One Piece: Dark Sky

"Do you want to overthrow it with me? Tiger."

Seeing the flame of faith burning in Bane's unfocused eyes, Tiger couldn't help but nodded.

"But ah!"

Bane suddenly turned his face back, and looked at the night sky that was still dark in his eyes.

"Tiger, I think it's better for you to 'die'. Of course, you don't mean to die. I think it's time for you to disappear from the navy's sight for a while."

When Bane said this, he turned around again and looked at Tiger with a serious face.

"Why?"

Tiger was taken aback by the serious expression on Bahne's face. He didn't understand that he had finally thought about accepting the human blood flowing in his body and going to 'die'.

"What do you think of the relationship between humans and murlocs, Tiger."

Bahn's thoughtless question made Tiger fall into deep thought.

"Yeah, what do I think about the relationship between humans and murlocs?"

"As far as I am concerned, I can no longer trust humans in a short time."

"However, Princess Otohime in Murloc Island is still working hard to make Murlocs accept humans. I know she is right, but..."

Tiger thought so in his heart, but he couldn't make up his mind.

This question made him very entangled. In fact, he wanted to contact human beings, or to get close to human beings, but this incident made him feel chilled. Clear your position now.

"What we encountered was only a small number of extremists, and most humans are still kind..."

Tiger said this, which was the most commonly used sentence by Princess Otohime when she was promoting the idea of ​​being close to human beings to the islanders on Fishman Island, but he was interrupted by Bahn before he could finish speaking.

"Do you really think so, Tiger."

Bahn heard Tiger's trembling tone when he answered him, and pressed forward step by step.

"I……"

Seeing the rare sharpness in Bahn's eyes, Tiger's eyes dimmed, and he didn't answer, or maybe he couldn't answer, because even he didn't figure it out.

Bahn already knew when Tiger was hesitating that he couldn't get the answer from Tiger.

Bahn sighed long into the air, turned his body back again, turned his back to Tiger, and looked at the darkness in the direction of the night sky.

Just listen to him say lightly.

"In my opinion, the relationship between humans and murlocs is almost irreconcilable."

When Bane said this, Tiger was shocked.

He never thought that such a sentence would come from Bahn, who is a human being, and he always believed that only a few extremists like Aaron had such thoughts.

"Why?"

Tiger asked, he thought as long as he had an answer, he didn't want all the efforts Princess Otohime made to be a waste of time.

Bahn smiled, and said to himself in front of the darkness.

"Tiger, do you still remember what Kerla said when she was still on the boat?"

"Um?"

Tiger didn't know which sentence Bahn was referring to.

"When Jinbe asked her why humans treat the murlocs like this, she said, because they don't know anything about you."

"The first emotion that human beings express to all unknown things is fear, not curiosity. Curiosity is an emotion that is only expressed for a certain thing that is not dangerous."

Bahn still said to himself, every time he said a word, Tiger's eyes dimmed.

"To give a simple example, if a person, or a murloc, is suddenly thrown into a completely dark place, what will he think?"

"fear……"

Tiger replied in a low voice.

"Yes, but what if that person is me."

Tiger was silent.

"All unknown things are not scary after I get used to them. I have long been used to the darkness, so I will not be like other people. Princess Otohime's claim is right, let murlocs contact humans, but... ..."

Tiger looked at Bahn, only to hear Bahn continue.

"If the murloc is suddenly brought to land from the bottom of the sea below 10,000 meters above sea level, what is the difference between this and the previous method of suddenly putting a person in the dark?"

Bahn turned back suddenly, and met Tiger's eyes. Although his eyes were still dark, Tiger could see the emotion he wanted to express from his eyes.

"To murlocs, human beings are unknown and terrifying, just like the darkness, but to humans, why aren't murlocs?"

Tiger swallowed, a drop of cold sweat ran across his forehead, and he nodded silently.

"You're right, Tiger."

Bahne turned back again, no longer 'looking' at Tiger.

"The one who can really change the relationship between the islands, or in other words, the one who can change the relationship between humans and murlocs, is the pure next generation like Kerla."

"However, have you ever thought that when Kerla was on the boat, she was instilled with the kindness of murlocs, and what kind of thoughts will be instilled in her when she returns to Folchette Island? "

"In this environment, human children will always be indoctrinated with the extreme idea that 'the murlocs are an inferior race', just like the 'humans are an inferior race' when you Murlocs were in the past."

"Those human children will become adults who discriminate against murlocs when they grow up, and murlocs who have been taught that humans are an inferior race will grow up to become murlocs like Aaron who hate humans so much. That's right, Tiger."

Tiger swallowed his saliva again. If it is true what Bahn said, what Princess Otohime is doing now will be in vain, and it will be a dream for murlocs to live in the sun on an equal footing with humans.

"what should I do?"

Tiger had never thought so much about it. It was Bahn who woke him up, or rather, he woke him up.

"It is not you, nor the navy, nor those children that caused this situation. It is the wrong system established by this world!"

"Since 800 years ago, when 20 kings established the world government and designated Mariejoya as a 'sacred place', a strict hierarchy has been established."

"Humans are to murlocs, just like the relationship between Celestial Dragons and humans."

"If you want to solve this problem completely, you must start from the root cause."

Tiger swallowed again, he couldn't count the number of times Bahne had shocked him since he woke up this night.

"you want……"

"Tiger, remember what I asked you just now, 'Do you want to overthrow it with me'?"

Bahn turned back suddenly, covered Tiger's mouth with his hand, wrapped his neck around his neck, and whispered in Tiger's ear.

Tiger, was silent, but only for a short while, then he nodded heavily.

Bane let go of him and turned his head back toward the darkness toward the night sky, smiling.

"But why would I feign death?"

Tiger still has a question at this time.

"There is a delicate balance between the current Fishman Island and the world government, and the navy's action against you this time shows that the navy, or the world government, has noticed you."

"If they find that you are not dead, then they will definitely increase their efforts to arrest you. At the same time, they will also indirectly increase the pressure of the world government on Fishman Island."

"I see, so where am I going now?"

Tiger asked.

"I asked my apprentice Adam to establish a guild in the East China Sea. You know this. This is the prototype of a future organization I plan. I want you to stay there for a while now. After that, I think you It's going to be somewhere good, trust me, Tiger."

"Well, I trust you, Barn, because you're my friend."

Tiger frowned, looked at Bahn and said seriously.

"I'm very honored to be the first human to walk into the heart of a fish like you."

"Haha, hahaha!"

Tiger laughed, a laugh from the heart.

"However, I suggest that you don't tell the people on board this matter, if you can, just tell Aladdin to himself, because we need him to hide it for you."

"Um."

Tiger naturally knew the importance of this matter, and immediately nodded solemnly.

"Okay, Tiger, I am very happy to tell you that you are dead."

Bane patted Tiger on the shoulder and said.