"Captain Gion."
"what are they doing?"
"Is headquarters preparing for some kind of event?"
As Doll surveyed the numerous Marine personnel constructing a platform and moving various equipment in the plaza, he turned to Gion beside him and asked a question.
Because she was also a woman, and had served as Rosen's adjutant.
She quickly struck up a conversation with Gion.
Upon hearing Doll's words, Douglas Bullet, who was following behind, subtly pricked up his ears.
He had noticed the setup in the headquarters plaza a long time ago, but because of his personality, he didn't ask about it.
"It's not an event, but setting up the venue and equipment for the conferment ceremony."
Upon hearing this, Gion's tone revealed a hint of expectation and emotion.
"A conferment ceremony?"
"Such a big commotion."
"Could it be?"
Upon hearing this, Doll was intrigued.
"It was the ceremony to confer the rank of Admiral on Rosen."
Before Doll could finish speaking, Gion spoke up first.
"The governor's investiture ceremony?"
"No wonder the Governor General suddenly summoned us all to headquarters."
"It turns out it was to attend his conferment ceremony."
Vinsmoke Judge was both surprised and excited.
Even though he had been in the North Blue 1st Branch, he had seen the news in the newspaper about Rosen's one-on-one fight against the Ochoku Pirates and his removal from the ranks of the Four Emperors.
That's why.
Upon learning that Rosen was to be awarded the rank of Admiral, and that he himself was fortunate enough to be present at the ceremony, Vinsmoke Judge felt as if he were witnessing and participating in history.
"Captain Gion."
"There should be a lot of people attending the governor's conferment ceremony, right?"
Monet glanced at the arrangements in the square.
There are at least ten giant screens for projecting videos, and at least one hundred video Den Den Mushi (snail-shaped insects) placed in different locations to film live streams from different angles.
"That depends on whether you're asking about the scene or the entire area?"
Gion turned to look at Monet.
"Captain Gion, what's the difference?"
T Bone didn't react for a moment.
"At the scene, there will be the Fleet Admiral, the three Admirals of the Headquarters, the Marine Hero, Chief Instructor Zephyr, Chief Staff Officer Tsuru, and the Director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, Victor Seiji, leading a total of 100,000 Marine personnel, to attend Rosen's Admiral Conferment Ceremony."
"If it's all of them, then the headquarters and all Marine branches around the world, totaling tens of millions of Marine personnel, will participate in Rosen's admiral commissioning ceremony by watching the live broadcast."
Doll's words stunned everyone behind her.
Even Douglas Bullet looked stunned.
They all knew that Rosen's Admiral conferment ceremony would be a grand affair, with an astonishing number of attendees.
But I never expected it to be this large.
At headquarters alone, all the top Marine officers and 100,000 Marine personnel were present.
If that were all of them, it would be even more exaggerated.
Marine branches located in different seas and islands around the world, totaling tens of millions of Marine personnel, participated in Rosen's rank-conferment ceremony via live video broadcast, witnessing his promotion to Admiral.
Such a scale.
This is the amount.
Even if all the conferment ceremonies of all previous Admirals were combined, they wouldn't amount to even a tenth of the scale of Rosen's ceremony.
As for those pirates who became kings.
Even if one becomes one of the Four Emperors, all that's needed is a newspaper to report on the sea.
The so-called King Cheng was extremely simple.
"Is this really the ceremony for conferring the rank of admiral?"
"Even a Marine admiral."
"No, even the ceremony for conferring ranks to the Commander-in-Chief of the entire army is not a fraction as grand as this ceremony!"
T Bone felt a chill run down his spine.
He had not attended the conferment ceremonies of other Admirals, or Fleet Admirals, or even commanders-in-chief, but he had heard of them.
It was also quite large in scale, but compared to Rosen's investiture ceremony...
It's like the difference between a firefly and the bright moon.
Can they be the same?
"Rosen, he is already recognized as the strongest Marine in the world for a thousand years."
