "She's not bad, but she's a bit short and thin. A bit too much, not my cup of tea.”

"???" This time, Heywood Latifah looked confused. Looking at Cohen, her face gradually turned red.

"I'm asking you about my strength. You... where did you think you were?"

"Oh, it turns out you were asking about strength, but you didn't explain clearly, which caused misunderstanding." It wasn't until Heywood Latifah spoke that Cohen realized that he had misunderstood.

However, he did not show any embarrassment. He glanced at Heywood Latifah and said calmly, "But the difference is not big. They are all noobs."

"Rookie?" Although Heywood Latifah's face was still slightly red, she had gradually calmed down and asked in confusion when she heard Cohen's answer that she couldn't understand.

"Well, it means that your strength is rubbish and of no use." Cohen explained to Heywood Latifah while lowering his head and looking at the barbecue in his hand.

"You..." Hearing Cohen's straightforward evaluation, Heywood Latifah was slightly startled, then became furious and stared at Cohen.

However, she quickly calmed down and restrained her anger. She firmly grasped the hilt of the sword with her left hand and buried her head in her knees, speechless.

She knew that what Ke En said was right. To Ke En, she was indeed trash now.

On the previous day, she had seen Cohen take action. A powerful beast was knocked down by Cohen in the blink of an eye. She didn't even see clearly how Cohen did it. Yes, she saw Cohen move, and then disappear. When he reappeared, the beast had fallen to the ground, and Cohen was standing next to the beast.

If she was asked to do it, she didn't know how long it would take to get it, or even whether she could get it.

The gap between the two is obvious, and if there are no accidents, she will continue to be like this in the future.

Cohen quickly finished chewing the last leg of the beast, threw the bare thigh bone into the bonfire, and clapped his hands.

"Why did you suddenly want me to evaluate you?" Cohen reached out to wipe the grease from the corner of his mouth and asked Heywood Latifah casually.

Haywood Latifah heard Cohen's question, but she did not answer immediately.

Cohen didn't say anything else, and waited patiently for her answer. At the same time, he put away the dagger stuck on the wood, put it into his waist and hid it, then took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. One.

"A person who falls in the mud will always ask for help immediately when someone passes by, but what she gets is balls of mud." For a long time, Heywood Latifah's breathless words fell from her knees. It came out from the corner.

"Then, her heart gradually sank with her, sinking into the deepest part of her heart, buried deeply, and waiting quietly,"

"However, she still firmly believed that the quagmire only trapped her and could not bury her. She firmly believed that she would be able to get out of the quagmire, so she has been waiting quietly, silently accumulating the strength to leave the quagmire."

"During this process, she no longer reached out, but kept carefully observing the people passing by, waiting for the person she thought was right to appear."

After finishing speaking, Heywood Latifah stopped talking and buried her head in her knees.

Cohen was silent for a moment, shaking the cigarette in his hand, "Since she firmly believes that she will be able to get out of the quagmire, then I think she should not give up trying, and should not just observe, but should continue to reach out."

"Oh, I think people in the quagmire will have a way to save themselves," Cohen grinned and stopped talking about the person stuck in the quagmire. He turned to look at Heywood Latifah, "We Let’s talk about why you asked me to evaluate you just now.”

After a moment of silence, Heywood Latifah raised his head and asked Cohen, "Instructor, do you think I still have the potential to continue to improve?"

After asking this question, Heywood Latifah stared at Cohen closely, waiting nervously for his answer, because this answer would determine whether she wanted to continue talking.

Looking at Heywood Latifah who looked nervous, Cohen did not directly answer whether she still had potential, but asked, "Do you want to know?"

Looking at Heywood Latifah who was nodding, Cohen continued to ask, "Do you have any plans after graduation?"

Heywood Latifah hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and his expression suddenly became quite lonely.

Cohen ignored the disappointed Heywood Latifah and said, "Then come to me after you graduate. I will give you the answer then."