"Oden, what are you thinking about? Getting excited because you're finally going home?"
Aboard the Oro Jackson, Roger suddenly slung an arm around Kozuki Oden's neck and asked with a laugh.
"Don't worry about it. With Kaido in Wano Country, everything will be fine!"
"Come on, let's drink!" Seeing Kozuki Oden's low spirits, Roger tried to drag him off for a drink.
Kozuki Oden offered no reaction to Roger's antics, letting him pull him off the deck and into the banquet hall.
Kozuki Oden's feelings were complicated. With Wano Country cut off from outside news, the world knew very little about it.
Even the Roger Pirates only knew that after Saro had "killed" Kozuki Oden, Kaido had arrived in Wano Country and "avenged" him.
Then, with the support of Wano Country's new shogun, Kurozumi Orochi, he had become the country's guardian deity.
Kozuki Oden had no fondness for Kurozumi Orochi and couldn't understand why Kaido had made him shogun of Wano Country.
Was this where my friendship with Kaido ended? Would we become enemies?
It had to be said that his time in Wano Country had changed Kozuki Oden considerably. Had he still been the man he was during his days with the Rocks Pirates,
he would have stormed back to Wano Country long ago and fought Kaido in a battle where the victor ruled and the loser fell.
The current Kozuki Oden was indeed a rather "selfless" man, more concerned with other people's feelings instead.
Perhaps, to the current Kozuki Oden, as long as Kurozumi Orochi and Kaido governed well, he wouldn't mind giving up the shogun's seat.
Even on this return to Wano Country, Kozuki Oden only wanted to help Roger fulfill his dream, sneaking into the country and helping him obtain the Red Road Poneglyph first.
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