After Issho smashed the shogun's residence in the Flower Capital, Kurozumi Orochi fled with his men, so it had never been repaired. Xie Wen and the others ended up resting at the Flower House, where Kozuki Hiyori had lived while posing as Oiran Komurasaki.
Xie Wen first sent the cats off to play, then spoke privately with Issho about the problems Wano Country now faced.
Of course, he left out the matter of the Ancient Weapon. It was not because he worried Issho would take it; never mind that Issho had no such ambition-even if he did take it, Xie Wen would not care. Meowrah had already seen Pluton's blueprints, after all. At worst, they could build their own later.
He did not mention it partly because he did not want to put any more unnecessary pressure on Issho, and partly because the fewer people who knew about something like this, the less risk there was of exposure. In the original story, Caribou had so easily overheard the secret of the Ancient Weapons precisely because the Straw Hat Pirates and King Neptune had no awareness of secrecy.
"...I see. The World Government?"
After hearing Xie Wen's warning, Issho fell silent for a while.
Even without the issue of the Ancient Weapon, he still found it an immense headache.
Being targeted by the World Government was far more troublesome than being targeted by Kaido. The CP Agents working for the World Government were much harder to guard against than pirates like Kaido.
More importantly, Wano Country had once had powerful samurai to protect it. Although Kaido had later occupied it, he had also inadvertently taken on the job of keeping the World Government out.
But now Kaido had been driven away, fewer than one in a hundred of Wano Country's once-powerful