One Piece: Reborn as Enel

Chapter 58: Calm Before The Storm

_________ POV Narration_________

Sengoku and Garp had been expecting Enel's arrival for a while now.

Sengoku especially had prepared quite a few questions to ask Enel.

Things like 'Why do you have Conquerer's Haki?!'

That was by far the most passive-aggressive one of his questions. The rest were mostly about Enel's well-being and the way his mission had gone.

Sengoku was rather concerned due to the fact that Enel really seemed to have something against directly contacting him.

The ironic thing was that Enel had only contacted him once, and Sengoku hadn't even been there to respond to it.

Sakazuki had answered it, and the mess that Sengoku was somehow still cleaning up ensued.

In truth, all of the officials that saw the recording of Enel's battle with Doflamingo were shocked. All but two people.

Akainu and Garp simply nodded, saying that was somewhat within their expectations.

The only thing that surprised them was the clash of conquers. Other than that, they expected Enel to just instantly kill Doflamingo.

Akainu specifically complained that Enel had somewhat dragged that fight a bit, as he had a few chances to catch Doflamingo with his seastone staff before the clash of conquerors even happened.

In truth, Akainu was rather pleased with Enel's handiwork. So pleased that he basically told both the Cipher Pol and the 5 elders to fuck off their faces when they had stated their plans to recruit Enel.

It was the first time Sengoku had seen Akainu actively disrespect Government officials. Thankfully nothing came out of it, but that stunt made the world government forget about turning Enel into an agent... At least openly.

The secret mission of the two CP0 agents that Enel had mushed into the ground was to extend an invitation to Enel. Which they were a bit too scared to complete.

Not that they could've, Enel was well away from Dressrosa by the time the agents woke up after Enel's beating.

In the end, the mission has simply been titled a failure, but the CP0 agents were at least able to confiscate the recording of Enel's fight and subsequently silence the journalist that had filmed it.

This even managed to somewhat sour the already shitty relationship they had with Big News Morgan though, as the man they silenced was apparently employed by Morgan...

Overall, the mission was a complete failure.

The World Government still secretly started pestering Sengoku about making Enel a CP0 agent, as two spots had conveniently opened up very recently!

This only added to Sengoku's already heavy workload. Sengoku didn't even have the time to worry about Big Mom starting a war, he was busy planning another war.

It was an extremely stressful situation. And Garp didn't make it a whole lot better.

The old man seemed to get more anxious and stressed the closer the day of the execution got. Sengoku wasn't exactly sure why, so he simply planned Garp to be a less involved party in the upcoming war.

Sengoku was sorting through some files when Enel walked into his office, which he had been expecting, as he was informed of Enel's arrival on Marineford.

"Enel! Why do you never call me?!?" That was the very first thing that Sengoku shouted as he slapped his desk with both of his hands. In doing that, he had managed to scare his pet pigeon and goat away.

"Jeez..." Enel simply cleaned out one of his ears with his pinky, as he wondered how to speak his way out of that one.

Surprisingly, Garp wasn't there to bail him out. The old man was likely off somewhere stressing himself about Ace's execution.

"'Jeez'!?!? Is that all I get? You have a few reports to hand in, Enel!" Sengoku said as he angrily slammed his fist on the table.

He couldn't really intimidate Enel though.

"Fine, calm down, your hair will get white..." This comment managed to completely deflate Sengoku, as he quickly took out a mirror and checked his afro for white hairs.

"I'll write up the reports as soon as I get to my room..." Enel said as he took his usual place on the couch.

At this point, Hancock also entered the room, she glared at Enel hatefully, making the Rear Admiral just raise an eyebrow in confusion.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku! I came at your request, I assume this is related to recent news..." In the end, Hancock decided to not look at Enel anymore.

Sengoku's gaze turned cold at the sight of the Pirate Empress, the Fleet Admiral wasn't all that excited to meet up with the warlords after the recent mess they had been causing.

