What if One Piece is just a note? A note from Gol D. Roger, saying about something like:
Dear the next Pirate King,
I am Gol D. Roger, writing this when our journey in the Grand Land had finished. Being pirates, is so much fun, having nakamas, crews, friends, and people accompanying us everywhere. We drink, we party, we enjoy. Being pirates is not as bad as most of us think. I had decided, once I reached Logue Town and once I had been arrested, I should be able to tell the world about One Piece, the name of this 'treasure'. Well, there's really some treasure on Raftel, over here, but the real 'One Piece', is just this note.
See this, this whole word, there's mainly two types of pirates. Pirates in my means are those who enjoy their trips, their journeys, around the world, discovering different kinds of treasures, different types of people, and your new views of the world. But there is still this type of pirates who only wants treasure. If the news of One Piece had been spread, I guess I would be able to start the Great Pirate Era.
Now, once you had found my One Piece, get back to your homeland, and become the next Pirate King. It's absolutely up to you if you want to tell everyone about One Piece. It's not really my problem. And right now that you had already assembled this much of your crew, it's your choice what you would do next. Go around Grand Line again? Or resting at your base? Or sacrifice your life and start the new era?
One last choice, follow me, follow me to the_!
Something like that, lol. For the last sentence, I guess it can be like a message to start the new adventure. For example, maybe it's revealed that Gol D. Roger haven't die, and he is in another land, having another adventure. He may tell Luffy how did he faked his death and how to go to another land or another adventure he is taking. By writing this, Oda-sensei will be able to continue his series of One Piece. However, it is also possible that Oda-sensei would like to end his series.
For One Piece, being just a note is quite weird. But for One Piece, being treasure is even weirder. Like you can see that Luffy is not really interested in treasures, even though he looks happy when he found treasures, but he just want those treasures for buying meat. Am I right? And you can basically find treasure anywhere else, unless it's an extraordinary treasure that could be magical? I don't know. However, it's kind of hard imagining Luffy and others travelling for millions of episodes ended up reading a note from Gol D. Roger.
However, could you try imagining Luffy reading a note? Like a note? Seriously? And the other pirates won't be satisfied with the World's greatest treasure, One Piece, turning out as only a note.
OR, the message could be written on a Vivre card, to someone else, to start Luffy's new adventure, or maybe to Roger, as there is still no prove that Roger had die. Maybe the one that died in the face of Roger that day is not him? Maybe Roger had revived from his death? Maybe Roger did got arrested! Anything can happen, even Whitebeard can live until Luffy's days. However, Rayleigh had told Luffy that Roger gave up on Marines due to his incurable illness. Even so, Roger told Rayleigh, "I'm not gonna die, partner." Therefore, this could mean like Chopper and Dr. Hiluluk's case:
"When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!"
So, this could mean that Roger is claiming he won't die unless his crews are still thinking about him. Also, he could mean he would not die from getting executed. But as shown, it had been so clear that Roger had died, even though no one had mentioned about his corpse or him after death.
Also, as Whitebeard had confirmed, "A grand battle will engulf the entire world" and "the world will be shaken to its core when One Piece is found", One Piece should not be just a note. Or he could mean One Piece as a note will make people argue over it, as everyone had wasted their lives finding One Piece, and it turned out to be just a note. People won't accept being lied on like so.
But anything can happen! Comment what you think One Piece is! Next week's topic is "A Project"
