Wano Country, Kuri.
Five years ago, when Wano Country's shogun, Kozuki Sukiyaki, fell gravely ill, Kurozumi Orochi allied with Kurozumi Muzan and used the Mane Mane no Mi's ability to make himself the shogun of Wano Country, seizing control of the nation.
To avenge everything the Kozuki family had once done to the Kurozumi clan, and to prevent losing everything when Kozuki Oden returned, Kurozumi Orochi began eliminating the strength of the Kozuki family's samurai throughout Wano Country.
As a result, those samurai who had once been loyal to the Kozuki family lived in utter misery, so impoverished that they could barely survive.
Throughout Wano Country, all the common people outside Flower Capital had also fallen into poverty. The once-beautiful Wano Country was no longer what it had been.
They had believed that everything would change once the Oden they served returned. But the answer they ultimately received was that the Lord Oden they worshiped danced naked in front of the shogun Orochi's castle every day, pretending to be insane and making a fool of himself, becoming known as the Fool Lord.
As for why he did such a thing, Kozuki Oden had never explained it to them.
And so, time passed, and three years went by.
The Oden who had once been the lord of Wano Country had completely become a fool.
He became famous throughout Wano Country as the Fool Lord who danced naked every day.
Although Kozuki Oden had never explained the reason, the samurai who trusted him had never given up searching for the truth. Nor had they ever abandoned their resistance against Orochi and Kaido.
Although they no longer had Lord Oden, they still had the lord's wife: Lady Toki, a woman who seemed even more like a daimyo than Oden himself.
And today, they