Half an hour later, during the interrogation between Zephyr and Sengoku, Rowen revealed his theory of “Justice that is never late.”
However, the focus of the two people’s attention was not here. Justice is different for everybody and no one person can impose his Justice on another and they did not want Rowen to feel wrong from the bottom of their hearts.
After all, what a good seedling this is!
“That is to say, you used the electricity accumulated in the clouds to launch yourself as a means of movement, flying all the way back from Pucci?”
Zephyr repeated with a calm expression on his face and seeing Rowen nodding his head, his voice suddenly took an iron edge as he spoke: “Can’t you honestly develop your Devil Fruit Ability like a normal person?! Shooting yourself from one cloud to another! Are you a bullet?!”
“Calm down Zephyr, at least Rowen did a good thing this time!”
Sengoku stopped Zephyr, persuading him with a bitter feeling in his heart.
After all, Rowen hasn’t done anything that could be described as Good or normal before, right?
Rowen rolled his eyes and stared at Sengoku who was telling the truth.
“What a terrible and terrifying ability!!”
Sengoku exclaimed before he patted Rowen on the shoulder, and said earnestly, “Relax, Rowen. I won’t ask you about things you don’t want to say. In the future, your burden will become very heavy. I hope you are worthy of what you just said… That Justice is never late!”
“This is exactly what I expected!”
Rowen smiled with a foolish expression on his face. Sengoku’s statement has nothing to do with the distance between them. But because he said this, Rowen felt Sengoku’s trust in him.
The current situation is great!
Sengoku worked vigorously and resolutely as he turned back to his seat and took out a document from the drawer: “It just so happens that there is something for you to do. You are fast, so you can directly fly… Due to the downfall of Crocodile, there are two Pirate Groups with Supernova in them that didn’t set off to the New World and they stayed in the First Half of the Gand Line, I imagine that they are trying to do something big to become the new Shichibukai.”
“This would be your responsibility, Rowen!”
Rowen sucked in a breath of cold air when he heard this, Sengoku is really treating him as an unlimited labor force!
So he asked, “Is it urgent?”
“No rush, they are still in the planning period, but just in case, it’s better for you to go over there early and settle it.”
“So…”
Rowen calmed down and said with a serious expression on his face: “Please allow me to refuse!”
“Huh?”
Sengoku frowned, but instead of rushing to berate Rowen, he asked, “What’s your reason?”
“I want to learn Armament Haki, Life Return (Seimei Kikan), and I also want to further develop my Devil Fruit!”
“Although I won the battle with Crocodile and Jino, the process was very dangerous. The Desertification ability of Crocodile almost killed me, and I couldn’t break through Jino’s Life Seal defense even with my strongest attack. My current strength is not yet enough for me to take on so many tasks. Please allow me to train. After I continue to grow stronger, I will go out to perform Missions!”
Rowen said the reason and request in one breath. He thought Sengoku would scold him with a military order. Unexpectedly, there was a moment of silence as he and Zephyr both laughed at the same time.
“You should have discovered this long ago, Rowen!”
Zephyr patted him on the shoulder and said with some emotion in his voice: “I know you are a good boy, and you don’t want to lose your time in which you can develop your Devil Fruit and physique. But your physical strength is already amazing enough, and all that is left is to train it further but you are right to say that your Devil Fruit Ability is lacking. I would have been really disappointed in you if you hadn’t made this request now, Rowen!”
Rowen looked at them both with a dumbfounded expression on his face!
In fact, the current situation is not that difficult to understand, many people think that Zephyr and Kizaru’s quarrel is because Zephyr pays attention to physique and Kizaru pays attention to his Devil Fruit Ability.
That is actually not the case.
If a Logia Ability User wants to grow stronger then developing his or her Devil Fruit power is almost the only and accepted answer.
Zephyr was actually asking Kizaru to synchronize his physical training while developing his Devil Fruit Abilities so that he can go even further on the path of power.
Kizaru was confident in the power and speed of the Glint-Glint Fruit and dismissed Zephyr’s theory.
Rowen’s current situation is similar to Kizaru’s, but with a different focus.
Is it wrong to simply strengthen the Devil Fruit Ability? And is it really a correct method to only strengthen the body?
Rowen took the opposite path from Kizaru, but it was also because of the powerful destructive power and speed added by their Devil Fruit Ability that made them neglect another point.
Kizaru only relied on the Glint-Glint Fruit to make countless physicists hate him to the core, and Rowen’s thunder and lightning power boosted by his physique could make countless strong men feel ashamed of themselves.
This is the same mistake where they only focused on a single aspect of power.
As his Sensei, Zephyr clearly saw this problem early.
