There was no sound of fighting on the streets of Boluo Town. Cat-belly Snake and Inuarashi fell in a pool of blood one after another. Although their lives were not in danger, they no longer had the strength to fight.
The short sword in Tsugikoku Yoshiichi's hand grew a fraction longer, its black blade reflecting a subtle glow in the moonlight. Yoshiichi glanced at Neko-Pitsuko and Inuarashi, who were lying on the ground, struggling to get up. For some reason, he felt a sudden pang of emotion at their persistence.
They are obviously two very weak guys, but in order to protect someone like Momonosuke, they are willing to go against me.
Even though he knew that they were no match for him, Yunyi did not feel any intention of giving up from the two of them. Yunyi had not seen this kind of will in others for a long time.
He actually wanted to know what kind of magic a man like Kozuki Oden had that could make Cat Viper and Inuarashi so loyal that they would choose to risk their lives to protect Momonosuke.
At this time, Yoriichirō's contact with Kozuki Oden was extremely limited, and he really did not see such personal charm in Kozuki Oden. Maybe... it was because his contact with the other party was not deep enough?
"Don't try to stand up again. You know there's no way you can stop me."
"When you get back, ask Oden to come over. I have something to discuss with him."
Yoriichi had no intention of killing Nekomaru and Inuarashi. After saying a few words, his figure turned into a golden stream of light and instantly disappeared from the sight of Inuarashi, Nekomaru and the others.
The two people who had been paying attention to Yuichiro Tsugikuni's movements knew where Yuichiro was going, and stretched out their hands to try to stop him, but in the end it was in vain.
…
"Swish——" The sound of breaking through the air rang out in the sky above Boluo Town.
Momonosuke and Kurozumi Kanjuro were riding on a large painted bird, flying towards the daimyo's mansion of the Kozuki family.
This big bird looked a little sloppy. Although it flapped its wings hard, its flying speed was really not good. After Momonosuke was rescued, it only flew less than a kilometer with two people on board.
On the back of the bird, Momonosuke, who had awakened his Observation Haki, could no longer sense the fighting on the street behind him. His already ugly face looked even more anxious at this moment.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!"
"Take me away from here quickly!"
"There's no movement from Cat Viper and the others!"
The quiet street behind him made Momonosuke panic. He had already anticipated that Nekomamushi and Inuarashi might have been defeated, and the enemy might be chasing him...
As for the two retainers who fantasized about their father being able to defeat that man named Tsugikuni Yoriichi?!
Momonosuke really didn't have any idea in his mind.
Although Momonosuke has certain character flaws, he is ultimately a samurai who has been carefully trained by the Nine Scabbards and has certain strength.
He had already seen that Nekomaru and Inuarashi were no match for Tsugakuni Yoriichi. From their first encounter, when Momonosuke saw Tsugakuni Yoriichi easily defeat the two retainers with a single blow, he had already understood...
What Cat Viper and the others can do is not to knock down their opponents, but to delay them to buy themselves time to escape.
Momonosuke has made up his mind to leave Robo Town and go to Renwu Port to take a ship out to sea. Only by going to the vast ocean can he escape the pursuit of that man.
And now... the slow flying speed of the big bird under his butt could not satisfy Momonosuke at all.
The fear in his heart for Tsugakuni Yoriichi also turned into anger towards Kurozumi Kanjuro's incompetence.
"Snap!" Momonosuke suddenly turned around and grabbed Kurozumi Kanjuro by the collar, shouting angrily:
"Can you make your ugly bird go faster!!!"
Kurozumi Kanjuro, who was angrily questioned by Momonosuke, waved his hands repeatedly, his face full of grievance:
"Sorry..."
"Lord Momonosuke, it... it has been trying very hard!" As if to cooperate with Kurozumi Kanjuro's words, the big bird under the two of them made a "chirp" sound, and flapped its wings more vigorously.
Upon hearing this, Momonosuke turned around with an unhappy look on his face. The moment Momonosuke turned around and moved his eyes away from Kurozumi Kanjuro, a sinister look appeared on Kurozumi Kanjuro's face.
"Kanjuro..."
"You are the most loyal retainer of our Kozuki family, right?!"
Suddenly, Momonosuke, who had his back to Kanjuro, asked without a clear reason. The vicious look on Kanjuro's face quickly disappeared, and he replied in a flattering tone:
"Of... Of course! Lord Momonosuke!"
