A serious storm was resolved by Rowen’s hippie-smiling face. Although the Vice-Admirals felt a bit wrong, but they have survived the storm and avoided any trouble, so they shook their heads and stopped speaking, and left the port.
But before leaving, everyone looked at Rowen with a strange look for a while.
Through today’s events, many Vice-Admirals who used to label Rowen as a “Genius” and “Diligence” secretly wrote a slogan, “This Son Of a Bitch has a deep mind and must not be provoked under any circumstances.”
As for Rowen’s shameless display, smart people won’t take it seriously.
Everyone can tell that CP0 wants to save their pride, Sengoku also wants to save his pride, and these two pride-to-pride collisions together are like Mars hitting the earth.
However, Rowen, a faceless and shameless Recruit, has reconciled as he didn’t want to save any pride and he would not allow others to harm him due to theirs, and the two face-saving guys naturally couldn’t hold back continue to fight hard at this time.
So the effect was achieved and peace regained. And Rowen can understand this in an instant, he can understand his own advantages in holding a Heaven-Alarming Merit.
He can take the initiative to be a shameless individual to wipe his hands off the entire matter of him taking any blame and gain benefits and connections at the same time, so scheming…
They can’t afford to provoke this guy!
This is the advantage of having Heavens-Alarming merit. If Rowen had behaved any different and stood up with Sengoku against the CP0 to share the pressure on Sengoku then they will only think that Rowen is strong and brave.
But Rowen chose to behave shamelessly, this is the scheming of a Devil! Not only did he didn’t share any pressure and set off the fire but he logically despised all of them without being obvious about it.
They have to silently endure this Dumb Loss, after all, they can do anything as Rowen ‘Technically’ hadn’t said anything that would affect their pride.
What they find impossible to digest is that they have to endure this loss not because of CP0 but because of their own Rookie.
Caesar led the other researchers to carry the cut-off core fragments back and he glanced at Rowen standing among Sengoku and other Vice-Admirals.
Just as he was about to open his mouth and wanted to say something, he was taken away by Kizaru who dragged him by his collar…
Caesar wanted to improve the Blueprint of the Thunder-Lightning Stimulation Device again but he discovered that the difficulty of improving it was quite astonishing as it involves the entire body which includes the important organs in anybody.
Now he can only guarantee the safety threshold of someone who has a Combat Strength of 5000 Doriki at most, and the situation of the last time will appear if they went any higher.
So his grounding time got longer and longer…
Anyway, his mission was to improve the strength of the Headquarters Vice-Admirals and they would not even allow him to go out of the Scientific Force Base.
The Vice-Admiral often comes to the Scientific Force Base for a stroll and Caesar was scared like a quail every time they approached him, he was so scared that he didn’t even sleep well for several days.
On the other side, Rowen ignored Sengoku’s mixed gaze of scrutiny, surprise, anger, and depression, and came to Zephyr’s side and saluted him.
“Zephyr Sensei, I’m back!”
Zephyr looked at Rowen in front of him, pausing for a moment on the familiar face that had darkened considerably, and his old eyes teared up a little as he spoke: “It’s good that you are back! Everything is good now that you are all back!”
Zephyr secretly wiped away his tears and he spoke in with choked voice: “You know what Rowen, when I heard that Beast Tide caused you to suffer a lot of deaths and injuries, in my heart…”
Zephyr is a person who is not good at expressing his feelings. He always teaches his disciples by beating them into the ground, so his disciple will remember the lesson when he is beaten, and never have any arrogance when facing enemies.
But this does not mean that the old man in front of him has no feelings. On the contrary, Zephyr can be said to be the most emotional member of their era.
For a Soldier to make a living in this dangerous sea and fight against powerful enemies, every patrol trip may be their last one. If it was not for the delicate feelings in their heart, they would not even dare to have the dream of having a home.
This included him in the future who was later nicknamed “Z”, the source of Zephyr’s plan to destroy the entire New World was also his hatred for the Pirates.
Going from an “Admiral who does not kill” to being “Z” who wants to destroy the New World and everyone in it, only people with rich feelings can nurture such a huge hatred!
There are also some other examples like a person killing your relative in front of you. In The War Of The Best, did Garp hated Akainu any less to how Zephyr would come to hate the pirates?
That is naturally impossible!
But Garp resisted because he was more rational than emotional. Zephyr, on the other hand, is more emotional than rational.
So this time, the Beast Tide of the Hell Island made Zephyr feel very uncomfortable, and he couldn’t wait to fly over and rescue his disciples. If Sengoku hadn’t stopped him for various reasons then he would have met with Rowen and the others on their way back.
“My Apologies for the trouble I have caused, Sensei.”
Rowen sighed.
After the death of his wife and son and resignation from his Admiral position, Camp Recruit could be said to be Zephyr’s only spiritual support. He couldn’t understand Zephyr’s feelings for his disciples because he didn’t have that rich experience.
But being able to be so heart-warming to outsiders who have no blood relationship with him does not prevent Rowen from admiring Zephyr.
Momonga grinned and the corner of his mouth was raised a little and he decided to hide the fact that the Beast Tide was caused by Rowen in his stomach forever, without telling anyone!
Rowen had indeed caused the Beast Tide but it was an unintentional accident on his part.
But the truth remained that Rowen was the reason why many Recruits died on the Hell Island and if that information became known to Zephyr then how would the Master and the Disciple get along?
This…… is life!
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