Pirate: I only come here for three things!

Duanmu hates summer.

The Holy Land of Mariejoia, that is, the Circummarijoia Economic Zone under the Red Earth Continent, is affected by the oceanic monsoon climate and the isolation from the Red Earth Continent. Multiple influences such as the warm currents in the Circular Subzone and the increase in sunshine hours have caused local abnormality every year. weather. In the summer, it's either an unbearable high temperature of over 40 degrees, or a super typhoon that's about to destroy everything.

The holy land of Mariejoia will naturally not be affected in any way. It is the most beautiful place and is like spring all year round.

It's just that it doesn't belong to ordinary people, that's all.

The excessive sunshine and the chirping of cicadas made it difficult for people to appreciate the style. Duanmu only felt mentally exhausted after coming down from the bubble stairs.

The third generation of the Cyborg family, Navy Vice Admiral Cyborg Kei's marriage leave is in the nature of a compensatory leave, because the navy is too short of combat power during this period, and there is really no one available in the navy.

So even though he was destined to miss the compensatory vacation due to the job change, Kei still decided to obey the arrangement and take up his last duty in the navy.

At this time, he should still be in the G1 branch of the Navy.

Amidst the chirping of cicadas, the [ding-dong--] warning bell that the station announcement was about to begin came.

"Due to an accident involving a collision with a deer on the previous tram, the direct train to the Navy Headquarters is expected to be seriously delayed. Passengers are asked to wait patiently. We apologize for any inconvenience."

The old-fashioned telephone broadcast snail hanging on the ceiling of the station made a beeping sound and ended the broadcast.

A large section of this railway passes through uninhabited wilderness, and this kind of thing happens all the time on this one-way railway. After such an accident, the delay will only be three minutes if you go quickly, but sometimes it can be as long as an hour.

Judging from Duanmu's experience, since serious delays have been mentioned, we have to wait here for at least another twenty minutes. He suddenly felt worried that he would miss his brother, and he also had the hope that he would just miss it, a little later, and a little later.

Duanmu sat on a public bench and wiped the sweat from his cheeks with the upper sleeves of his shirt.

As an automatic train that goes directly to the Navy's G1 headquarters, this platform does not even have a toll collection device. As a public infrastructure serving the Navy's commute, it appears to be extremely frugal and compact.

Duanmu unbuttoned the first button of his shirt, leaned against the back of the chair, and fanned himself with his collar.

At this time, a warm sea breeze blew by, mixed with a little fragrance.

On the other side of the railway are gentle sea cliffs and hazy horizontal lines. It was originally a scenery worth seeing, but now it is mostly blocked by people.

She is an unreasonable, athletic girl who seems to be able to ignore the heat. When she smiled, she showed two small tiger teeth.

"Long time no see, the second young master of the Cyborg family. Would you like a cold drink in this weather?"

The girl with her hair tied up and who was a few years older than Duanmu handed Duanmu a canned carbonated drink in her hand. She also held a cup of the same red and blue drink in her hand, but it was opened.

"Gion, long time no see." Duanmu took the drink and placed it in his palm. "Ah, so cold."

Feeling the coolness in her hands, the girl roughly divided half of the bench she was on. She sat on Duanmu's left hand side and stretched her body.

Although she also shed a lot of sweat, the smell emanating from the girl's body was a mixture of refreshing lemon scent and other scents, and it was not stuffy.

"...Do you smell it? It seems that I have been feeling a scent rushing into my nose since the beginning." Duanmu said. "Kind of like mint."

"It smells like lemon! The latest new model, I just bought it from the drug store." She took out a small bottle of spray medicine from the small bag she carried with her. It says lemon scented deperspirant on the bottle.

"Really, so it is."

"Wait, why did you move so far over there? Does it really smell bad?"

Gion raised his arm unconfidently and sniffed.

Then he looked at Duanmu suspiciously.

"I may not be used to this smell."

"Really, that's right." She brought her face closer and said with a wicked smile: "Then what flavor do you think is your favorite?"

Duanmu took out three 10,000-beli bills from his wallet and handed them over.

"Thank you very much for the bonus, why did you suddenly give me the money!" Gion was just about to reach out to take it, and then he realized and covered his mouth and exclaimed.

"Cola."

"A bottle of Coca-Cola only costs 500 Baileys near Mariejoia. If you really want AA, just give me 500 Baileys."

"The rest is minty and away from my labor costs."

"I told you it was lemon-flavored deodorant! Also, what's wrong with you today? You keep a straight face."

Gion made a bold analysis.

“I made a certain woman’s belly bigger and now I’m thinking about how to explain it to my parents?”

"Hey, what's that look in your face? Okay, okay, it seems that's not the reason. Does that mean the World Government fired you?"

"It's time for me to get off work now."

"Wait, what time do you get off work?"

"I go to work at nine in the morning and get off at two in the afternoon. I work five days a week and have two months of annual leave every year."

