In Wano Country, Kuri had actually suffered far more destruction than Hakumai.
After all, this had been Kōzuki Oden's stronghold. Naturally, Orochi showed it no mercy. After Kōzuki Oden and the Nine Red Scabbards were wiped out, Orochi's forces swept through Kuri again and again, razing it several times over.
Aside from the monster Ashura Dōji, who had protected some of the samurai, most of the ordinary people who had depended on Kōzuki Oden, such as the residents of Tougen Farm, had either fled or been captured.
Thus, as Minos traveled with the two women, all they saw were barren fields, factories belching black smoke, polluted rivers that had begun to stink, and dead skeletons by the roadside.
Hakumai had always been barren and was Wano Country's poorest region. That was precisely why Kurozumi Orochi had never paid much attention to it. Its destruction was not too severe, and people could barely still survive there.
But here in Kuri, the common people's living environment had been utterly destroyed. The land could no longer grow crops, and the fish in the rivers had been directly polluted by industrial wastewater, leaving almost all of them highly toxic.
For the people of Wano Country, crops grown from the land and fish from the rivers were essentially their most basic sources of food.
As for hunting in the deep mountains and old forests, honestly, most humans in this world were ordinary people. Monsters occasionally appeared among humans, while monsters among animals were rare—but they were almost never ordinary.
At the very least, one needed to master Armament Haki to survive in Wano Country's deep mountains and forests. Otherwise, one would only be delivering an extra meal to the animals.
"This is too miserable..." Reiju frowned. "Has this country's ruler gone insane?"
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