Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

In Alabasta today, Vivi and Cobra are still in charge of governance, but they are no longer royalty but saints and priestesses of the Axis religion. Kosha, on the other hand, manages the army and is also the high priest of the god of resistance.

Alabasta smoothly transitioned from a feudal system to a theocratic rule. After that, Alabasta, which had made a name for itself on the sea, quickly attracted most of the Axis followers on the sea, becoming a true holy site. From there, it spread its missionary influence to the surrounding areas.

"In the three months to date, including the Kingdom of Drum Island, five countries have been peacefully transformed by the Axis Cult," Kosha stated.

"Peace? I don't think those nobles and kings would obediently listen to a bunch of priests," Ivankov said quietly.

"Of course, the peace we're talking about doesn't involve large-scale wars and killings, but necessary deterrence, especially prayers to the goddess and the presence of those of us who have received divine favor, is essential," Kosha said, adjusting his sunglasses.

"In short, our cause is progressing very rapidly, and every day many people who want to join the Axis cult travel to our Alabasta."

"And what about those who worship the god of conflict?"

"...I can only say that my Lord's teachings are too obscure for most people." Kosha remained silent for a long time before answering with difficulty.

"I think so too." The dragon sighed softly, then looked around.

Undoubtedly, Alabasta, nourished by the abundant rainfall, has become vibrant with life, and everything is thriving. However, walking here, the dragon still couldn't help but feel a sense of despair...

Even after living together for thirty-eight years, it's still hard to accept. If the world were to become entirely composed of Axis believers, I wonder what it would be like.

Just as he was feeling sentimental, a newsbird flew by. Koza waved to it, and the albatross quickly landed, opened its beak, and Koza tossed in three hundred Berries. He took three newspapers and handed them to Dragon and Ivankov, while opening one for himself.

The article published three news items, all of which can be described as major news.

The Navy announces two new Shichibukai: Edward Weevil and Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach!

Doflamingo, the "Sea Rogue," has been confirmed dead by Buggy the Clown, leaving a third Shichibukai without a seat! The Kingdom of Dressrosa has declared independence from the World Government and established Axis as its state religion!

The Navy announced that it has captured Gol D. Ace, the son of the Pirate King, and will publicly execute him in Marineford two months from now on the anniversary of the Pirate King's death.

The three immediately looked up and exchanged glances, each seeing a rising flame of conflict in the other's eyes.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Long and Kou Sha said in unison.

"Let's do something big, let's do something big, GO!!!"

......

"So why haven't you made a wish yet?"

On the deck of a ship quietly drifting at sea, Tsugumi, sunbathing, glanced at Robin, who had pulled up a beach chair next to him and was reading a book.

At this moment, Robin was wearing a light black bikini, revealing her long legs and fair skin. Her mature and beautiful face held a slight smile.

"Because I haven't decided yet, Your Majesty~~~"

Robin lazily stretched, his beautiful figure fully revealed in the sunlight, and smiled as he looked at the God of Conflict who had been exposed.

"Moreover, by following you, I can access the hidden secrets of this world."

Robin, who was supposed to have her wish granted, neither made a wish nor joined the Straw Hat crew. Instead, she wandered around aimlessly with Tsugumi.

Tsurugi was too lazy to chase Robin away. It was nice to have a beautiful woman by his side to look at, not to mention he could casually toss her the historical texts he found to decipher and tell her stories for his amusement.

Seeing that Tsugumi remained completely unmoved by his good looks, Robin felt a little regretful, but then picked up her notebook and softly read aloud.

"In the First World, there was fire on the earth. Humanity was defeated by desire and touched the forbidden sun. The slaves prayed, and then the 'Sun God' appeared. The Earth God was angered and, together with the Serpent of Karmic Fire, devoured the world with death and darkness. They could never see each other again."

"In the Second World, there is breath in the void. The Forest God sent demons, and the Sun God continued to spread the flames of war. The people of the Half Moon had a dream, and the people of the Moon had a dream. After killing the Sun, humans ascended to the throne of gods. The Sea God was enraged and rampaged. They could never see each other again."

"In the Third World, chaos lingers with blank spaces and turbulent afterimages, reminding us of that promised day. Listening to the sound of the shattered moon, the sun god dances and laughs, leading the world to its end. The sun will eventually return, a new dawn will arrive, and they will meet again!"

Robin finished reciting the three paragraphs in a storytelling tone, closed his notebook, and whispered...

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"In the Third World, chaos lingers with blank spaces and turbulent afterimages, reminding us of that promised day. Listening to the sound of the shattered moon, the sun god dances and laughs, leading the world to its end. The sun will eventually return, a new dawn will arrive, and they will meet again!"

