Pirate: I only come here for three things!

Stierres never forgets to exercise. Even though I'm on the ship now, I'm on a mission. While most of his colleagues were hanging out in the pub playing boxing, he was minding his own business and pounding iron in the gym.

Covered in sweat and panting heavily, he lowered his head and moved his limbs slowly. Although many people think that the nutritionists and fitness coaches who spend a lot of money to hire are just a bunch of people who have nothing to do. But as one of them, he has always seemed a bit stubborn and even a bit stupid.

He still remembers those instructions, such as not to lie down directly after completing strenuous exercise.

"Have you heard?"

"Ah, that's it, right?"

The two officials, who had not sweated much, left here as if they had punched in a clock. The sentences are unclear, and the content is completely incomprehensible. What are we discussing?

Is this meeting about to end? With the sudden departure of Black Carbon Orochi, many unresolved matters made progress instantly. As expected, this meeting will end quickly. After that, the entire expedition force can return to the Holy Land.

It can be said that there are only a few days left before the end.

However, there is also the possibility of discussing another matter.

A few days ago, a piece of news suddenly broke out, and it instantly affected many people on the ship.

It is not the death of Zefa's family. For the vast majority of civil servants, this news lacks sense and there is no need to mourn. Not to mention the recent major naval adjustments, no matter who becomes the general, the sun will rise as usual under the world government ruled by the Celestial Dragons.

To be precise, this is just a piece of gossip.

Duanmu, the Cyborg of the Cyborg family, started to fall in love with Gion, the most feminine and beautiful member of the navy on this ship.

If they do finally get married, it will mean the rise of a Kennedy-like figure. It may even be possible to recreate the legend of his grandfather Cyborg Kong and become one of the most important people in the entire world.

The political resources of the Cyborg family and Naval Staff Crane, after the union of the two newlyweds, were no less than that of Kennedy, who had soared into the sky after marrying the eldest daughter of the Celestial Dragons after the War on the Island of Gods.

In addition, he is a pure political amateur. Although he has been a civil servant for some time, he is in an unpopular department and has no team of his own. For the vast majority of the motivated civil servants on this ship, their biggest current topic of discussion is how to be a dog to this big man who is about to soar to the sky.

In the past, rumors that Kennedy was willing to nominate him and help him also added fuel to the current grand occasion.

Some people want to start with a wedding venue, saying that their family has the best wedding resources in the Holy Land. Some people decide to directly recommend themselves and cling to this thigh shamelessly. The most extreme ones are ready to dye their hair yellow and prepare to start from men and women. Getting started with those things...it's not impossible to be a mistress, there are even a few gays mixed in...

Stierres wanted to take another look or ask what they were talking about, but found that the two people had already walked away.

The entire gym was silent.

He took a quick shower, put on clean clothes, and left.

It was quiet in Restaurant No. 2.

This hall decorated in North Sea style was originally a hall used by the Tianlong people to hold banquets. But after the renovation, it became the largest of the three mess halls on the entire ship. Because it is open to everyone on the ship, it is also the largest canteen in theory. It is said that it can accommodate up to 500 people dining at the same time.

But it was not meal time. The cafeteria lady stood at the window, put down her spoon, and giggled while holding a novel from the West Sea. In the part of the huge building that can accommodate diners, apart from Stierres, there is only one person and one dog left.

The dog is Akita who was recently brought from Wano Country. Yellow and white, cute and naive.

As for the person, he is a diner with an expressionless face, lying at the end of the long dining table, chewing, and treating the food mercilessly.

On his plate were a stack of tuna sushi, a large piece of fried chicken, a sukiyaki pot, a tonkotsu ramen and a salad for dessert.

It looks like at least he still has a good appetite.

In fact, in Stirres's memory, the calculation was not always like this. But now he eats so much that he almost forgets himself.

While he was chewing on the crispy chicken drumstick in his hand. A man sat down next to him and put down his plate. Jiaji glanced at Stierres who was sitting next to him. He had the unique smell of cheap perfumed soap in gym bathrooms, which made him a little uncomfortable.