"You can see how I treat you!" Kanjuro patted his chest and said in a loud voice.
"Yeah……"
"I need you to help me now..."
"For my sake, I've wronged you!"
Momonosuke suddenly turned around while speaking, looking at Kurozumi Kanjuro with cold eyes. Kanjuro couldn't help but look startled when he heard Momonosuke's cold words. The next second, without waiting for his reaction, Momonosuke grabbed Kanjuro's arm and pulled it outward with all his strength, actually throwing Kanjuro off the bird's back.
The two of them were now a hundred meters above the ground. If they fell from this height, Kanjuro would surely die.
"Momonosuke-sama!!!"
Kanjuro fell from a great height, his roar filled with anger and unwillingness piercing the night sky. Kanjuro never dreamed that before the various plans of the Harimitsuki family had even begun to unfold, he would be secretly attacked by Momonosuke.
The feeling of falling became stronger and stronger, and Kanjuro's face became more and more ferocious and terrifying. In the end, only anger and despair were left.
"Puff--" The moment Kanjuro's body fell to the ground, it was like a puddle of mud, and he stopped breathing in an instant.
Under the night sky, the big bird carrying Momonosuke was no longer burdened by a person, so its flying speed was much faster. Moreover, the big bird seemed to have human emotions. When it saw its master falling, its face showed a terrified expression like a human.
Momonosuke looked in the direction where Kanjuro fell, and a faint smile of success appeared on his face:
"Heh... Kanjuro, I will never forget your contribution to our Guanyue family!"
Turning around, Momonosuke suddenly found a shadow covering him, and his pupils were filled with a red samurai uniform.
The smile froze on Momonosuke's face. He slowly raised his head and found a familiar face in front of him.
“You…you…”
Tsugikoku Yoshiichi stood on the bird's head, looking indifferently at the dazed Momonosuke in front of him, and slowly raised the broken blade in his hand:
"You're surprised I'm here, aren't you?"
"I thought I warned you, Momonosuke."
"Although I have no grudge against you, the guy you pushed over wasn't necessarily a good person."
"But Momonosuke, do you think someone like you is worth continuing to live?"
Jiguo Yuanyi looked at Momonosuke in front of him with a cold gaze, and the murderous intent in his heart grew stronger and stronger.
In the eyes of Yoriichi Tsugakuni, Momonosuke's behavior is a way to seek death. Faced with the retainer who risked his life to save him, Momonosuke's behavior is completely contrary to Yoriichi Tsugakuni's values.
Yoriichi had no idea what Wano Country would look like if such a person took control of the country in the future.
To be honest, Yoshiichi Tsugakuni never had the intention to kill Momonosuke, because in his impression, although that guy was stupid, he treated ordinary people in Wano Country quite well.
Yoriichirō wants to bring Wano Country under the control of the new navy, and Kozuki Oden, who has a very high prestige in Wano Country, is a very good target to win over.
Yoriichi knew that there was a conflict between him and the Whitebeard Pirates, but Yoriichi Tsugakuin also understood Kozuki Oden's character. As long as some remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates were used as bargaining chips, Kozuki Oden would choose to compromise.
Because he is the kind of person who would surrender to the powerful enemy in front of him for the sake of others. When facing Kaido, even though they are equally strong, Oden was afraid that his family would be hurt and chose to compromise.
Facing Tsugikuni Yoriichi, Kozuki Oden will only compromise more decisively.
As Momonosuke was the eldest son of Kozuki Oden, Tsugakuni Yoriichi would not have threatened his life.
But now, after seeing what Momonosuke did with his own eyes, Yoriichi has completely changed his mind.
For someone with Momonosuke's personality, let alone giving him the opportunity to reach a high position one day, Yoriichi would never keep such a person.
Perhaps killing Momonosuke will completely push Wano Country to the opposite side of itself, but for Tsugakuni Yoriichi, that is a matter for the future!
"what are you up to?!"
Momonosuke saw the murderous intent towards him in the cold and indifferent eyes of Yoriichi Tsugakuni, and he couldn't help feeling a little frightened and asked anxiously.
"Don't kill me. I won't run away!"
"You can't kill me either. My father is Kozuki Oden, the younger brother of Whitebeard!!!"
"Whitebeard, do you know? The Whitebeard Pirates are now led by my father. If you kill me, my father will hunt you down to death!"
