Or rather, the Five Elders at the top of the World Government had never thought much of the Vinsmoke Family. Even though the Vinsmokes ruled part of the North Sea's Non-Member States,
in the Five Elders' eyes, they were still no more than a force that could be wiped out with a flick of the wrist.
"And then?"
"What obstacle did you encounter...?"
Nara Dan felt that the exciting part was coming.
Gaji looked awkward, as if he would rather not remember what came next.
"Later, because the war I started affected too many civilians,"
"Monkey D. Dragon, who was still a Marine Vice Admiral at the time, couldn't stand by and watch,"
"so he ignored the orders from the Marine high command and went straight after the Vinsmokes."
"And then..."
Nara Dan raised his eyebrows. Gaji didn't need to say more; he could already guess how things had gone.
Well, well. So the Vinsmokes had been one of the major reasons Dragon had left the Marines and founded the Revolutionary Army.
Needless to say, Monkey D. Dragon, who was still a Marine at the time, had acted out of pure Justice. He had protested the World Government's decision to turn a blind eye to the war it had started against the Vinsmokes.
So he had decided to go all the way, leaving the Marines and founding the Revolutionary Army to overthrow the World Government.
There were surely other stories behind it, but there was no doubt that—
Facing Monkey D. Dragon, who was already a Vice Admiral at the time and whose strength was certainly far beyond that of an ordinary Vice Admiral, the Vinsmoke Family—with no Red-Yellow-Blue Three Brothers yet—had been utterly powerless to resist.
They had slunk away from the Non-Member States' territory and declared their plan