Three months passed in the blink of an eye.
The Kuri region, at the westernmost end of Wano Country.
This area, once ruled by Kozuki Oden, had changed considerably from three months ago.
Oden Castle, which had originally stood atop the mountain, had vanished without a trace. Where the farmland below the mountain had once been, a factory belching thick black smoke now towered into the sky.
Watanabe Shinnosuke was panting heavily as he pushed a cart of ore into the factory.
Everyone around him was just like him.
Three months earlier, they had all been ordinary farmers.
But that earth-shattering upheaval had changed everything.
The invincible Kozuki Oden had been killed. The daimyos of every region had died with him, along with every samurai in the country whose name was known.
Although a man called Kurozumi Orochi had suddenly become the new shogun afterward,
everyone knew that this country had knelt before two people. One was Kaido, who had transformed into an evil dragon and roared across the sky. The other was the black tiger Roa, accompanied by natural disasters.
Those two monsters ruled this country.
Factories rose from the ground one after another, and mines were opened everywhere. The people who had once worked the fields were forcibly driven into the factories and mines, where they extracted ore for them, built factories for them, and produced weapons for them.
It had only been three months, so why did it feel as though the title of "Country of Samurai" had already belonged to the distant past?
Watanabe Shinnosuke felt like crying.
But he didn't dare. In this factory, anyone who dared slow down production would meet a terrible fate.
At that moment, however, a commotion suddenly erupted at the factory entrance.
"Death to the evil criminals!!"
That was followed