Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

After I die, who cares about the flood?

——This is a sentence that sounds heroic, but it is by no means a sentence that a "good person" can say.

After all, it is actually very difficult to be a real "good guy".

They need to consider what their actions have brought to others, and even to future generations.

That's actually very tiring.

Because being a good person is a very tiring and difficult thing.

They have dedicated their lives, throwing away everything about themselves to shape everything about others.

Give up everything, give yourself.

Let's assume a situation -

Suppose there is a place in the world where people who come here can choose to abandon their memories, bodies, thoughts...etc.

But at the same time, doing so can buy this person the opportunity to "dedicate" to others forever.

"You"—would you choose to agree to such a condition?

Um?

horrible?

This is of course a terrible thing.

Forget the past, thoughts, blood, and everything about yourself, leaving only the idea of ​​dedicating to others, and always working hard for it.

At first glance, this sounds like a behavior that is close to madness.

No one in their right mind would agree to such a condition.

Losing everything about oneself is basically equivalent to death. What is the meaning of "dedication" in such a state?

But if you have this kind of thinking, you will no longer be a so-called pure "good person".

A pure good person is willing to dedicate to others, even if this kind of dedication is of no benefit, even if this kind of dedication is not even felt by oneself!

But even so, "good people" will still choose to give.

Whether it is unknown or powerful, it makes no difference to them.

That was indeed a great group of people.

At the same time, this is something that ordinary people can't even imagine.

...

So, who is the good guy?

At least [Monster Bird] Vinsmoke Gage is not.

Of course he is not. As the commander of Germa 66 and the emperor of the Germa Kingdom, Gaji has blood on his hands, and there are countless clone soldiers who choose to sacrifice for their own benefit.

Such a man can't be called a "good guy", he can even be called a "bad guy"!

So, is [Smart General] Warring States a good man?

No, it doesn't count either.

For ordinary people, the navy is of course a good person.

They help expel pirates, protect the life, property and safety of ordinary people, and are committed to maintaining peace and stability on the sea.

Such a crowd—isn't the leader of such a crowd a good man?

But for "pirates", Sengoku and the navy he led are indeed not "good guys".

... Bad guys need good guys too?

But the real "pure good person" will not define a person's good or bad.

They will reflect on the reason why the so-called "bad people" appear, and make improvements and efforts for this reason, rather than simply the opposition between "good" and "bad".

It is a kind of "hypocrisy" to talk like this, but in fact, the kind of person whose mind is full of himself.

And people who really think this way in their heads and put it into practice are enough to be called "great".

...

So, back to the original question.

【Golden Dawn】Is Ryan Rowan a good guy?

The glorious Alabasta empire was created, and the people in the country lived in peace and stability. So far, Alabasta is a superpower that the world government cannot ignore.

Such a well-known big shot, is he a "good guy"?

Of course not.

If he was really a good person, then Ryan Rowan would not be desperate to stop the devastating lava, and at the same time, the idea of ​​"after I die, no matter the flood" appeared in his mind .

—Lian Rowan thought so himself.

He earned himself unprecedented fame, but left his companions to continue their journey until the end...

This kind of behavior is certainly not a "good person".

...

Back to the present time.

Gage heard the key point of Luo Wen's remarks.

At this moment, the views put forward by Ryan Rowan are actually addressed to the "good guys" at sea.

Because the "tree" that theoretically threatens all life in the world, in fact, the biggest threat really exists in "theory".

This is not difficult to understand.

Regarding the threat of that tree to the world, it has been discovered thousands of years ago in ancient times—or even earlier.

In order to solve this problem, the people at that time even created ancient weapons, the top-level killers that affected the power structure of later generations.

But in the end, they failed.

fiasco!

The brilliant civilization that created the ancient writing died.

And about eight hundred years ago, the scholars of Shandora learned the truth about the "tree", and they were also trying to solve it...

No, the real situation is far more than that.

For example, the arsenal found in the basement of the Kingdom of Aden in the North Sea is engraved with symbols from Shandora!

In other words, eight hundred years ago, Shandora had a battle plan about the "tree", which already included the North Sea.

This is the case in the North Sea, and it must be the case in the other four major sea areas in the east, south, and west. The probability of this is not low.

Then the fact is that Shandora had preliminarily created a situation in which the world joined hands to fight against that tree.

But even so, in the end, the scholars of Shandora carved countless "running" on the wall.

The fact is easy to guess—they were desperate.

Two waves of offensives launched against the "tree" ended in defeat on one side and despair on the other.

They failed.

...well, failed?

Since it failed, shouldn't that tree absorb the world as nutrients and eventually destroy the entire world?

But that's clearly not the case.

Even today, eight hundred years later, the world still exists, wars still exist, and life still exists...

So what did their "failure" affect the ancient times and Shandora thousands of years ago?

The lifespan of human beings is only a hundred years, and who can guarantee that the impact of that tree on the world will definitely emerge within a hundred years?

Since it can't surface, why risk being counterattacked and try to unite everyone to fight against that tree?

This is obviously a bad deal.

In the words of Ryan Rowan -

After I die, who cares about the flood?

And indeed it is.

In this sea, there are actually very few people who are willing to give, and even give up their "everything" for the sake of giving.

Such people are the easiest to be unknown, because they don't care much about such things.

It is impossible to fight against that big tree just by uniting with this kind of people.

If you want to achieve the "tree cutting" that Luo Wen said, you must rely on the power of "bad guys".

Little bad, big bad, extremely bad...

All in all, Ryan Rowan needs more "strength".

But in Gage's view, it is obviously impossible for this "power" to be voluntarily held by Rowan.

When thinking of this, Gage suddenly thought of Luo Wen's voice.

"Why volunteer?"

"Um?"

"I said, why volunteer?"