Momonosuke appeared to be a coward at this moment. Although he was saying all kinds of threatening words, his inner panic was visible at a glance.
"Is this your last words?"
"Until you die, you will never understand why I suddenly changed my mind and wanted to kill you."
Tsugikoku Yoshiichi shook his head and sighed softly. As he spoke, he slashed his sword diagonally downwards. A flash of blade light passed directly over Momonosuke's neck, and the next second, the begging voice disappeared without a trace.
A column of blood shot out from the broken part of Momonosuke's body, and the blood in the sky turned into a blood rain, falling to the ground.
Momonosuke's body also fell from the bird's back and fell towards the street below.
"Bang!!!"
The colorful bird painting under Yoshiichi Tsugikuni's feet suddenly collapsed and disintegrated. After the giant bird disappeared, Yoshiichi's figure was still hovering in the air, looking in the direction where Momonosuke's body fell, with a calm expression.
After putting away the knife, Yunyi stood still for a few seconds and then turned into a golden stream of light and disappeared into the night sky in an instant.
When Yoshikazu Tsugakuni returned to the hotel where he was staying, Cat Viper and the others had already left and were heading in the direction where Momonosuke had escaped.
Tsugakuni Yoshiichi had no intention of continuing to look for those people. After the survivors found the bodies of Momonosuke and Kanjuro, these people would naturally come back to find him.
Yoriichi didn't plan to think about how to get along with the people of Wano Country next. At most, he would just get rid of all the remnants of Kozuki Oden and the Whitebeard Pirates.
It's just killing more people.
Such a thought flashed through Yuanyi's mind, and the next second, Yuanyi sat on the stool with a dazed expression.
When did I stop treating human life as something to be disposed of?!
"What's wrong with me?"
Ji Guoyuan whispered to himself, with a hint of pain on his face.
Ever since he left the Holy Spirit Island, Yunyi always felt that his emotions seemed to be somewhat out of control.
It's not that he would be blinded by anger, nor that he would be easily overwhelmed by other emotions and lose his mind.
But sometimes his perspective is too far away from this ordinary world.
He now doesn't seem like a normal human being. All the emotions that humans should instinctively have are difficult to feel in Yunyi now.
When he was in the holy land, Yunyi was able to kill people without mercy and include everyone in the holy land in his attack.
And now, in order to achieve his own goals, Yoriichi no longer cares about the lives of people like Kozuki Oden, and simply treats those people as ants that can be crushed to death at any time.
But those people were clearly living beings, and they were clearly human beings just like Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
The cold moonlight shone into the room from the big hole in the curtain wall, and was reflected on the face of Yuichiro Tsugikuni. The expression on Yuichiro's face changed several times, and after a few breaths, he regained his composure.
Although Yuichiro didn't know why he suddenly had such a change of mind.
But there is one thing that Yoshikazu Tsugakuni can be sure of, and that is that everything he does now comes from his heart.
Whether it is in the Holy Land or in the present-day Wano Country.
Whether he attacked the Celestial Dragons or Momonosuke, it was all the result of his own will.
regret? !
That kind of thing would never appear in Tsugikuni Yoriichi's mind.
Tonight, someone is destined to have trouble falling asleep.
But this person will not be Yuichiro Tsugikuni.
"What happened? What happened?"
"Who is it?! Who killed my son!?"
In the Daimyo Mansion in Boluo Town, Momonosuke's remains were pieced together by a special person and are now placed intact in the hall.
Kozuki Toki merely lifted the shroud and glanced at the distorted corpse, then burst into tears and questioned the several retainers who were half-kneeling on the ground with a sad face.
"Tsugumi Kuniichi."
"Mrs. Toki, it must be Tsugikoku Yoriichi who killed Momonosuke-sama."
"Not only Momonosuke-sama, but Kurozumi Kanjuro also died at the hands of that guy."
"Madam, it's our fault."
The cat viper's body was wrapped in thick bandages, and blood was oozing from the white bandage on its chest.
At this moment, he didn't care about his injuries. He bowed to Guangyue with a guilty look on his face and took all the responsibility on himself and his people.
Guang Shi had no time to pay attention to Cat Viper at this moment. She was in tears and had no intention of listening to the reports from her retainers.
"Oden. Let Oden come back soon!"
"Let him come back soon!!!"
(End of this chapter)
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