Lott continued speaking:
"The World Government erased that history from the river of time.
It was the period everyone calls the Void Century.
For eight hundred years, the World Government has constantly proclaimed how just it is.
As those who remembered that history passed away one by one, the World Government erased the written records as well.
No one knew the history of that Void Century anymore.
Joy Boy was also called the world's first pirate.
Pirates are evil, while the Marines and the World Government are justice!"
As Lott's words fell, they were like a massive stone thrown into a tranquil lake.
The entire world erupted.
Doflamingo couldn't help bursting into laughter at those words. "Fufufufu, pirates are evil, and the Marines are justice?
That idea has been rewritten countless times. People who don't know what peace means and people who don't know what war is have different values.
They couldn't possibly have concepts of justice and evil in their hearts!
Only those at the top can define what is justice and what is evil."
As he spoke, he spread his arms with a cynical air. "Heh heh heh heh, the World Government is just?
Of course it is!
Because only the victors get to proclaim themselves just, don't they?"
He thoroughly agreed with Lott's words, though he didn't know how the World Government had been established.
Nor did he know how this world had taken shape.
As someone who had once been one of the kings ruling the criminal underworld, he understood human nature quite thoroughly.
As the eldest son of the Donquixote Family, he had originally enjoyed the privileges of the Celestial Dragons alongside his family.
Yet his father, Saint Donquixote Homing, had advocated that Celestial Dragons and ordinary people were all human and should enjoy