Pirates: I Loaded the Game Panel

"Dr. Clover, the World Government's ship has arrived."

Meanwhile...

At Ohara's harbor, a sailing ship flying the World Government flag slowly pulled alongside the shore. A wooden gangplank dropped, and government agents in black suits, armed with flintlock pistols, poured down it.

The man in charge had an unremarkable build and shaggy, medium-length black hair. He wore a long gray-and-black pinstriped coat over a dark blue suit, with the top button of his pink-orange shirt undone. His hands were buried in his trouser pockets, and impatience showed on his face.

"Tell headquarters we've arrived."

"Getting from the Red Line to the West Blue really is a pain... But this job should get me promoted, right?"

"Hey! Hurry up and get down here! Then round up every scholar on this island!"

Ancient History, Ancient Conjectures

"Chief Spandine, is the criminal we're looking for really on this island?"

"Are you an idiot?"

Spandine, then the head of CP9, cursed and kicked the suited agent who had asked.

"Now that CP9 is here on Ohara, does it matter whether the criminal has any connection to the island?

"If we search the whole island thoroughly, we'll soon find evidence that Ohara's scholars have been studying Poneglyphs!

"This is the most famous island of scholars in the world! Its historians are among the finest on the seas! How could they possibly resist studying history?"

Spandine threw both hands skyward, speaking with the fervor of a circus clown.

"Even if the government isn't absolutely certain Ohara has anything to do with the legendary Poneglyphs...

"What does that matter?

"We're CP9. Our job is to make that tenuous connection stick!

"The government's aim was never to destroy Ohara for destruction's sake. It's to use Ohara's destruction as a warning to all those historical researchers cropping up across