Picking up where Rayleigh had left off, Barn spoke in a low voice.
"He was arrested, and the Navy announced that he would be publicly executed in Loguetown, in the East Blue, where he was born!"
"I heard the square was packed that day. Many of the young people there would later become great pirates famous across the seas... The Pirate King's execution drew the attention of the entire world..."
Barn spoke gravely, but Rayleigh continued.
"I didn't go... These were his final words to us."
At that, the smile in Rayleigh's eyes slowly faded, and the wrinkles that his smile had drawn across his face eased. With a touch of melancholy, he said,
"I'm not going to die... partners..."
"At the time, I couldn't understand why Roger would say that. Even without the Navy's public execution, his body wouldn't have lasted much longer. But after his death, I finally understood what he meant."
"The World Government and the Navy must have panicked. A public execution meant to make an example of him became the opening ceremony of the Great Pirate Era, all because of something Roger said before he died..."
"My treasure? If you want it, go and take it... Go look for it. I left everything this world has to offer there!"
With a touch of nostalgia, Barn recited Roger's final words before his death. Though Barn had still been blind back then, his memories of his previous life showed Roger smiling as he spoke those words, even with two sharp execution blades poised before him.
"The flickering flame of his life in those final seconds became a raging inferno that swept across the world!"
Barn spoke in a low voice. Roger was arguably the man he admired most. Though their time together had been brief, Roger's will