Chapter 288 Childish Lies
When the samurai's sword approached again, this time Kurozumi Orochi did not shout and scream like last time. He could not pretend to be a weakling in front of Uchiha Madara, so he could only use one of the Kurozumi family's strengths.
"I wonder if your pair of famous swords can cut through the absolute defense."
A transparent barrier instantly wrapped up Kurozumi Orochi. Behind the head of the Kurozumi family, a bald old man stood up with his hands pinching specific magic fingers to call upon his own devil fruit ability.
Character Notes: Biwa Master Kurozumi Chanmaru, a user of the superhuman barrier fruit ability
Enma and Ame-no-Habakiri slashed the barrier in front of them, but in the end not even a trace was left. It would take a long time for Kozuki Oden to break through the absolute defense of the Barrier Fruit.
Kozuki Oden did not give up outside the barrier and continued to slash at the barrier with his double swords. Every time he slashed, a crisp impact sound was heard, but he still could not break the turtle shell.
Kurozumi Orochi looked at Kozuki Oden outside, who was sweating profusely as he wielded a knife in front of the barrier. He watched for more than ten minutes. He picked his nose helplessly. He was tired of watching others chopping themselves. It was not a good idea for him to keep being stubborn and stay here.
His eyeballs rolled around in his sockets. Kurozumi Orochi, who was good at scheming, suddenly thought of a good plan in his mind. It would be the best way to deal with the fool in front of him, because he knew that Kozuki Oden was easy to fool.
"It's not a good idea to chop it down like this. How about I make a deal with you using all the citizens of Wano Country. As long as you take off your clothes and dance on the street for five years, I will return Wano Country to you. I, Kurozumi Orochi, swear in the name of the Kurozumi family to keep my word. How about I be sincere?"
Facing Kurozumi Orochi's cunning smile, Kozuki Oden actually stopped his actions. He was thinking about the feasibility of this matter and did not think that the man in front of him was deceiving him at first.
Seeing the fool in front of him hesitating, Kurozumi Orochi decided to add fuel to the fire. He signaled his clansmen with a look to bring anyone over. He wanted to demonstrate for his former master.
After Kurozumi Chanmaru understood what he meant, he unleashed the barrier fruit and took a few minutes to bring a maid from the general's mansion over. The woman recognized the troubled Kozuki Oden at a glance.
The maid knew that being pushed out by the Kurotan family would not end well, so she directly asked her former master for help: "Lord Oden, please save me, please save me, I am still so young and I don't want to die..."
Kurozumi Orochi held the woman in his arms with a kind smile, stared at Kozuki Oden and said: "I'm going to show you now. If I really want to kill people, you can't stop me at all."
After hearing this, Kozuki Oden immediately realized that something was wrong, "You dare..."
The maid, who was as young as a flower, had met the general's son several times, but the next moment Kurozumi Orochi stroked the woman's head and pulled the maid's head off her body in front of Kozuki Oden.
The blood spurting out from the broken neck directly dyed the black charcoal snake's body. The golden crown on his head, which represented his status, was even more shining with the embellishment of blood.
"You beast, you beast..." Kozuki Oden trembled all over and tightly grasped his two swords, with tears of hatred in his eyes. He had never thought that Kurozumi Orochi would use such means to prove himself. An innocent person lost his life because of him, which was an incomparable shame for a samurai.
The black charcoal snake threw the woman's lower body away like trash, and played with the maid's head in his hand, spinning it like a ball in his palm. He had no psychological burden for killing a person, just like stepping on an ant on the roadside. Would humans feel guilty for stepping on an ant? No way (laughs)!
The goal was achieved by killing an innocent person. Kurozumi Orochi knew that he could not provoke Kozuki Oden anymore, so he threw the female head in his hand to the other's feet and said, "I don't need to prove it this time. If it is not enough, I will kill one more person every hour. Kozuki Oden, can you really stop me?"
The samurai sheathed his double swords, bent down and looked at the head at his feet. The maid had endured great pain before her death, and her death was extremely horrific, which made Kozuki Oden heartbroken from the bottom of his heart.
As the future general of Wano Country, he allowed his citizens to suffer such inhuman treatment, having their heads pulled off like killing an animal. Did Kozuki Oden have any other options?
The man's expression became solemn, and at this moment he seemed to have lost the ability to speak. He turned and walked out of the general's mansion. Although he did not say the words of agreement, he had already agreed to the agreement with Kurozumi Orochi in his actions and in his heart. He decided to give everything for his people.
Looking at the lonely back of Kozuki Oden as he left, Uchiha Madara looked at him as if he was a fool. After waiting for the samurai to completely leave the Shogun's Mansion, he said, "This guy actually believed in such a childish agreement. The Kozuki clan is really getting worse with each generation."
Kurozumi Orochi took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood off his face and crown. As for the clothes that were stained red, he had to change into new ones. He was able to fool Kozuki Oden in one try, and a sense of accomplishment appeared on his face. The joy of his conspiracy succeeding made the man smile.
In order to usurp the throne, he knew Kozuki Oden too well and explained to Lord Madara: "Kozuki Oden attaches great importance to the samurai's sense of justice. Sometimes he cares a lot about personal honor and disgrace. Sometimes he will give up personal honor and disgrace for the so-called greater good to achieve self-realization in his mind. But in my opinion, he is just a foolish monarch, a poor creature who can only be moved by himself."
From the very beginning, Kurozumi Orochi would not fulfill the promise. He wanted to buy time for Kaido, the King of Beasts, and five years was just enough. Poor Kozuki Oden was fooled from the very beginning. Idealists will eventually fall to reality.
For the upcoming striptease show, Kurozumi Orochi has to prepare some reward money. He wants to humiliate Kozuki Oden in front of the citizens of Wano Country. Even if he does such an outrageous thing, the stupid samurai must still be grateful to Kurozumi Orochi in his heart.
When the citizens of Wano Country looked at Kozuki Oden walking out of the Shogun's Mansion with hope, they thought that this savior who went out to sea for adventure would be able to save the country with his trained strength and physically destroy the exploiter, Kurozumi Orochi. But they were soon disappointed, and some even did not understand and felt resentment in their hearts as to why the person who was originally so high and mighty would do this.
Soon, Kozuki Oden stripped naked in front of the skylight camera, showing the beauty of male nudity to the entire audience, performing a funny dance for the people around him, with an idiotic smile on his face, giving people a kind of "beauty" of brain stem missing.
Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, regardless of rumors, Kozuki Oden has always abided by the promise of Kurozumi Orochi, and presented a spicy striptease for the streets of Wano Country. He is really worthy of being a hero of the Kozuki family.