Wano Country, Ebisu Village.
After acknowledging Sephiroth as his boss, Boss Black Colt gradually went around waking up his more than three hundred underlings.
Seeing that they were still alive, the underlings felt relieved, but their hearts were also filled with confusion...
"Everyone, I, Boss Black Colt, have been deeply impressed by Miyamoto Musashi's strength and bearing.
"From today onward, I intend to acknowledge Lord Miyamoto as my boss and obey his commands. The Black Colt Family will also be disbanded...
"If any brothers are willing, you may follow me and join Boss Miyamoto's ranks.
"Of course, those who are unwilling may leave of your own accord. I will not stop you!"
Whoa!
The moment those words were spoken, the crowd erupted into an uproar. None of them could understand it. They had only passed out for a while, so how had their boss become someone else's underling...?
"Boss Black Colt, wherever you go, I'll go!... Boss Miyamoto!"
Amid the crowd, after making his declaration in a firm voice, one young thug knelt before Sephiroth and heavily knocked his head against the ground.
The power of setting an example was immense...
Among the three hundred-plus people, more and more began kneeling and kowtowing to Sephiroth, shouting, "Boss!" After hesitating for a while, the small number of holdouts eventually followed the crowd and bowed as well.
Sephiroth took in every movement and expression of the three hundred-plus people present, silently committing them to memory.
Those who had been the first to kneel, as well as those who had hesitated until the end, were all marked by him as people not worth winning over...
Those two groups were either Black Colt's diehard loyalists, or they harbored misgivings toward him!
The people in the middle who had simply followed the crowd, on the