Time passed like a galloping white horse, vanishing in an instant.
Young people never cared much about time, but for those growing older, each year passed faster than the last, like a cutting blade.
Two years flashed by, and quite a few major events took place during that time, such as Golden Lion's prison break.
And... Ohara's destruction.
Round Sea Calendar 1500.
Jaguar D. Saul resolutely did what he believed to be just—Nicole Olvia persuaded him, and he released the Nicole Olvia he had captured, helping her escape Marine Headquarters.
The World Government's intelligence organization, CP9, arrived on Ohara and rounded up every historian on the island.
When Dr. Clover spoke directly with the Five Elders through Spandine's Den Den Mushi,
his devotion to history and his belief that history should be known to all directly enraged the Five Elders.
Dr. Clover was killed on the spot, and the Five Elders ordered Spandine to launch a Buster Call to erase Ohara.
Afterward, Ohara Island became a scorched wasteland beneath the Buster Call.
To eliminate any historians who might have been hiding among them, Akainu also ordered the refugee ship carrying Ohara's residents to be destroyed.
After Robin reunited with her mother, Olvia, they were separated by life and death. Saul was killed by Kuzan as well, and of the entire island, only Robin was spared by Aokiji, leaving her as the sole survivor.
Afterward, the young Nicole Robin was wanted by the Marines with a bounty of 79 million.
When word got out, the world was shocked.
Yet all the Five Elders had done was kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, all to conceal history.
After the massacre, the Five Elders had clearly achieved their goal.
When Dawn, far away in the North Sea, learned of this, he could