Alliance (2)

"Lady Kozuki Toki... I really don't know what she was thinking. Or was it simply that her ability sent her to this era?"

Seeing Kyoshiro and Komurasaki tense up over the information he had revealed, while trying their hardest to look completely unconcerned, Shen Fei suddenly thought of Lady Kozuki Toki, who possessed the ability to travel through time.

It was said that she had traveled from eight hundred years ago to this era with some purpose in mind. Yet judging by the timeline, Shen Fei had found no sign that she had done anything after arriving in the future. Instead, she had simply remained quietly in Wano Country.

The Poneglyph had not appeared in Wano Country because of Lady Kozuki Toki either. It had existed there long before. Combined with her former name, Amatsuki Toki, Shen Fei suspected that she had simply used her ability and arrived in the future without knowing what would happen.

After all, it was a Devil Fruit ability. She would naturally have wanted to test it. With any other ability, trying it out would have been no big deal. But Amatsuki Toki's ability took her into the future—and there was no way back.

Judging from her name, Amatsuki Toki had likely belonged to the Amatsuki Clan, which had already perished in Wano Country. Considering how long Wano Country had existed, that was entirely possible.

In the Pirate World, because of the unusual geography and the strength of individuals, there were quite a few nations that had lasted for centuries. For instance, the twenty nations that had now become the Celestial Dragons.

The fact that the Royal Families of those twenty nations became Celestial Dragons did not mean their former countries had disappeared. Take the Dressrosa Kingdom, for example. Back then, the Riku Family had