But after thinking about it again and again, he still licked his fingers. Lick up the chicken nuggets mixed with seasoning powder.

Stierres's food is very simple, a portion of chicken breast and a portion of brewed protein powder.

In fact, it is difficult to see Stierres in the cafeteria. He is the kind of character who finds a straight line between two points. Since eating can be done on the road, why spend more time going to the canteen? Wouldn’t it be better to use the time you save to train your muscles more?

He is a pure naval officer who has no distracting thoughts and only wants to become stronger. This was the case at the beginning of naval training, but now that he has officially joined the navy, his temperament still doesn't seem to have changed at all.

The two of them ate in silence, and Kaki put the salmon sushi into the ramen, eating it in a unique and original way.

In the end, when Jiaji finally cleared away all the food in front of him, Stierres's protein powder shock was still half-way, and his chicken breast hadn't even been touched... Jiaji glanced at him uncomfortably. Can't find anything to say. I had to stand up and say, "I've finished eating."

Stierres pushed his plain water chicken breast without any seasoning in front of Duanmu.

"Eat more?"

If Duanmu were here, he would definitely complain about Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang... But Jiaji is not Lu Mingfei. He is not a coward. Now he is even the one with the highest rank in the navy at the same time. And Stierres is not Chu Zihang. He does not have the energy of Qiu Da Kushen when he was a child. In terms of combat power, although he trains hard, he is still far behind in the end. There is still a big gap between him and the one-on-one against the Yonko clown in the future.

"No, you don't understand at all, so don't force yourself. You make my skin crawl." Jia Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly. "Of course, compared to other people who offer comfort in a tactful or more straightforward way, you are quite unique."

Stirres was stunned. Isn't it just me?

"What's your expression? You don't think I'm the same as you, do you? Don't look at me like this, but I'm actually very good as a naval officer." Jiaji put away the dinner plate in front of him and put it in front of him. The chicken breast was pushed back, he never ate anything like that.

"Anyway, what you want to tell me is about Duanmu and Gion, right?" He said frankly. "About the official start of their relationship."

"I can't stand it. Do you know that I like her even though you are stupid? I always thought that I hid my feelings very well."

Jiaji said frustratedly.

"What a complete failure."

In fact, this was the seventh time that Stierres came to find Jiaji, but he had not found Jiaji before. But after he actually found Jiaji, he was stuck again and didn't know how to start this topic. He was even prepared to lend Kaji a shoulder and make him cry, but he didn't expect that he would fail at the very first step.

"Actually, I think it's not too late for you to confess your feelings..." Stiers organized his words. "Isn't there a story in the New World? As long as two people confess their love a hundred times, they can get married..."

"Only you would believe such an outrageous rumor!" Jiaji said with a smile, holding his stomach. "No, how could there be such a vicious story? Is there really someone who would persist in confessing to the same person a hundred times and reject him every time?"

"Anyway, you should have understood when you refused the first time."

Although he was the one who was heartbroken, his expression looked better than that of Stiers who came to comfort him.

"What if you don't try? Let alone the young master of the Cyborg family, I will accompany you even if you are a Celestial Dragon."

Jiaji laughed heartily.

"Should we try Cyborg Kei's reach, or should we take advantage of Senior Garp's iron fist? Let's give it a try." He waved his hand.

"Don't worry, I have a way of self-regulation, so I won't care too much."

"but--"

Stirres is a very pure person who means what he says. His neural circuitry, like his behavior, is a straight line with no twists and turns.

"Do you really not care about this? This is your first love that you have always cared about since you were a trainee."

The atmosphere was completely deadlocked.

In the end, Jiaji couldn't hold back his fake smile anymore.

"You and I are in love with each other. They are a match made in heaven. Why should I go on stage and be a clown? This makes everyone look bad."

"Everything you said is just your assumption." Stiers only cared about one thing from beginning to end.

"And now, I just care about your feelings. If you feel uncomfortable, I can drink with you. If you are angry, I can accompany you to put Duanmu's sacks together. If you still don't give up, I can still be there when you go to lay flowers. Help you with your advice..."

