Through Rayleigh's account, the group learned the truth about the execution of the Pirate King Gol D. Roger 22 years ago.
"Ah, Roger turned himself in. In fact, four years before his public execution, he had contracted an incurable disease. During the final years of conquering the Grand Line, he traveled while battling his sickness. Once we reached the end of the journey, he disbanded the pirate crew. A year after the disbandment, he went alone to Marine Headquarters and surrendered. To boast of their own capability, the government claimed they captured him and publicly executed him in Roger's birthplace, Loguetown in the East Blue. It was meant to be an execution by the Marine government to deter other pirates, but because of his final words on the scaffold, it opened the curtain on the Great Age of Pirates."
"He single-handedly opened the curtain on an entire era?" Li Xiaohu was somewhat startled.
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