Beasts Pirates Set Out!
Wano Country's natural defenses were among the greatest in the entire pirate world.
That was an objective fact.
Moreover, Wano Country's ships were all flat-bottomed river vessels, unsuitable for sailing at sea. That was another reason the samurai of Wano Country could not leave.
On top of that, this was the latter half of the Grand Line, where sailing conditions were already extraordinarily perilous. Without a navigator, no matter how many Wano Country samurai set out, they would only be walking into death.
Therefore, it was not that Wano Country's shogun or the Kozuki Family's utterly loyal Nine Red Scabbards were unwilling to seek reinforcements or find help. They simply had no way to leave this place.
Furthermore, they suspected that there was a traitor among the Nine Red Scabbards. They had almost no way to unite and could only fight separately. Thus, until Luffy arrived, they had never left Wano Country, because the risk was simply too great.
But now, under Kaido of the Beasts' mobilization, all of Wano Country sprang into action, including several of the Nine Red Scabbards who had concealed their identities and joined Kaido's forces.
Inside Wano Country's finest brothel.
In Oiran Komurasaki's room.
A beautiful, alluring young woman in a lavish kimono gently combed her smooth blue hair with an ox-horn comb.
Kneeling before her was a man wearing a pompadour wig. Kyoshiro, Kurozumi Orochi's guard and a lawless gang boss who acted like a rakish ronin outside, was completely unlike his public image. He merely knelt there steadily, quietly awaiting the beautiful woman's reply.
"I understand, Lord Denjiro." Oiran Komurasaki, Wano Country's greatest beauty, parted her lips. There was a trace of resolve in her cherry-red mouth. "We have waited far too long. It is time to take the