Two hundred and forty-eight chapters Zefa and Rayleigh
And just after Gawain and his party left...
winter!
A heavy voice suddenly sounded...
Looking at the giant robotic arm that suddenly fell to the ground in front of me, it was two meters long and eighty centimeters thick.
Akainu took a deep breath...
"Is this... the impatience of the Thunder Fruit?"
After finishing his words, Akainu looked helplessly at the seastone mechanical arm on the floor.
Then, he said to the doctor not far away.
"Put this thing away and pack it up. When we get back, I will send someone to send him to Gao Wensheng...and Teacher Zefa, who just lost his hand after having it installed!"
After finishing his words, Akainu left the doctor's office with his lips curled up.
As an excellent esper warrior, Akainu really doesn't have any affection for something like the Sea Tower Stone that naturally restrains him!
…
Not long after, on Gawain's ship, Gawain, covered in bruises, fell from the sky and hit his own deck.
While he put Zefa and his party aside, the officers of the Black Bird also came over curiously.
As he approached, Gion couldn't help but ask.
"Why did you leave so suddenly after receiving the call?
Sir, what you do is very detrimental to our protection of you, you...?
Teacher Zefa?!
"
Just as she was talking, Gion saw Zefa, and she immediately showed an extremely surprised expression!
At the same time, on the training ground in the distance, Yinska, who was training with Ace and Ace's crew, quickly looked in the direction of everyone!
You must know that Yinska also practiced under Zefa for a period of time before becoming a second lieutenant. Yinska became a lieutenant earlier than Smog the Smoker.
Even the smoker is a disciple of Zefa, so how could Yinska not be?
So she quickly followed the voice and looked at her teacher.
And while even young people like Yinska looked over, old people like Lei Li also laughed out loud for the first time.
"Haha, no wonder Captain Gawain disappeared in an instant. It turned out to be brother Zefa and you agreed to him on the phone..."
"Shut up!
!”
Suddenly, Zefa interrupted Reilly harshly.
"Pluto Rayleigh, you'd better keep your mouth clean, who is your brother!
!”
"Why?"
Hearing this, Rayleigh immediately became unhappy.
"Brother Zefa, please don't act stupid, okay? If I remember correctly, you are about four years younger than Garp and I, right?
So I am seventy-three this year, and you are sixty-nine this year.
Haha, looking at it this way, aren’t you my brother?”
"you……!
!”
Listening to Rayleigh's narrow-minded laughter, Zephyr suddenly regretted coming to this ship with Gawain.
Even if an old pirate like Rayleigh embarks on a path of reforming his evil ways and returning to the right path in his own eyes.
As expected, he is still like a pickled stone soaked in a pirate pond, full of the unstinting taste of a pirate!
!
So, facing Rayleigh's teasing smile, Zefa fiercely raised his right hand.
Just like every time you join a team, you must first use your strength to win the respect and recognition of the team members, and you must also have a good fight with this old guy!
Although he was injured, he was younger than him, and he also had a Frankenstein hand made by Vegapunk!
It just so happens that I can use this battle to really test the skills of this hand... uh... eh?!
After raising his right hand, Zefa looked at his right hand in confusion.
At this moment, where does he have any mechanical right hand?
The only thing resting on his wrist now was the severed hand that had been reattached by the doctor.
At the same time, a special device like a thick arm guard was connected to the broken joint of his wrist, which was used to connect nerves and connect to the giant robot hand.
So...where are my hands?
With a grimace, I asked Vegapunk to design it myself, then handed it over to the Naval Science Corps for more than half a year to make, and then experimented for two months before finally installing it on my body?!
For a moment, Zefa raised his right hand with a confused expression on his face.
Where is my damn big hand?!
Seeing Zefa's dazed movements, Gao Wenmeng was stunned. His Thunder Fruit shouldn't be able to move with the Sea Tower Stone, right?
Therefore, I pulled the physical Zefa over, but left his mechanical arm covered with seastones in the navy headquarters!
