"There are a few things. Pay attention," Kaido cast a faint glance at Kurozumi Orochi, carrying an invisible sense of oppression.
If toward King, he was angry at his failure to live up to expectations.
Then toward Kurozumi Orochi, he was simply looking down on him.
Perhaps Orochi's brain could keep up with his line of thinking, but he had no interest in communicating with trash.
To him, Kurozumi Orochi was just a tool to control the Land of Wano.
"I'm listening," Kurozumi Orochi smiled obsequiously, but a trace of hard‐to‐notice humiliation flashed in the depths of his eyes.
Even Kozuki Oden did not dare treat him like this. Kaido's strength was only on par with Kozuki Oden, so why did he look down on him this much?
If not for the fact that Kaido was his backer now, and he still needed the other to deal with Kozuki Oden, he would have already...
"The first thing!", Kaido's loud voice came, making Kurozumi Orochi tremble all over. He didn't dare let his mind wander and immediately made a posture of listening respectfully.
"Kozuki Oden has committed a major crime on the sea. The World Government is pursuing him at all costs. As long as you find him, you can get a bounty of four billion berries."
"Should I go and report him?", Kurozumi Orochi blurted out subconsciously.
Don't look at him not having left Wano Country very much, but he knew the World Government's heritage too well.
People as strong as Kaido and Kozuki Oden were just thieves on the sea.
A thief can't suppress a king, that was everyone's consensus.
This alone was enough to prove the strength of the World Government.
Now that such a good opportunity was right in front of them, he really wanted to make use of it.
"Foolish!", Kaido glanced at him, and in the end still explained patiently, "With the World Government's methods, they would erase all traces of Kozuki Oden's existence along with him."
"Huh? So that means, if Kozuki Oden gets exposed, we all have to die along with him?", Kurozumi Orochi looked at Kaido in disbelief.
'What the hell?'
'The World Government is that overbearing?'
'We are Kozuki Oden's enemies. Just giving a report will actually get us killed?'
"Heh, as the one reporting you might not die, but the Land of Wano will definitely be erased from the map," Kaido sneered.
Ever since the Rocks era, he had dealt with the World Government.
So many years had passed, Kaido knew far too well what their methods were like. Bloody slaughter was the baseline.
When it came to brutality, the World Government left the pirates dozens of streets behind.
"Gulp!"
Kurozumi Orochi swallowed subconsciously, not daring to imagine the scene after Kozuki Oden was exposed.
Even Kaido spoke so solemnly about it… he already knew how real this matter was.
But he still didn't understand.
'Why?'
'Kozuki Oden committed the crime, and the people who are on bad terms with him have to be buried with him?'
"Don't think there's anything to be dissatisfied about. Even if you are dissatisfied, hold it in. I can tell you clearly, the two bosses Kozuki Oden followed before, even if you stack the two of them together, they still aren't the World Government's match. They don't even dare make a sound," Kaido said with a snort.
This was completely a warning to Kurozumi Orochi. He didn't want Orochi to suddenly get some crazy idea and uproot the Land of Wano.
"Lord Kaido, I guarantee I won't leak any information about Kozuki Oden," Though he felt a bit stifled, Kurozumi Orochi still gave his assurance.
But just after he spoke, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Wait, Lord Kaido, didn't some people from the World Government come to Wano before? They haven't left right now. If they see Kozuki Oden, wouldn't we be exposed?", Kurozumi Orochi asked in confusion.
If they were going to hide it, just hiding it among themselves wasn't enough.
Even if he could rally the people of Wano to help hide it, if the World Government people caught them in the act, everything would be exposed, right?
"Publicly declare that Kozuki Oden is already dead," Kaido said calmly.
"Huh? Kozuki Oden probably won't agree, right?", Kurozumi Orochi was stunned. He wished Kozuki Oden dead, but he also knew that person's character, it was unlikely he would agree.
"This is the second thing I wanted to tell you," Kaido glanced at Kurozumi Orochi, set down the sake jug in his hand, and spoke with a voice full of pressure, "Tell Kozuki Oden the consequences of this matter. Tell him openly that there are people from the World Government in Wano, including former Admiral Zephyr."
"If he has the ability, then go kill them. If he doesn't, and doesn't want Wano to be buried with him, then he'd better shut up and fake his death, and get out of Wano to somewhere else on the sea."
The sudden Holy Land plan, though it somewhat messed up his arrangements. For him, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
As long as Kozuki Oden accepted this fake death, Wano Country wouldn't have any resistance at all.
And as long as the other left Wano again, he would immediately kill all of his subordinates at the fastest speed.
Even if the other came back after avoiding the storm, he would no longer be a threat.
By then, he could threaten him again with the World Government, making him completely disappear from Wano.
If he went even further, he could even push the blame for killing Kozuki Oden's subordinates onto the World Government.
Considering the World Government's usual behavior, killing all of Kozuki Oden's followers wasn't a rare thing at all, right?
From this point of view, he even had to thank the World Government and CP0 in Wano.
"I understand, Lord Kaido. I'll go do it right away," Kurozumi Orochi immediately understood, excitement appearing in his expression.
'Lord Kaido, if you'd just said this earlier, wouldn't it have all been done already?'
If he'd said it earlier, Kurozumi Orochi wouldn't even have a trace of refusal.
Reasonably and legitimately making Kozuki Oden get lost. That was something he dreamed about every night.
"Hehe, Lord Kaido, I'll go now," Kurozumi Orochi stood up and was about to step out.
But before he even walked two steps, he heard Kaido's voice again, "If he refuses, tell him that Rosse has come to the New World, and his sailing direction is toward Wano."
"Huh? Who is Rosse?"
Kurozumi Orochi turned back in confusion, 'Who is this? And why is he coming to Wano? Aren't we a closed country? Why are so many people coming?'
"The strongest of the World Government's younger generation. People on Kozuki Oden's level, recently, he's killed four of them by himself. One of them was even a tier stronger than Kozuki Oden," Kaido's voice carried a trace of casualness, but in Kurozumi Orochi's ears, it was so shocking he almost couldn't keep walking.
'What the hell?'
'Someone as monstrous as Kozuki Oden, this person have recently killed four of them, and one of them is even stronger?'
Kurozumi Orochi no longer paused. His footsteps quickly headed outward, now carrying a trace of determination.
This time, he definitely had to persuade Kozuki Oden to leave Wano.
'It is too dangerous!'
He could not allow such a powerful person to come to Wano.
'Kozuki Oden, you should take the powerful enemies you caused, and go fool around somewhere else.'
'The Land of Wano is a small shrine and cannot hold such a great Buddha.'
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