Robin finished reciting the three paragraphs in a storytelling tone, closed his notebook, and whispered...

"You said that the Halley Codex, written in the giant kingdom of Elbaf, describes the past and future of the world, but how is the future predetermined?"

"I don't even know where the end of the universe is, how could I possibly know this?" Tsurugi waved her hand lazily.

"In short, there's no need to worry about prophecies. After I appear, prophecies will inevitably fail to come true, which is why I said that history is meaningless."

"You're wrong! History is extremely important; it records the correct past, and serves as a warning and admonition left by people of the past for those to come," Robin corrected with a serious expression.

"Really? You think your interpretation of history can't keep up with my revisions?" Tsurugi turned her head and looked at the serious Robin with a playful expression.

"What if I told you that I could even go back in time and change things that have already happened? What would you think?"

Robin bit her red lips and gave Tsurugi a resentful look.

She believed it! What didn't she believe? To this 'god' before her, everything in the world was just a toy. He said he could rewrite the past, so he probably really could.

Therefore, for someone who spans the upstream and downstream of time and can arbitrarily tamper with the past and the future, the truth of history is really meaningless; it's just different stories in a book.

"And as for the so-called history of this world, I guess... I'm just guessing." Looking at the resentful Robin, Tsurugi suddenly felt like teasing her and said jokingly.

"The story of the so-called first and second worlds is actually like this: On the moon in this world, there is a technologically advanced race. They have wings and their bodies are wrapped in flames. They are called the Lunaria. They came to the earth because of energy depletion, bringing technology far ahead of their time, in exchange for the gold of the kings on earth."

"The kings on Earth enslaved the people to extract resources in exchange for the technology of the Moon people. The enslaved people on Earth prayed for freedom in their suffering. In their hopes, the 'Sun God' appeared and liberated them as warriors of freedom. However, the ignorant humans touched the forbidden sun, that is, they discovered infinite energy that they should not have mastered, thus triggering a devastating war."

"As for being destroyed by the Earth God, it may be due to a massive earthquake caused by war, or it may be due to a super-powerful Tremor-Tremor Fruit user. The so-called Serpent of Karmic Fire actually refers to the Red Line continent that runs through the four seas. It is the remnant of the First World caused by the planet's crustal movement. They can never meet again because the geography has separated human civilization, making it impossible for them to gather together again."

"As for evidence? If you go to Sky Island, you can see Sky Islanders who call themselves gods and have wings on their backs, because they were the first area visited by the Lunaria when they landed on Earth. You can also see corresponding murals on the moon~~~~Tsk tsk tsk, don't look at me like that, I said it's for reference only."

"As for the second world, it's the blank hundred years you're pursuing. As for the story, I guess it's something like this."

"After the war that destroyed the First World, human civilization regressed. Unable to return to the moon, the Lunaria people settled at the top of the Red Line, rebuilding a new civilization—the so-called 'breathing in the void.' The Forest God dispatched demons, referring to the Devil Fruits, products of the once-greatest tree in the world. These are the results and creations of human fantasy and desire; the Nika Fruit and the Earthquake Fruit are examples of this. In other words, the Straw Hat Puppet Master is the Sun God, and Whitebeard is the Earth God~~~"

"The Sun God's continuous spread of war refers to Joy Boy, who represents freedom, continuing to resist enslavement and oppression in the Second World. He leads the fish-men, giants, and Lunaria against the Great Kingdom. The so-called dream of the Half Moon and the Moon People refers to the intersection of freedom and order, and the Half Moon is represented by the D in the surname."

"The people of the moon may refer to the surviving members of the Lunaria race, Im, and the twenty kings who aspire to become the new rulers of the world. There are two people of the half-moon: Joy Boy and Davy Jones. However, the difference between the two is that one seeks absolute freedom, while the other seeks freedom below him."

"Then the disagreement arose again, followed by war. Davy Jones stood with the great kingdom composed of twenty nations, backstabbed Joy Boy to death, and was then betrayed by Im. Before dying, he cursed Im. At the end of the war, a great tsunami engulfed the world from eight hundred years ago. This event is also recorded in the 'Great Tsunami' of Water Seven. Im became outside the world and began to hunt down the D. clan with the Celestial Dragons because he firmly believed that Joy Boy would make a comeback."

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"As for the Third World, it's the story in the prophecy that hasn't happened yet. Well, that's all I have to say. Anyway, it's just speculation, so just listen and see."

Tsugumi felt a surge of satisfaction seeing the resentful look in Robin's eyes after she spoiled the plot.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: All the above guesses are based on plot analysis, but they should be quite close to the truth and unlikely to be wrong (staring into the distance).

