Kaido and Oden's Dream, an Old Acquaintance?

"I can't stand it anymore, Doggy Road!!!"

Just as the situation fell into a brief lull and Austin prepared to press his advantage and take down Kaido in one go,

A shout suddenly rang across the entire battlefield!

"Hm?"

His crimson vertical pupils shifted slightly. As if he had spotted something interesting, the light gathering in Austin's hand slowly faded.

Above the battlefield, a burly man wearing nothing but a loincloth descended from the sky.

"That's enough!!!"

The newcomer was none other than Kozuki Oden, who had been watching the battle all along. His face was flushed red, as though he were enduring some tremendous humiliation.

"Lord Oden!!!"

Denjiro's voice was muffled by the ice, but through the transparent frost, his bloodshot eyes could be seen fixed on this place.

"It's not time yet, Lord Oden! They haven't decided the winner yet!!!"

In Denjiro's view, neither Austin nor Kaido was someone Kozuki Oden could defeat easily, let alone both of them together.

To be safe, they should have waited until the two decided the victor before acting.

Unfortunately...

If Kozuki Oden could act as Denjiro imagined, rationally choosing the decision most beneficial to himself and Wano Country,

Well,

Then he would not be Kozuki Oden.

At that moment, his blood rushed to his head. In his red-hot state, Kozuki Oden felt that he had betrayed his own samurai spirit.

Or rather, the principle of letting the fisherman profit from the fight between the snipe and the clam

Went against the creed of the strong he had always upheld.

This was practically a common failing among the monstrous heroes of the sea, not something unique to Kozuki Oden.

Take Kaido, for example. In the Original Work, Oden had lost because of a treacherous scheme, and Kaido had remained bitter over it