A hero who stormed the Holy Land.
Mayor Eikobair Augury's way of addressing Tsugikuni Yoriichi was quite telling, and his attitude had taken a complete one-eighty compared to the islanders from before.
The hostility from before had vanished without a trace, replaced by a hint of warmth and ingratiation on his face.
That inconsistency made Yoriichi take notice. It seemed that the conflict between this island's people and the World Government and Marine Headquarters had long since escalated beyond repair.
And as time passed, that conflict had only accumulated, becoming a racial memory etched into the people's blood.
"What exactly is the Ancient Weapon Pluton?"
"Right, five years ago, I encountered an attack from a special weapon in the Alabasta Kingdom."
"It was a white eye in the clouds, hidden amid the cloud layer. The aura it brewed was incredibly terrifying."
"That weapon completely destroyed the Alabasta Kingdom."
As he spoke, Yoriichi quickly rummaged through the pile of old newspapers before him. Soon, he found a newspaper from four years ago and held it up before the grandfather and grandson, Eikobair Augury and Eikobair Oliva.
The newspaper's front page displayed a photograph. An enormous gray void had appeared in the boundless sea, photographed from above. Although the World Government and Marine Headquarters had jointly sealed off the waters near the Alabasta Kingdom, Morgans had somehow broken through layer after layer of obstruction to capture such a photograph.
The reason it had only been published a year later was likely because Morgans had paid a tremendous price to break through the blockade of Marine Headquarters and the World Government.
In the photograph, surrounding the enormous crater in the sea was a ring of yellow islands.
If the newspaper had not clearly stated that this was the Alabasta Kingdom's current appearance, no