Centralization of Power
Before long, Lindbergh and Morgans had both rushed back.
Morgans was unwilling to waste even this brief moment because of Crow's existence.
He had thought he was irreplaceable, that the World Economic News Paper was irreplaceable. But when Crow appeared before him, and those dark crows that had left Crow's body scattered in all directions, Morgans suddenly felt immense pressure.
He was not irreplaceable!
Only now did he understand this. In the entire One Piece World, under the Devil Fruit system, no one was irreplaceable.
Only someone like Leo, who had put forward truly unique ideas, was one of a kind and irreplaceable in the pirate world!
Morgans had realized this, and Dragon had realized it too, but many others had not. They did not understand where Leo's value truly lay. Only people like Hancock and Ace had discovered the heart of the problem.
At the core of this issue was the fact that there were far too many pirates in the entire pirate world who could wield a blade and kill.
But there were far too few who could clearly explain the problem and put forward an ideal that everyone could agree with.
People like that were almost nonexistent.
Roger yearned for freedom, Whitebeard yearned for family, Big Mom's ideals were loftier—she yearned for a world where everyone was equal and everyone could afford to eat. Kaido was a more straightforward ambitious man: stockpile grain, build high walls, and claim the throne slowly. Red-Haired was a believer, superstitious about prophecy. As for Blackbeard, all he wanted was the purest form of violence—the freedom to commit atrocities at will without being punished.
All of them shared a common goal: to shatter the old world's existing order, then build the New World themselves.
They were somewhat different from