As soon as the door closed,
Savi immediately slumped into the animal-skin chair.
"Call--!"
"Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief. Those guys looked at us like they wanted to devour us."
I thought we were going to have a fight!
"Tch~ Just a bunch of small fry." Tesoro curled his lip in disdain, tiny arcs of electricity crackling between his fingers, clearly dissatisfied with not being able to make a move earlier.
Pea carefully placed his unusual plant on the table by the window.
Roy walked to the window, looking at the gloomy sky outside and the pirate figures peeking out from afar, but not daring to approach.
Hawk Eyes walked to another window, his gaze sweeping towards the interior of Wano Country.
" Roy, the swordsman of this country..."
"Go! You'd better disguise yourself; the warriors of this country aren't very welcoming to outsiders."
"But, Kaido..."
"Don't worry, I'm still here! There won't be any problems."
"Okay. I'll go find someone to borrow some clothes."
Hawk Eyes greeted everyone and turned to leave the room.
"How long will it take for Kaido to return?"
Watching Hawk Eyes leave, Bullet cracked his knuckles and asked,
His fight with Jack just now wasn't even a warm-up for him.
"It could take three to five days, or ten days to half a month."
Roy walked to the table in the center of the room and sat down. Stella, as if on cue, took out the information booklet and a simple map of Wano Country obtained from the Market Island and spread them out.
"It depends on his location when he receives the message and how urgent his current task is."
However, given his personality, if he hears that someone has broken into his stronghold and attacked his crew, he will definitely rush back as quickly as possible.
"So we're just going to wait here?"
Savi leaned closer, his eyes darting around on the map.
"Of course not."
Roy's finger traced across the map, passing through areas such as Kuri, Hakumai, Kibi, Ringo.
"I still have some things to do before Kaido returns."
Roy looked at Tesoro,
" Tesoro, come out with me."
What about me? What about me?
Savi was eager to try, and the others looked on with the same anticipation.
"You..." Roy tapped Savi on the head, then turned to look at the crowd.
"You guys continue training with Bullet."
" Bullet, keep an eye on them, don't let them cause trouble, but who dares to lay a hand on you..."
"Then kill them!"
Bullet grinned and clenched his fist.
"Hmm." Roy nodded to him.
As night deepened, the noise on Onigashima reached its peak and then gradually subsided, leaving only sporadic hiccups and snores.
Roy and Tesoro opened the window and quietly left the wing.
"Boss, where do we go first?" Tesoro, who had transformed into lightning in mid-air, looked at Roy.
" Ringo."
Roy activated his Observation Haki to confirm the location.
"Queen Rei? Isn't that where the cemetery of Wano is?" Tezoro asked doubtfully,
"Hmm, that might be where I'm looking for."
Roy remembered that in the original story, after Moria was defeated by Kaido, he dug up many corpses in Wano Country to create a zombie army.
Among them, the dragon-slaying samurai Shimotsuki Ryuma and his sword ' Shusui ' were likely obtained here.
Although Roy's sword is now Great Grade Sword, how could Roy possibly let go of such a Famous Sword?
Moreover, ' Shusui ' is a Black Blade that has already been forged.
Like two ghosts in the night, the two skimmed over the edge of Onigashima, flew across the Inland Sea, and sped toward the northern part of Wano Country, a region shrouded in ice, snow, and legend.
The two moved quickly and soon arrived at Ringo's territory.
Looking out, everything was covered in silver, with the rolling mountains covered in thick ice and snow, and only a few dilapidated villages with smoke rising from their chimneys.
Deep within the mountains, a vast cemetery stands, with countless tombstones, stone pagodas, and mounds of knives, appearing particularly solemn and desolate under the moonlight and snow.
The two landed on the outskirts of the cemetery.
The chill here was even more intense. The entire cemetery was deathly silent, save for the mournful sound of the wind blowing through the forest of tombstones.
"What a deserted place."
Tesoro rubbed his hands together, the electric arcs at his fingertips dispelling some of the chill.
Why isn't there even a guard here?
"Who knows? Maybe it's because of the Kurozumi Family. Wano Country isn't as peaceful as it used to be."
"With resistance and oppression everywhere, who would have the time to guard a cemetery?"
Roy stepped into the cemetery, Observation Haki to its fullest extent, like a meticulously crafted map, avoiding subtle aura traps and lingering sword intent.
The two walked through the forest of steles and finally arrived at the very center of the cemetery, which was also the lowest-lying area.
Here stands an exceptionally tall tombstone, in front of which is a simple, long, black samurai sword.
Even under the cover of ice and snow, the blade still faintly exuded a chilling aura and a sharp edge, Flower Capital could not get within three feet of the blade.
Roy stepped forward, grasped the scabbard, and drew ' Shusui '.
"Boss, what's going on...?"
" The Black Blade Shusui, the sword of Shimotsuki Ryuma, who was hailed as the 'strongest samurai of Wano Country ' 400 years ago."
Slowly drawing the sword from its sheath, the jet-black blade gleamed eerily in the moonlight, its weight even greater than that of the ' Red Rock '.
With a flick of his wrist, jet-black Armament Haki wrapped around his wrist.
"It's indeed a fine knife," Roy praised.
Carefully feeling the smooth flow of Armament Haki across the blade, this truly Black Blade...
It does not require the user to temper it with Haki; it already possesses extremely strong Haki conduction and slashing power.
Tesoro leaned closer curiously for a look. "So this is the legendary Shusui... It certainly looks extraordinary. But boss, you already have a sword, this one..."
"Who would ever have too many Famous Sword?" Roy smiled slightly, tucking the Shusui sword into his waistband.
After putting away his Shusui, Roy did not leave immediately. Instead, he looked at a wooden house not far away.
Roy remembered that there should be a fox that had eaten Mythical Zoan guarding this place, but his Observation Haki did not detect any living beings in the vicinity.
"It seems there's still plenty of time; perhaps... the fox hasn't eaten the fruit yet."
"Then the fruit might be nearby."
He gestured for Tesoro to follow him, and the two walked towards the cabin.
Roy and Tesoro arrived at the cabin.
The cabin looked more rudimentary than it appeared from a distance, with cracks appearing in many places on the wooden planks of the walls.
Pushing open the door, a smell of mustiness and dust hit me.
The room was empty, and the floor was covered with a thick layer of dust, showing no signs of recent human or animal activity.
Roy's gaze carefully swept over every inch of the room.
Observation Haki is even more detailed and subtle, not missing any energy fluctuations or structural anomalies.
"There's nothing here."
Tesoro used his electromagnetic senses to probe the area but found nothing unusual.
Roy didn't speak, but walked to the west wall of the room and tapped it lightly with his fingers.
'Knock knock!'
When a piece of wood near the corner of the wall was struck, the sound produced a very subtle difference—it was slightly "solid" than the surrounding wood, and the echo was slightly delayed.
"Here," Roy pointed to the wooden plank.
Tesoro leaned closer and examined the wooden plank more closely.
The wood panel was almost the same color as the surrounding area, and the seams were perfectly fitted. If Roy hadn't pointed it out, there would have been no discernible difference.
"Is there space?"
Tesoro tried using electromagnetic force to sense the inside of the wooden plank, and indeed discovered that the wall behind the plank was not solid.
Instead, it was a very small cavity, inside which there appeared to be an intricate interlocking mechanism.