Chapter 134: - 134: March on Wano
Brook had already figured it out—Rocks had once again pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes. The spy from Vesper had been fooled by someone with the Clone-Clone Fruit. Could it be that Rocks had recruited Kurozumi Higurashi and Kurozumi Semimaru, the sibling duo of the exiled Kurozumi family from Wano?
Those two were no nobodies—one possessed the Clone-Clone Fruit, the other the Barrier-Barrier Fruit. Back then, they schemed to revive the Kurozumi name by assassinating Kozuki Sukiyaki and helping Kurozumi Orochi become Wano’s shogun.
No wonder they managed to produce the Mythical Zoan-type Yamata no Orochi Fruit so easily for Orochi to eat—and later persuaded Kaido of the Beasts to invade Wano.
It looked like they’d gained some standing within the Rocks Pirates. After all, Higurashi had once taken on the appearances of a young Shiki the Golden Lion and Miss Bakkin—that meant she’d had direct contact with both of them.
So that meant they knew Kaido too. In fact, they were probably old acquaintances of his. That familiarity might be what convinced Kaido, the living war machine, to march into Wano and suppress countless samurai.
Wano was a peculiar land. Massive waterfalls shielded it from outside intrusion—and also made escape near-impossible. Entering and exiting was no small feat.
Most pirate ships couldn’t even approach it. Even Whitebeard, in his prime, only stumbled into Wano by sheer luck—and even then, the Moby Dick required serious repairs afterward.
But Brook’s Golden Ark was a different story—it could fly. They could soar straight into Wano without issue. The only question was: how many swordmasters still roamed the land?
Could they, with their current strength, actually take Wano by force?
Maybe it was wiser to lay low for a while—and first find a way to learn advanced Armament Haki, the flowing kind known as Ryuo.
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At that moment, inside a shady casino in the Flower Capital, a child no older than eight was chugging from a sake bottle, absolutely hammered.