Traveling to Wano Country

The person in the entourage that Sengoku asked to be added was none other than Gion.

The answer given was the identity of Gion's Wano Country.

For this result, Longinus is not too surprised; the name Gion is already flowing with the characteristics of Wano, in the previous manner of speech, can also be seen in the Wano' samurai confidence and stereotypical traces.

What surprised him was Gion's status as a high-aristocrat, which, in the Wano Country terminology, is a descendant of a daimyo.

It is important to know that there are only five daimyos in Wano Country, excluding the already known Kozuki Oden and Shimotsuki Yasuie; only three of the former daimyo of Wano are unknown.

However, as per the information obtained by Longinus;

In addition to Kozuki Oden, the rest of the daimyo were imprisoned by Kurozumi Orochi a long time ago. In the accounts of Shimotsuki Yasuie thirteen years later, we can roughly guess what happened to them when he killed them.

However, at this stage, he cannot directly determine their lives and deaths.

"Wano is a country of principle and honor, and Kurozumi Orochi is not in the right place, not many people in the country believe him, that's why he desperately wants the support of the remaining four daimyo."

Sengoku said analytically, "Therefore, it is possible for those four daimyo to be alive before his patience runs out completely!"

"So Gion has been desperately struggling to push herself, even volunteering to be stationed in the New World, just to make it to the deadline and travel alone to Wano to save her people?" Longinus asked.

"Well!" Sengoku nodded heavily, "In fact, if Tsuru hadn't stopped her a few times, she would have sneaked back alone!"

"I was able to guess her Wano identity and asked her about similar things, but she has refused to tell me." Longinus said helplessly, "Is this a fear of getting me involved?"

"To involve those around you in danger just because of an uncertain possibility is indeed not something that a proud samurai of the Wano could do."

Sengoku continued, "So, since you're going to Wano, take her along with you, and save us the worry of her slipping away alone!"

"I understand!" Longinus nodded his head.

...

Thick clouds with a whistling gale blowing past their ears.

The three sat on the wide-ranging back of Minos.

"Wow! Is this the real ocean? It's so beautiful!" Hiyori sat on her knees at the edge of Minos' back, sighed in amazement as she looked down to the sea below.

Longinus and Gion, on the other hand, sat cross-legged in the center.

"My father's name is Amamiya Haraichi, is the Kibi Daimyo of Wano Country, originally everything was very good. But ..." Gion said in a low voice, "it was about fifteen years ago, I was only eight years old at that time, but I also knew that a major event happened in Wano Country at that time that was a national sensation."

"The son of the Shogun of Wano, the Kuri Daimyo, Kozuki Oden, defied the long-standing prohibition of the Wano closed country and resolutely chose to go to sea."

Hearing the name Kozuki Oden, Hiyori also stopped playing and crawled on all sides towards the two.

"Shogun Kozuki Sukiyaki, who was extremely angry at the time, announced that he had completely severed his blood ties with Oden, but he did not bother to change some of Oden's arrangements before he went to sea."

Gion said with a complicated face, "And it was then that the disaster began."

Longinus grasped the point keenly and asked, "Is it the successor to the daimyo of Kuri?"

"To be more precise, it's the acting daimyo." Gion sighed, "My father once commented that Oden was good at everything, but he was too kind, or rather, too trusting!"

"This is certainly his charisma, take Ashura Doji, formerly villainous ringleader who rampaged through the nine miles, was surprisingly willing to submit even after being defeated by him. But ..."

"What he doesn't know is that there are some evil people, who are brutal by nature, and are destined to be impossible to be reformed, and that person is the current Shogun of Wano, Kurozumi Orochi!"

"So, after gaining Oden's trust, Kurozumi Orochi first assumed the position of acting daimyo, and then with the support of Kaido's power, he finally achieved the Wano's goal of 'conquer the masses'?" Longinus uttered his speculation.

"Well! That's pretty much it." Gion's eyes were in a trance as if she was immersed in a long-ago memory, "When Kurozumi Orochi completed his transformation from acting daimyo to acting shogun, he began to conquer the remaining four daimyo. He questioning them whether they would choose to serve the Kurozumi clan or choose war."

"My father and the others are naturally reluctant to acknowledge his position, but unfortunately, the influence of Kurozumi Orochi himself plus the support of the Beasts Pirates has formed an invincible force."

"So, on the verge of the duel, my father had me secretly sent out of Wano Country."

Gion took a long breath of relief, "And then what happened after that you know, I got lucky and met Tsuru-chan, and then I joined the Marine Corps."

"So, I don't actually like this Kozuki Oden as a person!"

"Gion-san, I'm sorry!" Hiyori said with her small head lowered in frustration.

"No need to say sorry for this kind of thing, and what does it have to do with you?" Gion smiled, "In fact, this is also my personal prejudice, right, as long as the Beasts Kaido is still around, even if there is no Kurozumi Orochi, there will always be another Kurozumi Ryū and Kurozumi Fiton to show him the way."

"Mm-hmm!" Hiyori nodded her little head vigorously and said thoughtfully, "Gion-san, we will definitely help you save uncle!"

"Thank you, then, little Hiyori!"

"Your Highness Gion, please don't worry, saving the daimyo is the last wish of Oden-sama, I will definitely do my best to fulfill the Lord's request!" The voice of the shouting was mixed with the wind and came from below.

"Then thank you very much, Kawamatsu-sama." Gion said, unable to stop the corners of her mouth from twitching a few times.

"Uncle Kawamatsu, are you okay?" Only then did the little loli remember someone and climb to the edge and look down.

"Finally there is sense of being!" Kawamatsu hugged Minos's thigh and wept silently in his heart.

For this world where even animals are valued for their face, he has wholly despaired.

It started when Minos refused to board him because he was too ugly and finally allowed him to hold on to his lap after he made numerous overtures and promises of numerous jerky fish (Sea King type).

"Your Highness Hiyori, I'm fine!" Kawamatsu shouted against his will, "Go back quickly, it's dangerous on the side!"

"Oh! Then go for it Uncle Kawamatsu, I just asked my brother Vice Admiral, we should be a day and a half away!" Hiyori retracted her little head with a polite expression of encouragement.

"A day and a half ..." while Kawamatsu is like struck by lightning, almost dropped with a loose hand, and then thought with sadness and anger, "Is it true that ugly has no rights?"

Published in Qidian, June 22, 2019