Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 295 The Will of D? The Will of D!

If you want to compile unofficial history, you can't be ignorant of official history. At the very least, you need to understand the key figures and the logic of historical development.

Otherwise, if it were just something imagined or fabricated out of thin air, it wouldn't be unofficial history, it would be fantasy literature.

As for the standards for compiling unofficial histories, one can refer to "Qin's Moon," which uses history as its backbone and art as its wings.

Fortunately, Ning Yuan had a historian by his side, so he didn't need to look for books; he could just ask her.

"Robin, can you tell me some history?" Ning Yuan asked Robin, who was writing something on his desk.

"Why are you suddenly interested in history?" Nico Robin looked up at Ning Yuan, her face suddenly stiffening. "You wouldn't happen to be interested in that secret too, would you?"

"What secret?" Ning Yuan asked blankly. "I just wanted to hear about history!"

"Then you have to tell me why you want to hear history, and then I'll decide whether or not to tell you!" Robin said seriously.

"Wasn't the history of ancient times a blank for a hundred years? I want to try to write it down myself!" Ning Yuan said.

"You? Write history?" Robin seemed a little confused. "What do you mean?"

"That means I'll fill in the gaps in this history!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

"You understand ancient writing? You've read the Poneglyphs?" Robin asked hastily.

"No!" Ning Yuan shook his head.

"If you don't have it, how will you write it?" Robin asked thoughtfully. "You're not going to just make it up, are you?"

"Can't I?" Ning Yuan shrugged. "Of course, I'll make it believable, not too outrageous!"

Robin's face finally darkened: "Sorry, I can't grant you that request!"

"Why?" Ning Yuan rested his chin on his hand, looking at Robin in front of him.

To be fair, Sanji made a good point: even an angry Robin is very beautiful!

"As a historian, you expect me to fabricate history for you?" Robin clenched his fist. "You're insulting my profession!"

"You can't say that!" Ning Yuan laughed. "I know what you've always wanted to do—to reconstruct history by searching the world for historical texts! But how do you know that the history you reconstruct is the true history?"

"How can it not be real history? These harsh words inscribed on historical texts were written by people eight hundred years ago!" Robin retorted.

"As long as history is written by people, it will inevitably possess subjectivity and bias!" Ning Yuan spread his hands. "And once the person writing history mixes subjective will into their words, then history is no longer true history!"

Seeing that Robin still wanted to refute, Ning Yuan continued, "Let's not talk about the distant future. How do you think the Alabasta people will write about my killing Crocodile and ascending the throne in the future?"

Robin was taken aback, unsure of what to say.

"Because the only historical record is my report, they will write it like this: Ning Yuan is from a certain city. He was laid off due to financial difficulties caused by the lack of rain. After becoming a reporter, he met Princess Vivi, who was infiltrating Baroque Works. The two fell in love at first sight, and Ning Yuan helped Princess Vivi eliminate the villain Crocodile, who wanted to usurp the country!"

"As for King Cobra, he saw Ningyuan's talent and believed he could govern the country well, so he abdicated the throne to him!"

Is that right?

Robin remained silent.

"But we all know this isn't true. First, I'm not Alabasta; second, I'm not a printing factory worker; and third, Cobra didn't give up his position to me because of my talent, but because of coercion from the World Government!"

"Look, only a few days have passed, and the recorded history has completely changed. We were the ones who experienced it firsthand, and even what we wrote isn't true. Are you so sure those historians didn't add anything to it?"

Robin didn't know how to answer, and even felt a sense of her worldview collapsing.

After all, she had been wandering for so many years, and it seemed that the only reason she was still alive was to interpret historical texts and restore the truth of history.

And then you suddenly tell me that this historical truth might not be true?

"So, all my years of running away and struggling have been meaningless?" Robin's face was pale, and he even seemed somewhat lost and dejected.

"It's not that bad!" Ning Yuan quickly stood up and pulled Robin back from falling to the ground. "Although the Poneglyphs aren't necessarily entirely true, some of their content is definitely true, so they still have some reference value!"

Robin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"And, you may not know this, but I'm actually a historian too!" Ning Yuan added.

"Huh? You?" Robin was taken aback, and asked somewhat blankly, "Aren't you a journalist? Or maybe a writer? How did you become a historian?"

Do you expect me to tell you about my archaeological digs, tomb raiding, and historical research in another world?

"My understanding of history might be a little different from yours!" Ning Yuan laughed. "As a historian, I'm more inclined towards archaeology and excavation, using real-life cases to reconstruct the truth of history!"