Thinking of this, Gawain couldn't help coughing twice. He looked really irritable again!
No way, as the development of the Thunder Fruit becomes better and better, the impact of the Thunder Fruit on my personality is also getting deeper and deeper. I need to meditate for a long time every night before going to bed in order to gradually calm down against the nature of Thunder.
.
But even so, I will occasionally...be impatient...
Thinking of this, Gawain innocently rubbed his hair.
"Ahem, Mr. Zefa, it looks like... I have left your hand at the Navy Headquarters!
But it doesn’t matter, haha, we happen to have a genius mechanic on board whose mechanical skills are no less than Vegapunk.
Ahem, Franky, come on!"
As he spoke, Gawain greeted Franky in the laboratory with a wry smile.
And just as Franky rushed over, Rayleigh, who had figured out something, also looked at Zefa's severed hand with a deep expression.
I saw him speaking leisurely.
“Long time no see, brother Zefa….
Back then, that old guy Cap was chasing me and Roger's pirates, and that guy from Sengoku was chasing the Whitebeard pirates.
And you, you have been dealing with the Golden Lion Pirates.
We have relatively little contact, so I don’t know much about you.
I only know that you...ahem.
In short, you later gave up your job as an admiral and instead stayed at the naval headquarters to educate students.
When you gave up the position of general, it was probably twenty-six or seven years ago. Because you no longer moved on the sea, the golden lion who was idle directly started the Battle of Atvor with us.
Alas, had it not been for the help of the storm, we would have been defeated by the Golden Lion in that naval battle.
In short, I only know that you don’t do anything like a general, but this hand of yours..."
While speaking, Rayleigh forced himself against Zefa's disgusted expression, gently took his right hand and looked at it.
After a moment, Rayleigh shook his head gently.
"Your right hand was not cut off by a swordsman, but it was a person with abilities?
Strange, why we have never heard of this news, we never knew that your hand was broken once..."
"snort!"
Listening to Rayleigh's words, Zefa took his right hand back behind him.
Then, he said to Reilly angrily.
"As for my severed hand, it is not something that cannot be said to me!
But for the Navy, that is a big secret that must be kept secret!"
After the words fell, Zefa pointed to his chest.
"When I was injured, although I was no longer working as a general, I became an instructor instead.
However, I still had the title of general at that time!
So, haha, have you heard any news about the failure of any general in this sea?
To answer my question, can you give me even one example of a general other than me who failed?"
After saying that, Zefa looked at Lei Li and his group coldly, silently waiting for everyone's answer.
After hearing Zefa's words, everyone couldn't help but frown and think.
"Indeed!"
Jinbei was the first to be unable to bear it any longer.
"In all my life, I have never heard of any general's failure.
Although I have occasionally heard of a stalemate between a general and someone, there has never been a situation where a general failed completely!"
"That's right!"
Beside Jinbei, Gion nodded heavily.
"Marshal Warring States has explained this to us and other alternate generals.
In the navy, one of the most important factors for becoming a general is that you have never lost to a pirate of your generation!
If he cannot defeat the powerful pirates of his generation and maintain an undefeated record, such an admiral will not become the pride of the navy, but will only become..."
Gion didn't continue talking, but her words had already made Zefa's face look even worse.
Fortunately, at the same time, Shiliu on the side spoke.
"There's no way, hey, this is the government's rule.
Not only does your navy have this rule, we at Imperial also have similar rules!
If we cannot suppress every criminal in the city, then we deputy wardens will not be qualified to become wardens in our lifetime!
The reason why I can't compete with Magellan is not only because he is better than me, but also because he is the only one in Imperial who can inherit the tradition of the old warden and single-handedly suppress every prisoner in the prison!
but me……."
Xi Liu shook his head angrily.
"On the lowest floor of Imperialton, there live two...enemies that I absolutely cannot defeat now, hey...
Of those two guys, only Magellan could suppress them by himself with his poisonous gas.
Therefore, those two guys are also my benchmarks, always reminding me not to be complacent...