But he didn’t say anything because he was waiting.
As he did to Kizaru decades ago.
It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish from your own basket. The master leads the door and the training is personal to everyone. Zephyr expects his disciples to recognize their shortcomings by themselves.
But Kizaru didn’t see his shortcomings clearly. Instead, he hated Zephyr’s physical training methods.
The relationship between the two parties quickly dropped to freezing point and it got to the point where Zephyr literally hated to be in the same room as Kizaru and they turned against each other.
Now that Rowen had spoken about his shortcomings, it means that he is not lost in his own power as his previous students and Zephyr breathed a sigh of relief and untied a heavy knot in his heart that had been there for decades.
No matter what he did in the original series, Zephyr deserves everyone’s respect in Marine Headquarters, as he was the Director of the Recruit Camp, and was their Sensei!
“Half a year, Rowen!”
After Sengoku laughed, the decision was made as he spoke: “I will give you half a year, how much you can learn in this time will depend upon you! I look forward to the day when you shine!”
Half a year!
Six full months!
That’s twice as much as Rowen wanted for his three-month vacation!
Rowen clenched his fists as he nodded and looked at Sengoku with a firm expression on his face: “I won’t let you down, Fleet Admiral!”
When Zephyr took Rowen and left the office, Sengoku looked at the empty and quiet office and took out a Senbai, and chewed slowly while thinking: “Will I be disappointed? Maybe… Tsuru has already boarded the island. Let’s see how her investigation results are.”
…
At this time, the time was Sea Calander on January 17, 1516. It has been a full year and three months and five days since Rowen came into this world. The legendary fruit medicinal effect has ended 105 days!
The next day, Marine Headquarters, Drilling Square!
If someone passed through the Headquarters Fortress and proceeded along the road, they would arrive at a second intersection, now they would need to turn right and walk for an hour, and then they will arrive at the only clearing in the MarineFord.
This is a real open space and it is uninhabited within a few kilometers. Huge rock stones are piled up in disorder, and the moss on the surface tells the passage of time.
The cracks in the floor of the square are covered with weeds, and from time to time, a few small animals can be seen running away in panic.
At the edge of the square, a hole-like tear is present on the ground that has eaten half of the circle, and the trail of roots on the edge proves that it has been knocked down by some powerful force!
“Rowen, You have probably heard about Golden Lion attacking the Marine Headquarters, right?”
Zephyr sighed and his mind seemed to return to the night when he was awakened by the screams: “This is the place where the Golden Lion finally fell!”
One of the Big Three Pirates from the Roger Era, the Legendary Pirate, “Golden Lion” Shiki!!
Rowen had a solemn expression on his face as he looked at the huge dilapidated square. He could vaguely hear the unwilling roar of the Golden Lion when he fell down here.
“That Battle was too tragic. Countless Marine Soldiers and Civilians were killed. Shiki was able to take action regardless of the consequences while Sengoku and Garp worked together to fight him and to save as many people as they can while doing so.”
Zephyr said and he clenched his fist with the remaining left hand: “At that time, as the Recruit Camp Chief Instructor, I retreated with the new recruits, but we were still affected by one of Golden Lion’s attacks.
There were 1,300 people with me, but only 700 people survived!”
Rowen was silent as he heard Zephyr’s words.
The total number of Recruits in the Recruit Camp is now less than five hundred, and losing them would be a big blow to the Marines so Rowen can imagine how devasted Zephyr must be when he lost almost half of his students.
And this is only the Recruit Camp, without counting the casualties in other places! It is conceivable how much Marine Headquarters lost in that battle!
“I don’t care what you want to do, Rowen.”
Zephyr slowly turned his head while gritting his teeth and said: “I just want to ask you one thing as your teacher, avenge your brothers and sisters who died so unjustly that day…!”
No one would talk about the word “Beg”, let alone Zephyr but he was almost pleading to Rowen at this moment.
Zephyr did not shed tears, but his eyes were filled with so much hatred that it almost poured out, and his eyes were bloodshot.
The former Admiral “Black Arm” Zephyr was just a weak old man at this time, and he no longer had the power to avenge his disciples.
He is always grinning and grumpy and has Garp’s demeanor, but he can no longer endure this unforgettable torture in his heart all the time.
As Sengoku had said, this is a poor man who has been changed by hatred.
After a moment of silence, Rowen spoke slowly and clearly: “Edward Weevil, calling himself Whitebeard II, attacked your ship four years ago. All of your beloved students were killed except for Ain and Binz, and your right arm was badly damaged and amputated.”
Under Zephyr’s shocked gaze, Rowen asked, “Are you going to spare him?”
