The sinister shadowy figure was lying the whole time? 
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So this is where the adam tree wood would've come from. Cool to see the connection of Elbaf's "reform and opening up" leading to things like the thousand sunny being built.
Ooo I like what Oda did here, the Elbaf conservative tradition, while it did include a military culture, also permanently scarred Harald and Ida's life. I'm sure Oda's doing a thing here with how leaders can choose socially progressive policies only after their term and transforming society. Harald has deeper personal reasons for getting rid of elbaf's warrior culture than just international rep and trade.
So sad, but at least Loki murdered those fucks. I'm guessing the ida poisioning thing is never brought up either because A: Loki kept it to himself to promote his dad's mission of national unity (ties nicely with the shirahoshi parallel) or B: he fucking obliterated them all and there was nothing left to investigate (lmao).
The shanks flashback is going to be so juicy
apparently this would be during his luffy-esque crew split-up timeskip where each member trained and got stronger.
This chapter was low key so good, the climax of both Harald's progressive leadership and reformist naiveté. Elbaph is economically and socially improved through Harald's policies and yet his complete submission to the perceived superior culture of the ~~liberal world order~~ World Government is what doomed him. And to put a stamp on it, because Harald was trying to shoulder everything himself there is no popular movement in Elbaf to keep going after his death it becomes leaderless and stagnant like we see when the Strawhats arrive.