"Cyborg Duanmu is just a stranger to me, even if he is the younger brother of Cyborg Kei, even if he is the grandson of Marshal Cyborg Kong, even if he has a bright future. In my heart, he is just a person. , Oh, it turns out he is such a guy, and he has no communication with me at all."

"But you are different, you are my friend, Jiajia."

Jiaji lowered his head.

"You and I met after we joined the Navy's training class together, right?"

Stirres didn't know why he suddenly jumped to this question. Finally, after thinking about the meaning, he found that there was no deep meaning. So he responded simply.

"Yes."

"But Duanmu and Gion have known each other before that. Duanmu and I have been friends a long time ago."

"When he was a child, Duanmu was simply the king of children among us. No matter how unsolvable or huge problems seemed to us at the time, he could easily solve them in front of him. Even if someone used his birth as an excuse, he said He is just an experiment in the Draco lab, and he doesn’t care at all.”

"He? An experiment from the Draco lab?"

"It seems like you don't know about this at all?" Jiaji was stunned. "After talking for a long time, you don't know Duanmu at all?"

"Having said it all, he is just a familiar stranger to me."

"Okay, then I'll just pick the unimportant part... Where should I start?" Jiaji thought for a while and chose to start from the beginning.

"Before Duanmu was adopted by the Cyborg family, he was a child in an orphanage under the command of the Tianlong people. That orphanage was in the Holy Land, a completely inconspicuous place. Everyone with connections knew that orphanage. What on earth is behind the courtyard?”

"Does Carmelite know? Some of the children she adopted were placed in this orphanage. And there are also the remaining children after the Tianlong experiment. It is not convenient to put them into society, but for a while Children who are of no use will be placed there.”

The Carmelites were the nuns who adopted the aunt, and the secret source of goods for young people basically flowed here. Although many still regard her as a legend. But unfortunately, Jiaji happened to know the darkness behind it by chance.

"Is there such a place in the Holy Land? This, this is not..."

"Human trafficking, that's what you want to say, right? But the things involved are more complicated than that. All in all, Duanmu is the most outstanding group in that orphanage. Although I don't know how he became a person from the hands of the Tianlong people. He became the adopted son of the Cyborg family, but he has always been a guy with extraordinary abilities since he was a child."

"Unlike us, he is someone else's child in a real sense."

Jiaji sighed.

"I can't tell you too much. In short, he has always been such an eye-catching guy since he was a child. Although he became unknown when he grew up, I know that he has always been who he is."

"That perfect Duanmu, the most perfect work of the Tianlong people."

"At the same time, I also noticed Gion's love for him very early on."

He looked at the table in front of him bitterly.

"However, I still fell in love with her over my own power, even just looking at her. That's what I thought from the beginning."

"In addition..." Stierres didn't know how to continue the topic.

"Yes, even if you just look at her, the best girl is of course only worthy of the strong, right?"

"As for later, in the Navy, that guy was finally gone. Although our small group broke up, did I have a chance? So I thought and thought, and even really started to take action, but when I made an appointment After entering the garden, she was talking about someone who was completely absent. Her eyes were never on me from the beginning."

"She already has someone in her heart, but I can't defeat the phantom of him in her mind."

"Yes, he is so perfect, why should I..."

"The question we have now is what you think." Stiers looked at him and said. "Do you want to give up?"

"...bring me some wine." Jiaji responded.

"Ah, I finally found you." At this time, a person who shouldn't be here appeared here.

"Uh-huh, Gion?"

Gion akimbo. "What, what are you talking about in private among boys? Do you need me to avoid it again?"

Jiaji immediately returned to his normal state, which was referred to as a playful smile.

"No, no, what's the matter? Find us two."

"Ah, that's it. Duanmu is on board. Then, he is looking for people on the ship to perform an important task. He specifically asked me to find you two and try to let you two participate."

She pouted.

"Really, I thought I was here..."

Gion's face showed a little blush, and then it turned into a warm anger.

"Damn job."