"Oh? Ace had already reached Wano Country?"
On Fish-Man Island, Bright was speaking with someone over the phone.
"Yeah! Hahaha, I only found out he was friends with you too when he mentioned you, Bright!"
An exceptionally lively voice came from the Den Den Mushi. "At first, I thought he was an invading enemy, so I gave him a good fight!"
"Is that so?"
Bright smiled and asked with interest, "So who won in the end?"
"Of course I did!"
The woman on the other end spoke as though it were obvious. "Ace really is strong. The Flame-Flame Fruit's fire is incredibly powerful, and he has trained his Haki well too, but there's still a gap between us!"
"Oh? You've become very confident, Yamato."
Bright chuckled.
The one speaking with him was Yamato, Teacher Kaido's good daughter and Bright's good friend.
"I'm the guardian deity of Wano Country!"
Yamato grinned. She was a very lively and cheerful girl. Even though she had now become Wano Country's shogun and ruled that nation, her personality had not changed much.
"If I were defeated that easily, how could I claim to protect this country?"
Bright did not answer, merely smiling.
He had not expected Yamato and Ace to still meet, and it seemed that they had become good friends after all.
However, unlike the evenly matched outcome of their battle in the original story, even though Ace had learned Haki from him and was certainly far stronger than in the original story, he was probably still no match for Yamato, who had cast off her restraints and tempered her Haki to a considerable degree.
Although Yamato always calling herself Oden Kozuki was a little foolish, perhaps she now truly possessed strength comparable to Oden Kozuki's.
"But Bright, help me talk Ace out of