Chapter 21: Persuasion
"Lieutenant General Karp, during your absence, I have compiled the information passed on by the Warring States General."
On the warship that greeted Karp, Karp's lieutenant, Bogart, placed the paperwork on his desk.
"Huh? I don't want it! ”
"Lieutenant General! Please be decent! Bogart took a deep breath, "You can't always let me be your tool!" ”
"I'm training your management skills, Bogart!"
"The most important thing to improve your management ability is the lieutenant general!"
Karp, who had been taught a lesson by Bogart with honorifics, sat at the table like an angry child.
But he was just angry, and while he was angry, he ate fairy shellfish to vent his anger, and made up his mind not to work.
Instead, Ike was looking at the recent events as he sat aside.
"You're almost done, you're an old man with daughters and grandchildren, and you're so childish every day! Don't you want to earn some money to support your family for future generations? ”
"Tsk! The last thing I want to happen is to be educated by a cat! ”
Ike rolled his eyes, then continued flipping through the file.
Suddenly, the cat's paw slammed.
"Hey, Karp, look at this."
"Huh? What is it? ”
"See with your own eyes!"
When Karp heard this, he leaned closer to see the contents of the document.
But at this look, even Karp couldn't help frowning.
"What? Did that guy take the wrong medicine in Sengoku? Why did you give the authority to activate the Demon Slayer Order to the Span Dyne of CP9? And also launched against O'Hara in the West Sea!? Who messed with those bunch of scholars!? Karp shouted out the door, "Bogart! ”
"Lieutenant General!" Bogart walked in through the door, "Please instruct!" ”
"How long has it been since the Demon Slaying Order was launched against O'Hara?"
"Admiral, this is the order that was just given today!"
As soon as Karp heard this, he immediately took out the phone bug from the drawer and dialed it out.
"Hello? Is it Karp? Sengoku's voice came from the phone bug's mouth, "What's the matter, have you finally stopped taking vacation?" ”
"Sengoku, are you too old to be delirious? Let's not talk about why the authority to launch the Demon Slayer Order was given to CP9, can the ordinary people of O'Hara's gang of scholars commit the launch of the Demon Slaying Order!? That's human life! A whole island of human life! ”
"But once the Demon Slayer Order is activated, it cannot be revoked! Otherwise the majesty of the Navy cannot be guaranteed! Sengoku's voice was full of coldness, "But I will arrange for refuge ships to accept ordinary residents, but the scholars must be sanctioned." ”
When Karp heard this, although his head was puffed up with anger, he couldn't refute this sentence.
The Demon Slayer Order will dispatch ten top-tier naval warships, and then each battleship will have at least one rear admiral of the headquarters as a captain to command the soldiers, and five elite lieutenant generals as individual combat power support.
Add to that the ten warships, each with about 1,000 elite soldiers, that's tens of thousands!
A transfer of this magnitude must not be changed overnight!
Even if the Warring States wanted to revoke it, the world government would not agree.
Not to mention that the world government wants to kill scholars who can interpret the text of history!
Therefore, being able to arrange a refuge ship is already the limit of what Sengoku can do as a general.
"Warring States, it's Ben Meow."
“…… You're a stinky cat too, huh? ”
"Phew! Less nonsense! Ben Meow and Karp are now in the East China Sea, if the Demon Slaying Order is an order just issued today, then Ben Meow's side will probably arrive two days earlier than the Demon Slaying Order troops! Ike leaned his face against the phone bug, a cat face was unusually calm, as if discussing what to eat for dinner for a while, "In this way, Ben Meow and Karp will transfer the residents of O'Hara first, and when the time comes, you remember to order the Demon Slayer Command troops to saturate and bomb directly, and don't give the CP people time to investigate!" It is true that once the Demon Slaying Order is activated, it cannot be revoked, but the World Government has nothing else to say about this! ”
“…… No way! You're deceiving the World Government! ”
"Come on, Sengoku! You're a 'wise general'! Is it the world government that Ben meows the bullshit or are you lying to yourself? You don't know that the reason why the Navy has become notorious recently is that the government instructed the Navy to cooperate with the CP organization to search for Roger's wife and children, right? Regardless of the purpose, the safety of civilians is seriously threatened in the process! ”
"But the scholars will run away with you, too!"
"Do you think your refuge ship won't? Among the lieutenant generals who received the demon slaying order, there was this guy Sakasky! He's 100 percent going to shoot at the refuge ship in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots! ”
"......"
"Putting aside the nonsense of the world government, the famous 'wise general', you think about it with your intelligent brain, and then tell Ben Meow." Ike's tone was full of sarcasm when he called Sengoku "wise generals", "It's just a study of history, if there is no unsightly darkness, why should the world government rush to kill everything?" They are already on the opposite side of the civilian population! As the so-called guardian saint of the sea, does the navy protect civilians or the government!? ”
"Tell Ben Meow! Sengoku General! ”
Ike's tone became more and more intense, and a kitten face stared at him angrily.
It's not that he hates Sengoku, it's that the compromise made by Sengoku is too big, but it's too upright, so although the overall situation, strategy and IQ level are very high, there is really a lack of twists and turns.
I don't know how to be flexible!
“……”
Sengoku didn't answer, and judging by the phone-worm's imitation of expression, it was obvious that he was contemplative.
"Don't hesitate, Sengoku, you don't forget that justice is always the navy, not the world government. Truth be told, can you look at those disgusting garbage Draconians and say they're righteous? ”
"Sa, Sengoku, come on, make a choice, do you choose loyalty or justice?"
Ike's mocking tone was like a demon's whisper, echoing in Sengoku's ears.
“…… Hurry up, time waits for no one. ”
The Warring States left such a sentence and hung up the phone.
Karp, who witnessed all this, was amazed, and his friendship with Sengoku was from youth to old age, and they were the comrades-in-arms who knew each other the most in the world.
can make Sengoku, a man who is resolute and unhesitating in carrying out orders, give up and make small moves under the nose of the world government.
For the first time in decades!
"Tut-tut, I didn't expect that Ike would be able to say that you could move this old stubborn donkey of the Warring States!"
"How can a man who is proud and very confident in his own resourcefulness change his mind when Ben Meow points at his nose and scolds him a few words?"
Ike snatches the senbei from Karp's hand.
"Sengoku just wants to be persuaded by himself."