[One Piece] Inferior Star

Chapter 243 The Distant Country

I don't know what the little girl did again, Chris' face was ashen, as if he had been poisoned.

Katakuri glanced at Yuxiang and Chris who sneaked into the room, and Kagawa was talking with Chris's mother Yulian with great interest.Chris's family is a bit strange. It looks like a mixed race from different countries, and the name is a bit more inconsistent when put together.

Youxiang walked in and sat beside Xiangchuan.Kagawa didn't mind either, just turned his head to look at her and smiled, and then said to Lord Yulian, "Master Yulian, please allow me to introduce you. This is Miss Yuka. Now she is Mr. Katakuri's fiancée .”

"I have heard about it for a long time, Your Highness Youxiang." Yulian is a very dignified, stable, and quite stern woman. She is now wearing a white robe similar to Chris, but with slightly more patterns and decorations.She said, "Lord Katakuri, you and Lord Mansfield are all here today, it really makes my shrine flourish."

"No... that..." Even though it is a beautiful shrine, isn't it too modest?Youxiang is not good at dealing with such elders. She said, "Actually, I'm just curious about these things. After all... the architectural style here is rare."

"Indeed." Yulian replied, "The construction technology here comes from Wano Country, which is also my hometown. You and Inuzi know each other, right?"

"Ah! Yes, yes..." Could it be that Chris's mother didn't know that she had... well... At that time, it seemed that she really didn't want to see her parents, and Chris didn't mention it too much.That guy... Aika said evasively, "I've seen it a few times a long time ago. You just said that shrines... are from Wano culture?"

"That's right." Yulian nodded, and she said, "We believe that everything has a spiritual sustenance, so whether it is shrines or beliefs, there are many in Wano Country—at least, it was like this when I was still in China. That was more than 30 years ago."

"Master Yulian left her hometown so long ago..." More than 30 years ago, Yulian must have been very young when she left, right?Kagawa is also very interested in this matter, he said, "Could it be that the culture of exorcism also comes from Wano Country?"

"Hmm... It's not so much the culture from the Wano country, it's better to say it's the only technology passed down." When Yulian said this, there was some regret in her tone, "Maybe it's because of the seclusion of the country, maybe it's because Because of cultural reasons, there may be both. The skills and occupations that have been lost or extinct outside still have some remnants in my hometown.”

"The technique of exorcism refers to..."

"Weapon." Yulian said, and picked up her tin staff, "Wuno Country also has a craftsman who can create a blade that can exorcise demons and demons."

The Blade of Exorcising Demons... It seems, I have seen it before!Youxiang remembered that when she was in Dressrosa, Admiral Kamiya said that her sword was a real 'exorcist blade', could it be that... Youxiang asked: "Master Yulian...the navy seems to have some Where's the guy from the Exorcist Blade..."

"You mean the Wuguitang family, right?" Yulian said, "The Wuguitang and I, Tianhuacheng, originally came from the same origin, but... because of the estrangement between the different generations of patriarchs and the different ways of doing things, they gradually became two different families. They are the martial arts faction, it is too barbaric to kill spirit bodies with swords."

Then wouldn't it be barbaric for you to lock them up and chain them up... Youxiang didn't complain, she didn't say anything, and Kagawa had other questions: "I'm sorry to be blunt, Master Yulian...caused your family and Could it be that the reason why the Gokido family left Wano Country was... the arrival of Kaido, the Four Emperors?"

"..." did not directly answer the question.Master Yulian looked at Xiangchuan, but her eyes stretched far, far away. Something returned to her memory, making her stop thinking.However, the voice came out of her throat unconsciously: "On that island, there are evil spirits that cannot be killed. Everyone escaped, including 'that man'."

"?" That man?

"But... someone stayed behind. The heir of the Fighting Sect..."

"Master Yulian...?" Xiang Chuan carefully called out to the person opposite, she seemed to be talking, but her eyes were a little dazed and blurred, as if she was a little lost.

"...Having courage is a very rare thing, Your Excellency Mansfield, Your Highness Youxiang." Suddenly, Yulian returned to normal, but there was a little more fear and wavering in her eyes, "especially , when our strength falls far short of that which we seek to defeat, we retreat. And those who are still able to stand still, are called..."

"hero."

As Yulian spoke, she sighed: "In Wano Country, such a person has never appeared so far. It's a pity... Your guess was wrong. When I left Wano Country, there was still time before the evil spirit arrived. It's been a while. The reason I left was...'foreseeing the destruction'. I was disappointed in that man, so I left."

