From beginning to end, Leo believed that healthcare, the military, technology, and education were responsibilities a government could never shirk—without exception.
Once a government evaded those responsibilities and devolved authority over certain things, those very things would inevitably backlash against it a thousandfold someday. Letting go of the military would weaken national defense; letting go of healthcare would allow pharmaceutical conglomerates with monopolies to hold the lives of the entire population hostage; letting go of technology would let tech giants profit while the nation still had to pay for patent licenses; but letting go of education was the most terrifying of all. It would turn the people into ignorant pigs, into leeks or weeds harvested by capital.
So everything else could be loosened, but education alone could not. The Dragon Slaying Technique absolutely had to be taught.
Once the Revolutionary Army trainees had brought the pirates back, it was time to eat.
In fact, Leo had already arranged it with the restaurants.
As long as they had money, the restaurants did not care who ate the food. Given enough payment, they would place pots of cooked thick soup and bread before Leo's group, slice up ham and sausages, then obediently withdraw.
Leo understood deeply that a good physique could not be built through blind training. The reason Luffy and his two brothers had hunted animals so frantically in the forest was also because their bodies instinctively craved energy.
Most pirates, meanwhile, had to scrimp and save at sea.
When Red-Legged Zeff of the East Blue encountered a shipwreck, he had even eaten his own leg because there was no food. Pirates with even slightly larger crews simply did not dare feast freely at sea.
How could they train their bodies without eating and drinking their fill? How could they replenish