Above a wide river, a sailboat followed the current. On both sides of the river, pink cherry blossom petals were falling from the trees, and a faint floral fragrance filled the air.
Inside the cabin of the sailboat, Kozuki Hiyori knelt on a mat. She held a shamisen in her arms, gently strumming the strings and playing a melody.
At the bow, Black Maria with a red kimono skirt knelt on a blue picnic cloth.
Sephiroth rested his head on the girl's lap. The thighs were white and soft with a hint of elasticity, making him very comfortable.
On the surface, Sephiroth seemed to be just accompanying his girls to enjoy a flower-viewing trip. He looked lazy and relaxed. However, his mind was focused on a bat clone that was thousands of miles away, controlling it to conduct experimental research in the laboratory.
Brain at work, body at leisure!
What a joy.
At that moment, on the river, a sailboat appeared from the opposite direction, with more than a dozen people sitting on it, tall, short, fat, and thin.
At the bow of the sailboat, Queen was dancing while twisting his obese body. With a half-joking and half-sarcastic tone, he shouted, "Yo! Brother Doflamingo, I didn't expect you to be a pervert who likes to play with other people's heads! You should hang out with Jinbe!"
"Fufufu! But the method works well, doesn't it?" Doflamingo asked with a laugh.
The Donquixote Family executives he led, after submitting to Kaido, were given a mission order: go "destroy a village with a population of over a thousand, and force those people to work in the Udon weapon factory."
The Donquixote Family was a pirate group that committed all kinds of crimes. For them, destroying, plundering, and burning was a common thing. To show his strength and ability, Doflamingo directly opened his Birdcage that enveloped the entire village. After that, more than a thousand people from the village gathered under the control of Doflamingo's Parasite String.
After he read the order that asked the villagers to come to the factory to work, he immediately used the Parasite String to control those who were disobedient. He made them kill their own relatives, one by one. Wives against husbands, fathers against sons. Those who refused to enter the factory could only watch helplessly as their beloved relatives and friends killed each other!
This psychological pressure was almost impossible to bear. Doflamingo only controlled six people and caused three massacres. The others cried and begged for mercy, and finally all agreed to enter the weapon factory to work.
This "efficiency" could be said to be very fast! Queen even called him a deviant on par with King!
As the two sailboats crossed paths on the river, Doflamingo suddenly saw Sephiroth on the bow of the opposing boat, who was leaning on Black Maria's lap.
He subconsciously raised his hand and asked with a confused look, "Huh!? Queen, who is that person!?"
Hearing this, Queen stopped twisting his obese body and glanced at the opposite boat. "He seems to be a man named Musashi Miyamoto, a subordinate of Kurozumi Orochi…"
"Musashi Miyamoto? Fufufu! Why do I feel like he's very similar to someone I've met?"
An unbearable cynical laugh appeared on Doflamingo's face. A two-sword swordsman, and an exact same face... Musashi Miyamoto!? What kind of joke is this! This guy is clearly Commodore Sephiroth!
The Beasts Pirates don't recognize him!?
Hmm!? Wano Country is isolated from the outside world, and Sephiroth hasn't joined the Beasts Pirates, his true identity hasn't been fully investigated, so it's normal that he hasn't been found out.
But, why are the Marines appearing in Wano Country, disguised, or something?
Should I tell Kaido his identity!?
There must be a Marine plot here, and even if they succeed, it won't be beneficial to me.
Then what if I tell Kaido his identity?
In this way, I might be able to go one step further to gain Kaido's trust and thus get more freedom, more than just me being able to leave Kaido and act on my own! With my abilities and my methods, plus my Warlord identity, when I get stronger, I can give Kaido enough benefits, and I can get relative freedom.
"When I truly master Ryuo and have the strength to fight against Kaido, then I won't have to be afraid of the other party anymore!"
Considering Sephiroth is a man who is difficult to defeat in terms of strength and space movement, I'm not sure I can beat him at all. Now, let Kaido do it himself! But, the condition is that I have to tell Kaido the truth and expose Sephiroth's disguise!
