To the end of the sea [One Piece]

When he first saw Ikegawa Ena, Kuzan was stunned for a rare moment. Not only because of the girl's amazing beauty, but also because of the light in her eyes.

As a naval admiral, this kind of gaze containing expectation and reverence is not uncommon, but the feeling when Ikegawa Ena looked at him was something he couldn't describe.

How should I put it... At that time, Kuzan didn't know yet how the girl in front of him would bring about earth-shaking changes in his life of more than forty years.

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As a superior, Kuzan is undoubtedly very satisfied with Eina. She has unparalleled fighting power and basic obedience to orders.

Basically, he changed it after he discovered that she was secretly cracking down on the slave trade. Before this, he thought that his most admired deputy would definitely obey him.

He pushed a dozen attack documents from the desk to her, and was met with a long silence.

No one in the office spoke first. Kuzan looked at the girl with her head lowered in front of him and sighed inwardly.

Her stunningly beautiful silver hair hung down, covering most of her face. General Aokiji, who always assigned tasks, realized that he had completely ignored this girl who was as sharp as a sword when performing tasks. It turned out that she had such a beautiful appearance.

He originally wanted to wait for her to speak, but finally changed his mind.

"Don't do this again." He sighed in a deep voice.

Ikegawa Eina raised her head, something burning firmly in her dark green eyes, so much so that her eyes were red-rimmed. The moment he saw her face, Kuzan subconsciously pursed his lips. After looking at each other for two seconds, he naturally lowered his gaze.

How could the admiral of the Navy Headquarters take the lead in escaping because the emotion in the other person's eyes was too overwhelming?

So he followed his lowered gaze and stood up and walked to her. The man who was nearly three meters tall cast a very oppressive shadow in front of Ena, but Ena did not retreat.

"I used to think...the navy was the embodiment of justice." Ikegawa Eina said.

Kuzan actually frowned.

"Has your loyalty to the Navy wavered?"

"No." She answered him, "Joining the Navy is my lifelong wish. The Navy is my dream."

She raised her head, and even with great effort, she met her boss's gaze: "But I suddenly don't know, what is the justice of the Navy? If it is absolute justice, then why do we serve the Tianlong people? Why are there still such things? How many slaves were displaced and tortured? Why..."

The shadow above her head disappeared, and she was surprised to see her tall and inviolable boss squatting down in front of her, looking at her level like a child. However, there was a terrifying seriousness on his clear-cut face, as if he was looking straight into her heart.

"Don't let me hear this again." There was a dangerous warning in his tone.

Eina looked at him stubbornly: "Then why can't you answer me?"

The next second, her neck felt cold, and Aoki Pheasant's ability was activated instantly, stopping at the back of her neck. When he looked over again, there was even a trace of murderous intent in his eyes.

But that quickly disappeared, and the man said coldly: "This is the duty of the Navy. If you are shaken in your beliefs, think about it carefully instead of questioning such reactionary words here."

He wanted to stand up immediately and turn around to leave, letting her calm down and think. This girl amazed him countless times with her determination in battle, her strength in ability, and her talent in learning.

This is the subordinate he admires most.

But strangely, when he heard her words, he didn't feel disappointed. Rather, he felt more worried about her unbridled words.

Fortunately she is under my control. He thought so.

If it were Porusalino, he would probably have let the matter pass with a haha, pretending he didn't hear it. If it were Sakaski…

Forget it, then she might not be able to stand there properly, or even have a chance to cry...?

He turned around and saw the silver-haired girl with her head lowered and crying silently.

The forty-year-old man was instantly panicked.

He had seen too many women's tears, but the tears of a girl who were too strong and calm, sometimes even like a silver weapon, finally fell one day when Kuzan found that he could not remain indifferent.

Ena tried hard to hold back her tears, but the tears that she had endured for too long kept pouring out as if out of control. She lowered her head and tried to wipe them away, but she couldn't stop them.

"I...have no choice..." She sobbed, and her broken voice fell in Kuzan's ears little by little.

"There is no way to ignore... There is no way to see a child like me like me..." She looked up at him with tears streaming down her face as if a jar had been broken. "Being able to realize my dream, meet Mr. Karp and Mr. Kuzan, and... There are other people who are so lucky... But the fate of those children will not be as lucky as mine, and no one will save them. It is so sad to die in despair and numbness."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Kuzan's tense aura disappeared. He scratched his head as if he encountered a headache at work, and squatted down again.

This time, he stretched out his big, sharp-jointed palm, as if comforting some kind of small animal that was too different in size, and carefully placed it on the beautiful silver hair.

He probably knew the reason why the girl was crying. As a marine, she was almost sold into slavery when she was young. Later, she struggled in the underworld. When she grew up, she became a pirate hunter and made a living on the edge of a knife. All her experiences were laid out at the beginning. on his desk.

This was also the reason why he really couldn't get angry at her disrespectful question.

Rather than saying that he couldn't be disappointed with her wavering, it was better to say that he didn't want her to be disappointed with the navy at this moment.

"The reason why I don't answer you..." he said as if he was resigned to his fate, "is because... I don't have the means to answer it."

Eina blinked with tears and looked at him in surprise.

The general's deep voice was filled with indescribable tenderness at this moment, and he rubbed the top of the girl's soft hair: "If you don't understand, just go find it. Although I don't know what your goal is, as long as you insist on justice, as long as You still think of the Navy as your dream."

"It's just, don't do anything illegal or disciplinary again." The boss finally warned him helplessly.

Eina finally stopped crying. Kuzan breathed a huge sigh of relief. He stood up and walked towards the door: "Pack up, sort out today's documents and give them to me."

"Okay." The girl answered him. When he reached the door, he suddenly stopped.

"Mr. Kuzan," he heard her say, "my target is... you."

The hand on the handle paused slightly, he opened the door and walked out, closing the door without any hesitation.

Although I know she is talking about the position of admiral...

But in this case...it's really a foul.