The Viltrumite Across the Worlds

Chapter 237: Chapter 237: I’m Just Here to Collect a Debt...

"Over twenty billion?! Holy hell..."

The Five Elders stared at the reimbursement form in their hands, their eyes going round. They felt as if Sengoku were playing some kind of joke on them.

"Is this reimbursement form accurate?"

One of the Five Elders walked over to the CP0 agent and asked.

"It is accurate! It is indeed more than twenty billion. We have already calculated it. The main reason is that both the Whitebeard Pirates and the Red Hair Pirates, two Emperor crews, were crushed by Mr. Jovian."

"There are actually some small pirates with bounties of only a few million that we didn’t even count. Otherwise, it would be several hundred million more..."

The CP0 agent looked at the Five Elders with a serious expression.

"This..."

The Five Elder with the birthmark on his forehead frowned deeply. Their World Government’s finances were tight right now too, okay? Seriously, that bastard Sengoku really knew how to dump difficult problems on them.

"Are we paying this money or not?"

The Five Elder with short blond hair asked for everyone’s opinion.

"How about we just..."

The Five Elder holding a katana had a hint of ruthlessness flash through his eyes. What he meant was that they would not pay, and they would kill the person too.

"The problem is, who would you send?"

"If you tell the Marines to go, will the Marines actually do it? His reputation is now about the same as a Marine Admiral’s. He can be considered half one of their own. Do you think the Marines would attack him for our sake?"

The curly-haired Five Elder shook his head. He felt the idea from the katana-wielding Five Elder was extremely inappropriate.

"Then what do you say we do?"

The katana-wielding Five Elder asked angrily.

"Why don’t we owe it for now?"

Just as the Five Elders disagreed with one another, the Five Elder with the long beard had a flash of inspiration.

"Owe it for now?"

When the other four Five Elders heard that, their eyes lit up. That was indeed a good idea.

"Then who do we have say that...?"

But then another major problem appeared. Whoever said those words would lose face. They were the Five Elders. Could they say that the World Government did not have money on hand right now and would owe it for the time being? That was impossible. But they could not send some random soldier to speak either. That would make it seem as though they did not value a top-tier fighter like Jovian enough. So those words had to be spoken by someone with enough weight, while the one losing face had to be that person, not them.

And so...

"Didn’t Sengoku just resign?"

The katana-wielding Five Elder remembered something and spoke.

"Have Sengoku say it?"

The others’ eyes lit up when they heard that.

"Not Sengoku. Sengoku has already resigned, so he may not agree to say it. What we need is a new person who can take the blame for us. You understand what I mean, don’t you?"

The katana-wielding Five Elder spoke very indirectly.

"Understood! A new Fleet Admiral will be chosen soon. Basically, it will be between Akainu and Aokiji. Once the new Fleet Admiral is selected, we’ll have the new Fleet Admiral say it!"

"As for the new Fleet Admiral’s dignity, whether it’s Sakazuki or Kuzan, who gives a damn about their dignity?"

"The Marines are nothing more than the front desk of our World Government..."

"Brilliant! Truly brilliant!"

"Hahaha..."

The meeting room in the Holy Land Mary Geoise filled with cheerful laughter.

Meanwhile...

Crunch. Crunch.

Gulp, gulp, gulp...

"So, when exactly is the money arriving?"

Jovian asked the Marine beside him while eating meat.

"Admiral Jovian! The money is already on the way!"

When the Marine officer beside him heard that, he immediately gave Jovian a respectful salute and lowered his head as he spoke.

"First of all, I’m not a fucking Admiral. Second, the money is on the way, on the way..."

"Fuck, a month ago it was still fucking on the way, and now, a month later, you’re fucking telling me it’s still fucking on the way?"

After hearing the Marine beside him, Jovian asked angrily.

"Well..."

"But..."

"That really is what the higher-ups said. After all, more than twenty billion is indeed not easy to take out all at once!"

The Marine Rear Admiral took a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Facing a top-tier fighter, especially one in a furious state, he was terrified.

"Hah..."

Jovian sighed helplessly. For a moment, this meal started to taste rather dull.

"Right, about what I said before, letting the Kingdom of Amazon Lily attend the Levely. What did the higher-ups say?"

Jovian wanted the Kingdom of Amazon Lily to become a member nation of the World Government. That way, even if Boa Hancock was no longer a Warlord, or even if he left this world, Amazon Lily would still receive some consideration from other nations. Of course, the most basic principle was still that a nation had to be strong itself, but at least on the surface, it would be equivalent to giving Amazon Lily a clean legal status. That alone was a good thing.