I...ahem.
If I say, my habit of killing those prisoners indiscriminately was developed because I was beaten severely by the two of them.
Do you believe it?"
"Ahem!"
After listening to Xi Liu's words, Yixia couldn't help coughing. He coughed and said to Xi Liu funnyly.
"I like the Black Bird where I am so much because the people here are all talented people. Although not all people here are good people, everyone here is really honest enough.
Especially you, Xiliu, what I appreciate most about you is that you can easily regard bad habits as good things and speak out to everyone openly...
An unruly look!
!”
After finishing his words, he smiled and sighed, then picked up his cup.
After the joke fell, Zefa on the side finally spoke again.
He said softly to everyone.
"Rayleigh, you are not the only ones who don't know about my broken hand.
In fact, even the new members of the navy, they don’t know that I once existed!
Today’s new sailors, after my failure, have long been propagandized by their superiors and no longer understand my story..."
"Haha, this is normal, brother Zefa!"
Rayleigh smiled and patted Zefa on the shoulder. While Zefa avoided Raleigh in disgust, Raleigh continued softly.
"You said that you were extremely hypocritical in the first half of your life. What did you insist on at that time?
I remember...the justice you insist on is the justice of not killing, right?
Hey, I actually admire your justice, but obviously, this sea has never advocated the concept of no killing.
Even Roger, hey, he insulted Jabba back then because of the people from the Enbar Kingdom, saying that he looked like a butcher with an ax or a pig butcher.
As a result, because of these words, Roger immediately led us to massacre everyone in the Kingdom of Embair...
Whenever I think about this incident in my dreams, I feel ashamed and uneasy.
But at that time, if we were weak, we would be full of weaknesses. Only by being as cruel as Roger and I could we protect our loved ones and loved ones in the even more cruel sea..."
After the words fell, Rayleigh sighed sadly.
Just like what he said, he couldn't help but feel that every drop of blood spilled on this sea had something to do with him.
It's not something he takes for granted.
But...their sins they committed back then were too many!
They are pirates, the team of the Pirate King!
Do you think they are adventurers?
From the moment they proudly declared the word pirate, they were no longer adventurers!
On the side, listening to Rayleigh's words, Zefa gritted his teeth first, then softened his expression and shook his head gently.
"Why……."
Zefa sighed.
"As you said, gentleness cannot protect the people around you, but will only make the people around you full of danger...
If I had understood this truth thirty years earlier, then...then my child would probably be as old as Garp's son...
Ahem, forget it, let me change it.
I'm really out of my mind, why would I compare my son with a vicious guy like Long?
Anyway, hey….
I was really wrong back then, because I never killed anyone.
So much so that even though I have strength, I still can't be feared by pirates!
They... they even killed my lover and my young child...
If I could have been as ruthless as Garp and Sengoku, then maybe that kind of tragedy wouldn’t have happened to me, who deserves to be feared by more people, right?”
As he spoke, Zefa shook his head gently, and then said boringly.
"Anyway, I lost to Doflamingo back then.
Four and a half years ago, that flamingo led his family and attacked my ship!
Fortunately, Virgo arrived at the critical moment and bought me time to recover, so I barely managed to survive...
And this matter has been completely hidden by the Navy from the day I failed!"
"What?!
"
As soon as Zefa finished speaking, everyone nearby was stunned. Hancock shouted in disbelief.
"Ai Jia, did you hear that right? The person you are talking about is the flamingo with a very smelly walking posture?
You are a former admiral of the navy, but he is... a mere Wu Hai who even the Ai family has never paid attention to!
How could you lose at his hands!"
"Well, although I want to remind Hancock, you are just a mere Wu Hai in your mouth.
But let’s talk about Brother Zefa.”
Beside Zefa, Rayleigh also shook his head.
"I'm afraid you are sick, Zefa. You were the black-armed Zefa who was able to defeat the golden lion Shiji!
No matter how weak he is, Brother Ming from four years ago shouldn't be able to hurt you anyway, right?"