"A legend that surpasses all Admirals and emperors."
Gion shook her head:
"There's something else you don't know!"
"Although it hasn't been published in the newspapers yet, the Marine has already become independent. Neither the headquarters nor the branches are directly under the World Government anymore."
"The Marine is still called the Marine, but it is no longer the government's Marine, but the world's Marine, or rather."
"It's Rosen's Marine."
Just as Douglas Bullet, Doll, and others were struggling to process the shock of Rosen's Admiral conferment ceremony, Gion dropped another bombshell.
"Has the Marine changed hands?"
This moment.
Even Douglas Bullet was a bit overwhelmed, his brain almost crashing from the barrage of bombshell news.
"Governor, has he already reached that level?"
Vinsmoke Judge's eyes were glazed over, his face filled with emotion.
It hasn't been long since Rosen last revealed his ambitions and declared that he wanted to establish his own Marine headquarters.
And what was the result?
The North Blue First Branch had only just begun to take shape as the new Marine headquarters, and the operation to sweep across the four seas had only just ended.
Gion, however, told him that Rosen was going to become a Marine admiral, and that the scale of the commissioning ceremony would be unprecedented.
Even if Gol D. Roger were crowned Pirate King, it wouldn't compare to this conferment ceremony.
That's fine.
As the World Government's direct agency and the strongest force, the Marine has actually changed hands.
Not only the Marine Headquarters, but all the Marine branches also changed hands.
From now on, the Marine will only have one voice.
Rosen's voice.
Faced with the shocking news that followed, Vinsmoke Judge was stunned and his body trembled a few times.
The only one who remained relatively calm was Gild Tesoro.
Because he was fortunate enough to participate in the highest-level conference that changed the world order and to witness the independence of the Marine.
Therefore, having known about the Marine independence for some time, they were relatively calm as a result.
"The Five Elders probably won't give up!"
Although Doll had never met the Five Elders, he had heard more or less about the deeds of these supreme rulers of the world government.
For the Five Elders, who stand at the pinnacle of the Celestial Dragons, the independence of the Marine is a tremendous disgrace.
How could I possibly let go so easily?
"They have no choice but to let go."
"Otherwise."
"Mary Geoise, at the top of the Red Line, along with the Celestial Dragons there, will be frozen for 100 years."
As Gion walked toward the Marine Building, she recounted in detail the events that had taken place that day in the highest conference room of headquarters, events that were enough to change the world's landscape, and told Douglas Bullet and the others everything.
Starting from Sengoku, they wanted to designate Rosen's Admiral's codename as the Shinigami.
Then Rosen, at the Marine Headquarters, changed the climate of Mary Geoise with a single word.
Then.
A towering ice dragon sits atop the Red Line.
The land was covered in ice and snow, which buried Mary Geoise.
at last.
The Five Elders backed down, acknowledging Rosen as the Shinigami Admiral and ceding Marine Headquarters to appease Rosen's anger, thus bringing the Zephyr incident to a close.
After learning all this...
Douglas Bullet, Doll, Monet, T Bone, and Vinsmoke Judge listened as if to a myth, finding it both terrifying and exhilarating.
They all thought they knew Rosen well enough.
But at this moment.
They then realized that their so-called understanding was nothing more than wishful thinking.
Whether it's ambition, methods, power, vision, or cunning.
Even those who were the earliest followers of Rosen, as his loyal subjects, never truly understood the king they served.
It should be said.
Rosen's growth rate and progress are simply too fast to be understood.
This meant that Douglas Bullet, Doll, and others, despite their best efforts to follow in Rosen's footsteps, were repeatedly left far behind, only able to watch their king, through his own strength, ascend to the top of the world and look down upon all the emperors.
"arrive."
Suddenly.
Gion, who was walking ahead, stopped and stood in front of an office.
One sentence arrived.
This finally brought Doll, Vinsmoke Judge, Douglas Bullet, and their group, who had been immersed in shock, back to their senses.