From Pirate to Revolutionary Mentor

Chapter 64 The Awakened Will

Can the meaning of equality truly be realized?

Kevin's answer was no.

In the afternoon conversation, after discussing the so-called freedom and equality, Dr. Clover questioned the authenticity of these two points.

Kevin calmly gave a direct negative answer.

No social group can truly achieve equality, because institutions cannot restrain the ever-changing human heart.

Regardless of the world or race, as long as one possesses individual thought, one will have various desires in addition to flexible and versatile creativity.

Only desire can stimulate human creativity.

Relative equality, relative freedom.

This is Kevin's answer to Dr. Clover.

The right to live is equal; life is above all else.

Freedom is the absence of slavery and oppression, and the freedom to live without breaking the law.

In the future Kevin describes, pirates are a thing of the past, and the Navy, under the law, becomes a force that truly protects the people.

Technology will lead to abundant energy and resources, and power will be regulated and constrained.

Relatively speaking, living, or even living well, is a simple thing.

And the dragon slayer eventually becomes the dragon...

Kevin's answer was: "When the will of all the people awakens, that will can never be extinguished. The ordinary people who make up 90% of this world will eventually drag it into the abyss."

"What has always been most important to the revolutionary army has never been guns and strength, but ideology! The ideology of daring to oppose, daring to fight, and daring to confront all injustices in this world."

"As long as this idea ignites from a spark and spreads to everyone on this sea, then even if someone sits on the throne again, they will still be pulled down."

……

Night falls in Ohara, late at night.

Inside the Tree of Omniscience, Dragon scanned all the bookshelves around him.

Then, he held the chicken talisman in his hand, and the next moment all the bookshelves inside the Tree of Omniscience began to shake.

With precise control, books and records rose into the air, one after another, like a queue, drifting out of the Tree of Omniscience towards the ships in the harbor.

Scholars were directing the order of the bookshelves, and they were also directing the ships in the port to prevent the movement of so many books from causing chaos.

Roger sat at the bow of the ship in the harbor, his hand on his mask as he tried to take it off, but Kevin stopped him with a glance.

"If you're discovered, you won't need to come out again. The prison is always short of someone to start fires and conduct interrogations, and I think you're a good fit."

"Well."

Roger lowered his hand and sighed. He knew the impact his presence would have on the scene.

Although they look neither human nor ghost now, the idea of ​​resurrecting the dead would probably keep everyone up at night.

With his thoughts racing, Roger looked at Kevin: "Young man... I always feel that you know a lot of things, even some things better than I do."

Seeing that Kevin ignored him, Roger continued with his question, "Does the young gentleman know his own surname?"

Kevin smiled. "D? I have a surname, but it doesn't contain the D, nor do I need to. The reason I haven't used my surname all this time is because, apart from me, there's no one else with that surname."

After thinking for a moment, Kevin looked at the scholars in charge: "D wasn't originally a surname, was it? It only represented a will, the will to resist those so-called descendants of gods."

"So what if we add a D to the name of every revolutionary army member now? Laugh Tale's records made you choose to believe in fate, regret that you came too early, and look forward to the appearance of that destined person in the future."

"But I don't expect it. In fact, after Loguetown, I thought even more that perhaps that destined person is no longer here. So, will this world just stay dark forever?"

Roger frowned.

D is not important, fate is even less important; what is important is that there is a group of people in this world who are spreading the will to resist.

And this group of people, as well as those who will inherit these wills in the future, are all D.

After a long while, Roger exhaled: "I really don't know how you know all this. Sometimes it's really terrifying to think about... When you plant a seed and it grows into a towering tree, no one in this world will be able to openly rule over the world anymore."

After he finished speaking, the two men fell silent at the port, except for the scholars' instructions.

Kevin looked at his hands.

Should we plant the seeds?

At the beginning, when he was one year old, his hometown was destroyed and his relatives were killed. He wanted revenge, to wipe out the Celestial Dragons of Mary Geoise, to hang the five old ghosts between the powers, and to judge the Im between the flowers.

But now... each lecture may not only have planted seeds in their hearts, but also in our own.

It's not about lofty ideals, it's just the values ​​I hold in my memory. The current state of the world makes me very uncomfortable, especially every time I see something tragic.

……

Overnight, with Dragon and Kevin taking turns and both exhausted, all the bookshelves in the Tree of Omniscience, including the research materials in the basement, were moved.

After all, it's a delicate task; if you cram everything in at once, you'll get criticized by scholars.

As he was about to leave, Dr. Clover, the leading scholar, remained steadfast in his beliefs.

He will not leave; he has chosen this place as his grave.

Some of the scholars stayed behind, including Olvia, who had originally made the same choice, but was forced onto the ship by the old man, along with her eight-year-old daughter Nicole Robin.

"Are you really not leaving? You must really want to see that kind of future for yourself, right?"

"This is my hometown, and dying here at this age is a good end for me."

"That's not a valid reason..."

Kevin sighed. "Our power is still too weak. If the forbidden century is touched, they will fly into a rage, and we can only choose to avoid it."

"They may not know exactly how many scholars there are in O'Hara, but it's impossible that there are none, or even just one or two."

"To sacrifice oneself to save one's comrades, to reassure the enemy, and to allow one's comrades to continue their research in the shadows without worry, is that right?"

The old man glared at Kevin with annoyance: "Sir, you're still very young. Being too smart isn't a good thing."

After saying that, he looked at Robin, who was clinging to the railing on the ship's deck: "Young people are the future of this world. There's no point in these old guys who are about to die not taking advantage of their remaining years to contribute and just shamelessly clinging to life..."

Kevin didn't respond, choosing to respect the situation.

"We'll bring over a bunch of miscellaneous books in the evening, since it's too spacious."

"Um."

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I humbly request that all the experts read this.

(End of this chapter)