Chapter 232: Golden Lion roared with all his might, but Mu Chen merely watched him calmly.
"Only Roger deserved the title of Pirate King. You weren't even worthy of being called a great pirate, Golden Lion!"
"With a single sentence before his death, Roger ushered in the Great Age of Pirates. Could you do that?"
As Mu Chen spoke, he slowly approached Golden Lion.
Golden Lion could only retreat.
"And why do you think Roger started the Great Age of Pirates?"
"Do you even know what he was trying to achieve?"
Faced with Mu Chen's relentless questions, Golden Lion no longer knew what to say.
To him, the title of Pirate King meant the strongest man on the seas. What else could it mean?
And he had no answers to any of Mu Chen's questions.
"Roger, tell me why!"
"Why did you choose to die?"
Golden Lion suddenly threw back his head and shouted.
Roger had been his rival and his friend. Perhaps that was the loneliness of standing at the top. But ever since Roger died, Golden Lion had lost his purpose. He had never understood why Roger died, and now Mu Chen was saying Roger had gone willingly to his death to usher in the Great Age of Pirates. Why?
He simply couldn't make sense of it.
"Golden Lion, the dawn of a new era means the end of an old one. Everything Roger did was meant to bring the era of the Celestial Dragons to an end. Do you understand?"
Mu Chen's words left Golden Lion numb. He stared at Mu Chen with vacant eyes. "What did you say?"
He couldn't believe such words had come from a Marine. And Roger's goal was so terrifying that he hardly dared contemplate it.
Roger had wanted to overthrow the