Chapter 32: Zephyr's Intentions.
"You're a real thug."
Peberton gloated, he was very friendly with John and, naturally, looked at Vitesse with hostility.
"But I didn't see him for six months, and this guy was actually promoted to lieutenant, pretty quickly."
When Vitesse graduated from the academy, he, like John, was a midshipman in the navy, six months passed, and he actually moved up several grades, and this is not at all slow.
"Didn't you also get promoted to lieutenant, no worse than him." John said with a smile.
Peberton said: "But John, you must be careful, Vitesse is a very narrow-minded (stupid), you taunted him so much, I think he will definitely come to take revenge on you after we leave the headquarters."
John snorted, "You think I'm afraid of him? Even if he turns into a wolf, I can still beat him."
Although Vitesse was not weak, John was not afraid of him, he was not afraid even when he was at the academy, and even more so now, in the last six months or so, his strength has grown a lot, especially his fruit picking abilities, he was absolutely confident .
Ten minutes later, Vice Admiral Norville finally arrived, and the crowd, which had been scattered across the square, quickly formed a line.
In fact, most of the people this time were from the same unit, only a few were temporarily placed, such as John, Peberton and Vitesse, and the young Marines.
To put it simply, they did not come to serve, but in fact they came for glasses, since this mission seemed to many easier and less dangerous than fighting pirates.
T/N: Points are a way to increase rank.
Example:
The lieutenant can increase the rank if he collects 500 points. A pirate worth 50 million belly is worth 700 points. If the Lieutenant catches him without the help of other Marines, he will receive these 700 points and can increase his rank.
It is not known whether there is such a system in Van Piece. This system was introduced into this work by the author.
Norville was the Rear Admiral who had brought John out of the South Blue, and now he is Vice Admiral Norville.
"Everyone board the ship immediately and prepare to leave."
The big warship that John and the others boarded this ship, since this time they sent hundreds of people looking for archaeologists, although the risk was small, but if there was no definite information, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and it will take a large number of people to find it.
It was the first trip to the sea after graduating from the academy. All the way up the ladder and onto the warship, John was perplexedly watching everyone else go about their business, and had no idea what he should be doing. He tried to find Peberton, but he had already followed his captain to inspect the warship.
John stood on the ship in complete bewilderment, and just at the moment when he did not know what to do, Norville approached.
"What are you looking at, follow me."
"Ah, yes."
John immediately followed Norville, who led John to a spacious room on board.
"Lyons John, you're really famous now."
Norville sat down in a chair, then looked at John with a smile and said, "I remember when I brought you here from South Blue over a year ago, you were still a very green youngster, and over a year later, you became a celebrity in Marineford."
After Peberton's previous reminder, John also knew what he was famous for, he awkwardly said, "I'm not a celebrity at all, I have to thank you vice admiral, if I hadn't followed you to Marineford I wouldn't be where I am now ".
Norville waved his hand, "I wouldn't dare take credit for that, you got your way thanks to yourself and the upbringing of Admiral Zephyr and Vice Admiral Tsuru, I have nothing to do with this."
John smiled and asked, "Vice Admiral, what should I do?"
Norville said, "What do you want to do?"
John froze: "I don't know what to do, but everyone is busy, I can't be the only one who does nothing?".
"Good motivation."
Norville immediately laughed, and then said: "You are not like them, your rank is not high, but this time you are here on behalf of the personnel department, you are one of Tsuru's subordinates, so you don't have to worry about it."
John understood what he meant, this time he represented the personnel department, so although his rank was low, his status was not low, he did not think that there were still so many formalities in the Navy.
But if you think about it, that was normal, after all, Marineford was also a military organization.
"I understand what Vice Admiral Tsuru's purpose is, this time she sent you here, the purpose is to train you, when the time comes, I will organize a team for you and give you enough information, but whether you can catch someone or not, will depend on your own ability."
Norville already knew John, and given the relationship between him, Zephyr, and Tsuru, he decided to take extra care of John.
John didn't deny either, he was still a midshipman and naturally needed enough points to move up in rank, he usually didn't have that opportunity, but now that he had it, he naturally wouldn't miss it.
"Many thanks to Vice Admiral Norville."
"Okay, I have to find someone for you, or will you choose your own soldiers?"
"Vice Admiral, I know Peberton, as for the rest, you'd better choose them."
"Okay, I'll arrange fifty people for you when the time comes."
Norville thought for a moment and made a decision, John was a second lieutenant, he studied at the academy for officer skills, and commanding fifty soldiers was not such a big problem.
"Vice Admiral, I wonder where we're going?" John asked curiously.
Norville chuckled, "Who knows, John, I don't think it's a good mission, actually we should cooperate with CP, the CP guys said they would give us information, but still there is no exact information, they just told us to go to a specific location and then wait for them to confirm the information before we go and capture the enemy."
Speaking of Cypher Pol, Norville was clearly very annoyed, even though both sides were military organizations subordinate to the World Government, in fact, both sides did not have good relations, and if not for an order from above, an ordinary admiral would not want to work with Cypher Pol at all.
"Vice Admiral, our patrol and CP. Our relationship is not very good? John asked carefully.
"Hmph."
Norville coldly snorted, "Who are they to compare them to us, our watch maintains peace across the sea, while they are a bunch of lackeys who specialize in ... ahem."
Angry, Norville suddenly stopped, coughed slightly a few times, his voice lowered: "Boy, I talk to you so much because I like you, CP these guys are not good people, it's better not to mess with them."
If it had been anyone else in John's place, Norville wouldn't have talked so much.
But John was valued by the two big shots, Zephyr and Tsuru, and would definitely become the mainstay of the fleet in the future, he considered John as one of his investments, that's why he said that.
"It's clear".
John, however, nodded solemnly.
As Norville said, from CP0 to CP9, only the Tenerubito are loyal, and all their interests were based on the interests of the Tenerubito.
It's hard to say that they are Tenerubito's lackeys, but it's true.
"You go."
John left the room and went straight to Peberton, and on Norville's orders he moved Peberton directly to his future unit.
"John, you still understand me, it's much better to follow you than others."
Peberton, who volunteered to be the cook in the kitchen, was overjoyed when he learned that he had been temporarily transferred to John's service. This time he used his connections to get points, who wants to do more work when points can be easily obtained.
John laughed bitterly, "It's only thanks to Vice Admiral Tsuru that I can afford it, so Vice Admiral Norville respected me to lead the team on my own."
Peberton said: "The personnel department is really respected, you don't know, but vice admiral Tsuru has a very high position in the headquarters, second only to the admiral, and her department has the confidence of the commander in chief, what general officer would dare not give her face?"
John was silent, now he finally understood what Zephyr meant, it seemed that of all the students of their semester, Zephyr cared for him the most, choosing a department for him personally, not only for safety, but also in order to find a patron for him .
He hadn't felt it in the previous six months because he hadn't been outside, but it was clear from the way Norville behaved that it was more about HR than himself.
"O Master Zephyr, you take such good care of me, I have nothing to repay now, I can only repay you later."
Zephyr's good intentions touched John so much that he made a mental decision to change Zephyr's unfortunate future.
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