Truth
King nearly burst out laughing.
But Yamato's next words left him speechless.
"What is truth? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Is that truth?"
Of course it was truth. King was choked into silence, then grew even angrier. It was a fact that even Logia Devil Fruit users could not change.
Of course it was truth.
"Then within the Revolutionary Army, principles like this are everywhere," Yamato said with a helpless sigh.
The deeper her understanding of the Revolutionary Army and this world became, the more she understood how laughably absurd the things Oden had recorded truly were.
Perhaps in a story, the tragic Oden was a hero who had upheld his convictions to the very end, someone worthy of being remembered by later generations.
But for a country and its people, they had no desire whatsoever to serve as background scenery in such heroic narratives and epics.
Ordinary people who served as background scenery in such narratives rarely met good ends.
Yamato had once immersed herself in Oden's heroic epic, grieving over the changing seasons. But after joining the Revolutionary Army and viewing the world through its perspective, she realized just how pitiful and miserable the civilians of Wano Country had been under Oden's rule.
Oden had been willful and reckless. Even as a son, he had failed to do what an heir to the throne should have done. Later, after setting sail with Whitebeard and Roger, he had completely abandoned the entire country to his wife.
As a ruler, a husband, and a father, he had been utterly unqualified.
Looking further ahead, it was precisely because of the colossal disaster he had caused that Orochi had been able to exploit the opening.
Orochi might have been a despicable villain, but wasn't Oden