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680. Zephyr's Awakening and Doflamingo's Shit-Eating

The general outline of the story that Tsugumi guessed was definitely correct, and he was 100% certain that Im's victory absolutely contained the element of 'hostages'.

After all, when he went to Elbaf, he said that the giants' defeat was because of 'children', and he held onto the giants' hostages tightly. This shows that he has figured out the answer to this version of the story—I'm going to be the Hostage King!

As for whether Im is a Lunaria, Tsurugi wasn't actually sure.

But one thing is certain: the Lunaria race must be the earliest version of the 'Celestial Dragons' in this world, since not every race can be called a race of 'gods'.

It's not just the TO version; it's estimated that the Lunaria race, who live at the top of the Red Line in the T1 version, are allies of Joyboy and have some kind of connection with the Great Kingdom, since Im looks like he has Lunaria genes.

Those so-called Hades, Neptune, and Uranus were super weapons from an ancient civilization, part of the lost civilization and the Sky City.

Of course, if later it's revealed that Im was actually an experimental subject created through artificial stitching, or if some twisted plot emerged that Im was actually the embodiment of a Devil Fruit, and had been lurking for many years to liberate his mother on the moon, then Tsugumi would accept it.

Or perhaps later Blackbeard will betray and kill Im, who will then eat Im's Devil Fruit, gather the elemental power of darkness, the Paramecia-type power of Tremor-Tremor, and the Zoan-type Devil Fruit, and instantly transform into something like Cooler, the God of Darkness, and become the final boss. That's quite possible, isn't it?

In short, he takes no responsibility for the plot he made up!

After all, who the hell could have imagined that Luffy would one day transform into a sun god who has absolutely nothing to do with the sun and whose power is to beat people up like cats and mice?

Haha, just listen to it and don't take it seriously.

Tsurugi had a good time talking, but Robin's mind was completely in turmoil.

After all, while the history interpreted by Dongjiang may not be entirely accurate, it is certainly a logical story.

Of course, reality is often illogical, but that doesn't stop Robin from feeling that every time he deciphers ancient texts in the future, he will inevitably be influenced by the unofficial historical anecdotes of Tsurugi.

Robin rolled her eyes at Tsurugi and stormed back down to the cabin.

After enjoying the pleasure of bullying the little girl, Tsugumi suddenly raised an eyebrow.

He waved his hand, and a cloud of white dust enveloped him. Then he walked through the twilight and into a forest.

"Well, it's just a subspace," Tsugumi said with a smile, looking at Zephyr, who was standing silently with red eyes.

"So you've figured it out, Admiral Zephyr?"

"...I don't understand how they could do such a thing!"

Zefa remained silent for a long time, gripped the asthma medication in his hand tightly, and hissed.

"Those are the pirates who killed my entire ship of students! How could they allow someone like that to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea and be pardoned by the Navy?!"

Tsugumi didn't speak, but listened quietly to Zephyr's outburst, then asked with amusement, "..."

“You’ve made a critical mistake, Zephyr. Why do you think your navy is a truly regular military force?”

The first mistake many who admire the navy and believe it to be a righteous force make is that they actually bring the navy into the ranks of those armies that can be described as noble, or at least as not harming the people.

The lower limit of an army is determined by the nature of its government, and unfortunately, the world government is a reactionary thing that is so reactionary that it can hardly be called a country.

The entire World Government is nothing more than a collective created by Im to house the Celestial Dragons under his command. The Celestial Dragons' expectations of the World Government are simply to make money and capture people as slaves to build bridges and ships for them, ensuring that they can still survive if the world is flooded in the future.

That's why they can hold their annual nation-destroying game, because they don't care about or want to govern anything—the world government is just a tool for excessive measures.

This thing was created by a group of rulers who didn't even intend to maintain their rule forever. Calling it a provisional government would be giving them too much credit; they were simply a different kind of 'pirate emperor'!

And the Navy, to put it bluntly, isn't it just the largest pirate crew on the sea? Their system has nothing to do with a normal army. The admirals who hold the highest power can later be recruited purely from around the world. This position never considers background, only whether you can fight.

Tsugumi took Zephyr to see those 'truths'.

Then Zefa fell silent, his hands trembling, because he had never imagined that the thing he was protecting and loyal to could be so despicable!

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He used to think that the greatest darkness of the World Government was nothing more than the slave trade, but now he knew—

The World Government doesn't just treat slaves as human beings; they treat everyone except the Celestial Dragons as less than human!

Non-member states are their source of slaves, member states are their cash cows and source of semi-slaves, the navy is their watchdog, pirates are the catfish that controls the navy, and in the end—

Haha, anyway, you'll all die in the end, only I and our slaves will survive to the new world!