"That man means..."

"Kozuki Oden. It's the one you think of. Personally, I don't deny his strength and his heart. But... sometimes, what a country needs is not a good person or a fool. He never Didn't understand that."

Kozuki Oden...is Kin'emon-san's head of the family and Momonosuke's father...come on.He seems to have been killed by Kaido... Youxiang thought so, it seems that there are still many secrets in Wano Country, and it seems that Luffy and the others are going to go after that, as well...

The client who appointed Hart to investigate Emerald Isle was also a samurai from Wano.I haven't been able to find an opportunity to ask Mr. Kinemon and the others about this matter.I also need to go there.But... now we have to think about how to deal with BigMom... Huh?

At this moment, Youxiang suddenly realized that she seemed to have dropped something.She touched her pocket in a little panic, and it was really gone!what happened!I should always carry it with me!

"Is it fragrant?"

Because Yuxiang suddenly panicked, Katakuri, who had been staying not far away without interrupting, finally said, "What's the matter? Hey!" and ran straight out!He grabbed Yuxiang who was about to run out of the room, but saw a pair of teary eyes, and she said, "No, it's gone! Mr. Katakuri! Mom's things..."

"Mom's—" Ah, is it Youxiang's mother?Katakuri reacted, he said, "Is something missing?"

"Hmm, um! It's something like a sword handle, it's about this long..." Youxiang made a gesture, and she said, "It was clearly still there just now, it was, that was the only thing my mother left for me... "

Youxiang's parents seem to be 'unidentified'.Although it has been investigated, even the intelligence network of the Big Mom Pirates has not been able to find out any relevant information.It's as if they never existed.The earliest record is that it was taken to a small island in the East China Sea by the hero of the navy, Garp.

The only thing...is it dead?

Katakuri said: "I see, you calm down. May I help you find it? Where have you been?"

"Outside—" Petted the little fox!Before he finished speaking, there was a scream outside the door!Katakuri subconsciously immediately pulled Youxiang closer to him: "Mansfield. Stay with her."

"Understood." Kagawa also came over to Youxiang, and Master Yulian and Chris also came over.

"The voice just now seemed to be that of the secretary who was cleaning at the gate of the shrine! Mother!" Chris said.

"Master Katakuri, let's go out and have a look first." Yulian said so, and then ran out of the room first when Katakuri nodded.

As soon as he went out, he saw a little priest standing upside down at the gate of the courtyard. He was shaking with a big broom for cleaning. When he saw Yulian running over, he immediately grabbed Yulian's clothes and said, "Master Yulian! Yes, yes Devil!!"

"What evil spirit?" How could an evil spirit come to your door by itself!What do you think this is? ?Yulian looked around, there was no suspicious figure around, the shrine was on a high terrain, surrounded by woods and open areas, now the breeze was blowing, and there were only some fallen leaves at the door.

"I really saw it! Master Yulian!" The little priest swore, "It's an evil spirit!! I was cleaning here, but I heard a 'buzz' not far away, and there seemed to be a human The sound of screaming... I tried to walk a little in that direction, and a demon dressed in black appeared! Its eyes glowed with purple light! Its entire face was glowing!"

"..." I don't know what he is talking about.Katakuri looked at the direction pointed by the frightened little priest, and it was over to have a look.He ignored the others and walked straight over.There was no smell of living things here, and if there was, he had nothing to fear.

Walking to the corner of the shrine wall, this location happens to be a dead corner on the other side of the gate, and it is invisible from the outside.After Katakuri approached, he smelled the smell of blood. He quickened his pace, and then saw a person lying down in the corner.He was dressed in civilian clothes, from the town...?

died.Having made a judgment in this way, Katakuri checked the wound again.The method was clean and neat, but the murder weapon seemed strange, and the wound was scorched.Just as he was planning to take a look around, he kicked something with his foot after walking a few steps. When he picked it up, it was a metal product like a sword handle... Wait, this feeling, is it Hailou Stone?

Moreover, is this something Youxiang said she lost?But……

Katakuri looked at the dead man and at the weapon in his hand.The weapon doesn't move by itself... The place where it fell was not far from where the 'ghost' that the little priest said appeared.

Have you escaped... at such a time, who is it?And the fragrant weapon...

Katakuri pressed the button on the hilt, and with a buzz, the purple laser blade lit up!What kind of horrible thing is this... left behind by my mother... Who is your mother? I mean my fiancee, Miss! !

The pre-wedding preparation period seems to be more troublesome than imagined.

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This period of time will pave the way for Wano Country