"Huh?! Really or fake?!"

"fake."

Gion breathed a sigh of relief. "I just said that was so outrageous."

"It's two and a half months of annual leave every year, and there's also one week of unexcused sick leave every year."

"...I'm in the wrong profession." Gion's hands were trembling, he was covering his mouth, and his voice was a little choked.

Duanmu looked at the clouds in the sky and pulled the tab of the can.

Cold carbonated drinks are undoubtedly the angel of salvation in high temperatures.

"You didn't even shake the Coke." Duanmu had already anticipated the scene where the soda might spray out.

"Who would do that!"

"In addition, he has done this kind of thing before."

"...He, indeed, he is the person who would do such a thing."

Gion and Kake are the new generation of navy. Gion is now the lieutenant of the navy headquarters, and Kake is now the rear admiral of the navy headquarters. The three of them had been in constant contact when they were in school. Although they work in different industries now, they seem to still have at least some friendship with each other. Unlike Duanmu, who has no martial arts training at all, both of them are good fighters, and now is the prime time for their growth.

"After all, you bullied him a lot back then, Duanmu." She said with a smile. "Time flies so fast."

"If you had joined the navy like us, would we have stayed at that time forever?"

"I'm not good at force, so joining the navy is just a drag. Becoming an elite civil servant and joining the world government is my chance to realize the value of my life."

"It's just that you didn't want to practice, right? I know it very well. If it were you, no matter what you do, you can actually do it."

"You overestimate me."

"Yes." She had two dimples when she smiled.

"How is the navy lately?" Duanmu asked about the current situation.

Gion and Kake, if they are not die-hard fans of One Piece, no one may know that they are non-animated originals, two vice-admirals of the Navy headquarters written by Oda. In Luffy's story, both of them have become candidates for general, and have been given the codenames Momo Usagi and Tea Dolphin.

But now, they are just members of the new generation of the Navy and the "future" of the Navy. As the successor force of the navy.

The age range in the Navy is weird.

There is not much age difference between the Sora generation and the Sengoku, Garp, and Crane generation.

But from the Warring States Period to Sakaski, there was a gap of nearly 20 years.

Is there not anyone outstanding enough to accept the position of Admiral? No, the real reason is that in that chaotic era, the best part of two generations of the Navy died in the fight against the pirates, or to be precise, the Rocks Pirates.

For a long time, the Navy has faced the dilemma of having no one available, and can only let veterans such as Kapp take the lead one time and another.

Naval hero Garp, behind this honor is the sadness of the navy's inability to succeed, and the navy's helpless move after two generations of elite strength were cut off.

Fortunately, the new generation of navy, represented by Sakaski and Porusalino, has finally grown up.

The next generation of the navy, represented by Gion, Kake and others, has also begun to show its prominence.

"Well, it seems that since I joined the Navy, I have felt that there are all kinds of new troubles every now and then." She talked about the recent situation of the Navy from her own standpoint. "And this time recently, in addition to the necessary left-behind personnel, a large number of naval forces came out, led by Teacher Zefa personally, to deal with this mess in the 13G branch."

"And right now, we still don't have accurate intelligence about what's going on there.

"But it doesn't matter. This team launched by the Warring States Marshal organization can escape intact even if it encounters the siege of the Whitebeard Pirates and the Wangzhi Skeleton Pirates. In order to prevent large-scale attrition, all factors have been considered. "

"After all, if the rescue team is wiped out again, the Navy may really be doomed, and the whole world will be in complete chaos."

"Yeah." Duanmu nodded. "It's the same as I know."

"You know what else you're asking me for!"

"Don't you think our Lieutenant Gion may have some top-secret information that I don't know about?"

"It's all top-secret information, how could I possibly tell you! Are you trying to take advantage of me?" Gion pouted.

"But there is an interesting story, related to your brother." Gion thought for a while and said.

After that, the two talked about many things. After meeting old friends again, there seemed to be endless topics to talk about.

The tram is coming. Duanmu looked at the clock and realized that almost thirty minutes had passed. There was blood on the front of the tram because it hit a deer. But that's okay, as long as the car can run normally.

"Get ready to get in the car, don't leave anything behind." Duanmu reminded the people around him. "Especially that spray you just took out, don't lose it."

"That's so verbose, are you an old man?"

Gion got on the tram from the back of the train, and Duanmu followed. The air-conditioned car was breathtakingly cool, and the burning body immediately cooled down.

The two of them sat close to each other, but not close to each other. As the doors closed, the tram started to move.

"Thank you for riding, and I would like to apologize to all distinguished passengers. This bus——"

Listening to the broadcast apologizing for the delay, Duanmu's mind began to wander again.

How should I talk to my brother later?

"Duanmu."

"Um?!"

Gion clenched his hands into fists. "Damn it! Come on!"

"Ah, let's do it." Duanmu responded.