Why was the hundred years in the middle cut out when the world's history existed both before and after it?
Why didn't the Celestial Dragons fabricate a fake history for those hundred years?
Wasn't history written by the victors?
Leaving a hundred years of history blank was practically announcing that something was wrong with those hundred years and telling everyone to hurry up and investigate, wasn't it?
To explain these questions, Carlos believed it was very likely connected to Alabasta.
In the Alabasta arc, we learned that the information and location of the ancient Pluton were hidden within the True History tablet in Alabasta's Underground Palace.
Alabasta was one of the original Twenty Kingdoms, while the True History tablets were products of the former Great Kingdom. That was very strange.
As enemies, why would the Great Kingdom help Alabasta create a True History tablet that concealed Pluton and its information?
And why had Alabasta's royal family guarded that True History tablet concerning Pluton, as well as the ancient weapon Pluton, for generations?
From the manga and anime, Vivi and her father of Alabasta's royal family appeared extremely upright. Then had Alabasta's royal family in the past been upright as well?
The answer was probably that they had been exceptionally upright. By that logic, the King who had joined the Twenty Kingdoms to subjugate the Great Kingdom must also have been upright. Otherwise, why would he leave Mary Geoise after winning the war and being offered the spoils of victory—the chance to become a Celestial Dragon, a member of the super-privileged class?
That upright King had likely discovered the truth after the war and wanted to reveal it, but the other nineteen refused. They wanted to fabricate history and deceive the world, resulting in conflict.
Because Alabasta possessed the ancient weapon