"What is this...?"
"You've got to be kidding me???!"
Everyone stared at the Den Den Mushi in Tama's hands, their pupils trembling.
Only Tama did not quite understand, her little face serious as she looked at the Den Den Mushi.
"This isn't our first meeting. Perhaps it was many years ago, when you were still just a baby..."
"The impoverished Kurozumi Family took out every bit of food in their home to welcome my arrival."
Austin was someone who enjoyed recording his life and traveling everywhere, so he remembered his experiences with great clarity.
That included the kind Kurozumi Family he had encountered when he captured Shinobu to extract the Ripe-Ripe Fruit ability.
In Austin's view, if they had to choose a child to become Wano Country's shogun, then why couldn't it be Tama?
It was not merely because of a meal.
More than that, it was simply his whim—he wanted to do it, so he did it. There was no need to think so much about it.
As for how the Kurozumi Family was infamous, while the Kozuki Clan had the people's support...
Austin simply liked doing the opposite.
The opinions of Wano Country's people?
If they didn't like it, they could hold it in.
This was not a question of whether Tama wanted to be shogun, but whether Austin wanted her to be one.
"I'll tell you this: hidden within that scroll is...
the power to quell every war and conspiracy in the world, power that can nearly destroy the world itself~"
"Take it and seize everything, Tama~"
"You don't want the people of Wano Country and Ebisu Town to die, do you~?"
Austin's expression was exceedingly gentle as he spoke, yet to everyone else, it carried a bone-chilling coldness.
Sanji gritted his teeth, his pupils trembling as