"But if it wasn't because of the Ancient Weapons, then why was the World Government afraid of the Poneglyphs? Could it really be just because they recorded the history of the Void Century?" Gion asked with a frown.
Many people believed that the Void Century contained the World Government's dark history, which was why the World Government feared anyone else discovering it.
But to true Great Pirates and high-ranking Marines, that was surely nonsense—the World Government lacked dark history? Even now, the World Government had never been clean!
For the hundreds of years since the World Government began ruling the seas, it had employed nothing but policies designed to keep the people ignorant. So what if you found its dark history? Did you have any right to speak? Would those ignorant masses below believe you?
As for intelligent people... if you told them a crow's mother was actually black, wasn't that fucking common sense?
When you never had any hope for the World Government to begin with, naturally there would be no disappointment either.
That was precisely why, when the World Government claimed that the Poneglyphs recorded Ancient Weapons, the Marines all believed it.
After all, the World Government's words made sense. Why would it be afraid of something like dark history? It was already covered head to toe in red fur—why would it fear others saying its later years were inauspicious?
Ancient Weapons, on the other hand, were different. With those things, it might truly be possible to resist the World Government and shake its rule.
"By taking history as a mirror, one can discern the rise and fall of nations," Alonso said pretentiously, then continued explaining. "Although some say that the lesson humanity learns from history is that humanity never learns any lessons, sometimes the truths hidden in