Robin glanced at A Llo and A Tao, a smile returning to her lips.
She looked at everyone and continued, "After Roger was executed, Mr. Tom was brought to judicial island for trial due to assisting the Pirate King in shipbuilding. However, he explained the design and concept of the sea train to the chief judge, causing the judge to change the original sentence and give him time to create it."
"If it weren't for the sea train, Mr. Tom would have gone with Roger many years ago."
"After fourteen years, Mr. Tom completed the sea train..."
At this point, she cast her gaze back to the distant train, "which is the 'Smoke Tom' in front of us, laid its tracks, and passed the World Government's acceptance. Subsequently, the World Government declared that Mr. Tom had completed the sea train, and this offense could be offset against his crime of 'building ships for the Pirate King Roger'."
"Since it's offset, then Mr. Tom is still here!"
"Since he's here, why didn't he continue to build sea trains?"
"Here?"
Robin paused, her gentle demeanor shifting to one of slight gloom. She withdrew her gaze and looked at the crowd, "Do you really think the World Government would let go of Mr. Tom, who helped build ships for the Pirate King?"
"Uh!"
A Llo, who had asked the question, was speechless. He didn't know either, but judging by Robin's expression, it wasn't as he imagined.
"I don't know the specifics of what happened. I only saw it in the newspapers. It said Mr. Tom attacked a government ship and was taken to Enies Lobby to be executed."
"Attacked a government ship?"
"Mr. Tom was declared innocent, how could he attack a government ship?"
Everyone looked at Robin in confusion, awaiting her explanation.
"Don't look at me, I don't know what happened either."
Robin shrugged, exhaled, and continued, "And with such a bizarre reason, there were no specific reports. Mr. Tom, who made outstanding contributions to the world, was thus executed by the World Government."
"After Mr. Tom's death, although the World Government obtained the blueprints for the sea train, they did not continue to build sea trains in Water Seven. As for whether they built them elsewhere, I don't know."
"Oh..."
Seeing that Robin had no more information, everyone withdrew their gazes, leaned on the railing, and enjoyed the rare beautiful scenery against the wind.
Although Mr. Tom was great, and everyone admired his ability to build the sea train, he was not someone they were familiar with. Therefore, they naturally did not have any strong emotions about his death, at most feeling a little regret.
The weather in the Grand Line was like a chameleon. They had just passed through a storm zone, so they particularly cherished the rare calm sea.
Since they had Water Seven's Eternal Pose, they did not pass through Long Ring Long Land and thus did not encounter the Foxy Pirates, who were collecting pirate flags near Long Ring Long Land.
The captain of the Foxy Pirates was a very interesting person.
This fellow was a Superhuman-type Slow-Slow Fruit user. The Slow-Slow Fruit was one of the few known Devil Fruits related to time.
It could emit slow-light beams, which slowed down the movements of people or objects hit by the beams.
Unfortunately, no matter how powerful a fruit was, it became a waste fruit in the hands of a weakling.
With such a strong initial ability, if this fruit were in the hands of an expert, someone with ambition and drive, it would be a god-tier Devil Fruit.
Although this guy was interesting, Kong Tai did not specifically change course for him.
At the bow, on top of the windmill.
Kong Tai sat cross-legged, his back lazily leaning against the windmill blade, drinking wine while admiring the sea train in the distance.
Others might not know if the government built other sea trains, but he did.
They did.
It was just that they didn't continue building them in Water Seven.
Water Seven would have to wait another four years for the "Smoke Iceberg" to be built by Iceberg.
Well, it seemed there was also a special express train for the government.
But that was for government use only.
If he remembered correctly.
In the One Piece movie "Z", there were similar sea trains connecting islands like Shipyard Island and Secon Island.
The tracks were similar to those in the movie "Spirited Away," where the tracks were fixed in the seawater, and the station on Secon Island, a hot spring resort, was even larger, with three terminal passenger platforms.
Clearly, the World Government was developing tourism.
He just didn't know if it was built for nobles to travel or for the taxes of the hot spring resort Secon Island.
As for Tom's original intention, to save Water Seven, whose water levels were rising year by year due to the "Water Gods," that ideal.
What did it have to do with the World Government?
Water Seven, in the end, was just a shipbuilding island on the sea, building all sorts of ships, not an island of the World Government.
What business was it of theirs!
They wouldn't build sea trains for Water Seven!
It brought them no benefit.
Did it?
That's why, even though sea trains had appeared for so many years, Water Seven, the first to have them, only had one train in operation, which was a peculiar phenomenon.
If Mr. Tom were still alive, perhaps this sea area would have been covered with tracks long ago, with the sound of trains echoing across the ocean, allowing people to go wherever they pleased!
But alas, there are no ifs. Who told Mr. Tom to build ships for the Pirate King!
Actually, building ships was fine, but who told him to use Pluton's technology for it!
This was the real reason why the World Government insisted on his death.
Otherwise, with the vastness of the World Government, they wouldn't have meticulously designed a trap to kill someone who invented such a great work as the sea train.
Killing him was, on the one hand, to curb the possibility of Tom eventually building Pluton. Although this was just speculation, for the World Government, as long as there was a hint of it, they had a reason to nip it in the bud, not waiting for speculation to become fact. If something bad happened then, it would be too late.
On the other hand, of course, the World Government wanted Pluton's blueprints!
Once Tom was dead, they could search his residence however they pleased, couldn't they?
But what the World Government didn't expect was that after killing Tom, they didn't find anything.
No one would have thought that Tom had long known the World Government's nature. Three days before he delivered the sea train and was put on trial, he handed over the blueprints for Pluton to his disciple, Iceberg.
Iceberg was also a smart person. He knew the World Government wouldn't give up. So, after meeting his junior disciple Franky later, he gave the blueprints to Franky. During this time, he used a lot of time to merge the seven companies on Water Seven island.
Not only did the new company, "Galley-La Company," become the world's number one shipyard, but he also cooperated with the World Government, making Galley-La Company the World Government's designated shipbuilding company, making it impossible for World Government officials to lay hands on him.
From this point on, the World Government would protect Water Seven, open more routes, and build more sea trains.