Chapter 826: Orochi rebukes his ministers

[Chapter Serialization·Mother Burial 9·"What do you want to do?!"]

[Brulee quietly approaches and reaches out to touch the forehead of the sleeping Perona, wanting to use her memory fruit ability to read the other party's information about the island. But as soon as she reaches out, she hears a powerful questioning voice coming from the cloud where Perona lies on her side, which directly shocks Brulee, Lola and others so much that their hair stands on end and their eyes pop out... What shocked them even more was the talking cloud itself: Could it be Homies?!]

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"Yohoho! Mr. Sanji, I didn't expect you have such a beautiful sister!"

Several people entered the Flower Capital. The one who made such a sound was naturally a certain Afro-headed skull. He actually heard that tonight was the fireworks festival of Wano Country, and wanted to sneak out of the party to take a look. By the way, he heard from Lynch that Sanji and Usopp were approaching, so he went to find Lao Kang to pick them up.

Reiju said: "It seems that Sanji has never mentioned anything about us to you friends."

Sanji said, "Don't make it sound like I'm so heartless. It was that guy who 'executed' me in the first place, right? I have severed all ties with the Vinsmoke family a long time ago."

"Yeah." Reiju sighed.

Sanji snorted.

Reiju asked casually, "But if that's the case, why did you agree to help us?"

Sanji said unhappily, "I'm not helping you guys. I'm helping you."

Reiju looked at Sanji, who snorted, "Even if you're not my sister anymore, you're still a 'lady'. How could I possibly say no to a poor beautiful lady's request?"

"I'm happy when you call me pretty," Reiju sighed, "but am I pathetic?"

"If you don't wear that kind of clothes, you will not only look pitiful, but even cute."

"'That kind of clothes'? Are you referring to your 'Invisible Black' suit that I borrowed? If it weren't for this suit, I wouldn't have been able to escape from Onigashima..."

"What are you talking about? What about my battle suit? I don't have that kind of thing." Sanji looked unhappy, "Look, you're not cute right now."

The brother and sister were talking to each other, and although their tone was not fierce, there was a sense of tit-for-tat in their exchanges, which made Usopp, Brook, and Kang, who were watching, look at each other in bewilderment.

Usopp was embarrassed. Ever since Sanji picked up his sister named Reiju, the atmosphere between them has been a little strange...

What's so strange?

Sanji clearly doesn't hate his sister, but he acts like he's very resistant to her; his sister clearly cares about Sanji, but she acts like an emotionally indifferent female killer...

Are the Vinsmoke family tsunderes from the same lineage? Usopp complained in his heart as he walked along the streets of Flower Capital. As evening approached, the crowds became denser and denser. Residents left their homes in traditional Wano Country costumes. Usopp wandered around and changed the subject, saying, "It's strange, they don't seem to care much about Brook's appearance!"

You know, Brook still has that open and bare-faced look with his skull exposed.

But unlike the attention he received in the past few days, this time when he walked on the street, the people in the Flower City did not seem unusually frightened by his appearance.

In response to this, Lao Kang said that at the fireworks festival in Wano Country, there were many people dressed up as monsters, so Brook's appearance was not so shocking.

"Is this what they call a fish eye passing off as a pearl..." Usopp was thoughtful, while Brook said aggrievedly, "Don't compare me to a fish eye!"

Suddenly, accompanied by Reiju's surprised cry, Sanji's figure disappeared from their side. He stepped on the air and climbed higher and higher. In a blink of an eye, he soared to a height of nearly 100 meters.

"What is he doing?" Usopp looked up. "The General's Mansion is right in front. There's no need to jump so high to see it..."

"So, what Mr. Sanji was looking at was not the Shogun's Mansion." Brook said.

Reiju looked up and said to herself, "The direction he's looking at... is Onigashima."

Lao Kang exclaimed, "Isn't that Kaido's lair?" He was a little confused, "Can we see it here? This is the Flower City! It is separated from Onigashima by a bell and a large lake and sea..."

Bang! Sanji landed, his expression a little serious, "Let's go to the Shogun's Mansion to meet up with Luffy and the others. Onigashima... is flying this way!"

"What did you say?!"

Lao Kang was so shocked that his eyes nearly popped out.

Although Usopp and Brook were surprised, they were not as out of control as Lao Kang. "Sure enough, Kaido, like Yu, also has the ability to move islands..."

"What?!"

Lao Kang looked at the two of them and felt that his worldview was once again severely impacted. Are you really kidding?

…

When Sanji and his companions arrived at the Shogun's Mansion, Orochi, who was at the end of his rope, was hysterically scolding Kin'emon and the others.

