Kuzan took a sip of his drink and said, "By the way, I caught a few people on the way here and brought them to you. I don't know if they'll be of any use."

"Hmm? Arrest people? What kind of people can you arrest in Wano Country?" Kuro asked.

"I don't know, but Izou was there, so they captured him," Kuzan said.

"To hide?"

Kuro was taken aback. If he remembered correctly, Izo was with those Red Scabbards.

Kuzan captured them, which means that the entire group of Red Scabbards has also been captured by Kuzan.

"Forget it, those people are useless. Arresting them will at least control the impact a bit," Kuro said after thinking for a moment.

Wano Country was the site of a general offensive launched by the Red Scabbards, but this only applied to the 'samurai' captured by Clow Reed. The common people knew nothing about it, which is why Clow Reed didn't care.

But it's better to arrest them than not to arrest them, so they won't cause trouble again someday.

"Oh ho ho ho, you've captured those so-called 'Red Scabbards'? So Oden's son has been captured too? That guy has my genes, Kuro, kill him, he'll cause you trouble." Kaido sneered.

Do I look like someone with such a violent temper?

Kuro rolled his eyes, stood up and said to Kuzan, "You stay here and watch the place, I'm going out to get some food."

He's been here for a few days now, not daring to wander around. Although Lida will come to weaken Kaido, who dares to gamble on that? What if Kaido suddenly lashes out? Now that Kuzan has arrived, it's just in time.

"Seriously, you expect me to work right after I arrived?" Kuzan said. "I'm not a Marine, aren't you afraid I'll let Kaido escape?"

"You can give it a try."

Kuro smirked, too lazy to pay attention to Kuzan, and walked straight out.

As he descended, on the third floor, Kro stared at the newly captured Red Scabbards and adjusted his glasses. "How interesting," he remarked, "They finally escaped, only to be caught again."

Bound tightly, Momonosuke shouted at Kuro, "Hey, let us go!"

Kuro ignored him and instead looked at the two mink, asking, "Does Zou stand with Wano Country or with Kozuki?"

"We have been retainers of the Kozuki family for generations!" Inuarashi and Nekomamushi shouted in unison, "We will not surrender!"

"pity..."

Kro shook his head: "However, the future of the Mink Tribe should not be decided by you, and I do not wish to deal with you for the time being."

He has already called Cass; all he needs to do is have Cass come.

But this Momonosuke...

He's from the Kozuki family, and he's Oden's son. Legally, he has the qualifications to be the daimyo of Kuri. If it weren't for their intervention after Kurozumi Orochi's defeat, he should have become the shogun, but now it's hard to say.

We can keep this guy. If Kurozumi Orochi doesn't work, we can use this Momonosuke instead.

For Mr. Kuro's ambitions, nothing is off-limits.

As for whether he agrees or not...

Kro glanced at the Red-Scabbard Warriors, and at the stunningly beautiful green-haired woman among them.

To achieve one's goals, it's not unacceptable to be a little despicable. Just because Mr. Kuro doesn't want to do it doesn't mean he won't.

He was originally a pirate, and he has no sense of morality or shame!

But this kind of thing needs to wait until Cass arrives so that the 'Red Spider Group' can discuss it further.

...

A few days later.

Nine large ships are moored at the Koi Falls below Wano Country.

The composition of these ships was extremely mixed; four were warships, and the other five were pirate ships of various styles.

This includes a pirate ship with a golden crocodile symbol on its prow, belonging to Crocodile.

The large ship with two snakes as mounts comes from Boa Hancock.

There is a ship symbolized by an octopus tentacle, which comes from Rudolf.

There was also a steamship, emitting large amounts of white steam, from Sam William.

And a boat dressed in circus attire, from Pakistan.

This is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and Hawkeye Mihawk, one of the Seven Warlords, came directly by warship.

Four warships surrounded the pirate ship, it was unclear whether they were escorting or guarding it. On the lead warship, Cass looked up at the enormous waterfall with leaping carp and said calmly, "We've arrived."

"Turn the ship around, we're going to the back, approaching from the harbor," Wilbur commanded.

There are two ways to travel through Wano Country: either go up the waterfall from the front, or split the waterfall from the back and then take a secret passage to enter the harbor.

Now that Mr. Kuro is in Wano Country, they will naturally take a different path.

On Boa Hancock's ship, with her beautiful legs exposed up to her thighs and wearing a low-cut top, Hancock bit her thumb and stared worriedly at the waterfall, "Luffy..."

She knew Luffy had broken into Wano Country, but now that Clow has entered, Luffy has definitely escaped.

But how badly he was injured, is he alright? He finally managed to defeat Kaido, but the news hasn't spread throughout the world yet. This is all thanks to that man.

But... that's how it should be.

Because he is that man, because he is Jin Ni, he is qualified to do it.

"Tch, we've finally arrived..." Crocodile, munching on a cigar, also looked up. "Wano Country? I really miss it."

He had visited Wano Country when he was young, but this place had always been Kaido's private territory. He never expected it to change like this now.

"Wow, what a huge waterfall!"

Buggy stared wide-eyed at the waterfall and exclaimed in amazement, "Is this Oden's hometown? It's truly magnificent."

The one most familiar with Oden here is actually Buggy.

Because Oden was once his partner.

On the warship, Mihawk glanced upwards, his eyes obscured by his hat, only a sliver of light visible. A smirk played on his lips. "Hmph..."

...

In a room on the fifth floor of the castle tower in the Flower Capital.

Kuro sat cross-legged on a futon, with a small table in front of him set with exquisite food, which he was eating slowly and deliberately, while outside, many people were already waiting.

Kuro put the last piece of tempura in his mouth, chewed it, put down his chopsticks, lit a cigar, looked at Kuro waiting outside, and asked, "Are you all here?"

“Yes…” Chloe nodded.

"Have the people of Wano Country been notified?"

“Yes, Mr. Kuro, they have been staying in the Flower Capital for several days,” Kuro replied.

In the past few days, led by Moore, the news of Kaido's impending execution was spread throughout Wano Country, attracting those who wanted to witness the execution to gather in the Flower Capital.

"Alright, then leave the notice here and bring Kaido out..."

Kuro exhaled a puff of smoke, stood up, and slowly said, "Execution, begin."