Charlotte Linlin: "A few years?? Old dog Sengoku! Can't you count? It's perfectly normal for a normal person to live to sixty or seventy, right!!"
Kong: "Heh heh!!! No matter how long you live, you're still a vampire sucking the lifespan of the common people in all of Totland! Isn't that a fact!?"
Charlotte Linlin: "This old hag doesn't change her name or her actions!! What's wrong with doing what I've done!!"
Kong: "Heh heh...! It's fine that you admit it!!!"
Sengoku: "Everyone in the whole world is watching!!! I don't care what those boastful people think, I'm opening my eyes wide and watching. How miserable the lives of common people under pirate rule are!!"
Edward Newgate: "Gurararara...!!! If it's the Revolutionary Army saying that, this old man would also admit it! What gives your World Government and Marines the face to say such things????"
Gol D. Roger: "Hahaha!!! They won't do anything that requires dignity!!"
Shiki: "Zehahahaha...!!!"
["Lifespan!!!?"]
[Hearing that the common people here needed to pay their lifespan on time, Nami's beautiful eyes instantly widened, a look of shock in them~~]
[Not-so-good expressions also appeared on the faces of the other few people...]
[Regarding the emotional changes of the Straw Hat Pirates, Mont-d'Or naturally noticed them immediately. He quickly offered an explanation in a low voice:] "Noble Nami-dono, there's no need to feel surprised. Because Mama is a Soul-Soul Fruit user, creating Chess Soldiers and City Cleaners and City Connectors, all these things require the power of souls, which is also known as 'lifespan'."
["In fact, the lifespan paid by the residents of Totto Land is also equivalent to the protection fee paid on other forces' territories!!" Charlotte Mont-d'Or explained.]
[Usopp subconsciously calculated: "If it's once every six months... then that's two months' lifespan per year. If a person lives to sixty years old... then they'll only have 50 years of lifespan left!"]
["Oh my god! That's at least ten years gone...!!! Chopper's face showed a horrified expression~~~"]
[Mont-d'Or continued to explain: "Actually, it's not so bad. Here with Mama, at least they don't have to worry about any dangers. Everyone can live safely until old age."]
[Even Basil Hawkins nodded: "That makes sense. Although Big Mom is domineering, she also truly provides protection. When we were on the road before, some countries paid huge tribute to the World Government every year, but not only could the common people barely survive, the protection provided by the World Government was just lip service."]
Charlotte Mont-d'Or: "What that Buggy over there said is too true! Mama might indeed take lifespan from common people, but Mama truly ensures the safety of the people of Totland! Your World Government collects tribute from countries, do the common people in the allied countries under your rule live peacefully and safely???"
Charlotte Perospero: "What are you thinking? Just from those World Government allied countries seen in the white-frame and red-frame videos, how many common people were protected? Don't they still have to rely on their own country's militaries for protection??"
Marco: "That's right! If the king of those countries is a bastard, like the likes of Wapol, then the common people of that country are truly out of luck!!!"
Enel: "Even if it's a small country, or a naturally strong pirate like me, we don't do bad things in their countries!!"
Sengoku: "You pirates, stop talking nonsense with your eyes open!!! Doesn't the World Government send the Marines to maintain the safety of these countries?"
Nami: "The Marines do indeed fulfill their duty of maintaining these countries. But basically, they only send warships after something has happened!! But what good is that belated justice??"
[Nami felt deeply touched by this kind of "belated justice"~]
What's more, their Loguetown and other islands didn't even get "belated justice"!!! It was Luffy who saved them...!!!
Ben Beckman: "Belated justice... Well said!! When the Marines send warships to a country after something has happened, the local common people have already been harmed for a long time!!! And even if the Marines go to solve the local problem, the common people there will still be subjected to harassment and harm from other pirates and bandits after the Marines leave~~"
Kong: "What's going on??? What gives you pirates the right to say this?? If it's not you harming the common people, why do our Marines need to be like this!!!"
Gol D. Roger: "Hahaha! Don't generalize! Pirate crews like Big Mom's, although they bear the name of pirates, their reality is already counted as a country!!! What they do, and what the World Government does, are they any different?? They're even worse than the World Government's ruthlessness!"