"It was the Kozuki family that was immoral first! They wronged my Kurozuki clan! I was just taking back what I deserved! What did I do wrong?" Orochi's face turned red, spitting everywhere, "Kinemon! Baogoro! Otherwise, why do you think a man like Kozuki Oden would be soft on a scumbag like me in your eyes?!"

Not only Kin'emon's face turned pale, Kyoshiro - or Denjiro, he also gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and stared at Orochi.

“Hahaha, don’t you understand yet?” Orochi opened his arms and laughed ferociously, “To Kozuki Oden, as a Kozuki, he owes me, Kurozuki, far more than anyone else in this country! He failed to kill me decisively because he actually sympathized with me! As for what I will do to the people of this country after stealing the position of general, what will be the consequences? Do you really think that Kozuki Oden, who has always done his own thing and never cared about other people’s opinions, will care? Hahahahaha…”

"Yes! More than 20 years ago, Kaido and I used many hostages to threaten Kozuki Oden to pretend to be a fool, but in fact, even Kaido did not have the confidence to restrict his personal freedom! With Kozuki Oden's strength, if he secretly connected tens of thousands of samurai in Wano Country, even Kaido and I could only watch! But did Kozuki Oden do this?"

Orochi's hair and beard were disheveled, and he was gesticulating with joy, "Kozuki Oden sympathized with me! He softened his heart! So what? So he thinks I'm a good person at heart? Hahahaha... This kind of self-deceiving idea, if he had discussed it with Kin'emon, Raizo, Kawamatsu, Leopard Goro... if he had discussed it with any of you, you would have understood that it is totally not worth it, right?" He pointed his finger at Kin'emon, Raizo, Kawamatsu, Leopard Goro and others whose faces were becoming increasingly uglier.

"Kozuki Oden, I am the only one! Kozuki Oden, the world is invincible!"

Orochi laughed wildly, "Do you really understand him? On the other hand, does he really understand you? He laughs, he cries, he is moved by himself! The right and wrong, the merits and demerits, are all his own! Ask yourselves, has anyone among you really influenced our great hero Oden? Don't be stubborn, you couldn't even stop him from abandoning this country and taking risks at sea! That man called Kozuki Oden, really..."

The snake's face turned gloomy and sinister. He looked around at everyone and sneered, "Do I consider you as brothers - no, do I consider you as friends?"

The dying villain was also crazy. Orochi's violent roars and spitting out sounds like thousands of needles washing the hearts of Kin'emon and others.

The entire banquet became extremely quiet for a moment, with only the sounds of a few people eating.

Kyoshiro's hand holding the knife trembled slightly. He had always been a counselor among the samurai under Lord Oden, but Lord Oden had never mentioned a word about those things, not even to himself as a retainer. It was not until many years later when Orochi broke the contract and Lord Oden had completely given up the idea that he revealed the whole truth and immediately led everyone to defeat Kaido together...

If Lord Oden had discussed the matter with me and others from the beginning, would there be a better solution? Could there be a different ending? Did I...have I ever resented Lord Oden for a moment?

The thin Baogoro seemed to become even more hunched in an instant. If time goes back to more than 20 years ago, when Oden had just returned from the open sea, with the accumulated resentment of Orochi in Wano Country at that time and the rising fame of Kozuki Oden, as long as he raised his arm and called, the samurai from the Flower Capital, Suzuho, ​​Hakumai, Nozomi, Usagi, and Kuri villages would naturally gather to respond, and an army of tens of thousands of samurai would be formed overnight. If such a large army was used to press down on Orochi and Kaido...

Among the others present, Ace, Marco and others just watched. The latter wanted to say a few fair words for the Oden brothers, but on the one hand, he felt that what Orochi said was actually reasonable. On the other hand, since Captain Ace did not express his opinion, he could not say anything. And Ace... he was eating while observing the reactions of the people present. He actually had not seen the former captain of the second division, Kozuki Oden. His father and others, even that Yamato, all respected him very much, but it seemed that there was something else behind those things back then?

Xiaoyu sat obediently next to Luffy, eating in small and quick bites like a little squirrel. The courtesan Kozuki, who was also present, pursed her lips tightly and clenched her slender hands tightly.

Luffy's mouth was full of meat, and he mumbled, "It's so complicated... Actually, if we just beat Kaido, all problems will be solved, right?"

Chopper said, "It seems like Oden couldn't beat Kaido at that time?"

"But he's the only one who can go up?" Luffy asked curiously, "And doesn't he have so many people willing to help him?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"That's right." Chopper sat down to drink tea, sighing like an old man, "He's so stupid!"

