The construction site supervisor's report to the authorities not only alerted Kuri City's local security forces, but also drew the serious attention of the city's leadership:
"What?"
"A violent assault occurred at the Oden Castle ruins, leaving as many as twenty-five people injured to varying degrees, and even killing an Excavation Chicken?"
Upon hearing his subordinate's report, the mayor of Kuri City grew exceedingly grave.
After Wano Country was taken over by the Alliance, Kurozumi Orochi's forces and the remnants of the Beasts Pirates had long since been wiped out. The bandits, robbers, and local tyrants entrenched throughout Wano Country had likewise all been brought to justice during the Alliance's anti-crime campaign. Public security in Wano Country had been completely transformed.
An atrocious attack that injured more than twenty people might not have been much in the chaotic era of over two years ago.
But in this new era, it was an outright major terrorist attack.
And according to the reports from the construction workers at the scene—
The four perpetrators were all highly skilled swordsmen. Their words and conduct carried the air of traditional Wano samurai, and they kept calling an eight-year-old child "young master." They appeared to be retainers of some great clan.
This was a serious problem.
Put bluntly, the samurai class was a parasitic landlord class from the old feudal era, living off land without working for it. And those great Wano families were even more often aristocratic masters who rode roughshod over the common people.
They controlled vast amounts of land and resources, monopolizing ninety-nine percent of Wano Country's wealth.
Since those people had managed to live so comfortably under villains like Kaido and Orochi, they must have done plenty of dirty work in collusion with the Beasts Pirates.
So after the Alliance came to