“No way!”
Zephyr was taken aback and replied with a furious expression on his face.
“Leave it to me, Sensei!”
“Whether it is Shiki or Edward Weevil, I will bring their heads back and put them in front of you!!”
Rowen said seriously as he knew that if nothing else changed, Zephyr will be suspended from the position of Recruit Camp Chief Instructor next year and he will go out to the sea with his trusted students and start hunting the pirates.
Today’s catharsis will not be the end, the hatred has completely changed the old man in front of him.
He wants to change Zephyr’s fate, as for the reason…
Why should there be a reason?
He is Zephyr’s disciple!
This is reason enough, just as it should be!
Rowen never gave in and he never had the idea of giving in to anyone, the moment he rose from his sickbed, the old Rowen was dead and the only one alive was a Monster who lived at the edge of death!
He is born strong!
And the Strong People do things because they could, they don’t need reason!
Zephyr didn’t say much as he just uttered a word with trembling lips: “Okay!”
In the next moment, Zephyr stepped forward and his left hand condensed the ultimate form of Armament Haki before he ruthlessly punched Rowen.
Rowen’s expression condensed and he wanted to dodge the unch, but Zephyr has much experience in combat.
The moment he punched out, he blocked all Rowen’s dodge space. Unless Rowen is willing to use Blink, it was inevitable that he would be punched!
However, the Blink ability also needs a certain amount of preparation time and this short gap was caught by Zephyr as he punched!
Bang!!!
Violent Tremors appeared in the surroundings, however, the surrounding environment did not change at all. The stones at their feet trembled slightly, and there was no sound anymore.
The only thing that could prove the power of the punch was the cliff behind Rowen and the vast and boundless Sea which left a long oval-shaped pit that shook a huge wave for thousands of meters in the distance!!
“At my peak, even Garp, a man called ‘Iron Fist’, didn’t dare to take this move head-on! Your Thunderlight punch is powerful enough, but the method of use is too rough and complicated, and it is far from condensing power together. Only 60% of the 10 percent of the power was used in the real world by you!”
Zephyr gasped and pulled his fist, stained with flesh and blood, out of Rowen’s stomach, and then looked Rowen in the eye and said, “Your body is strong enough to learn this move, and this move is strong enough for you to use in your entire journey! Its name is ……”
Military Wrist· Deep Peaks!
Half an hour later, during the interrogation between Zephyr and Sengoku, Rowen revealed his theory of “Justice that is never late.”
However, the focus of the two people’s attention was not here. Justice is different for everybody and no one person can impose his Justice on another and they did not want Rowen to feel wrong from the bottom of their hearts.
After all, what a good seedling this is!
“That is to say, you used the electricity accumulated in the clouds to launch yourself as a means of movement, flying all the way back from Pucci?”
Zephyr repeated with a calm expression on his face and seeing Rowen nodding his head, his voice suddenly took an iron edge as he spoke: “Can’t you honestly develop your Devil Fruit Ability like a normal person?! Shooting yourself from one cloud to another! Are you a bullet?!”
“Calm down Zephyr, at least Rowen did a good thing this time!”
Sengoku stopped Zephyr, persuading him with a bitter feeling in his heart.
After all, Rowen hasn’t done anything that could be described as Good or normal before, right?
Rowen rolled his eyes and stared at Sengoku who was telling the truth.
“What a terrible and terrifying ability!!”
Sengoku exclaimed before he patted Rowen on the shoulder, and said earnestly, “Relax, Rowen. I won’t ask you about things you don’t want to say. In the future, your burden will become very heavy. I hope you are worthy of what you just said… That Justice is never late!”
“This is exactly what I expected!”
Rowen smiled with a foolish expression on his face. Sengoku’s statement has nothing to do with the distance between them. But because he said this, Rowen felt Sengoku’s trust in him.
The current situation is great!
Sengoku worked vigorously and resolutely as he turned back to his seat and took out a document from the drawer: “It just so happens that there is something for you to do. You are fast, so you can directly fly… Due to the downfall of Crocodile, there are two Pirate Groups with Supernova in them that didn’t set off to the New World and they stayed in the First Half of the Gand Line, I imagine that they are trying to do something big to become the new Shichibukai.”
“This would be your responsibility, Rowen!”
Rowen sucked in a breath of cold air when he heard this, Sengoku is really treating him as an unlimited labor force!
So he asked, “Is it urgent?”
“No rush, they are still in the planning period, but just in case, it’s better for you to go over there early and settle it.”
“So…”
Rowen calmed down and said with a serious expression on his face: “Please allow me to refuse!”
“Huh?”
