SWORD grows

Time started passing slowly

1515- Bartholomew Kuma, Gecko Moria, and Dracule Mihawk became Warlords.

1516- Galan attended the Levely and watched as a young girl endured a smack from a King to avoid war.

1517- Robin entered the Grand Line

1518- Robin joined Crocodile's Organization

1520- Vegapunk left Punkhazard and went to Egghead after Caesar blew up the island with a bomb by accident

During all these events, Galan did nothing but train soldiers. He was currently training Kujaku along with Maria and Rosinante, but they were just about ready to leave… Rosinante and Maria that is.

Maria had been freed from her needy quirk and was a normal person now. Although, she was now a member of SWORD.

Galan trained Kujaku extremely intensely, there was almost no moment where she was given a break. Continuing the train of amazing genes, Kujaku showed a superb talent for fighting however… she was a bit sadistic. Galan noticed that all his blood related offspring had this broken quirk to them.

Kujaku was sadistic and Doll had no empathy…

The 16 year old licked her lips like a freak and picked up her whip, excitement in her eyes as she whipped at Galan, saying "Come on! Hehehe~" Galan sighed to himself, this kid was nuts.

Right up his alley!

And so the beating continued. Day after day, night after night…

This was also the year Olvia started acting as Galan's assistant. Nothing more, he still believed his words. He wouldn't let her in. He was stubborn on this point, but Olvia was fine with that. As long as she could be with him.

Therefore, the assistant.

She was with him 24/7 now, like a shadow.

Galan gathered a few more Marines for the SWORD team and started training them too. Sword would soon be operational. Namely, Prince Grus, Diez Drake, and Kujaku. He was eyeing another potential candidate but she was too young at the moment, although it was never too early to train…

So the next year, he included her in as well, her name was Hibari.

Galan trained them all himself. He had to shackle them with Seastone cuffs during training because all of them had Devil Fruits. Obviously Galan knew exactly how to train them. Plus, the cuff would make them weaker while they were on which was better for training. He had done the same for Rosinante and Maria.

At the same time, Galan heard about the Spade Pirates encountering Whitebeard before being assimilated. For Galan, it wasn't difficult to find out who Ace was. He had heard from Garp that his grandson was on an island, which drew Galan's attention.

Dragon had a child, so Galan checked it out, when he was investigating, he found Ace. The boy had seemingly appeared out of nowhere and with Galan being partners with Dragon, he kept tabs on Luffy. So it was simple to watch Ace as well.

It was too obvious, the boy got angry whenever someone spoke of Roger.

At any rate, for Ace to be with Whitebeard, perhaps that was the safest place for him. It was unfortunate that Ace couldn't be pulled into the Marines, however Galan wasn't that bothered by it.

If he could, great. If he couldn't, it would make sense. No matter how much the boy hated Roger, he was still Roger's son. Unsuitable to be a Marine.

Well, no matter.

Galan continued training the SWORD members along with Olvia as Sugar watched happily on the side wearing cute little aquamarine glasses and reading a book.

She was a bit less scared of Galan now, and she got used to the weakness from the Seastone, so it didn't really affect her too much. Other than restricting the use of her Devil Fruit, unfortunately she still appeared to be 10 years old.

Although, she was actually 18.

Galan found out that the Hobby fruit was even worse than he thought. Not only were you effectively immortal and had these evil powers, but your mind aged. Therefore the user would be trapped in the body at the moment of eating the fruit, but your psychological age progressed all the same.

For Sugar, this was most likely a living hell.

Although the poor girl didn't have a strong personality to begin with… However this was slowly being nurtured by Olvia when possible. It might've been better for Galan to do this sort of thing, but Olvia refused this.

She didn't want Sugar to be exposed to extreme situations which was what Galan would do. He had done it to all the members of SWORD. Bringing them out on the sea and hunting evil people while educating them in all the ways of being a special agent which included torture and execution.

The SWORD members swore that they had never seen such a disgusting thing in their entire lives. Galan didn't care and tore a man apart bone by bone, peeling the flesh off his skin and forcing him to watch until he broke.

In the end, he gave the information Galan requested and they went to the next person.

Over and over again until it was normal.

When they came back, Olvia was shocked at their pale faces, indifference swimming in their eyes. The SWORD members were then shocked themselves as Olvia shouted at Galan angrily before bringing them into the house and comforting them gently.

They all cried bitterly and Olvia soothed them with care.

Gallan didn't care for it. They were soldiers not children… Especially Kujaku. Not only was she not exempted from the process but she was forced to torture the most prisoners they captured.

They all participated in the interrogation rounds but Kujaku went over and over more than the rest by a lot.

Galan naturally did this on purpose. The first step to strength is a tough and firm mind. This is what Jonathan and Kong taught him, not to mention what he learned from his own life experience.

Was this cruel? Maybe. But Galan didn't think so. He firmly believed that he was making them tougher… And they would be! Tougher than anyone else. The Toughest Marines to ever live.

From Galan's perspective, the people SWORD would be going after were all scum. They weren't good people, only evil should be purged. Lesser pirates and criminals could be caught and sent to prison.

However, the true evil figures must be killed! The other Marines defeat the evil and lock it up but it always comes back! Galan puts them down and they never get back up.

The Marine force Galan envisioned wasn't a tyrant that ruled the seas, but the most Just and righteous police force in the world. The type of force that investigates before choosing lethal or non-lethal means.

To think before, during, and after acting.

Galan sharpened their minds to be able to embody his vision of the perfect Marine. Not afraid of anything for Justice. If God was evil, they wouldn't even hesitate to kill him!

He would embrace the world with this philosophy, because as far as he was concerned there were no Pirates and Marines, no Order and Chaos, only Good and Evil.

Entrenching yourself in the Hell that is life with a smile on your face and a gun in your hands to do the right thing was something to be proud of, not something to fear.

And as long as Galan was alive he would continue this effort.

He stood on the beach in the moonlight, looking out at the endless sea.

One man against the entire world of evil.

Determined to incite fear into the hearts of every piece of filth on the sea and eliminate them all.

Man, Woman, and Child, no matter who commits evil, they will be brought to justice!

And slowly, 2 more years passed…

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