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The Whitebeard Pirates had unknowingly allowed a strange man into their delivery room—an infiltration that should have been impossible aboard the most heavily defended ship on the seas. But when Lady Toki saw the intruder's face and those iconic crimson eyes, a shocking realization crashed over her like ice water.
What kind of monster could live for eight hundred years?! Or had he resurrected from some deathless sleep, crawling back from history's grave?
["Should I call you Amatsuki Toki... or Hyuga Toki? Time certainly flies—yet here we meet again after all these centuries."]
[Character information appeared in blood-red script:]
The Legendary Ninja Uchiha Madara
[When Lady Toki encountered this legendary figure once more across the gulf of centuries, she couldn't suppress the trembling that seized her body. Terror flooded her heart—if he could travel freely aboard the Moby Dick, moving undetected through the Whitebeard Pirates' flagship, what hope did anyone have? Even Edward Newgate's crew couldn't stop Uchiha Madara?
"The Uchiha clan didn't leave behind any recorded history," Lady Toki managed to speak despite her fear, voice barely above a whisper. "The remaining members disappeared into the sea's vastness long ago. Do you truly believe you can still rule Wano Country by relying on your own strength alone?"
The Uchiha surname had vanished into history's depths centuries past. If Toki weren't an ancient person herself, she would never have known of Madara's existence at all. Outsiders observing him might note his resemblance to Wano Country natives, but they could gather no additional information beyond superficial appearance.
But the present era wasn't eight hundred years ago, when Uchiha Madara had stood as the strongest man of his generation. The Uchiha clan had ultimately been defeated—destroyed at tremendous cost by unified opposition. Had they not been toppled through sacrifice and bloodshed, the Uchiha would never have withdrawn from Wano Country. The Kurozumi clan and Kozuki clan would never have possessed sufficient strength to claim dominance.
The seas now churned with turmoil and gathered powerful individuals beyond counting. Gol D. Roger, Edward Newgate, Shiki the Golden Lion, Sengoku the Buddha—all these legends remained active and at their peaks. Uchiha Madara, regardless of his individual might, could not defeat all these heroes single-handedly. Even he couldn't accomplish such an exaggerated feat.]
["You Hyuga clan members are truly pathetic," Uchiha Madara stated with cold detachment, each word cutting like a blade. "You're the only survivor of your entire bloodline, forced to rely on the Kozuki clan's charity for survival. You brought this disaster upon yourselves."]
[As Madara spoke these merciless words, the Sky Screen's background imagery transformed. Flames that destroyed entire clans swept across ancient Wano Country in vivid, terrible detail. The Hyuga clan—the second largest dojutsu bloodline in Wano after the Uchiha—ultimately couldn't be tolerated by the Kozuki and Kurozumi clans once the power balance shifted.
The historical truth unfolded in fire and blood:
Hyuga, Kurozumi, and Kozuki had rebelled against the brutal Uchiha clan simultaneously, joining forces to overthrow their tyrannical dominance. But when they finally reaped victory's fruits, when the Uchiha threat had been eliminated, Kurozumi and Kozuki immediately turned on their Hyuga allies. The two remaining clans united to destroy the Hyuga entirely.
Fear and paranoia regarding dojutsu abilities ran too deep in ancient Wano Country's citizens. The memory of Uchiha oppression remained too fresh, too painful. They refused to allow another eye-technique bloodline to survive and potentially repeat that nightmare.
To common citizens of Wano, the Hyuga clan and the Uchiha clan appeared fundamentally identical—both produced natural monsters, individuals wielding power beyond normal comprehension. Each member represented a potential dangerous element, a walking catastrophe waiting to trigger. The only perceived difference was temperament: Hyuga tended toward peaceful feudalism while Uchiha embraced brutal ruthlessness.
But temperament meant nothing when weighed against existential fear.
After the Uchiha clan's slaughter, the Hyuga clan's destruction became inevitable. They'd served their purpose as allies against a common enemy. Now they represented a threat that couldn't be tolerated.
Uchiha Madara, who'd resurrected from near-death during the massacre, witnessed the final moments of the Hyuga purge with his own evolved eyes. He saw the woman—Hyuga Toki—suddenly vanish within a samurai encirclement, disappearing from reality itself as blades descended toward her throat.
In that critical moment, Madara realized the Hyuga clan's sole survivor had consumed a Devil Fruit—specifically, a fruit with time attributes. He'd sensed fluctuations similar to time-based ninjutsu at the location where she vanished. The confirmation came later through careful investigation: she'd eaten the Toki Toki no Mi (Time-Time Fruit), leaping forward through centuries to escape execution.
What made this even more disappointing for Madara was that the Hyuga survivor remained a useless individual who couldn't awaken her dojutsu. Lady Toki's eyes had never changed from ordinary human pupils, never manifested the Byakugan that should have been her birthright. The failure frustrated Madara immensely.