Sengoku frowned, but instead of rushing to berate Rowen, he asked, “What’s your reason?”
“I want to learn Armament Haki, Life Return (Seimei Kikan), and I also want to further develop my Devil Fruit!”
“Although I won the battle with Crocodile and Jino, the process was very dangerous. The Desertification ability of Crocodile almost killed me, and I couldn’t break through Jino’s Life Seal defense even with my strongest attack. My current strength is not yet enough for me to take on so many tasks. Please allow me to train. After I continue to grow stronger, I will go out to perform Missions!”
Rowen said the reason and request in one breath. He thought Sengoku would scold him with a military order. Unexpectedly, there was a moment of silence as he and Zephyr both laughed at the same time.
“You should have discovered this long ago, Rowen!”
Zephyr patted him on the shoulder and said with some emotion in his voice: “I know you are a good boy, and you don’t want to lose your time in which you can develop your Devil Fruit and physique. But your physical strength is already amazing enough, and all that is left is to train it further but you are right to say that your Devil Fruit Ability is lacking. I would have been really disappointed in you if you hadn’t made this request now, Rowen!”
Rowen looked at them both with a dumbfounded expression on his face!
In fact, the current situation is not that difficult to understand, many people think that Zephyr and Kizaru’s quarrel is because Zephyr pays attention to physique and Kizaru pays attention to his Devil Fruit Ability.
That is actually not the case.
If a Logia Ability User wants to grow stronger then developing his or her Devil Fruit power is almost the only and accepted answer.
Zephyr was actually asking Kizaru to synchronize his physical training while developing his Devil Fruit Abilities so that he can go even further on the path of power.
Kizaru was confident in the power and speed of the Glint-Glint Fruit and dismissed Zephyr’s theory.
Rowen’s current situation is similar to Kizaru’s, but with a different focus.
Is it wrong to simply strengthen the Devil Fruit Ability? And is it really a correct method to only strengthen the body?
Rowen took the opposite path from Kizaru, but it was also because of the powerful destructive power and speed added by their Devil Fruit Ability that made them neglect another point.
Kizaru only relied on the Glint-Glint Fruit to make countless physicists hate him to the core, and Rowen’s thunder and lightning power boosted by his physique could make countless strong men feel ashamed of themselves.
This is the same mistake where they only focused on a single aspect of power.
As his Sensei, Zephyr clearly saw this problem early.
But he didn’t say anything because he was waiting.
As he did to Kizaru decades ago.
It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish from your own basket. The master leads the door and the training is personal to everyone. Zephyr expects his disciples to recognize their shortcomings by themselves.
But Kizaru didn’t see his shortcomings clearly. Instead, he hated Zephyr’s physical training methods.
The relationship between the two parties quickly dropped to freezing point and it got to the point where Zephyr literally hated to be in the same room as Kizaru and they turned against each other.
Now that Rowen had spoken about his shortcomings, it means that he is not lost in his own power as his previous students and Zephyr breathed a sigh of relief and untied a heavy knot in his heart that had been there for decades.
No matter what he did in the original series, Zephyr deserves everyone’s respect in Marine Headquarters, as he was the Director of the Recruit Camp, and was their Sensei!
“Half a year, Rowen!”
After Sengoku laughed, the decision was made as he spoke: “I will give you half a year, how much you can learn in this time will depend upon you! I look forward to the day when you shine!”
Half a year!
Six full months!
That’s twice as much as Rowen wanted for his three-month vacation!
Rowen clenched his fists as he nodded and looked at Sengoku with a firm expression on his face: “I won’t let you down, Fleet Admiral!”
When Zephyr took Rowen and left the office, Sengoku looked at the empty and quiet office and took out a Senbai, and chewed slowly while thinking: “Will I be disappointed? Maybe… Tsuru has already boarded the island. Let’s see how her investigation results are.”
…
At this time, the time was Sea Calander on January 17, 1516. It has been a full year and three months and five days since Rowen came into this world. The legendary fruit medicinal effect has ended 105 days!
The next day, Marine Headquarters, Drilling Square!
If someone passed through the Headquarters Fortress and proceeded along the road, they would arrive at a second intersection, now they would need to turn right and walk for an hour, and then they will arrive at the only clearing in the MarineFord.
This is a real open space and it is uninhabited within a few kilometers. Huge rock stones are piled up in disorder, and the moss on the surface tells the passage of time.
The cracks in the floor of the square are covered with weeds, and from time to time, a few small animals can be seen running away in panic.
At the edge of the square, a hole-like tear is present on the ground that has eaten half of the circle, and the trail of roots on the edge proves that it has been knocked down by some powerful force!
