In the corner corridor.
Yamato gradually lost the highlights in her eyes and kept muttering to herself:
"This is impossible! ..... impossible! ....."
At this point, the girl's demeanor and appearance looked like a silly fan who had just found out that the perfect idol she admired had collapsed and turned into trash full of black material...
For a moment, she couldn't accept it at all!
Therefore, her first reaction was.
Right! ..... How could the idol she admired be a scumbag!
This must be slander, it must be a rumor!
"Miyamoto, you are not right at all, Oden is not that kind of person!
I have his sailing diary as proof!"
As she spoke, Yamato wanted to put her hand into her chest and the collar of her clothes, and she took out the "Oden no Odori" and showed it to Sephiroth.
However.
She couldn't help but pause when she looked at her oily hands because she had just finished the roasted chicken and roasted lamb leg.
For her, Oden's sailing diary was a priceless treasure, how could it be stained with oil!
"You get it for me, it's right on me..."
As she spoke, the girl pushed her large-scale breasts toward him and moved closer.
"Ah!? This..... you girl.
I'm not very suitable, am I?"
Sephiroth scratched his head with a little surprise.
"It's okay! I'm Oden..... a man!"
...
Yamato talked about this, and Sephiroth stopped hesitating. He immediately reached out and touched two.
"Huh!? Why did you pinch me?"
"Ah!? Sorry. The habit is formed naturally!"
Sephiroth scoffed, and fumbled about it, he took out a notebook from on top of Yamato.
"In this record, the magnificent life of the man Kozuki Oden is recorded, which was written by himself..."
Before Yamato could begin to speak non-stop, Sephiroth interrupted with a chuckle:
"Then, he must have used the Spring and Autumn writing style to briefly describe a lot of bad things and exaggerate his deeds and image!
After all, it's something he wrote himself, and it's normal to beautify himself."
"Impossible! Kozuki Oden is not that kind of person."
In Yamato's tone, there was a trace of unconscious doubt.
It was obvious that, affected by the youth's previous words, a ripple had been made in the lake of her heart, making her look at the image of Kozuki Oden as tall and magnificent, with a trace of doubt.
"That way! The story of Oden's journey to the sea, I also knew a little about it before.
I won't read this diary for now, but I'll tell you something about myself.
After all, Oden's sailing story is more or less popular elsewhere."
As he spoke, Sephiroth placed Oden's nautical diary in the hallway, next to the large plate.
Yamato heard that the other person was going to tell her idol's story, so she immediately picked up half of the watermelon and the spoon on the plate and ate it with great interest, as if she was ready to eat melon and listen to the story.
Sephiroth, gently rubbing his chin, recalled the plot in his mind that had become a little blurry:
"....Probably sixteen years ago.
Oden met the Whitebeard Pirates who had accidentally entered Wano Country, and he intended to defeat Whitebeard and take over the Pirates, so he ordered the Whitebeard Pirates to take him to sea.
However.
He didn't make a few moves in Whitebeard's hands and was knocked down.
Seeing that he couldn't beat Whitebeard, Oden had no choice but to throw himself on his knees and beg Whitebeard to take him away from Wano Country."
"No! It's not like that. Kozuki Oden wrote in his diary that he had a great fight with Whitebeard and finally lost."
Hearing this, Yamato suddenly looked unhappy. She quickly wiped her hands with her clothes. Regardless of the slight oil and juice stains on her palms, she quickly flipped through the contents of Oden's diary about his encounter with Whitebeard. It said, "What a world-shattering battle?", What you came and went, and finally lost by a single move.
All in all, how shameless!
Sephiroth: ...
He finally understood a little why Yamato was deceived into being a lame duck!
He thought for a moment before he spoke and continued:
"That way! To avoid a violent conflict between us, I will still tell you while watching, what I know!"
Given that it was unknown what kind of artistic work Oden had done in his diary, Sephiroth could only open Oden's wanderlust and start chatting with Yamato.
At first, Yamato felt that Sephiroth must be spreading rumors and slanders, but as the other party said, some of them were more detailed than what Oden described.
Even, some of the content involved parts that both of them had not flipped through, which made Yamato become doubtful.
Whether it was what he saw on the empty island or what he saw on the merman island, the content that Sephiroth outlined was much more detailed than Oden, a half-illiterate person, and some questions that Yamato deliberately asked could also be answered in detail!
... Unconsciously, Yamato combined what Sephiroth had said before, Oden's various insensitive behaviors as a child, as well as the falsehoods in his diary, which caused a slight crack in the tall and magnificent image of Oden in her heart.
Although Yamato was reluctant to admit it, she mysteriously felt that the story Sephiroth told seemed to be more reliable, and that the other person's stories and experiences were quite rich...
The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't figure it out!
The bewildered Yamato, she picked up the large wine bottle next to Sephiroth, "gulp! gulp! gulp!" She dried most of the bottle in one breath, and she couldn't help but burp, which made the latter's eyelids jump.
"Damn it! I don't care! Anyway, I have to defeat Kaido and let a peaceful country be established!"
Hearing this, Sephiroth couldn't help but gently rub the stubble on his chin.
Think a little, calmly analyze! Enlightenment...
"Come on and let's have a good drink tonight!"
As he spoke, Sephiroth pulled out the butcher knife from his waist, opened a temporary space, and took from it several large cases of wine and some food.
"Have a good drink!"
When she heard this, Yamato, who was already under the influence of alcohol, blushed, chuckled, and picked up a bottle of liquor, again "gulp! gulp! gulp!" The drink went down.
Thus, the two of them drank and chatted, talking about all sorts of things, including the blue sky and the sea.
Basically, it was Sephiroth who was saying, Yamato was listening.
The young girl was full of longing for the wonderful outside world that the youth said. Even her vision and thinking were slightly broader. Compared to her previous narrow-mindedness and ignorance, she was much better...
Yamato looked in a drunken state at the pair of Sea Stone shackles that were handcuffed to her wrists. She couldn't help but sigh:
"If possible. I really want to see the outside world!"
Ever since she was eight years old, she became a land-dweller after accidentally eating a Devil Fruit, and she had no knowledge of navigation and couldn't go to sea at will.
However.
To make the girl even worse, Kaido, in order to restrain her, also ordered Queen to research low-purity Sea Stone explosive shackles to bring to her.
Now, as soon as she left the boundaries of Oni Island, the shackles would explode directly, blowing her to smithereens!
"Do you want to see the outside world?"
Sephiroth burped slightly, and with a slightly drunk look, looked at the girl.
"I really want to, I really want to! But. As soon as I leave this ghost island, the collar on my hand explodes just like that."
Yamato's expression looked very depressed, as if to vent her anger, she opened another bottle of liquor and directly killed most of the bottle.
Sephiroth stared at the pair of metal shackles on the girl's wrists, and after looking at them for a while, he reached out, grabbed her wrist, and felt it.
The Sea Stone is only found on the inside of the shackles, and its purity is so low that it can only restrict the use of abilities and not seriously weaken the physical strength and mental state. If I use Armament Haki and do internal destruction, this pair of handcuffs will not be able to hold on!
However, for me, Yamato is now still an unstable factor, and I don't have to help her without strings attached for the time being.
Sephiroth released Yamato's wrist, and asked, pretending to be casual:
"Doesn't this pair of shackles have a key?"
"Yes, but it was thrown into the sea by Kaido..." The young girl answered honestly.