When Nami said those words, Kouba trembled with excitement all over. Clearly, he understood what this meant.
He could not help looking up at the sky. By then, the rain had gradually stopped, and the people were slowly emerging from their homes, cheering in the streets. They might not have collected much water, but they could happily roll around on the concrete ground, because they had not seen rain in a very long time.
But he was not looking at the sky or the clouds. He was looking at the giant-like phantom in the heavens. It was as if he could see the Commander of the Revolutionary Army standing in the air, looking down at him.
"We..." He opened his mouth. "We all live in the shadow of giants."
To be honest, when this plan had been proposed, it was the moment when he, as the leader of the Alabasta Revolutionary Army, had been completely surpassed, outdone, and crushed by someone else.
But what made him even more despairing was that he realized he would probably never be able to surpass that person in his lifetime.
A trace of sorrow rose in his heart, and he could not help letting out that sigh.
"What foolish thing are you saying?" Nami, a clever woman, saw through his thoughts almost immediately. She promptly rejected his words. "Aren't we standing on the shoulders of giants, looking down on this world and continuing to climb higher?"
Nami had happened to hear that saying from Leo. Although, in Leo's version, the great man was not himself, that did not stop Nami from agreeing with the idea and using it to comfort Koza.
Among the people close to the Commander and his family, Nami's relationship with them was probably second only to Nico Robin's.
Hearing her