Doflamingo thought for a moment before making a final decision.
Suddenly feeling an unfounded surge of malice, Sephiroth immediately pulled his mind back from thousands of miles away. He happened to see Doflamingo looking at him with both eyes.
Damn it! I was too focused on the experiment and didn't pay much attention to the outside! How could Doflamingo appear in Wano Country!?
Wait, in the original storyline, Doflamingo did have a cooperative relationship with Kaido. It's reasonable that he appears in Wano Country…
Then, that sudden surge of malice just now? Could it be that he recognized me?
On the opposite ship there is not only Queen, but also Doflamingo and the other Donquixote Family executives, a total of more than ten people!
"It's hard to fight four hands with two fists, let alone there are more than four hands on the opposite side. With my own strength, it will be difficult to defeat them in a short time." What should I do?
As the sailboats on both sides crossed paths, Sephiroth slowly sat up. His right hand unconsciously touched the two long swords placed beside him. He pulled out the swords and looked at them, ignoring Doflamingo and the others.
Seeing Sephiroth's expression change, Black Maria quickly said with a worried look, "My lord, what's wrong?"
"No! Nothing. I just suddenly remembered some trivial things."
As Sephiroth put the two swords in front of him, he remembered Shyarly's prophecy. After much hesitation, he finally dispelled the impulse to attack from his heart. He didn't like doing things that were too risky, especially when there was a prophecy that wasn't so good for him.
After the two boats had separated far enough, Sephiroth stood up and said to the two women, "Today's trip ends here, let's go back now!"
"Huh!"
His butcher knife was unsheathed, and a tear in the void opened a space folding door. On the other side of the door, it was a normal room with an iron cage containing a bloody bat. Black Maria and Kozuki Hiyori immediately recognized the place as the backyard of the Kozuki Clan.
This was the first time Sephiroth had shown his ability to open a space door in front of the two women, and both were shocked. After he entered the space door, the two women didn't think much about it, they both stood up and followed him in.
A moment later, Sephiroth took out the Den Den Mushi from his sleeve and began to call one by one, contacting his main bosses, Kumagoro, Camel, Kurokoma Chifen, and others, so they could start gathering their men. However, he also specifically ordered the small leaders and their men not to tell anyone.
Those people were all undercover agents from the Kurozumi Orochi unit, and die-hard members of the Kozuki Clan, and Sephiroth had no intention of evacuating Wano Country with them.
Yes! Evacuate.
After much thought, he felt that since he had revealed his identity and had no intention of going to war with Kaido directly, he had no choice but to retreat from Wano Country!
He had been operating in Wano Country for more than a year and had successfully gained a foothold. Now to suddenly have to evacuate, if he didn't feel any pain, it was impossible! However, he was also not a bad person. For more than a year, he had secretly relocated 1.67 million people from the Wano Country territory to Kujima, leaving 70,000 to 80,000 young and middle-aged laborers in Kujima. Industry, light industry, and handicrafts had all achieved great success and were continuing to develop.
The only regret was that he didn't find Pluton in Wano Country.
After Sephiroth gave the order, the Miyamoto Family, which was scattered in the Flower City, and more than 2,000 subordinates, began to move toward Ebisu Village next to Flower City. Because Sephiroth didn't calculate for victory from the beginning, he first calculated for defeat. For more than a year, he had secretly relocated all the native residents of Ebisu Village, and let the Miyamoto Family occupy the entire village, and also managed it as a family residence of the Miyamoto family that was very unpopular with outsiders.
Many people in Flower City knew about the Miyamoto Family's occupation of Ebisu Village, and even Kurozumi Orochi had heard of it. However, Kurozumi Orochi saw that Sephiroth was very fast in doing anything for him, and in order to provide him with a lot of gold every month, he also acquiesced to his actions of occupying the land as a king, and did not comment much.
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