Chapter 35

|3rd POV|

It was a busy day for the people on Tarlan Island. But unfortunately, the cleaning of the mess created by Silvana and his family is huge and too messy.

The body of the people Silvana hired to work for him is cleaned and splattered around the street of Kluktru town. As for the innocent people who work for Silvana because he feeds them the drugs, Yuuji and his men heal them from their addiction.

It mainly was Yuuji who was the one curing them out of their addiction while his men cared for the ones injured from this purge.

As for Silvian and his family, their heads are hung on the wall of Kluktru town. The king decides to kill him and his family after torturing them himself. After getting tortured for his crime, Silvana admits that he is working with the Prime Minister and a lot of high nobility in the kingdom.

Because of this, the king officially asks the Marine to do a purge on his island, and that task lands on Yuuji's hand. He and his crew have a mission given to them by the Fleet Admiral to kill twenty-seven nobles on Tarlan Island.

When the news of the king asking the Marine to deliver justice, the noble gather their army and try to fight the Marine. Sadly for them, Yuuji is in a bad mood. He already sees what those people do to the people under them, and he is not in a merciful mood.

He led his crew in the purge with his hand filled with blood and his eyes shining in anger. That day, Yuuji and Gion get a new nickname.

Yuuji the Black Dragon and Gion the Bloody Rabbit.

Yuuji got that nickname because of his fighting style, which let him summon a coiling dragon that easily destroyed his enemy. As for Gion… They did not know the reason why she was still called a rabbit. Yuuji knows why she is called bloody, but to this day, he never knows why they call her rabbit.

Yuuji's name got so infamous on this island that some parts of the island did not want him to stay. They even reject his healing just to make sure he did not step inside their town and village. However, after the king orders them to be cleansed from their addiction or else be killed, they are willing to let him cure their addiction.

It takes them more than three months to purge all the drugs and the lab, heal the people from their addiction, and ensure nothing is left behind. After three months, they finally left the island behind.

While watching Yuuji and his crew sail away from his town, King Orland takes out a special Den Den Mushi and calls someone.

*Gacha*

"Orland! How are you doing, old man?!"

"Who do you call an old man?! I'm the same age as you, bastard!"

"Bwahahahahaha!"

Orland rubs the bridge of his nose and sighs.

"Can you get serious for a second, you man-child?"

"Fine! Fine! However, before you say something, I need to ask if my student is the one returning your eyes."

The man in front of King Orland is Vice-Admiral Garp, his old friend in his youth. King Orland used a special Den Den Mushi that let him see Vice-Admiral Garp from a distance.

"Aye. I thought that I would lose my eyes forever but here we are."

"Good! If he does not heal you, I will beat him thoroughly."

"Sometimes I wonder why he is still alive. Your so-called training is nothing but a torture."

"Bah. Children these days always say that when I train them. Yuuji already takes ten times their training."

"And my previous question still stands. How can he still be alive after going through your so-called training? Anyway, that is not why I call you. Yuuji and his crew have already sailed from my place."

"Truly?"

"Aye. They just left a few minutes ago."

When Orland sees Garp look at him with that intense stare, he knows that he will say something.

"What is it, Garp?"

"... I hate what you have done."

"He is a marine, Garp. Tarlan Island joins the marines and has certain privileges, like asking them to do a purge after the king has good evidence to do so. Yuuji is a Commodore. He is within the rank where he can do the purge. You need to let go, Garp. He is not a child that you need to protect from the darkness of the world."

Garp continued to look at Orland with a frown on his face for a minute before suddenly he sighed.

"I know. It is just a rare thing to have something as bright as Yuuji. You already realize it, right?"

"That he is too good for this world? Aye. He does something out of the kindness of his heart but I think you ignore something, Garp."

"What?"

"The hidden Dragon inside of him. The dragon that will bloody his hand in the name of Justice and not the so-called Absolute Justice your Fleet Admiral spouting around. What he is doing is true justice. He does what is right and not what someone orders him to do."

"I know. That is why I try my hardest to make sure he attains the rank of Vice-Admiral as fast as possible. I don't want his sense of justice tainted by the other. I want him to see the world and see what kind of Justice he wants to take."

"I see. That is why you allow him to go to Grandline. You want him to see the world and let him choose what kind of path he will choose. So far, I like the path he is choosing but I'm afraid that the others will think that they can order Yuuji to do another purge because some king orders the marine."

"You are thinking too much, Garp. I have a feeling that Sengoku will not order Yuuji and his crew to do some unnecessary bloodshed. They are your Golden Goose for restoring the marine image, right?"

"Aye. Sengoku wants him as the beacon that makes sure Marine image is restored just like in the past."

"Then he will make sure Yuuji and his crew will continue to improve your image."

"I guess you are right."

Garp sighs a little. He knows that Sengoku will not do anything to Yuuji and his crew. However, what Garp is afraid of is the Admiral. He knows one of them who will not do it, but he is afraid of the other two.

Those two are the ones who think that justice is all about power.