What was Red-Hair's true identity?
Ever since he had appeared at the Reverie and met with the Five Elders, questions about his identity had become increasingly murky.
Yet Red-Hair's true identity was not actually that difficult to deduce. There were clues to follow; it was no genuine mystery.
The Five Elders had said that Red-Hair could not get involved in politics.
As a pirate, he naturally could not participate in politics. But on closer examination, the Celestial Dragons had no authority to participate in politics either. Only Lord Imu could control politics, while the Celestial Dragons were World Nobles, titled aristocrats who enjoyed the finest privileges in the world.
Declaring Red-Hair a Celestial Dragon on that basis alone might have been hasty. But then there was the God Valley Incident thirty-eight years earlier.
By gathering intelligence about that incident, Rogge had finally confirmed Red-Hair's identity.
During the God Valley Incident, the Rocks Pirates had launched an attack after learning that Celestial Dragons were there, killing large numbers of them.
But God Valley had held more than Celestial Dragons. Their slaves had been there too.
For some unknown reason, God Valley had suddenly drawn many people there. Roger had also arrived, and in the end, he had joined forces with Garp to defeat Rocks and break apart the Rocks Pirates.
It was not as though the Rocks Pirates had lacked fighting power. After all, Whitebeard and Shiki had both been among them.
However, the crew members had not gotten along. They were powerful fighters whom Rocks had gathered through the Davy Back Fight's Crew-Stealing Game, forcibly bringing them together into a single pirate crew.
Once Rocks, the man who kept them in check, fell, the Rocks Pirates were bound to fall apart as well.
Against the combined strength of Roger and