"!!!"
Red-haired Shanks suddenly thought of something and abruptly spoke, "So, may I ask, Mr. Orochimaru, do we have the fortune to meet him?"
"Hahahahahaha..."
Uchiha Madara even burst into an outright laugh.
"This..."
A hint of hesitation flickered on Senju Hashirama's face, seeming uncertain about whether to speak, as he has always been somewhat slow on such matters.
"You've already met him."
Orochimaru's smile was somewhat eerie, and the corners of his mouth revealed an unconcealable pleasure: "Perhaps you overlooked him, perhaps you mocked him, perhaps you cursed him, perhaps you praised him, just as he silently watched you, you quietly watched him..."
"!!!"
Everyone exchanged glances.
No...
When...
When did they meet that man!
"We've... seen him?"
Red-haired Shanks furrowed his brows tightly, unconsciously pondering, having met so many people in his life, which one is the one behind the Konoha Pirates?
"We should go."
The voice of Red Sand Sasori accompanied his silhouette landing on the Golden Ark, speaking coldly: "Today's matters are already too much, we came here just to retrieve a specimen..."
"What a pity..."
Orochimaru's face seemed somewhat unsatisfied.
For him, playing with people's psychology was also a great pleasure.
"Wait!"
Nico Robin raised her head and loudly inquired, "I have one more thing! One thing I urgently want to know!"
"Back in Alabasta..."
"I wanted to know the answer, but someone told me that the destination should be on the Final Island, Laugh Tale, but now you say even when Pirate King Gol D. Roger reached the Final Island, it was just a coronation at the wrong time, and he didn't get the historical truth!"
"Now..."
"I want to know..."
"Does the Poneglyph have any meaning?"
"If everything is fake, the history has long been unrecognizable, altered and erased by the Goddess of Rabbit and the World Government, does our research of ancient history hold any significance?"
"..."
Until now...
Nico Robin still wanted to know the historical truth.
As her only expertise in life was researching ancient history...
Back in Alabasta, Luffy told her if she wanted to know, to go to the Final Island together; but now, everything on the Final Island could be fake, and Nico Robin simply couldn't understand, so she could only loudly inquire here!
This answer...
Is what Nico Robin urgently wanted to know!
Many present fell silent, wondering why concern about history mattered now with the world possibly in trouble!
"..."
Red Sand Sasori became silent.
This red-haired boy calmly hovered in the air, after pondering for a second, he gave an ambiguous answer: "If you can't find the answer, then trust those you believe in..."
"I can't bring myself to lie about this matter."
"Even if someone constantly tries to erase history, the traces of history can never be erased, there will always be someone like you recording everything that happened in history."
After Red Sand Sasori finished, his gaze fell on Nico Robin: "Time is continually advancing, history is continuously being born, those who do good in history will be recorded, and those who do evil will never be forgotten."
"The only thing I can tell you is..."
"Also, it's only for you alone..."
"Time will prove everything, even if someone tries to erase history, all forgotten mistakes that happened in history will be rectified one by one by time..."
"Humanity cannot forget the past, erasing history is a false order, and there will always be people like in O'Hara researching and recording history..."
"And these people..."
"Are not to be harmed."
"This is also why, knowing you have learned about the secrets of the Ancient Weapons Pluto and Sea King, we have never acted against you."
"I once heard a story about a person recording history, whose entire clan was killed by someone who wanted to alter history, but someone else took their place, risking their life to record true history, O'Hara's existence ought to be like that..."
"The existence of O'Hara is meaningful."
"Even the person behind the Konoha Pirates acknowledges your monumental task of recording ancient history; for him, history is a means, not something to be desecrated, even if he does not deny the real history..."
"Real existing history..."
"Should not be forgotten by anyone."
As Red Sand Sasori said this, his body slowly landed on the Golden Ark, the brilliance of the Golden Ark slowly sailed, slowly floating up from the sea.
"One more thing..."
"The survivors of O'Hara have been sheltered by the Konoha Pirates."
"No one is allowed to threaten a person recording history with Ancient Weapons."
Red Sand Sasori's voice drifted down from the Golden Ark: "This is Konoha's mercy, even the person behind Konoha will allow humanity to record traces of their existence..."
"!!!"
Everyone present looked at Nico Robin.
Everyone knew what that statement from the Konoha Pirates meant!