Xiaoyu puffed up her cheeks and wanted to retort, "Don't talk about Lord Oden of the Kozuki family like that." Chopper was frightened by her look and almost thought that she was going to use her devil fruit ability against him. He ran to Zoro's side. Seeing the reaction of this cute talking reindeer, Xiaoyu's face froze and she lowered her head sadly. Even the meat soup in her hand was no longer fragrant.

"Kanjuro! What are you still standing there for!" Orochi took advantage of the moment when everyone was stunned by his nonsense and shouted, "Hurry up and save me!"

"Ah, yes!" Kanjuro woke up as if from a dream, and was about to write, but a flame came from outside the door and kicked his weapon away.

"Flame?" Ace supported his chin in frustration.

"Sanji!" Chopper waved happily.

"It seems like a lot of things have happened!" Flames were burning on Sanji's black leather shoes. He loosened his tie and looked around at everyone, "But time is urgent... huh?!" When his gaze moved to Kozue Murasaki, his tone suddenly changed.

"Oh!" Nami sighed with an expression of "I knew it" and held her forehead.

"This beautiful lady..." Sanji flew over to Kozuki with his eyes full of love, but he passed by the beauty. Kozuki stood up, bringing a gust of fragrant wind, and walked past Sanji.

Sanji was startled and turned around to see Kozue Murasaki walking towards Orochi step by step in the spotlight of everyone.

"Sister Kozuki..." Konan said to herself worriedly. Suddenly, she heard a whisper calling her. She turned her head and saw, "Daddy?" She saw Lao Kang standing next to Reiju, Brook, and Usopp. Her eyes suddenly lit up and she rushed over quickly. "Daddy, why are you here too?"

"I'm Kozuki Hiyori."

As Lao Kang was about to speak while hugging his adopted daughter, he heard a shocking voice—from the courtesan Kozuki! Kin'emon, Raizo, Baogoro, Kanjuro, and Kawamatsu were also petrified and stunned. He had lost contact with Hiyori-sama that year, but he could never have imagined that when they met again, Hiyori would have become the courtesan of Wano Country. This...

“Xiao Zi?!” The most shocked person was actually Orochi. His eyes were bloodshot as he looked at the expressionless Xiao Zi in disbelief. “You are Kozuki Hiyori? How… How is this possible?!”

"You just said that my father felt that the Kozuki family owed something to the Kurozumi family, so he didn't decisively kill you back then."

Xiao Zi stared at Orochi and stretched out a hand to the side, "Maybe it is the Kozuki family that owes Kurozumi. But for the past twenty years, it is you, Kurozumi Orochi, who owes the Wano Country. There is nothing wrong with that, right?"

Xiaoyu exclaimed, "Master?"

Her master, the swordsmith Feiche, came to Kozuki's side at some point, bent down and took out a long box. After opening it, Kin'emon and others were shocked and said, "Lord Oden's double swords - Ame-no-Habakiri and Enma?!" Even Zoro, who was watching coldly not far away, couldn't help but praise "good swords", and for a moment he even felt itchy to try them.

Fei Che ignored them, he couldn't touch Yan Mo, he just raised the knife box. Xiao Zi reached out and grabbed Yan Mo's knife handle.

"Lord Hiyori! No!" Kin'emon and the others changed color in anger. No one has ever been able to subdue this Enma except Lord Oden... But the next second, they were shocked. Kozuki Hiyori, whose stage name was Kozuki Kozuki, actually held the Enma calmly, and strands of flowing cherry blossoms intertwined between the jade hands holding the hilt.

Zoro smiled and said, "No wonder Lynch said you are so amazing. You are indeed amazing!"

"Lin Qi said so?" Luffy was surprised, "Then it's really amazing."

Chopper, Nami, Sanji and others all took it seriously.

"Wait, Kozuki... No, Hiyori..." Orochi looked at the approaching devil-like Yanma blade and the beauty he had been obsessed with until now, and begged with sweat all over his forehead, "Do you remember, I like you so much, you can't..."

Xiao Zi said: "But I hate you. I hate all of you."

Swish! With a burst of blood, the snake was beheaded by Yan Mo's sword.

This is the last head.

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When Lin Qi and Robin came back, they saw a big snake's head rolling in a pool of blood. The atmosphere among these people seemed a little heavy!

Didn't eat well? He exchanged glances with Robin and asked, "We are a step too late. Kurozumi Orochi is already dead. Do you still want to tell them?"

Yan Mo's blade was dripping with blood. Robin looked at the courtesan holding the knife and sighed softly, "Maybe I should talk to her before I leave."

"say what?"

Nami, who was mumbling to Sanji and the others, turned around and said, "No, this is not the time to say anything—Oh no, Sister Robin, Lynch, the Ghost Island is flying over here!"

(End of this chapter)