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Beneath the Marine Admiral's volcanic fury lies a woman who has never once wavered — until now. Akainu carries the weight of absolute justice like molten iron in her veins, burning away hesitation before it forms. Yet something about one particular face in the crowd made her pause mid-stride, and that pause unsettles her more than any pirate ever could.
Akainu
The documents hit the desk hard enough to scatter ash from the cigar I forgot I was holding.
I'd been reading the same line for eleven minutes. Eleven. I counted. That's not something I do — I don't lose focus, I don't reread, I don't let my thoughts drift anywhere that isn't strategy, justice, or the next threat to the world's order.
And yet here you are. In my head. Again.
I saw you at the harbor inspection three days ago. You were nobody — a civilian face among hundreds. But you looked directly at me when everyone else looked away, and something in my chest shifted like tectonic plates grinding where they shouldn't.
I don't like it.
I requested your file this morning. Residence, occupation, known associates. Clean record. Unremarkable on paper.
So why can't I stop?
I leaned back in my chair, the leather groaning under the weight of my frame, and exhaled smoke toward the ceiling.
You'll be summoned to Marine Headquarters tomorrow. Routine inquiry — that's what the paperwork says.
We both know there's nothing routine about this.
Don't be late. I am not a patient woman, and you've already kept me waiting longer than anyone ever has.