"The higher-ups said this matter is very simple. At the Levely two years from now, Boa Hancock can go directly and attend the meeting. Among the fifty nations participating in the Levely, there will be a seat for the Kingdom of Amazon Lily."

The Rear Admiral straightened his posture and replied.

"Hehehe..."

"Those assholes in the Five Elders sure know how to handle things. But they’d better not think that just because they did this, I won’t want my money anymore. They have to pay. It’s a matter of principle!"

After receiving the Rear Admiral’s answer, Jovian was finally a little happier. If the World Government refused to pay, then sorry, he would have to charge into the Holy Land Mary Geoise alone to collect the debt. If not for the fact that he had just offended the pirates, and attacking Mary Geoise too would make him the public enemy of both sides of the law, he would have gone already. Although he was not afraid on his own, the problem was that he was not alone. He had an island full of wives to support, and that made things very troublesome.

In short, he was not someone who loved money. He only wanted money for hookers...

Ahem. For women. For children. For the future of all those delicate little flowers.

"By the way, Mr. Jovian, Admiral Sakazuki and Admiral Kuzan are having their battle on Punk Hazard. Aren’t you going to watch?"

The Rear Admiral suddenly remembered something and asked Jovian.

"What’s there to watch?"

"What’s so interesting about that?"

"It’s something that was decided long ago..."

Jovian lay back in his chair and spoke coldly to the Rear Admiral.

"What..."

"I have indeed heard that those who cultivate Observation Haki to a profound level can even see the future!"

"There are legends of monsters like that in the New World too, but supposedly, even if they can see the future, it cannot be too far ahead..."

"Could Mr. Jovian’s Observation Haki already be able to see the future from so far away?"

"Terrifying..."

After hearing Jovian’s words, the Rear Admiral’s expression filled with shock. In his heart, he admired Jovian beyond measure.

"According to the plot, Kuzan will ultimately lose by a hair."

Jovian held a turkey leg and kept gnawing at it, recalling the memories in his mind and muttering to himself.

The uninhabited island of Punk Hazard.

This had originally been a World Government base, but due to a strange experimental explosion, the island had ended up filled with poisonous gas. In the end, the World Government had no choice but to abandon it.

And now, two of the World Government’s greatest military powers, Akainu, Sakazuki, and Aokiji, Kuzan, both members of the three Marine Admirals, stood on the island and faced each other from a distance. The terrifying pressure they released made the entire island seem as if it were constantly trembling.

"Ah, man..."

"At this point, we have no choice but to fight."

Kuzan looked at Akainu across from him. Since Sakazuki was still his senior, Kuzan was somewhat reluctant to attack.

"Come at me, brat!"

"Let me see how much you’ve improved over the years!"

Sakazuki folded his arms in front of him and looked at Kuzan coldly. Kuzan was also a junior he had paid attention to. His talent was indeed sufficient, enough to be called gifted. But...

Kuzan did not have enough resolve. In this chaotic era, if one did not have enough resolve...

Sakazuki’s expression was cold. The Marines had to be cruel enough now to pacify this chaotic era. Unfortunately, that foolish brat Kuzan did not seem to understand this. That was also why Sakazuki had to compete for the position of Fleet Admiral. These people were all too naive. Before the Great Pirate Era ended, the Marines absolutely could not afford even the slightest relaxation. Absolutely not.

"Then take a good look!"

Kuzan’s face gradually turned cold as well. He could not stand the way Sakazuki treated him like a junior. This world was ruled by strength.

Boom!

As soon as Kuzan finished speaking, ice and magma collided. Endless energy scattered across the entire island.

Boom!

When the two Logia masters unleashed their full power, snow began falling from half the sky, while rolling magma erupted from the other half of the ground. Mountains and stone directly turned into volcanoes.

Endless flames erupted from within the volcanoes.

This battle continued for ten full days and nights. After endless elemental clashes, the man who believed strength decided everything claimed victory. Yes, Sakazuki broke Kuzan’s leg.

However, Sakazuki was not having an easy time either. Kuzan had inflicted permanent frostbite across his body, wounds that would never fully heal. Kuzan’s ice had inflicted permanent frostbite on a magma man. Its power was obvious.

It had to be known that even the injuries Whitebeard had inflicted on Akainu, Sakazuki, were not as severe as what Kuzan had done.

Looking at his former teammate, Sakazuki said many things, but in the end, he still spared Kuzan and let him survive or die on the island by himself, while Sakazuki took a warship back to Marine Headquarters.

As for whether Kuzan could ultimately survive on the sea, Sakazuki had not the slightest doubt. This sea could restrain anyone who had eaten a Devil Fruit, except for Kuzan, the man who could freeze the sea itself.