Kozuki Oden: "Captain Roger is right!! Those malicious pirates are indeed hateful, but like Big Brother Whitebeard's Whitebeard Pirates, they maintain peace in one area, only collecting a certain amount of protection from the common people in their territory. This is already a savior for many people!"
Charlotte Linlin: "Marines! Don't talk about those useless things! The fact is... the common people in this old hag's territory are already over twenty For years, no one has been attacked by pirates! Yet your World Government's allied nations are still frequently plagued by pirates, even being extorted by local nobles!!!"
[Luffy listened intently. He didn't express any opinion on this...]
[In his view, Big Mom's method of taking lifespan is definitely wrong!]
[But just as Mont-d'Or said, this is no different from other powers collecting protection fees~~~]
[At the very least..., the common people living within Totto Land do not have to worry about whether they will be attacked by pirates tomorrow~~~]
[Nor do they have to worry about suddenly being shot down by a Celestial Dragon~~~]
[The lifespan they pay, they receive genuine returns for!!!]
[As for the right and wrong of it, Luffy couldn't immediately make a conclusion~~~]
[Just then, Nami suddenly grabbed Luffy's hand, pulled him behind her, and whispered into Luffy's ear: "Isn't this Big Mom essentially sucking the blood of the common people of Totto Land?"]
[Luffy nodded: "Yes."]
[Luffy strongly agreed with Nami's viewpoint.]
[He knew that Nami had lived under the shadow of the Arlong Pirates since childhood, so she was extremely sensitive to freedom!]
[Upon seeing the common people of Whole Cake Island being given another "shackle" by Big Mom, the righteous indignation in Nami's heart surged forth...]
[Seeing Luffy agree with her viewpoint, Nami clenched her small fist, her face filled with righteousness: "Luffy, I think we should help these common people!!!"]
[Luffy twitched his mouth and quietly asked: "Defeat the Big Mom Pirates and liberate all of Totto Land?"]
[Nami nodded vigorously: "Mm!! And give the common people here their freedom!!!"]
[Luffy thought for a moment, then leaned close to Nami's ear and quietly asked: "Then what? Will our Straw Hat Pirates replace the Big Mom Pirates and rule Totto Land?"]
[Nami instantly frowned: "Huh? Of course not!!! We still have our journey, and besides..., if we were to replace the Big Mom Pirates, then how would we be any different from the Big Mom Pirates???"]
[Luffy bought two ice pops from the roadside, and while eating one, he quietly said: "Have you ever thought about it..., if we drive away the Big Mom Pirates, and then we leave here, will the common people here truly gain freedom?"]
["They..."]
[Nami was about to say they would gain freedom, but then she suddenly realized what Luffy meant~~~]
["It seems you understand...," Luffy smiled, "This is the New World!! Once the Totland waters no longer have the Big Mom Pirates overseeing them, then countless pirates will flood in. At that time, whether the common people on these islands live or die will entirely depend on the mood of the pirates they encounter..."]
["Think about it, if that happened, would we truly be saving them??"]
[Saying that, Luffy put the other ice pop in his hand into Nami's mouth~~~]
[Luffy had said...]
[He now had one more goal!]
[He wanted to try and change the world!!]
[But this matter..., after experiencing so much, Luffy clearly understood one thing!]
[Only by changing things fundamentally can one truly change the world...]
[Otherwise, it's just empty talk for a while~~~]
[Would that really be saving them...?]
[Luffy's words deeply resonated in Nami's mind~~~]
[If the Straw Hat Pirates defeated the Big Mom Pirates, and he couldn't stay here to oversee things...]
[This consequence, Nami understood instantly with a slight thought!]
[That wouldn't be helping the common people here, but harming them!]
["Ah!"]
[Nami took a bite of the ice pop, then looked up at Luffy and said: "I'm sorry, I was thinking too narrowly..."]
["There's nothing to apologize for. It's just your kindness overpowering your rationality~~~"]
[Luffy smiled, then reached out and wiped away the ice pop that had overflowed from Nami's mouth.]
[Immediately after, Luffy was about to use a tissue to wipe the ice pop from his right thumb, but Nami suddenly grabbed his hand.]
["Don't waste it!"]
[Saying that, Nami bit into it.]
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