Oden clutched his chest and coughed up a large mouthful of blood.
Makoto withdrew his foot and turned to look at Kaido.
"Such a f*cking waste."
Kaido's face darkened, but he remained silent, offering no rebuttal.
Who told him to lose?
Because of Makoto's intervention, Kaido didn't end up with that shameful scar on his abdomen from Oden's Enma, unlike in the original work.
It felt like Kaido should be kowtowing to Nishikawa-sama in gratitude.
On the other side, Oden, who had been kicked by Makoto, had just climbed out of the rubble.
But he gritted his teeth and stood up unsteadily.
However, before he could steady himself, a dark figure had already rushed behind him.
Bang!
Yu stepped on Oden's back, slamming him into the ground. His right hand transformed into a gun barrel, the dark muzzle pressed against the back of Oden's head.
"Don't move."
Oden's body froze.
Yu held his position and looked up at Makoto.
"Senpai, how should we deal with this guy? Cut off his limbs and throw him into the Rebirth Pool too?"
Makoto thought for a moment and thought this was a good idea.
He had just nodded when Yu prepared to act—
"Stop!"
A graceful figure rushed out from the side and attacked Yu.
Everyone turned to look.
It was a woman of above-average appearance, with red hair, dressed like a ninja.
She held kunai in both hands, aiming for Yu's back.
Makoto blinked.
The next second, he remembered her identity… Kozuki Oden's retainer, Shinobu.
She had also participated in the battle of Onigashima twenty years later.
However, Shinobu's strength wasn't great to begin with... Yu didn't even need to act.
"Soru."
Miyuki suddenly appeared before Shinobu.
His speed was so fast that Shinobu's pupils couldn't even contract in time.
"Shigan."
Miyuki's index finger, like a bullet, struck Shinobu's shoulder.
Bang.
Shinobu stumbled and fell sideways. The kunai flew from her hand and clattered to the ground.
Miyuki seized the opportunity, using a grappling move to pin her down.
"Don't move."
Shinobu gritted her teeth and struggled desperately, but Miyuki's grip was like iron pliers, impossible to break.
Seeing this, Moeha said to her best friend Kei beside her, "Kei-chan, your brother is pretty good."
Kei pouted.
"He's still far from it."
But despite her words, a hint of pride flashed in her eyes.
Although she was annoyed by her brother's constant nagging, their sibling relationship was actually good.
Yu glanced at Shinobu, who had been subdued, and then at Makoto.
"Senpai, should we cut off the limbs of both of them and throw them into the Rebirth Pool?"
Makoto was about to answer.
"Waaahhh—"
A baby's cry rang out.
Hiyori, in Mrs. Yuigahama's arms, suddenly burst into loud wails.
Most of the time, Hiyori was still with Toki.
But earlier, because Oden had returned, Toki had been placed under house arrest by Makoto.
Hiyori was once again being cared for by Mrs. Yuigahama.
Seeing Hiyori crying loudly, Mrs. Yuigahama walked helplessly to Makoto's side.
"Makoto-kun, Hiyori-chan is crying again. Hold her for a bit."
For some unknown reason, although Hiyori was usually cared for by her biological mother and Mrs. Yuigahama,
She inexplicably liked to throw herself into Makoto's arms.
There was a strong suspicion that her innate talent as a woman was awakening, so she liked to cling to men.
Seeing Hiyori in Mrs. Yuigahama's arms, Oden immediately recognized his daughter.
"Hiyori!"
His eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and his body struggled violently.
"What did you do to Hiyori?! Let her go!"
"Did I tell you to move?"
Yu stomped down.
Bang!
Oden's face was pressed directly into the ground, dirt and gravel embedding into his cheeks.
After ten years of hard training, coupled with the world's growing fear of the [Gun Devil] Ishigami Yu, Yu's strength was now undeniably above even Roger's.
Let alone Oden.
