"No more balance?"
Hearing Fleet Admiral Sengoku's answer, Dylan looked at him with a half-smile.
"These things aren't something I can maintain even if I wanted to. I've been sitting in the position of 'Fleet Admiral' for so many years and my achievements haven't been high. Now that I'm retired, I can choose some things that I think are right."
"But there's no credibility in your argument, Sengoku."
Sengoku grabbed the senbei bag in front of him again, took a piece in his hand, and said: "I... I also have my own 'family'... As long as it does not violate 'justice', I'm a retired old man, and I'm trying to do something for my family. Isn't that too much?"
Sengoku left the fortress and came to the harbor to board his warship. There was a boat full of senbei stacked on the deck, and the soldiers were submerged in the "ocean" of senbei.
"Big... Big Inspector! These are sent from the G-5 base! We can't stop..."
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In Dylan's office, Tahir was frowning in thought over a table of materials. Dylan walked across to him, sat down, and glanced at the information on the table. It was all about the sun god.
"What's the conclusion?"
"It's a bit weird... indescribably weird..." Tahir shook his head. "But it's hard for me to describe what this weirdness is..."
Dylan sat across from him and lit a cigarette. After taking two puffs, he said, "Character."
"Character!?" A trace of doubt and light flashed through Tahir's mind, but it was fleeting.
Dylan nodded.
"Let's not talk about his experiences before he went to sea. Let's talk about it after he went to sea. He has experienced a lot in just one year. Most of those things are scenes full of people's blood and tears, but there are two things that are completely different from ordinary people... No, they are completely different from 'normal people'."
"Why does he still insist on becoming a pirate? Why does he still laugh and never consider the cause and effect? What will happen to a normal person who claims that he is not a villain after seeing such a heavy fact?"
Tahir's brows furrowed even more tightly. This is indeed unreasonable and very strange. Through his analysis, Straw Hat is indeed not a person with evil intentions, and there is a big difference between him and those pirates who kill and plunder indiscriminately for their own selfish desires.
This means that there is indeed a certain degree of kindness in his heart, but why would a person with kindness remain indifferent, or even unchangeable, after seeing so much blood and tears? This is definitely not the way a normal person should think.
"His reasons for fighting are sometimes very boring and even nonsensical. He keeps clamoring all day about becoming the Pirate King and beating this one and that one away. There is no growth in his character at all."
"Such a person can always experience some very exciting things. Even though some things have been 'handled' by me in advance, he can still get equally or even more exciting stories from other places. Do you guess why?"
Tahir's pupils shrank slightly, and a huge feeling of fear came over him.
Dylan chuckled lightly, flicked the cigarette ashes from his hand, and said to him: "In my hometown, there is such a story called...'The Truman Show'!"
After hearing the summary of the story, Tahir's expression became more solemn.
"You mean...he's been being guided? From the inside out?"
Dylan took a puff of his cigarette and nodded. "Yes, after Shanks took the fruit, he immediately rushed to East Blue. He should have been preparing to give the fruit to Ace, but only after Shanks saw the Straw Hat did he realize that he is the 'fire' of this generation."
"Fire!?"
"Ah... This is the conclusion I came to through some special means to force a confession. They call the leaders of the 'D' family, or the people who control huge power related to them, 'Lights', and among them, there are those who hope to lead all races to the 'dawn', also known as 'fire seeds'."
A huge amount of information poured into Tahir's mind, and some characters kept interweaving in his thoughts.
"There are many 'lights' but only one 'fire'?"
"Yes, and the 'fire' must be inside the 'lamp'."
"The 'Lamps' of this generation are: 'Poseidon' - Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi, 'Controller of Pluton' - Neferutari Vivi, 'Controller of Uranus' - Momonosuke, 'Blackbeard' - Marshall D. Teach and·········"
"Straw Hat - Monkey D. Luffy!"
Tahir was a little confused after hearing this. The Kozuki family... This is indeed a family that has been on good terms with Zou for generations, and Zou even has legends about them.
"But it is said... Kozuki Oden and his retainers died 19 years ago in Wanokuni..."
"I don't know if that idiot Oden is dead, but the others are probably not dead. They are still in the 'time and space channel'."
A woman who traveled 800 years to Wanokuni from an unknown place. There is no doubt she must be the loser of that "war." After crossing countless times and spaces, she came to Wanokuni, probably to confirm whether "Uranus" was still intact.
It is not yet known whether the "Time-Time Fruit" can travel backwards, but Dylan believes it should not be possible, or there may be some huge price - such as life. Otherwise, she could have corrected the omissions and flaws of the "war" through repeated time travels 800 years ago. If so, then Joy Boy would not have failed.
It seems that one day twenty years later, she was also present. She watched the original history. She saw the return of "Nika, the Sun God," leaving behind "nine shadows in the sky, and you will see the dawn in a dazzling light." A prophecy.
Complex and subversive information was constantly intertwined, and Tahir was also a little confused.
"Then you said Straw Hat was guided by what power?"
"Both sides," Dylan raised his finger:
"In every era, there is a group of people who call themselves 'guides' and 'guardians.' Guides are all over the world, some are strong and some are weak, some are common people, some are nobles, some are other races, they come from all walks of life, and they are omnipresent. Their task is to use words and actions to induce the 'Fire' to grow in the designated location.
The 'Guardians' are mostly powerful guys. They will ensure the safety of the 'Fire' unless encountering a fatal crisis. Otherwise, they wouldn't confront the 'Fire.' That's the first force."
"Second: The power of the fruit distorts his heart, allowing him to maintain a strange and firm optimism no matter what he has seen. Even if there is a short period of loss and doubt, the Devil Fruit may keep him optimistic and cheerful, so... that's why his character is so weird."
After hearing this, Tahir finally understood something. For example, why Dylan is so wary of "Straw Hat Luffy" but has yet to take action to kill him personally, and why Straw Hat can always save the day at some critical moments.
After last year's Enies Lobby incident, CP9's failure must be regarded as a great shame for the "World Government," so there should be a stronger force to obliterate the Straw Hats at that time...
"Garp and Kuzan!!??"
Dylan shook his head: "They shouldn't be. According to my judgment, they are just fools who were deceived and used."
Fortunately... if these two people were facing each other, the pressure would suddenly increase, and the blow to the Marines would probably be unprecedented.
Many fragments connected, and some things that were originally hidden in the fog finally emerged.
Even as calm as Tahir was, he was a little messy. He gathered the documents in his hands together and prepared to go back to his office to sort out his thoughts.
"By the way, since 'light' and 'fire' are passed down from generation to generation, who is the previous generation?"
Dylan put out his cigarette and looked at the slightly surprised look in Tahir's eyes. "I don't know about other people in the previous generation, but there are three lamps. Rocks represents chaos and domination, Garp represents peace and protection, and Roger represents freedom and liberation!"
"Among them, Roger is the 'fire,' but unfortunately, he is not the 'real fire.' If I have to say..."
"He's just a fire bearer."
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