“Rowen, You have probably heard about Golden Lion attacking the Marine Headquarters, right?”
Zephyr sighed and his mind seemed to return to the night when he was awakened by the screams: “This is the place where the Golden Lion finally fell!”
One of the Big Three Pirates from the Roger Era, the Legendary Pirate, “Golden Lion” Shiki!!
Rowen had a solemn expression on his face as he looked at the huge dilapidated square. He could vaguely hear the unwilling roar of the Golden Lion when he fell down here.
“That Battle was too tragic. Countless Marine Soldiers and Civilians were killed. Shiki was able to take action regardless of the consequences while Sengoku and Garp worked together to fight him and to save as many people as they can while doing so.”
Zephyr said and he clenched his fist with the remaining left hand: “At that time, as the Recruit Camp Chief Instructor, I retreated with the new recruits, but we were still affected by one of Golden Lion’s attacks.
There were 1,300 people with me, but only 700 people survived!”
Rowen was silent as he heard Zephyr’s words.
The total number of Recruits in the Recruit Camp is now less than five hundred, and losing them would be a big blow to the Marines so Rowen can imagine how devasted Zephyr must be when he lost almost half of his students.
And this is only the Recruit Camp, without counting the casualties in other places! It is conceivable how much Marine Headquarters lost in that battle!
“I don’t care what you want to do, Rowen.”
Zephyr slowly turned his head while gritting his teeth and said: “I just want to ask you one thing as your teacher, avenge your brothers and sisters who died so unjustly that day…!”
No one would talk about the word “Beg”, let alone Zephyr but he was almost pleading to Rowen at this moment.
Zephyr did not shed tears, but his eyes were filled with so much hatred that it almost poured out, and his eyes were bloodshot.
The former Admiral “Black Arm” Zephyr was just a weak old man at this time, and he no longer had the power to avenge his disciples.
He is always grinning and grumpy and has Garp’s demeanor, but he can no longer endure this unforgettable torture in his heart all the time.
As Sengoku had said, this is a poor man who has been changed by hatred.
After a moment of silence, Rowen spoke slowly and clearly: “Edward Weevil, calling himself Whitebeard II, attacked your ship four years ago. All of your beloved students were killed except for Ain and Binz, and your right arm was badly damaged and amputated.”
Under Zephyr’s shocked gaze, Rowen asked, “Are you going to spare him?”
“No way!”
Zephyr was taken aback and replied with a furious expression on his face.
“Leave it to me, Sensei!”
“Whether it is Shiki or Edward Weevil, I will bring their heads back and put them in front of you!!”
Rowen said seriously as he knew that if nothing else changed, Zephyr will be suspended from the position of Recruit Camp Chief Instructor next year and he will go out to the sea with his trusted students and start hunting the pirates.
Today’s catharsis will not be the end, the hatred has completely changed the old man in front of him.
He wants to change Zephyr’s fate, as for the reason…
Why should there be a reason?
He is Zephyr’s disciple!
This is reason enough, just as it should be!
Rowen never gave in and he never had the idea of giving in to anyone, the moment he rose from his sickbed, the old Rowen was dead and the only one alive was a Monster who lived at the edge of death!
He is born strong!
And the Strong People do things because they could, they don’t need reason!
Zephyr didn’t say much as he just uttered a word with trembling lips: “Okay!”
In the next moment, Zephyr stepped forward and his left hand condensed the ultimate form of Armament Haki before he ruthlessly punched Rowen.
Rowen’s expression condensed and he wanted to dodge the unch, but Zephyr has much experience in combat.
The moment he punched out, he blocked all Rowen’s dodge space. Unless Rowen is willing to use Blink, it was inevitable that he would be punched!
However, the Blink ability also needs a certain amount of preparation time and this short gap was caught by Zephyr as he punched!
Bang!!!
Violent Tremors appeared in the surroundings, however, the surrounding environment did not change at all. The stones at their feet trembled slightly, and there was no sound anymore.
The only thing that could prove the power of the punch was the cliff behind Rowen and the vast and boundless Sea which left a long oval-shaped pit that shook a huge wave for thousands of meters in the distance!!
“At my peak, even Garp, a man called ‘Iron Fist’, didn’t dare to take this move head-on! Your Thunderlight punch is powerful enough, but the method of use is too rough and complicated, and it is far from condensing power together. Only 60% of the 10 percent of the power was used in the real world by you!”
Zephyr gasped and pulled his fist, stained with flesh and blood, out of Rowen’s stomach, and then looked Rowen in the eye and said, “Your body is strong enough to learn this move, and this move is strong enough for you to use in your entire journey! Its name is ……”
Military Wrist· Deep Peaks!
