"Kuzan."
Kenji spoke again, but this time he addressed Kuzan, giving him instructions.
"You go... and arrest Shiki."
"Eh?"
The sudden voice startled Kuzan.
When he recognized it as Kenji's voice and understood what Kenji had instructed, he was startled again.
"I'm to arrest Shiki?"
Kuzan was utterly stunned, his face changing dramatically.
However, he quickly reacted.
'That's right! Shiki is currently suppressed by Kenji-san's power, it's the perfect time to arrest him.'
Thinking of this, Kuzan's dramatically changed expression quickly reverted.
Then, he carefully considered a more comprehensive arrest plan and wanted to discuss it with Kenji.
However, when he spoke to inquire, he found that Kenji did not respond at all.
This made Kuzan immediately understand that Kenji's 'connection' had been cut.
However, Kenji's long-distance telepathy did strike Kuzan as quite novel.
He thought that if he also mastered such an ability... wouldn't he even save on Den Den Mushi?
"Hmm, I'll ask Kenji-san about this later..." Kuzan put away his thoughts and got up to head to the center of the battlefield.
As he had expected, the continuous Conqueror's Haki released by Kenji indeed favored him. Even upon reaching the most concentrated area of Conqueror's Haki at the center of the battlefield, he didn't feel much pressure.
He quickly found Shiki and approached this world-renowned Legendary Pirate.
He extended his hand, and a pair of Sea Stone handcuffs appeared in his palm. He smiled at Shiki, as if looking at a treasure.
'Personally arresting a Legendary Pirate... such an honor isn't something just anyone can have.'
As the Sea Stone handcuffs restrained Shiki, a thought instantly arose in Kuzan's mind, 'Now, I'm going to be famous worldwide.'
While Kuzan was going to arrest Shiki.
In Flower Capital, on the second floor room of the pleasure district.
Kenji stood by the window, looking down at the bustling streets with people coming and going in the distance.
The Oiran leaned beside him, her flushed cheeks covered in tiny beads of sweat, her watery eyes hazy, and her tender tongue lightly licking her delicate red lips, still somewhat unsatisfied.
However, at this moment, Kenji's thoughts were no longer on her.
At this moment, his attention had almost entirely shifted to the system prompts that appeared in his vision.
These floating prompts, appearing out of nowhere in his sight, could only be seen by him, the system's host, and the specific prompt content was about the rewards.
[You have successfully suppressed one of the Legendary Pirates, 'Golden Lion' Shiki, after a hard-fought battle!]
[You reported your battle achievements, shaking the high-level officials of Marineford!]
[The high-level officials of Marineford have decided to promote you exceptionally again. The specific promotion plan is currently being discussed.]
'Another exceptional promotion?' Kenji frowned after reading the prompt content.
He already knew that in the system's timeline, his military rank and position would be tied to the mission difficulty and reward content.
Or rather, the system used him in the timeline to determine the difficulty of the mission.
After all, having a Marine recruit stop a Legendary Pirate and having a Marine Admiral stop a Legendary Pirate clearly have very different mission difficulties.
"In the system's timeline, will I eventually be promoted to Admiral?" Kenji shook his head, no longer thinking about it.
He had no way to interfere with the system's timeline. Of course, if he really had to deal with it, it wasn't absolutely impossible.
'If I complete each mission just short of perfect, perhaps I can slow down the promotion speed in the system's timeline?'
Kenji thought of this point but had no intention of doing it.
Deliberately suppressing mission completion was completely unnecessary.
Kenji ultimately decided to just let nature take its course.
'Hmm, this time's reward...? Have traits already upgraded?' Kenji looked up and scanned the reward content.
[Mission (Side): Report the conflict between Whitebeard and Golden Lion Shiki to Marineford! - Overcompleted!]
[Reward Increased!]
[Reward has been changed to: Upgrade a random owned trait 5 times!]
[This mission triggered an additional reward!]
[Additional Reward: A random owned trait will breakthrough 1 time!]
[Trait Breakthrough: Allows the selected trait to exceed its current limit!]
[Rewards being distributed...]
[Your Future Vision (Super Blue) has been upgraded... Light Purple... Purple... Dark Purple... Super Purple... Light Gold!]
[Current Future Vision (Light Gold)!]
Kenji suddenly felt his vision blur.
The continuous advancement of the [Future Vision] trait meant its ability improvement was terrifying.
He hadn't tested it yet, and wasn't sure how far into the future he could foresee. But a subconscious feeling told him that his current [Future Vision] was measured in hours.
Others' Future Vision was only a few seconds or a few minutes.
In fact, before the trait upgrade, Kenji was in a similar situation.
"[Future Vision]... Hmm, I'll test it at an appropriate time."
Kenji's attention returned to the system interface. He was only interested in one thing now.
"This Trait Breakthrough... is it similar to trait evolution?"
Just as Kenji was silently speculating, new system prompt appeared in his vision.
[Starting trait selection...]
When this line of prompt appeared, Kenji suddenly noticed that most of the colored traits in his vision abruptly faded, disappearing into thin air, leaving only golden traits still emitting a sun-like glow.
"It seems trait breakthrough has prerequisites?" Kenji repeatedly checked, gradually understanding.
"The traits that can be selected for breakthrough must be of Golden rarity?"
Golden rarity was the highest tier!
Although there were still divisions of light and dark colors within this rarity level, they were generally all within the same tier.
If it continued to break through... it would probably be beyond gold.
"Will a new rarity level be unlocked?" Kenji's gaze was fixed on the system interface in his vision.
Just then, new prompt appeared on the interface.
[Target trait selected: Giant Bloodline!]