However, he still intended to use his Sharingan now—testing whether this pregnant woman on the verge of childbirth was merely pretending weakness, concealing awakened abilities behind a facade of helplessness.]
[The man's blood-red eyes flashed with strange, hypnotic patterns—tomoe spinning within crimson irises. After Lady Toki's gaze met Madara's Sharingan directly, her frightened expression transformed instantly into vacant emptiness. Just like the other leopard-print nurses in the room, her mind fell under hypnotic control, consciousness suppressed, body reduced to a puppet awaiting the outsider's commands.
The one-on-one interrogation began in the sealed delivery room, questions and answers flowing with mechanical precision.
"Your dojutsu cannot activate currently?"
Lady Toki answered like a lifeless doll, voice devoid of emotion or resistance: "Correct. I have been unable to open my eyes since childhood. The Byakugan never manifested."
"You used your Devil Fruit to travel forward in time from eight hundred years ago. Has your body undergone any physiological changes? Provide detailed information."
Lady Toki continued responding with eerie compliance: "I used the Toki Toki no Mi (Time-Time Fruit) to reach the future. My body experiences no discomfort from temporal displacement. I can continue teleporting forward through time with no apparent limit to the number of jumps."
Hearing this confirmation, Uchiha Madara nodded with satisfaction. This Devil Fruit truly possessed remarkable capabilities. If he himself weren't a person from eight hundred years ago—if he didn't know this woman's true identity from when she'd been Hyuga Toki in ancient Wano—she might never have been discovered even by the Whitebeard Pirates' considerable resources.
He continued the interrogation methodically, asking whether the Paramecia-type Toki Toki no Mi (Time-Time Fruit) could transport other people to the future alongside the user. After a brief pause while the hypnotic compulsion processed the query, Lady Toki provided an accurate answer: yes, she could indeed teleport intelligent creatures forward through time. However, doing so consumed the fruit user's lifespan proportionally to the temporal distance traveled. Under normal circumstances, she would never employ this capability—the cost proved too severe.
As for whether Uchiha Madara desired to travel to the future himself? Absolutely not. He'd only recently awakened in this era after centuries of suspended existence. The man needed to plan carefully, waiting for a certain someone's reincarnation to appear. He required obtaining that individual's cells to allow his decaying body to continue recovering vitality.
Time travel would only complicate those delicate arrangements.]
["Since you remain such a useless specimen," Madara concluded coldly, "I suppose I'll simply look forward to examining your children instead. Perhaps they'll prove more... valuable."]
[Uchiha Madara required Hyuga eyes—specifically, the Byakugan that should run in this woman's bloodline. Since Lady Toki herself proved disappointingly powerless, he could only place his hopes on her descendants. This represented another lengthy waiting process, but time was the one resource this man possessed in abundance. He could wait patiently until a Hyuga clan member qualified to awaken their dojutsu stood before the Uchiha legacy once more.
There was no further reason for this legendary ninja to remain in the delivery room. His figure gradually faded from visibility within the Sky Screen's display, entire body phasing into a different dimension through space-time manipulation. The moment he disappeared completely, all genjutsu illusions in the delivery room lifted automatically. Every trace of Uchiha Madara's visit was systematically erased from physical evidence and memory alike.
Lady Toki's vacant eyes regained clarity suddenly, awareness returning in a disorienting rush. She felt as though she'd been absent-minded for merely a moment—had she dozed off during labor? "Did I fall asleep?... Ah, it hurts... Ahhh!"
The intense pain in her abdomen dragged the woman back to immediate reality with brutal force. The leopard-print nurses, recovered to normal function as if nothing unusual had occurred, immediately surrounded her with renewed focus. The delivery room regained its previous lively atmosphere of controlled medical urgency.
Outside, Kozuki Oden detected nothing strange, no hint of the violation that had occurred mere feet away. He waited quietly, anxiously, for his child's birth with innocent anticipation.]
[A loud, healthy cry of a newborn infant suddenly erupted from within the delivery room. The sound pierced through walls and tension alike, announcing new life's arrival.
Kozuki Oden exploded with joy, grabbing his closest brother in an enthusiastic embrace. "Marco! I'm going to be a father! I'm actually a father now! This is wonderful—absolutely wonderful!"
For the Whitebeard Pirates, having a new life born aboard the Moby Dick represented quite a novelty. Their mixed emotions toward Kozuki Oden reached peak intensity—envy, jealousy, and resentful admiration all churned together. Why should Lady Toki, such a beautiful flower of a woman, be stuck with the cow dung of this wandering samurai? Surely the gods were blind!
Lady Toki had given Kozuki Oden a son—the future heir to Wano Country's throne. The couple named him Kozuki Momonosuke.
This name appeared on the seas for the first time, announced aboard the Whitebeard Pirates' flagship. Starting from this moment, his legendary life would begin—though none present could imagine how dark and twisted that legend would ultimately become.]