What Is Justice? (Leaning Back
"Is this where he died?" Standing in the square, Ace almost seemed to ignore the bustling crowd entirely. It was as if the whole world contained only him and that execution platform.
The platform had actually stood for over twenty years, exposed to wind, sun, and rain. If the city authorities had not maintained it from time to time—repainting it, replacing nails, and reinforcing it with sheet metal—it probably would have rotted away long ago.
Yet on this newly refurbished platform, Ace seemed to see that man kneeling there, a brilliant smile on his face as he declared to the entire world, "Want my treasure? You can have all of it if you want it! Go find it! I left all my treasure there!"
And so, he slowly drew back the curtain on this era.
Perhaps people at the time had felt nothing, but now everyone had come to understand exactly what Pirate King Roger had done.
That was precisely why people today were so obsessed with this execution platform.
This was something with symbolic meaning from the past, and it was also why Nico Robin, as an archaeologist, wanted to see this execution platform.
If it held such immense significance for ordinary people, then for Ace, whose biological father had been the Pirate King, its meaning was something he could not immediately comprehend.
He simply stood there in speechless silence, sighing soundlessly.
"Who the hell are you?!" Although the Marine guards had rejected Tashigi's application, that did not mean just anyone could take someone who wanted to join the Marines away right in front of them.
Rejecting her was one thing, but he could not openly steal someone away.
That was a trampling and insult to the Marines' dignity. Even if they were