One Piece: Initially tricked into joining the Marines by Garp

Chapter 54 Garp's Apprentice

About ten minutes later, the shifty-eyed manager came out holding a card that was radiating gold light.

Manager Rat smiled and extended his hand to Lieutenant General Crane, saying, "Ms. Crane, please take out your Tianlong Bank gold card."

"it is good!"

"Transfer 500 million to Luo Xia's bank card!"

Manager Mouse nodded. "Yes, Ms. Crane!"

Manager Rat took two cards to a machine that resembled an iron ball, with card slots for gold cards on both sides and the balance of Bailey displayed in the middle.

As the Rat Manager inserted the gold card, he looked down and tapped the numbers repeatedly, and the long string of numbers in the middle began to decrease rapidly.

This process lasted about a minute.

A minute later, Manager Mouse returned the card to Luo Xia and his companion.

“Ms. Crane, Brigadier General Rorschach, you currently have a total of 500 million Berries in your account.”

"We have already deducted the relevant handling fees from Ms. He's card."

"That's 500,000 Berries in total. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Lieutenant General Tsuru shook his head. "It's nothing. We'll be going now. I wish you a prosperous business!"

"Okay, goodbye everyone!" Before leaving, Manager Rat bowed politely.

As soon as he left the Tianlong Bank, Garp chewed on a senbei and complained, "That guy always has that smiling face, it really makes my fists itch!"

"Huh? Old man, did that rat-looking fellow offend you?"

Karp shook his head. "No, it's just that he's ugly!"

Rorschach shook his head helplessly. Old man Garp really has a personality!

"Rorschach arrived at Marine Headquarters two years ago."

"The World Government has ordered the establishment of the Celestial Dragon Bank in this shopping district, and this guy is a Devil Fruit user, but his ability is the most common Zoan-type Devil Fruit user—a house mouse!"

"Activating the ability will turn you into an ugly house rat."

"However, this person is quite capable of managing Tianlong Bank!"

Rorschach nodded, and the image of a house mouse involuntarily popped into his mind; it was quite ugly.

"The abilities on the high seas are really versatile; they even have this kind of Devil Fruit!"

Speaking of abilities, Vice Admiral Tsuru immediately became interested, "Rorschach, can you really synthesize Devil Fruits?"

Rorschach was taken aback, then pointed to Gion with his black hair, "Isn't that the one who ate my Devil Fruit?"

"not to mention……"

As Rorschach spoke, he flipped his hand and a green Devil Fruit with a swirling pattern appeared in his palm.

"This is the last one, it's still in my possession, but I can't find a suitable person to eat it!"

Lieutenant General Tsuru glanced at the fruit and then looked away. No matter how much he looked, it wasn't his, so there was no need to look anymore.

The four walked along the road for about thirty minutes when Kapu, who was eating senbei (rice crackers), suddenly stopped making a "crunching" sound.

"Hey kid, I've taken on two new apprentices, wanna go check them out?" Garp said with a grin, patting Rorschach on the shoulder.

"Do you want to go to Gion too?"

“Great! Let’s see what kind of apprentice Mr. Garp can take on. Besides, it’s been a long time since you’ve taken on an apprentice!” Gion smiled and readily agreed.

Luo Xia looked puzzled, but he still agreed. He wanted to see if it really was those two people!

"Little Crane, do you want to go?"

Lieutenant General He waved her hand, "I have work to do, I don't have time!"

"Haha, then go ahead!"

Garp watched Vice Admiral Tsuru leave, then turned and pointed towards the training ground, laughing, "Let's go, we should be training on the field now!"

The three remained silent and headed to the training ground together.

Soon Garp led them to a corner of the training ground. From a distance, Rorschach saw a pink-haired boy hitting a sandbag with great effort, each punch earnest.

Next to the pink-haired boy was a boy wielding two swords. Compared to the pink-haired boy, this boy seemed lazy, slowly slashing at the iron plate in front of him with his swords, without even leaving a mark after each strike.

When Garp saw the boy wielding dual swords being so dismissive, he immediately shouted, "Hilmabo, do you want to taste my beloved Iron Fist?"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, the listless middle-parted boy in the distance shuddered instantly.

The next moment, as if by muscle memory, he rolled up his sleeves, straightened his body, and quickly chopped at the iron plate in front of him, the whole set of movements flowing smoothly.

By the time Gion and Rorschach arrived, Garp was already sitting in the chair next to them, drinking tea.

"Boy, hurry up and bring out your wine. I now find the tea I stole from the Warring States period to be utterly tasteless. Your wine is much better!"

Rorschach pursed his lips, but still took out two bottles and threw them into Garp's arms.

Karp smiled and looked very happy after receiving the wine.

"Koby, Hilmabo, you two lads, take a break, come over and have some tea, and I'll introduce you to them while I'm at it!"

Upon hearing Garp's order, the two obediently walked to the table and sat down.

Only then did Luo Xia seriously examine the two people in front of him.

Luo Xia had suspicions when he saw the figure from behind, let alone now that he even knows the name.

Moreover, upon seeing his appearance, Rorschach felt that Garp had aged considerably, even his eyesight had deteriorated.

However, Luo Xia was sizing them up, and even the two people in front of him were sizing him up. However, the guy with the middle parting who looked a bit like a traitor kept staring at Zhiyuan, and his eyes were even a little lecherous.

Luo Xia curled his lip in disdain and turned his head to ask, "Old man, I've been cultivating all year. You didn't bring this back when you went back to the East Sea, did you?"

Garp, who was about to drink, was taken aback and blurted out, "Huh? I always sneak back home, brat, how did you know?"

"Any normal person would know that, right?"

"It's not the navy's time to recruit now, and you old man just like to go to the East China Sea, of course I guessed it."

Luo Xia rolled his eyes, casually pointed to the two people in front of him, and said, "Introduce them?"

Garp took a sip of his drink, pointed at Rorschach, and said, "This brat is called Rorschach. I brought him back from a small island in the East Blue. He has a hybrid Devil Fruit, and currently has elements of the Ice-Ice Fruit in his body. His military rank is Brigadier General!"

Koby, who was wearing glasses, tilted his head and asked in confusion, "Um, what do you mean by having the elements of the Ice-Ice Fruit in your body?"

Before Garp could explain, Rorschach's hand instantly enveloped the entire table in ice.

The table was instantly frozen solid, leaving the two boys opposite speechless and looking extremely ugly.

Especially Hirumabo.

"This is the freezing ability the old man was talking about. Do you two want to try it?" Rorschach grinned wickedly.