Xia Chen narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
With a thought, his Observation Haki spread outwards into the distance.
A moment later, Xia Chen's face showed an extremely surprised expression, and he said incredulously, "This guy is still alive?"
"Huh? Xia Chen, what are you talking about? Who didn't die?" Nami asked curiously from the side.
"It's nothing, just an acquaintance!" Xia Chen replied with a smile after a moment of surprise.
Interesting! I didn't expect him to be so regretful just now, but now he's practically handing people over to him!
Since that's the case...
Xia Chen looked at everyone and said, "Something interesting is happening at the place on the island where the sound came from. I'll go check it out!"
Having said that, before anyone could react, Xia Chen's figure vanished from the spot in an instant.
"Fun things??"
Upon hearing this, Luffy, who was initially looking towards Zoro, showed a surprised and delighted expression.
" Xia Chen, what fun thing is it? I want to go too!"
However, when he turned around Xia Chen was nowhere to be seen.
In an instant, Luffy's expression fell, and he became furious.
" Xia Chen, that guy, isn't he being really unfair? He doesn't include me in the fun stuff!"
"No way! I'm going even if he doesn't take me! It's like he thinks I can't go by myself!"
"Hey! Luffy, wait!"
Before Sanji could finish speaking, Luffy dashed off, completely ignoring what he had said.
"These two guys!! How can they be so willful!" Sanji gritted his teeth.
"I can understand Luffy getting easily excited, but for Xia Chen to be like this too, it seems something really serious has happened over there!" Nami pondered, stroking her chin.
"Let's go take a look! Anyway, it doesn't matter which direction we go on this island!" Robin said with a light laugh.
"That's all we can do for now, but what exactly happened over there...?"
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At this moment, somewhere on Punk Hazard.
A child dressed in a pink kimono, with his hair shaved off on top and only tied up in a bun at the back of his head, sat on the ground, staring ahead with an incredulous expression.
In front of him, a tall man wearing an orange kimono, with thick, wild hair gathered into a large, round flat top, was looking at him with gentle eyes.
After a short while, the man spoke gently, " Momonosuke, it's been a long time!"
"Waaaaah... Waaaaah..."
Upon hearing the man's words, the child, Momonosuke, instantly filled his eyes with tears, his voice choked with sobs as he said:
"Father... Father!"
That's right, the man standing before us is none other than Kozuki Oden, the father of Momonosuke should have died eighteen years ago!
Not far from them, there were three other figures, two of whom were Caesar and Monet, who had just come out of the research institute and were preparing to flee.
The other one is Trafalgar Law, the captain of the Heart Pirates!
At this moment, they all looked at Kozuki Oden, who had just appeared, with wary expressions!
Especially Luo, who just exchanged blows with Oden; the booming sound Xia Chen and the others heard was the sound of Luo and Oden fighting.
Having personally fought against Oden, he could clearly sense just how powerful the man before him was.
The casual slash he just unleashed took him a lot of effort to block; it's no surprise he's no match for this man!
Meanwhile, Caesar and Monet looked at Oden and his son, then at Law, their eyes filled with bewilderment.
Caesar leaned close to Monet and whispered, "Didn't you say the intruders were the Straw Hat Pirates? Where did Law and that mysterious samurai come from?"
"I don't know either!" Monet was a little speechless; she had no idea where all these people had come from!
"Hmm?" Suddenly, Monet seemed to notice something, looking at Caesar with a puzzled expression and asking, "An unidentified warrior? Wasn't this the warrior you discovered before?"
"Of course not! The samurai I found was much weaker than this one, okay? You saw how powerful that slash he just unleashed was, didn't you?"
"Damn it! Did we stir up a den of samurai today? Why are they coming one after another?" Caesar said through gritted teeth.
"Master, I don't think this is the time to worry about that. The child who ate the experimental fruit seems to be that samurai's son. We were just about to send him to the young master!"
"Now that his father is here, will he do anything to us? I think we should think about how to escape! Besides, that guy Luo seems to be targeting us too!"
"Being targeted by both of them at the same time, our situation seems a bit bad!" Monet said with a grim expression.
From the commotion of their fight, she could tell that she was no match for either of them, and that they could easily defeat her.
"Hey! Monet! Don't scare me! You know I'm easily frightened!" Caesar shuddered.
"I'm not exaggerating, they really might..."
Hey! You over there!
Before Monet could finish speaking, Oden shouted, causing both Caesar and Monet to flinch and immediately assume a fighting stance.
But the next second they realized that the other person didn't seem to be calling them?
After Oden uttered those words, he glanced at Momonosuke again and said, " Momonosuke, after I deal with this man, we'll find the warriors to defeat Kaido, and then we'll return to Wano Country together and reclaim our country!"
Having said that, Oden turned to look at Law, his eyes filled with murderous intent, and said calmly, "Finally found you, the one who will destroy our Kozuki Clan!"
Thinking of this, Oden couldn't help but recall a scene from eighteen years ago.
After his defeat by Kaido, he received two prophecies, one of which was that a warrior would appear eighteen years later to defeat Kaido and open the Wano Country!
Another possibility is that eighteen years later, another person will appear who will kill everyone in the Kozuki Clan!
It will start with his son, Momonosuke. The first person to kill his son after eighteen years will be the one who destroys his entire clan!
He was extremely worried when he learned of this news while in prison, but as a prisoner, there was nothing he could do.
So, in the end, he had no choice but to entrust everything to his wife, Kozuki Toki!
I want her to change all of this!
But after learning these two pieces of news, Kozuki Toki made a decision—a decision to sacrifice herself to protect him!