CHAPTER 202- The Unshackled Heir and the Sword That Cleaves Sea-Prism Stone
"Beast Father and Dutiful Son? Mutual slaughter...?"
Yamato blinked, stunned. Her one-track mind clearly couldn't compute the full implications.
Still, she stubbornly shouted back, "No! I don't believe Kaido would actually kill me!"
"You don't believe it?" Luo Yu chuckled faintly.
Then, in a flash of motion, he reached out, grabbing the explosive collar around her neck, and without even breaking stride, ripped it off—casually tossing it straight toward the gazelle-man.
"Wha—?!"
The gazelle-man's pupils shrank sharply.
In their eyes, these explosive collars—once locked—could only be removed with a key. Anything else was instant death.
But this man had just… ripped it off by hand?!
The gazelle-man didn't have time to scream. He turned and bolted.
BOOM!
The explosion thundered like a landslide.
Though he had already dashed seven or eight meters, the shockwave still picked him up and slammed him into the air.
The surrounding dozens of meters were reduced to rubble—obliterated by the blast.
Yamato stood frozen, shell-shocked.
In the original timeline, she had always thought Kaido's threats were just his twisted sense of humor—never truly believing her father would kill her. So she had continued trying to "filially murder" him in honor of Kozuki Oden.
It was only after discovering the explosive collar's deadly mechanism, when Ace came to challenge Kaido, that the reality finally hit her.
She wasn't just a rebellious child.
She was a target.
Now, watching the collar detonate in real time, Yamato's world shattered.
"Kaido, you bastard… you really would kill me!" she screamed, her face pale with rage.
"No—I'm Kozuki Oden! Of course you want me dead!"
Her eyes burned with fury.
"But this… this just makes it easier! I will open Wano's borders! I won't hold back anymore!"
"Quick, help me break these cuffs—I'm going to make those three bastards pay!"
Far off in the rubble, the stunned rat-man finally recovered, eyes wide.
"That collar… was broken with bare hands?! Just who is this guy?!"
His gaze darted to the injured gazelle-man, still struggling to rise.
"Bat! What the hell are you doing?! MOVE! Cover us!"
"If Kaido finds out we let Young Master Yamato escape—we're DEAD!"
The gazelle-man groaned, bleeding, but forced himself to stand.
They all knew—now that Yamato had escaped the collar, this was no longer just a mistake.
This was a disaster.
They looked to the bat-man—one of their fastest, strongest, most experienced.
As long as he struck first, the others would follow.
But what they saw shattered their last shred of confidence.
The bat-man… was running.
He flapped his wings like mad and fled, without so much as a word.
"BAT?! Are you insane?! If Kaido finds out we abandoned Yamato—"
Then, his voice cracked in horror.
"What's the point?! We're dead anyway! That man—he's the Fourth Admiral of the Marines! The one who wiped out the Flying Six and defeated Jack! What's he doing here?!"
That revelation struck like a thunderclap.
The gazelle and rat froze, staring back at the cloaked figure beside Yamato.
Yes… the face was familiar.
Now, there was only one choice:
Run.
Even letting Yamato go was nothing compared to this. A Marine Admiral stepping foot on Wano?
That… was nation-ending.
If they made it out alive, perhaps they could redeem themselves with the intel.
Back beside the ruined collar site:
"Wait... you're that guy?" Yamato blinked. "The Marine Admiral who defeated Jack?"
She looked in disbelief at the man sipping calmly from his jug of local brew.
"What are you doing?! Don't just stand there—they're getting away! If they report back to Kaido, we're doomed!"
"Chase them?" Luo Yu snorted, finishing his drink. "Relax. They're not getting away."
He drew his blade—Wu Gan Polearm—and with a single flash of steel, the Sea-Prism cuffs split in two, clattering to the ground.
Meanwhile, thousands of meters away—
The fleeing trio ran for dear life, lungs burning, minds reeling.
They turned back once, seeing nothing but open air.
"Was he really a Marine Admiral?" Rat-man asked. "Maybe he's not as strong as the rumors say…?"
"Forget it. If he's not chasing us, we should just hurry and report back to Kaido-sama. A Marine Admiral in Wano? Who knows what he might be planning."
Rat-man pulled out a Den Den Mushi.
But before he could dial—
A shadow blotted out the sun.
They froze.
Looking up, they saw something that made their souls nearly leave their bodies.
A gigantic Marine battleship, suspended midair.
Figures radiating terrifying auras stood tall on its deck.
"He… he didn't come alone…"
Rat-man's Den Den Mushi slipped from his hands, landing with a soft clatter.
"This… is a declaration of war…"
The bat and gazelle-men were dumbstruck.
Escape?
No.
Their instincts screamed—resistance is futile.
Back in the ruins, Yamato stared down at the broken Sea-Prism cuffs in her hand, still wide-eyed.
"You… you really did it. You cut Sea-Prism Stone…"
"You must be that swordsman—the one mentioned in Kozuki Oden's journal!"
She stepped closer, eyes shining with reverence.
"Wait—don't tell me… you came to Wano like me, to fulfill Oden's dream?"
"Are you… a fellow admirer of the great Kozuki Oden?!"
Luo Yu took another sip of his jug.
Then sighed.
"Another Oden fanatic, huh?"