On the surface, the relocation went smoothly. The Donquixote Family, the Antonio Family, and others all answered the call.
But one family did not join them. Instead, they left the Red Line, where they had always lived, for a desert kingdom.
That family was the Nefertari Family, which now ruled Alabasta.
The Clan Leader of the Nefertari Family at the time had looked far ahead. Being a Celestial Dragon might have put everyone on equal footing, but it would also have made his descendants arrogant.
So the Nefertari Family left the Red Line and settled in the harsh climate of the Sand Country. That was why later generations of the Nefertari Family differed from the other Celestial Dragons.
Times changed. One hundred years passed, then two hundred, then five hundred.
Now, five hundred years later, the Celestial Dragons had become parasites feeding on the world.
Every empire developed problems after existing long enough.
Those in power grew ever more conceited, cruel, and strange. In their eyes, other humans were no longer people, but playthings.
An empire was founded. As time passed, it grew old. Oppression drove people to war, the old empire fell, and a new one rose in its place. Perhaps that cycle was the only "healthy" course of history.
Would war ever truly stop? Of course not. Wars ended only so people could prepare for larger ones.
If humanity cast aside hatred, it might gain peace. But if it cast aside its savagery, it would lose everything.
It was through savagery that humans had become the "crown of creation." Intelligence was merely an important tool. Only by using savagery to take what they needed could they survive and thrive.
Eating meat seemed perfectly natural, but was it not an act of savagery?
All killing was a sin. Yet