Kuri Detention Center.
Kozuki Momonosuke, the chief culprit behind the terrorist attack, had already spent three days in jail here.
Though it had only been three days, the former prince, who had never known hardship, was already finding it unbearable. In this cell, every day felt like a year.
Since they did not want to waste public funds on criminals suffering the consequences of their own actions, conditions in the detention center had never been very good.
He held a cornbread bun in his hands. There was not a single drop of oil in the vegetables.
How shameful were my crimes? How could I ever hold my head high?
Fine.
Although tears kept streaming down his face, Momonosuke did not think he had committed any shameful crime.
Kin'emon and the others had done all the killing. He had merely followed his retainers as they fled for their lives.
And then, at the hotel...
Weren't those young ladies maids?
My father was the former Daimyo of Kuri, and the current "Daimyo of Kuri" was once my retainer. What was wrong with hugging and touching the maid sisters?
From Momonosuke's perspective, there really was nothing wrong with that.
He was the heir to a noble lord, with the noblest bloodline in Wano Country. He did not keep slaves, seize farmland, beat or kill servants, or bully decent people. Even when taking advantage of young ladies, he tried to trick them rather than relying on his noble privileges to forcibly snatch women away.
In the past, he would have been a moral model among nobles.
Yet this noble conscience had been locked in a cold prison over a mere personal hobby, and he was even forced to eat the coarse, inferior food that his family's servants would not have touched before.
"Ugh..."
Momonosuke