Chapter 3

My paternal grandfather and I were walking leisurely towards the gate of Marine Headquarters.

In fact, I am not walking because I'm being gently carried by Gramps.

"Gramps, why are precisely you giving me a piggyback ride?" I whined.

"Let your granddad carry you like this before you instantly turn in an independent adult in there," He responded.

"Gramps?" I demanded his attention.

"What's wrong, kid?" He asked tenderly.

"Would you laugh at me if I want to be Fleet Admiral?"

He stopped walking and bobbed his head toward me.

"GAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

"What's so funny, gramps?" I asked him while pouting.

"It's nothing. It's not long ago that my unmotivated grandson got affected by his twin brother and enjoys absolutely an ambitious dream." He maintained while grinning.

"It's not like Luffy is affecting me. I am deciding on a goal because it will convince me to work harder." I stated.

"Becoming a Fleet Admiral means surpassing me,"

"Hmph! When Luffy gets his first bounty, I would already be the same rank as you. I would indeed have a better title than 'Hero'," I retorted to him proudly.

"Are you sure you want to spout things like this when you barely have any combat abilities aside from your devil fruit?" He inquired me with a terrifying grin.

"I'm going to recall this and beat the hell out of you. And stop using difficult words.,"

"I understand, then what about meeting the current Fleet Admiral?" He invited me while placing me down on the ground.

I was shocked. Does the Fleet Admiral absolutely have time for a grandfather and grandson skipping around in here?

"Are you sure we aren't troubling him?"

"I'm sure Sengoku would like to meet you. Don't make me repeat myself, let's go." He said.

We went inside the Marine Headquarters.

It was bigger inside then you thought if you looked at it from the outside.

I found myself with loss of words.

I couldn't stop shaking thinking about meeting the Fleet Admiral.

We stood next to the door and as I expected Gramps won't enter his office normally.

My grandfather slammed the wall that belonged to the office of his boss.

I could see a person sitting behind his bureau and 3 giant men sitting in a chair in front of him.

I ignored them and started to explore the office.

"GARP, HOW MANY DID I TELL TO NOT ENTER MY OFFICE LIKE?!" Sengoku scolded Gramps.

"Ah, I forgot. Aside from that, here is my grandson I was talking about." Gramps said.

I froze up when he mentioned me.

"I'm Monkey D. Lance. It's an honour to meet you, sir." I said while doing the Marine salute.

"I see it's the serious kid of the twin, right?" the fleet admiral asked.

"The kid seems interesting." said the black-haired men wearing sunglasses.

"I remember you talking about him. It's the kid who ate the Paramecia version of my devil fruit." said the tanned guy with a sleeping mask on his forehead.

"So, this kid is the son of the Revolutionary Dragon." told the man with a cigar in his mouth.

"Why are you calling me the son of the guy called Dragon when I don't have one."

"Kid, everyone has a father. Your father is a bit special. He is the most wanted man in the world."

This left my mouth hanging wide open.

"I didn't expect this. But I don't care anymore now. Can we go eat now Gramp I am hungry."

Tomorrow after lunch...

After running like hell and fighting a lot I could sleep like a log.

But I was woken up by my idiotic grandfather around 5:00 AM to start working out again.

After lunch, Gramps left and send me to go to meet up my teacher.

Since I am just a 10-year old kid, I have gotten myself a private teacher.

Finding the place where I need to be was harder than I thought it was.

It was literally a labyrinth in here, how can possibly you know your way around here?

I finally reached the place to be.

I knocked on the door.

"Enter." ordered my teacher.

I entered the room.

"You are a half hour too late. What should you do now?" my teacher asked.

"I couldn't help I got lost."

There was a moment of silence.

"Wrong." he suddenly said.

"Huh, but it's-"

"It might be true but your excuse is wrong. You should apologize when something like this happens."

What's with this hard-headed person. So annoying.

"I'm sorry for being late," I said sarcastically.

"I see, we will work on that. Monkey D. Lance, my name is Zephyr I will be your personal instructor until I deem you as strong as Garp expect you to be."

"I will be in your care, Instructor Zephyr," I answered him politely while bowing.

"Sit down. From now on our schedule will be that we will cover the theoretical things in the afternoon and the practical in the morning," he announced.

"Yes, Instructor Zephyr."

It has already been 1 year since I am here.

I miss Ace, Sabo and Luffy a lot.

But I have to endure.

Since Admiral Aokaji has the same element as me he taught how to control my devil fruit powers.

Most of my moves were long ranged and if I came out to a short-range I just need to freeze them.

Also, I found the difference between me and the Ice Admiral when I froze a pirate.

Admiral Aokaji can freeze the whole body and I can only put them in a substance of ice.

It's like they are caught in a transparent light blue cage.

Producing snow was more difficult then I thought but I managed it somehow and can make it snow around me with a radius of 50m.

I finally became 11 years old.

With Zephyr and sometimes Gramps pestering me every day I always need a lot of sleep.

But today I couldn't sleep that much because a certain incident happened today.

I woke up because I felt immensely hot in my room.

When I got up I saw Admiral Akainu sending me a death glare.

"Kid, Get up we are leaving." He ordered me.

He left before I could ask a question.

It seems it's his turn to take me on a trip.

I liked the trip with Admiral Kuzan the most because I could play hero for the first time.

The trip with Admiral Aokaji was less interesting because it was just training as he was 'monitoring' me.

Now it was the turn of Admiral Akainu who has never been in a good mood for a reason.

I put on recruit uniform who's size had changed because of my 11-year-old stature.

I packed some rice crackers in my backpack and left to join up the rest of the group.