Chapter 160: Found the Organization (22)
Chapter 159: Found the Organization
"What... do you mean?" Koshiro withdrew his sword to his waist, his right hand resting on the hilt.
It was an iaijutsu stance. Even seated on the tatami, he could still deliver a lethal slash.
No one had expected a single sentence from Leo to provoke such a strong reaction from Koshiro. Everyone understood that Leo had likely struck a nerve and voiced what Koshiro feared deep down.
"What I mean is, I'm also part of the Revolutionary Army." Leo smiled unhurriedly. "But I don't really agree with your ideals, so I started my own organization."
Such ideological disputes were still extremely novel to the current Revolutionary Army—one could even say they did not exist at all. The One Piece World had only reached roughly the industrial level of the seventeenth or eighteenth century, while its ideological development lagged even further behind. This was not meant to disparage One Piece or the Revolutionary Army, but with the Four Seas isolated from one another, every kingdom was essentially an island of information. Most ordinary people only knew the name of their own king; they did not even know about the Celestial Dragons or the World Nobles.
At most, they knew the Marines stood above their king, but they did not know why.
So the fact that the Revolutionary Army and revolutionary ideology had emerged at all was largely thanks to Dragon.
If not for his Logia Devil Fruit allowing him to travel freely through the Four Seas, if not for having a father who had raised him in an unconventional way, and if not for his absolute refusal to become an evil pirate, the Revolutionary Army and revolutionary ideology could never have been born.
Though this ideology was immature and