"What...what does this mean?" Robin blinked. "Isn't it the same as mine?"

"The work is somewhat similar, but definitely different!" Ning Yuan said. "You only search for historical texts, while I search for everything from ancient times, including but not limited to ancient buildings, books, ruins, and tombs, especially tombs—those things are extremely valuable!"

Seeing that Robin's expression was a bit off, Ning Yuan quickly added, "Of course, I'm not talking about treasure in the tombs, but rather that tombs usually contain inscriptions and murals, which can reconstruct a part of the historical landscape of that time!"

"It's like the world government deleted a hundred years of history, but can such things really be deleted?" Ning Yuan asked. "I suspect they only deleted publicly published history books and biographies, but what if a private individual recorded or drew this history and buried it in their own grave?"

"What do you mean?" Robin asked thoughtfully.

"We need to find historical texts, but we can't just rely on them!" Ning Yuan said. "Archaeology emphasizes the principle of 'isolated evidence without definitive proof.' That is, if only one person says something about so-and-so, we can refer to that statement, but we can't be certain. Only when many places have unearthed documents saying that this person did this or that can we determine a person's true character!"

Therefore, historical texts can only serve as a historical reference, and should not be blindly trusted!

Robin nodded. "I understand what you mean!"

She began to accept Ning Yuan's archaeological approach because it sounded more credible than simply finding a single historical text!

but!

"But that's no excuse for making up history!" Robin asked, frowning.

"Fabricating history is certainly wrong, but it's not entirely without its drawbacks!" Ning Yuan said. "A false history can potentially force the truth to emerge!"

"Forced? What do you mean?" Robin frowned.

"Who else do you think might have this blank century of history besides historical texts?" Ning Yuan guided Robin's thinking and asked.

"World Government?" Robin asked.

If there's anywhere else besides the Poneglyphs that contains that blank century of history, it's probably only the World Government.

"Yes, so here's the question: if I were to write my own history, in which I blatantly slander and accuse the world governments, describing them as worthless trash, worse than maggots in a cesspool, do you think they wouldn't be able to tolerate it and would stand up and tell us the true history?"

"This!" Robin looked at Ning Yuan in astonishment. "It seems...it does!"

Judging from the World Government's attempt to erase this century of history, the role it played in this period of history was probably not honorable.

But no matter how dishonorable it is, it's still better than maggots!

When we want to know the real history, you won't show it to us. We describe your ancestors as maggots, and you still can't stand it!

"But even if the World Government comes out to confront us, what they say might not be the true history!" Robin frowned.

"But we already have two perspectives on the true history, don't we!" Ning Yuan shrugged.

"It seems that's how it is!" Robin looked at Ning Yuan as if he were looking at a monster!

Why didn't I think of this method?

Using outrageous fabricated history to force world governments to produce the real history?

Even if the history presented by the World Government is false and embellished, with nine parts false and one part true, isn't there still a fraction of it true?

According to Ning Yuan's previously mentioned theory that isolated cases cannot prove anything, this history, which is nine parts false and one part true, is still a valuable history!

"Damn it!" Robin slapped his thigh. Such a useful idea was actually come from a reporter.

Why couldn't any of us historians come up with this?

If someone had figured it out earlier, they could have forced the world government to reveal the true history eight hundred years ago. Why would we be struggling to find the Poneglyphs now?

Although Robin knew that Ning Yuan's goal was not only to force the truth of history, but also to undermine the reputation of the World Government, all you need is a heart that seeks the truth of history!

Seeing Robin's relieved expression, Ning Yuan asked with a smile, "How about it? Got it?"

Robin nodded: "Then, shall we begin?"

"Wait!" Ning Yuan returned to his seat, took out a stack of white paper and placed it in front of him, then picked up a pen with his other hand: "We can begin!"

"Ahem!" Robin cleared his throat.

It's said that she started her escape at the age of 7, and 20 years have passed since then!

This is the first time in 20 years that someone has listened to her talk about history!

Fortunately, she was exceptionally intelligent and had a photographic memory. If it were a historian, after 20 years of not engaging with history, she would have forgotten everything long ago!

"The recorded history of this world begins roughly five thousand years ago!" Robin said. "In my homeland, Ohara, there is an all-knowing tree, which has existed for five thousand years!"

"Hmm!" Ning Yuan wrote down the timeline on a piece of paper.

Five thousand years ago: the Tree of Omniscience existed, and history began to be recorded.

