Bill Geewater.

Calm island.

When the entire continent of Valoran was plunged into a strong cloud of ruin and war.

This isolated island on the sea still retains its unique wild and free atmosphere.

The streets are full of people, ships come and go, and all kinds of goods from all over the world are constantly being swallowed.

It's just that as a member of the newly promoted Noxus and the East China Sea Alliance, the jurisdiction of Chen Senran, the king of the Eastern Territory, Bilgewater is still inevitable, and it is also stained with a hint of uneasiness, and a taste.

Pier 7.

A military pier dedicated to the military council of Birgewater.

The members of the new Guns & Roses, who had undergone emergency training, quickly adjusted their queues and stood in the most standard formation.

In order to be reviewed by the high-ranking members of the Military Council who have just returned from the Valoran continent.

Judging from the surface alone, this new army can be called neat and impressive.

But only Balzac, who personally trained them, knew that this was nothing more than a façade.

Its true combat effectiveness is probably only one-fifth of that of the original Ionian expedition and the Rose.

This kind of combat effectiveness is directly pulled to the battlefield, and it can only be the life of cannon fodder.

But, it's too late.

Even if Balzac was given another month, he could at least increase his combat effectiveness by two-fifths.

But, there is no time left.

The war is about to begin.

Chen Senran, or rather, the council, will not give him another chance.

That's all he could do to send them to battle.

At most, in my heart, pray that they will have a few more people and come back alive.

"It seems. Not bad. Fitz's comment interrupted Balzac's musings.

Such a comment made him smile helplessly.

This time, the top of the military council who returned from the Valoran continent were Fitz and Graves, the little fishmen.

Fiz the little fishman volunteered.

Graves, on the other hand, is obvious. It's to escape, something.

After Chen Senran ascended to the highest throne in Noxus, he did not mention the matter of dueling with Trist, and he did not mention that he must be killed.

He followed the fleet and returned to Bilgewater.

I don't know, why.

"What do you think?" Fitz, the little fishman, asked Graves on the side again.

"Well......" Graves seemed a little absent-minded, and only vaguely responded.

"Then, General Balzac, let's go." Fishman Fitz only assumed that he agreed. It nodded, and said to Balzac, "Please go to Noxus, Jack needs you." ”

"I ...... Are you going too? Balzac was stunned for a moment, then asked.

"Of course, you have to go, now, it's time to employ people." Fitz manifested at this point. Very different from its appearance of solemnity and seriousness, it said. "After you leave, we will take over the defense of Bilgewater, don't worry, you are a talented general, and you will definitely be able to give Jack a great help."

"Yes." Balzac could only nod.

He also understood that Chen Senran's situation in Noxus was not good at the moment.

After all. It was an incomparably difficult and dangerous thing to enter a kingdom that had once hated him as an outsider.

He was surrounded by former enemies, and there was no real one available.

So.

As Chen Senran's first batch of his own team, Balzac was summoned to Noxus as an errand boy. That's just a matter of course.

"Well, then, I'm taking my leave." Balzac was also considered a fairly pure military man, and he received the order and did not say anything more.

With just a military salute to Fitz and Graves, he gave a loud command and began to board the ship.

Under Balzac's command, a whole new army of guns and roses soon boarded the ocean-going fleet.

Standing in Class A, Balzac saluted Fitz and Graves for the last time, or, in other words, he was saluting all of Bilgewater.

Don't be polite.

Solemn, extremely solemn farewell.

Perhaps, in this life, you will never come back.

Hometown.

"Sail !!"

"Set sail !!"

The sea breeze blows.

The fleet set off with a bang.

It was a grand departure and a peaceful departure.

Because there was no farewell crowd, no noisy music, and no grand departure ceremony.

Just leave quietly.

No one knew that they had already embarked on their journey.

Maybe never come back.

Except, Fitz, the little fish-man, and Graves.

"Let's go, there's still a lot to do." Fitz looked at the fleets in the distance for a moment, and slowly turned around.

"Yes." From beginning to end, Graves didn't say anything more.

Oh no, except for the two of them.

In fact, there are other people who have also witnessed this silent expedition.

It's near Pier 7, on a tall building.

"Actually, you shouldn't have come back." The woman, after a long silence, looked at the fleet that had gradually disappeared into the sky, and said the first words of the meeting.

"But I'm back." The man retorted with a smile as he retorted to the woman's words.

"What are you doing when you come back?"

"You're knowingly asking."

“……”

Silence again.

The sea breeze blows from the open sea, carrying a heavy saltiness and dampness.

Seagulls are constantly flying over the surface of the sea.

It's nearly dusk.

"I'm used to life now." After a long time, the woman said again.

"You mean, I shouldn't have come to you?" The man still laughed, with a kind of disgusting calmness that was under control.

"You're no match for him, you can't be." The woman accentuated her tone and said.

"But......" the man said, turning his face to look at the woman, word by word, "he, no, he." ”

"Why? You can live well, you have merit, you have guns, you can mix in a high position in the navy. The woman looked at him too, "Why did you want to come back?" Come back and be a pirate. ”

"Hahahahaha!!" The man suddenly laughed, laughing inexplicably, tears of laughter were about to come out, and then he suddenly stopped laughing, he said, "I was born a thief, how do you let me be a soldier?" ”

"Luffy ......" the woman wanted to advise for the last time.

"Doom !!" The man interrupted her and said with a hundredfold stronger insistence than she had, "Are you willing?" Do you think this is still the Bilgewater you think of right now? Freedom, wildness, romance, fairness, do you feel it? ”

"I ......" the woman was silent again.

Long, long silence.

The sunset is finally falling towards the sea.

It's going to be night.

At night, there will be a lot of wind on the sea, right? (To be continued......)

PS: First update.

I'm really, a dog.

It's really unpleasant.

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