Oden was pinned to the ground, his face in the dirt, his limbs struggling desperately, but Yu's foot was like a mountain, pressing him down so he couldn't move.
"Ugh... ugh..."
At this point, Oden could only let out hoarse growls.
Makoto usually didn't like holding Hiyori, this little chick…
But seeing Oden's rage, he felt a perverse pleasure.
"Come here."
He took Hiyori from Mrs. Yuigahama, held her in his arms, and gently bounced her.
As soon as Hiyori was in Makoto's arms, she immediately stopped crying.
She opened her big, dark eyes, looked at Makoto's face, reached out her little hand, grabbed his collar, and made 'ah ah' sounds.
Makoto smiled and teased her.
"Your daughter is quite cute."
Oden, lying on the ground, saw this and nearly exploded.
His daughter was held in the arms of his enemy, looking so intimate. For a man, this was no different from being cuckolded.
"Let her go! Let her go!"
His voice had turned into a roar, tears and snot mixed together, smearing his face.
Yu impatiently stomped again.
"So noisy."
Makoto glanced again at Shinobu, who was pinned down by Miyuki, thought for a moment, and said, "Lock them up first."
His interest had waned after the interruption.
Moreover, he suddenly felt that using the Rebirth Pool on the Nine Red Scabbards was one thing, but using it on Oden would lack novelty.
Makoto ultimately decided to detain Oden and Shinobu, waiting until he thought of a better way to torment them before dealing with them.
Back at the Shogun's mansion in Flower Capital, Makoto encountered Toki, who was under house arrest there.
She sat by the window, looking out at the sky, her eyes hollow and tired.
Hearing footsteps, she turned her head, her gaze falling on Makoto.
Seeing that Makoto had unexpectedly agreed to hold her daughter, Toki was also surprised.
It should be known that although Hiyori often showed affection towards Makoto, he didn't like holding her.
But this time, Makoto actually held her daughter.
This certainly surprised Toki.
But now she didn't have the heart to think about these things.
"Where is my husband?"
She was genuinely worried.
Worried that Makoto would also throw Oden into that Rebirth Pool.
Over the years, she had witnessed firsthand the fate of Kin'emon and the others in the Rebirth Pool… losing their limbs, having their teeth broken, their tongues cut out, soaking in feces, squirming like maggots, unable to die even if they wanted to.
If Oden ended up like that...
Toki didn't dare think about it.
She felt that if that day came, she would rather find a way to end her husband's life herself than let him suffer such humiliation.
Makoto saw what Toki was thinking and shrugged with a smile. "Don't worry, he's fine for now."
Toki breathed a sigh of relief.
But before she could fully relax, Makoto continued, "I don't like using the same method twice. I'm thinking of a new way to torment him."
In fact, before coming to the One Piece World, Makoto had thought about using [Ultimate Humiliation]-type methods on Kozuki Oden.
Unfortunately, he had already used that move on Kudo Shinichi. Using it again would be boring. He hated playing new game plus the most. Just a little bit of new content, and he had to replay the whole thing? What a f*cking pain.
Toki's tears couldn't hold back and fell.
She bit her lip, but the tears kept streaming down her cheeks, dripping onto her hand.
"..."
"Why are you doing this to our family? What did we do wrong?"
Makoto said with a smile, "It's because you have such poor taste in men."
"I'll introduce you to a woman named Portgas D. Rouge someday. You two will definitely have a lot in common."
To be honest, compared to Toki, Makoto felt that Portgas D. Rouge was the truly blind one.
He couldn't understand what that woman saw in Roger… an old man twenty or thirty years older than her, who would die soon anyway.
Is it because he's old? Or because he doesn't bathe?
But it was normal. A naive young girl getting tricked by an old man was common in any world.
However, in his previous life, the version had been updated to old men getting their money taken by young women.
Watching Makoto's departing figure, Toki bit her lip so hard it nearly drew blood.
'Was I going to continue to wait like this?'