Chapter 127 In-depth investigation, a sign of promotion
The investigation report stated that Lu Kai grew up in the High City of Lafia and had never left the city before he was six years old. The farthest place he had been to was the Low City.
According to the recollections of some nobles who had not been purged because they had no bad records, Lu Kai had been a particularly kind person since childhood. He always took the initiative to help many people in need and could not bear to see the people suffer.
This was well known among the nobles, so little Lu Kai was considered an outlier among the nobles at that time.
But when he was six years old, Lucaire's father Lucade and mother Olive were taking Lucaire out of the city for a trip when they were unexpectedly attacked by bandits. Lucaire and Olive managed to escape, but Lucaire has since disappeared.
According to Luke's own description, combined with the description of Tara, the former king of Rafia, Luke was captured by the hateful bandits and was enslaved by the bandits for two years.
Later, Tara led people to wipe out the bandits, and the slaves fled one after another, and Luke was among them.
In a panic, Luke ran all the way to the seaside, and then because of hunger and weakness, he rolled down a hillside into the sea and almost drowned. He was rescued by his current brother and sister and brought back to the Kingdom of Itachisia.
While serving as a slave, Lu Kai was discovered to have talent by the bandits, so while Lu Kai was a slave, he was also trained as a killer by the bandits.
Lu Kai suffered a lot in this process, but he also gained considerable strength as a result.
And that experience of being enslaved was also the reason why Lu Kai hated bandits so much.
According to the description of the crew members of the Itachisia Kingdom's trading fleet, when Luke first arrived at their fleet, he looked like a little beggar, with tattered clothes, unkempt hair, and a foul odor.
In addition, they are very good at eating. One person's food intake is equivalent to that of twenty adults, and they are very strong.
On the flagship bound for the Kingdom of Itachisia, Luke also received training from his sworn brother who once served as the captain of the royal guard.
In the following two years, he trained hard day and night, which was confirmed after investigators visited many residents of Quanshui Town.
Then, when Lu Kai, whose strength had greatly increased, was ten years old, he single-handedly wiped out seventeen bandits who were causing trouble near the royal city of Itachisya. Everyone in Itachisya knew about this.
Because of his two years of slavery, Lu Kai not only hated bandits, but also hated pirates who were of the same nature as bandits.
So after that, Luke helped the Itachissia Kingdom and the 138th Branch of the West Sea Navy to eliminate pirates several times, including the Vulture Pirates led by Silva.
This is the 'truth' discovered by the World Government and the Navy Headquarters.
Except for the two years when he became a slave of bandits, all of Lukai's past experiences were only indirectly verified from Tara's description because all the bandits were wiped out.
The rest of his experiences all completely matched the various investigations conducted by the World Government and the Navy Headquarters' intelligence department.
The reason why the World Government and the Marine Headquarters went to such great lengths to investigate Luke's entire past was actually because of the suggestion of the Marine Headquarters Marshal Cyborg.
The reason is simple. Cyborg admires Lu Kai very much and wants to train him with all his strength. If Lu Kai wants to go further, a clean background is crucial.
If Lukai's limit was just the rank of vice admiral of the Marine Headquarters, Cyborg would never have spent so much energy investigating.
But in Cyborg's eyes, Lu Kai will at least be an admiral in the future, and he may even become the marshal of the Navy Headquarters in twenty or thirty years. To such a high position, one will never be promoted without a clean background.
Investigating detailed background information is something that any admiral or marshal in the Navy Headquarters has to go through.
By now, focusing on training Lu Kai is no longer just Cyborg's personal idea; the higher-ups of the Marine Headquarters and even the Five Elders have this idea.
Even the Five Elders are paying attention to Lu Kai, which is enough to show how much trouble Lu Kai has made in the past two years.
The cleaner Lu Kai's background is, the fewer oppositions there will be, and the easier it will be to promote him. However, it is precisely because of his "clean" past that the top brass of the Navy Headquarters trust Lu Kai very much.
In their eyes, Lu Kai's experience was simply the best template for the navy. He had been kind-hearted since childhood, cared for the people, had extraordinary talent, was extremely powerful, and hated evil.
What does it mean to be just and powerful? Lu Kai is that.
As for how Luke obtained the Space Fruit, Akaitis, the base commander of the 138th branch of the Naval Headquarters, gave the answer. He told the investigators sent by the headquarters that the devil fruit that Luke ate was given by him.
This devil fruit was a trophy he had secretly seized from the fight to destroy Silva, as compensation for the credit he had taken away from Luke after defeating Silva. For this reason, Akaitis also expressed great emotions and opinions about the headquarters' actions.
Regarding Akaitis' accusation that the Navy Headquarters lied about the facts, the Navy Headquarters simply pretended not to see it. They only selectively saw the relevant information about how Luke obtained the Devil Fruit.
Akaitis also mentioned that Luke had helped their naval branch hunt down pirates several times and had made great contributions. Akaitis had reported this several times a few years ago.
Because of his "clean" background, he has a strong sense of justice since childhood, has great potential and is very powerful. In addition, his age, image, and hard work are very attractive, so the top brass of the Navy Headquarters and the Five Elders all believe that Lu Kai is worthy of key training.
So whether it was Cyborg, Sengoku or the Five Elder Stars, they all chose to acquiesce to Garp's unremitting efforts to promote and protect Luke within the scope of his authority, which made Luke's path to promotion smooth.
Garp's love for Luckey also protected Luckey from all kinds of infighting and fighting within the navy, allowing him to focus all his energy on improving his strength and fighting.
In the two years since Lu Kai joined the navy, he has gained some understanding of the many unspoken rules, dark sides, factional divisions, and open and covert struggles within the navy.
There are so many people in the navy, it is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, the composition is very complicated, Lu Kai alone knows a lot.
There are many factions simply based on the different sense of justice they hold in their hearts.
Some people abide by absolute justice, some abide by balanced justice, some abide by the justice of getting by, some abide by the justice of putting the people first, and some abide by the justice of putting the world government first.
At the same time, according to their attitudes towards the world government, they are divided into many factions.
There are factions that absolutely obey the World Government and take the World Government's orders and will as the guideline for all their actions.
There are factions that obey the World Government, but at the same time insist on their own way of doing things.
There are also factions that prefer to treat the navy as an independent organization and not to follow the world government's orders.
Of course, this kind of faction is generally not revealed openly, after all, the navy is still the armed force of the World Government.
There is even controversy within the navy about whether to help the people fight against pirates. It sounds ridiculous, but it is true.