"What a nuisance. I never expected things to take this turn."
With his succession to the throne imminent, Hades had received bad news from the Kurozumi Family.
Before him sat a Den Den Mushi with a witchlike face. On the other end was Kurozumi Mucicic, who now ran the Kurozumi Family.
"Hades, what do you think we should do? That damned Kozuki brat has caught on. Our business is bound to suffer."
Kurozumi Mucicic's already ugly face looked even more frightening. Hades could hear the urgency in her voice, but his expression did not change.
Hades had already learned the whole story.
He had to admit that Kurozumi Mucicic was quite a talent. Like her appearance suggested, she had a taste for playing the supernatural villain.
Over the years, she had spread plagues that left many Wano Country residents with "contagious diseases."
Some had then been quarantined and forced to "die."
Others, gravely ill, had been coaxed into leaving the country for treatment.
That was how those residents had been tricked into her hands.
Using the Clone-Clone Fruit, Kurozumi Mucicic had also taken the forms of monsters from Wano Country legends. In those creatures' names, she had "eaten" and "killed" residents living along the country's outskirts.
She had used all kinds of methods to become Wano Country's biggest slave trader, exchanging people with Hades for vast amounts of supplies and money.
The Kurozumi Family did not have many members, but greed was hard to resist. Money came so easily this way that Kurozumi Mucicic could hardly stop.
But the Kurozumi Family had gone too far. Exposure was inevitable. Wano Country had picked up a few traces and realized someone seemed to be behind it all.
It had started with Kozuki Oden.
Kozuki Oden was twenty-one now. According to intelligence from