**Part 40:-**
The Sun, The Goodbyes, and the Strawhat
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Long ago when sailors set off into the unknown to explore uncharted territories, they always wave back to the families they leave behind at port of their home islands.
Slowly, as the ship sails farther and farther, their home island becomes smaller and smaller, disappearing into the horizon. What is left, is just the image of the big sun at the far horizon, guiding the sailors into the unknowns with its bright sunlight.
Many years later, towards the end of the Ancient War, as Dyras and his friends set sail away from their fragmented homeland, Dyras pointed out "Look at the sun setting down tonight. When the sun rises again from the sea, this is when all of us will be back together again. Families, friends, food, lots of laughter and drinks. Doesn't the sun on the surface of the sea look just like this Strawhat that I'm holding?"
Since then, the Strawhat symbolises the coming of the dawn. When the dawn comes around again, that millennium old dream will come true.
**Part 41 to be continued.**