Crocodile and Doflamingo enslaved kingdoms(one more successfully than the other), and Jimbei refused to answer to their calls, which led to him being apprehended and thrown in Impel Down.

Really, the past few months hadn't been great for public perception of the Warlord Program.

"Yes, Boa Hancock. As expected, a war is soon to break out, I want all of the remaining warlords present and participating in it."

Sengoku got straight to the point, he had no reason to act friendly towards a pirate, much like Enel, he was also an older man, so he wasn't about to treat her differently due to her beauty.

"Hmph, understood... I assume I'm at least getting a room until the war starts." Hancock didn't lose her arrogance even in front of Sengoku, which made Enel slightly impressed.

"Of course... I'll leave Enel to that since he was in charge of bringing you here in the first place," Sengoku said with a straight face, somewhat ignoring the Pirate Empress's haughty demeanour.

The Fleet Admiral and Hancock both heard a loud groan coming from the couch, one that they both decided to ignore for now...

Sengoku mentioned a few more things about the way the war was going to go, and then sent her outside the room for a bit, as he wanted to have a conversation with Enel for now.

"..." Enel stared at his superior for a bit, before finally sighing and saying, "I think I understand what this is about..."

"I'm sure you do. I know you aren't stupid enough to think I wouldn't point out the elephant in the room." Sengoku slowly got up from his chair and sat down on the couch beside Enel.

"Conquerer's Haki... Not exactly what you'd commonly find among the marines... The only person to have developed Conquerors among them is me... Why did you keep yours secret?"

Sengoku was one of the few people to have mastery over all three types of haki... At least that was what he had believed until recently.

A marine with Conquerors Haki was extremely uncommon, as that type of Haki was extremely rare in itself. Usually, people that had it were always ambitious, which led to them not becoming marines most of the time.

"I'll be frank with you, Sengoku... I had no clue I had Conquerors Haki until fighting Doflamingo..."

Sengoku just raised an eyebrow as he pondered that for a bit.

"I honestly just felt him use it, thought it wasn't that big of a deal, so I figured I should be able to use it too. Lo and behold, I was..."

Sengoku ended up sighing at that. "I guess it does have an odd way of awakening most of the time... Fine, I believe you, for now," Sengoku said as he crossed his arms a bit.

"Still, that stunt you pulled could've been a lot more dangerous if Akainu and Garp didn't have your back... Well, Garp became preoccupied with other things, so only Akainu actually spoke to the 5 elders."

Enel raised an eyebrow, he had somewhat expected Garp to be a bit out of whack, but he didn't expect the old man to forget about him like that.

'Makes sense... Ace is a lot more important to him than I am.'

"Good old Akainu, huh? I'm guessing he lost some favour with the World Government over that." Enel put his hand in between the couch cushions and took out one of Garp's emergency rice cracker packets.

Sengoku just stared at him, before deciding to ignore that in order to spare his own sanity, and continued to talk.

"Not as much as we had expected apparently. The world government had already abandoned Doflamingo's family... Still, Celestial Dragons will always be a sore spot for them, former or not. Akainu helped you dodge a bullet there."

Enel just ended up shrugging as he started eating rice crackers, loudly munching on them.

"... Anyways, I'm glad you are back. I expect your reports regarding your mission after the war.

You have two days to prepare for it. The Whitebeard Pirates are powerful, and running away isn't an option here."

Sengoku said as he started walking back to his desk.

"Yeah... No turning back now. See ya on the field, Sengoku!" Enel also got up, and started walking out of the room, leaving his superior to handle his paperwork.

The second he exited the room his face fell, as he remembered something.

"Finally done?! Good, lead me to my chambers! It better have a good view, oh, and I don't wish to be bothered until the war starts!" Hancock was still there, waiting for him.

"..." Enel started at the ceiling for a bit. Contemplating his life as he really hoped to actually get some calm before the upcoming storm...

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