Four thousand years ago, the first recorded state was born in Alabasta, where they lived.

1500 years ago, a culturally prosperous nation was born, and this nation began to adopt the Haiyuan calendar as its calendar system, thus giving birth to the Haiyuan calendar.

1100 years ago, a nation that was prosperous in culture, technology and economy appeared on the great sea route.

The name of this country has been erased; all that remains for posterity is that it was called the Great Kingdom.

This kingdom developed Devil Fruit technology, but instead of using the Devil Fruits for good, it used their power to capture citizens of other countries, enslave them, oppress and colonize weaker nations.

For the next 200 years, the entire sea was shrouded in the shadow of this kingdom. The people lived a life worse than death, and the nobles of various countries lived in constant fear, as if walking on thin ice, without any dignity of nobility.

However, just as the Great Kingdom prospered because of Devil Fruit technology, it will also decline because of it.

They did not pass on the technology of Devil Fruits. After a Devil Fruit user died, the Devil Fruit power would randomly appear in some corner of the sea and then be obtained by one lucky person after another.

Those who obtained the Devil Fruits began to recruit soldiers and rebel against the rule of the great kingdom.

Then there is no more then.

Because the history from 900 to 800 years ago is blank; it has been erased.

Then, the Great Kingdom disappeared, and the World Government was established.

约700年前

The World Government began using prisoners and non-member nation citizens to build the "Bridge Kingdom" Taqira Wolf in the East Blue, connecting the various islands.

约500年前

Oz the Demon left behind the legend of stealing a kingdom, and later froze to death.

约460年前

Tree fever has broken out in the Kingdom of Lubnir in the North Sea, killing 100,000 people.

约200年前

Fishman Island established diplomatic relations with the World Government, the entire world ceased persecuting Fishman and Mermaid races, and the King of the Ryugu Kingdom on Fishman Island was allowed to attend World Government meetings.

38 years ago – 1486 in the Haiyuan calendar

On God Valley Island, Monkey D. Garp joined forces with the Roger Pirates to defeat the Rocks Pirates, who had already dominated the seas at the time. The captain of the Rocks Pirates was named Rocks D. Xebec, and his subordinates included Edward Newgate, Shiki, Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, Wang Zhi, Captain John, Silver Axe, etc. This event is known as the "God Valley Incident," and Garp was awarded the title of "Marine Hero" for it.

After the God Valley incident, Charlotte Linlin gave Kaido the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Azure Dragon form.

22 years ago, in the year 1500 of the Haiyuan calendar

Roger became the Pirate King, and surrendered himself a year later.

18 years ago, in the year 1502 of the Haiyuan calendar

Ace was born after spending 20 months in his mother's womb.

"Ace?" Robin blinked as she saw the last line Ning Yuan wrote. "Is it Ace from the Whitebeard Pirates?"

"Ah, it's him!" Ning Yuan nodded, then crossed out the last line: "I got used to writing it!"

"Is this person special?" Robin asked curiously, "You even wrote about him separately?"

"That's really special!" Ning Yuan pointed to the line of text above Ace's: "Aren't you curious why Roger only turned himself in a year later? Guess what he did during that year?"

"I have no idea!" Robin shook his head.

"He went off to pick up girls, and one of them even had his baby!" Ning Yuan pointed to Ace below: "That's him!"

"Ace, the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, is actually the son of the Pirate King Roger?" Robin's eyes widened in surprise. She wasn't usually one to have strong emotions, but this news was truly shocking.

Who would have thought that the Pirate King's bloodline still exists in the world!

Ning Yuan smiled but didn't reply. Instead, he wrote down a few names on the paper.

A vast kingdom.

World Government.

Shandora.

The Kozuki clan of Wano Country.

Well, let's start with the Great Kingdom, a piece of unofficial history.

First, let's give the Great Kingdom a name; we can't keep calling it the Great Kingdom forever.

"Then let's call it the Great Virtue Dynasty!" Ning Yuan thought about it and felt that the name was good. As for why it was called Great Virtue, it was because the pronunciation of Virtue is De.

The will of D?

D's will!

Then create another one, and those whose names contain the letter D are all descendants of the Great De Dynasty.

Coincidentally, neighboring Germany also likes to incorporate ancestral glory into names, and having a letter in the middle of the name is a tradition of the old Aryans.

The will of D, launching wars and developing fantastical technologies, is besieged by a group of nations.

Tell me, is this flavor authentic or not?

(End of this chapter)