When Sakazuki returned to Marine Headquarters, his first order after becoming Fleet Admiral was the World Military Draft.

He recruited from across the entire world. As long as someone was strong enough, they could immediately become a Marine Vice Admiral or even a Marine Admiral.

Yes, no matter what profession you came from, as long as you wanted to contribute to justice in this world, as long as you wanted to offer your strength to the world’s justice, then come.

At the same time, on the second day after Sakazuki became Fleet Admiral, he went to find Jovian.

"I hope you will join the Marines and contribute your strength to justice!"

Sakazuki did not say anything messy or complicated. He had come to Jovian to have him fight for justice, and nothing else.

"Say it more clearly. I don’t understand what you mean."

Jovian shook his head. He felt Sakazuki’s words lacked sincerity.

"Simply put..."

"Full benefits, a 401(k), bounties for every pirate you take down paid as usual, and all benefits calculated at the Fleet Admiral level!"

Sakazuki’s assistant explained from beside him.

"Now I understand!"

"I’ve been saying this all along. We should speak plainly. No need for too much nonsense!"

After hearing Sakazuki’s assistant finish explaining, Jovian smiled faintly.

"Then you agree?"

After hearing Jovian’s words, Sakazuki’s face lit up.

"Of course."

Of course Jovian agreed. Joining the Marines brought a hundred benefits and no downsides. In the future, when he went out chasing women, he would no longer have to fear running into the cops, because he was already the man standing at the very peak of the cops.

"Thank you! Then from today onward, you are the new Marine Admiral! As for your code name, how about White Dragon?"

After thinking for a while, Sakazuki asked.

"Fine. Call it whatever you want."

Jovian had never cared about code names like this. But since it was corporate culture, he would feel bad refusing it.

On the third day after Sakazuki became Fleet Admiral, he went to the Holy Land Mary Geoise.

"What kind of joke is this?"

"If you do things like this, where am I supposed to put my dignity?"

"I absolutely cannot say something like that!"

When Sakazuki learned that the Five Elders had summoned him so he could discuss the money matter with Jovian, he immediately refused. Nonsense. He had just promised Jovian that the money would be paid as usual, and now they wanted him to tell Jovian they would not pay? Wasn’t that slapping him in the face?

"What is your dignity worth, Sakazuki?"

"The Marines’ dignity is nothing more than the outer skin of the World Government!"

"What matters is the interests of the World Government, damn it!"

The Five Elders roared furiously at Sakazuki.

"Then why do we give the Celestial Dragons so much money?"

"Wouldn’t the money problem be solved if each family took out a billion or so?"

"To put it bluntly, why do we have to support those useless Celestial Dragons?"

"Or are even you people being trampled under the Celestial Dragons’ feet?"

Sakazuki looked at the Five Elders with a furious expression. He was not yet the Sakazuki who, after two years of being tempered as Fleet Admiral, had lost some of his killing intent. Right now, he was still the hot-tempered Admiral Sakazuki who acted however he saw fit.

He had dared to catch the blade of Whitebeard, the strongest man in the world, with his foot. What did a mere lecture from the Five Elders count for?

"Sakazuki, watch your tongue!"

"Some things are not what you think they are!"

"In short, go help us settle Jovian. After all, he can now be considered your subordinate. We must stabilize a top-tier fighter like him and cannot let him run off and become a new Emperor of the Sea..."

"And speaking of that, how could you let that brat Kuzan get away?"

"That is your problem, Sakazuki. You need to reflect on it!"

The Five Elders spoke one after another, lecturing Sakazuki nonstop.

"I can’t say anything about this matter. If it has to be said, the five of you can go tell Jovian yourselves. I’m leaving!"

Sakazuki seemed to have grown tired of the five old men in front of him and left them with a stern back as he departed.

"Bastard!"

"Get back here!"

"Damn it, who the fuck told me he was the most obedient one among the three Admirals?"

"That’s not a dog at all! He’s clearly a wolf!"

"Fuck, unbelievable..."

The Five Elders roared furiously as they watched Sakazuki leave directly.

One day later...

A handsome man wearing a coat of justice arrived at Marineford.

"Who are you? What are you doing at Marineford? Did you report your arrival?"

Several CP agents instantly jumped out and blocked the man’s path.

Bzzzt...

Before they could react, a red light flashed, and the CP agents instantly collapsed to the ground, unable to get back up.

"Who am I? What am I here for? Good question."

"I’m just a passing Marine Admiral here to collect a debt..."

Wearing the coat of justice behind him, the man spoke coldly to the CP agents before him.

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