One Piece: True Several Thousand Hands, rampaging across Marineford!

To arouse one's own interest.

Look at what happened to those people in O'Hara.

It's not as simple as you make it out to be. If it weren't something important, would you rulers have done something so heinous?

In this world, weakness is the original sin.

He wanted to see what the Five Elders would say next.

When watching a play.

Or rather, it was a clown performance.

"The truth behind a hundred years of silence..."

"Back then, the great kingdom was ruled by a tyrannical and autocratic ruler who was determined to start a war, causing chaos and suffering on the seas. We, the twenty kings, formed an alliance to resist this and defeat them, preventing the seas from being destroyed."

"Back then, we were almost all enemies of the entire ocean, but fortunately we were victorious in the end."

"We wanted to rule the world, but we found that the free thought of the great kingdoms had influenced the entire sea and hindered unification."

"In order to erase the negative effects of this kind of thinking, we will erase that hundred years of history and forbid everyone from investigating that period of history."

"That history has caused too much pain to the sea, and we do not want such pain to affect those who come after us. Furthermore, free thought is not conducive to unification."

"..."

Kahn nodded.

Inner monologue: "Keep making this up, and see if I believe you."

He indeed portrayed himself as a righteous hero.

victors throughout history~

it's the same!

If that's really the case, then it's better to expose a century of blank history than to cover it up, allowing people to face history squarely.

What those five old bastards said.

He doesn't believe it at all now.

Kahn picked out the six most important words from this long passage.

The enemy of the entire ocean?!

These six words are very likely based on a true story.

There's a big problem with just those six words.

Why did the twenty kings of that time become enemies of the entire sea?

Is there anything else you're curious about?

The five elders, who seemed like intellectuals, laughed and said, "Go ahead and ask."

Kahn still had many unanswered questions.

I have many questions I want to ask.

What are the origins of the three ancient weapons?

How were Devil Fruits created?

Is Im male or female?

……

But in the end, he only asked two questions.

Why did you build a bridge that's over 700 years old?

Kahn said, puzzled, "This is pointless and only wastes a lot of manpower, because hundreds of millions of people have died over the past seven hundred years because of that bridge."

This number even startled him.

The emperor from the previous life, more than two thousand years ago, built the Great Wall to defend against foreign enemies.

Even so, the sins are in the present, but the merits will last for generations.

The bridge has been under repair for over 700 years without being completed.

They were guilty of a crime for a full seven hundred years.

Talent!

That's just plain stupid.

That's why it will keep getting repaired!

The five elders, like intellectuals, countered, "What kind of answer do you want?"

Kahn began, "I want a purpose, a purpose for building this bridge!"

These words were spoken.

The five elders froze for a second.

That second seemed to be frozen in time.

One second later.

The five elders returned to their original state one after another.

Kahn keenly noticed this.

After a long silence, the five elders, who seemed like intellectuals, finally replied, "We want unification."

"What a strange answer!"

"You said it... just like you said, nothing we do is perfect, and it's a miracle that we've been able to maintain order for so many years, a miracle born from the world's geographical location."

The five elders, like intellectuals, spoke with great emotion: "In order to unify the whole sea, we twenty kings launched a war to end the chaos of that year, but we have never been able to truly achieve unification. Do you know why?"

"Geographical reasons."

Kahn answered this idiotic question with idiotic words.

He suspected that the story about the Five Elders was a newly fabricated one, specifically designed to fool him.

The World Government possesses absolute power.

If we really want to unify.

Build a bridge?

What kind of idiotic idea is this?

So, those people who died building that bridge weren't even human?

It's been under construction for over 700 years and is still nowhere in sight. They're just trying to kill billions more, gambling with countless future lives on a project that might be utterly useless to ordinary people.

True unity lies in the people.

It is not a superficial project.

"That's absolutely right."

The five elders of intellectuals applauded.

Kahn: "..."

“We can’t manage every part of the ocean, so we want to connect the islands with this bridge so that we can get to any part of the ocean as quickly as possible and easily solve any problem.”

"Thus integrating the entire ocean."

"..."

Kahn did not choose to believe the Five Elders.

Instead, they try to guess the truth in their minds.

To glean information from clues found in someone's words.

Because once the islands are connected, there will be no need for sailing. People who want to go to other islands will have to go through the bridge and be inspected, which will control those who sail out to sea.

Suppressing the birth of some new ideas.

Deploy troops as quickly as possible.

Does that mean...?

Any spark of resistance that ignites anywhere on the high seas will be immediately extinguished by a large force of troops.

This is to consolidate the rule of the world government.

To be enslaved by the Celestial Dragons.

Kahn actually wanted to ask about the situation at God Valley, as that place had clearly been erased, like a long-range weapon causing destruction through an ultra-long-range attack.

He guessed it was Tenno, one of the three ancient weapons.

Suppress your curiosity.

This long-range attack alone is enough to refute the Five Elders' earlier words.

Most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

But in front of Kahn.

The words of this Five Elders were full of flaws.

This world's technology tree is completely off track. Building bridges is less efficient than building trains over the sea. The World Government already has advanced train technology on the Red Line.

Frankly speaking, instead of developing a sea-based train, we should develop submarines, warships, and aircraft carriers.

More than 700 years, even if it's from nothing to something.

They wouldn't have gone so far as to repair that dilapidated bridge, which took over seven hundred years to build.

Everything the Five Elders do is actually for the purpose of better ruling and enjoying everything they have.

For myself.

Find a reason.

"...The fact that the throne of Mary Geoise is empty is proof of our determination to unify the country and not allow anyone to reign supreme over the entire sea."