If you let pirates join the navy, will your navy have no successors?
"I'm not kidding." Esdeath said.
"Claude Baiji, I have seen your bounty and know your deeds. You are a smart man, so let me tell you straight. My name is Balust Esdeath, Major of the Navy Headquarters."
"I told you before that I am a subordinate of General Kizaru, but unfortunately, I have no useful people under my command."
Esdeath leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms over her chest.
"So I want to recruit some reliable subordinates, but I just lack smart people like you. If you are willing, you can follow me and be my subordinate in the future. Are you willing?"
Esdeath needs someone who can solve unimportant but tedious matters for her, or in other words, she needs an all-round tool person.
Although Annan is a suitable candidate, he and he are not the same boss, and who knows one day he will be sent to perform other tasks.
The Crowe in front of him must be capable and gifted. He is simply the chosen tool man.
"It's not that I don't want to, but I am a pirate with a bounty on my head." Crowe declined politely. "How can you explain to the world government if a pirate becomes a navy?"
"The bounty of 16 million Baileys is just a little pirate." Esdeath said nonchalantly.
"Besides, your reward order has been revoked. After your substitute was publicly executed by the World Government three years ago, that 'Hundred Stratagem' Crowe was actually dead."
"But I'm still here. If someone recognizes me, I will still die."
"You are so clever that you are mistaken for your cleverness." Annan smiled, picked up a document bag on the dining table and took out a photo.
The photo was taken of Crowe's double at the execution ground and was sent to Annan from Branch 153 via fax machine.
"Is this photo of you?"
"It's not me." Crowe shook his head quickly.
"Isn't it?"
"No, he is a hypnotized stand-in."
"No, this is you."
"You said he is me? Don't I know who he is?" Crow pointed at his face.
Annan took out a copy of the newspaper, walked up to Crowe, and showed it to him. The title of the newspaper was:
"In the year 1517 of the New Year, the captain of the Black Cat Pirates, 'Hakuji' Crow, was sentenced to death in Branch 153"
"What you say is yours. This is the official certification of the World Government."
"The world government will never admit its mistakes even if it kills me." Esdeath smoothed her hair and said, "As long as we don't pursue it, no one will pursue it."
"What's more, there is no precedent for pirates entering the navy." Annan added.
"Is there any?" Esdeath asked doubtfully.
"Yes." Annan nodded uncertainly.
The pink-haired boy from Branch 153, Kebi, worked as a handyman on a pirate ship for two years, and now he has joined the navy.
There is also Crowe's subordinate, the hypnotic pirate, who was found not guilty by the judge, got rid of his identity as a pirate and joined the navy, but it will take some time.
"It just so happens that all the captains and vice-captains of the Black Cat Pirates are joining the navy together." Annan thought to himself.
"What's with that uncertain tone of your voice?"
Crowe lowered his head and looked at Esdeath from the corner of his eye. He could feel the powerful aura emanating from the inside of the woman who wanted to take him as his subordinate.
Does such a powerful person need a pirate like himself to be his subordinate?
While Crowe was muttering in his mind, the navy outside was ready.
"Check firearms!"
"Loaded!"
"shooting!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...
There was loud gunfire outside.
Listening to the continuous gunshots outside, Crowe felt that if he refused, he would be dragged out and shot immediately.
"There's nothing worth hesitating about."
Esdeath stood up and walked to Crowe, stretching out her hand to him.
"I can let you live as a navy, or I can let you die as a pirate. Come on, be my subordinate."
"I don't seem to have any other choice."
Crowe smiled bitterly and extended his hand as well.
"I want a peaceful life, not a peaceful death."
With a smile on her lips, Esdeath used her arms to pull Crowe up.
"Welcome to the navy, I believe you will be able to live a peaceful life here."
At the same time, Zhepu came to everyone with a dinner plate.
"Master Marine, this is the dish you ordered."
"Thank you, please put it with him." Esdeath pointed at Crowe and said.
"OK."
Zhepu placed the dishes in front of Crowe and was stunned when he saw his face.
"Ah, I recognize you. You are a housekeeper from Xiluobu Village." Zhepu said, "You brought a girl here before, why didn't you bring her here this time?"
"Well...I have joined the navy and am no longer a housekeeper."
Crowe said in a daze.
"Really, I didn't expect that you also have a righteous heart." Zhepu said with a smile, "Although you have become a navy, don't forget your hometown..."
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"This group of people finally left."
After finally sending Esdeath and others away, Zhepu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Chef, it's so rare to have such customers. We gave them free meals, and they even forced us to pay. But why do you feel like you're in danger every time they come?"
Chef Paddy, who looked like Popeye, walked up to Zhep and asked.
"Yes, a person like this who neither wastes food nor pays generously is too late to be welcomed as a chef. Why should we be afraid?" Zhepu pointed to the pirate corpse floating in the sea with a wry smile.
"But what if you are a pirate?"
As a subordinate of Esdeath, he was eligible to directly recruit soldiers. As soon as Crowe arrived in Rogge Town, he successfully became a third-class naval officer and was directly under Esdeath.
Although his military rank is a bit low, he can catch a lot of pirates from the Grand Line. He can catch them casually on the way back. Anyway, if he has enough merit to be promoted to a sergeant, he can be promoted at the headquarters.
Of course, Esdeath did not hide the identity of Crow Pirate, but directly told Smogming.
Smoker had no opinion on this matter and just conveyed the telegram sent by his headquarters:
"Annan and Esdeath will suspend their vacation from now on and return to Malinfando to carry out new tasks."
On the pier of Rogue Town.
"What's so urgent? Did the Shichibukai rebel or the Four Emperors came over?" Annan complained.
"Okay, hurry up and get on the ship." Esdeath pulled Annan and boarded the transport ship bound for the headquarters in three steps.
"The old man just had a phone call with me. Something big happened on the Grand Line. We don't have any suitable candidates, so we can only leave the task to the two of us."
"What are you so anxious about?" Annan followed behind Esdeath.