818 The disappearance of Momonosuke (middle) (5800 words)
Jiuli, west of the depths of Tou Mountain.
The fat Asura boy scooped up a ladle of sewage from the river, his face as gloomy as the water. He was a samurai, and drinking such poisonous water would only cause abdominal pain at most, but ordinary civilians in Wano would be poisoned and even endanger themselves.
Life. And this is just the daily life of people all over Wano Country in these years...
"Speaking of which, this year should be..." Asura said to himself expressionlessly. Suddenly, a subordinate in tattered clothes rushed over excitedly holding a piece of paper, "Boss Shutenmaru! Look at this!"
"The person you are chasing is here?" Asura Boy, whose alias was Shutenmaru, frowned. After taking the note, his expression quickly changed. In the disbelief, there was also a trace of uncontrollable excitement and a little sadness.
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It’s been nineteen years, Kinemon, have you really come here after a leap of nineteen years?
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"As an actor without an audience, is there any need to act?"
In a deserted village away from the abandoned Oden Castle, Kanjuro casually drew an ink bed with his ability and lay down on it leisurely.
Let him inquire about news in the area north of Jiuli and Ximei, but it would take so much effort to do it alone.
Kanjuro showed an indifferent smile. Anyway, even if he wanted to go out to explore, he would have to pretend to hide his whereabouts. In this case, it would be better to hide it more thoroughly. Wouldn't it be perfect if he didn't go out at all? Hahaha... He raised his eyebrows
Lying with his legs on the ink bed, he continued to focus on the clone of Mo Fu Lu Shou that he had released before, and rushed to the Flower Capital to visit Lord Orochi with a secret letter containing Momonosuke's whereabouts.
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Nozomi, Bai Ye, and a group of extremely lonely ronin, thieves, and samurai gathered together, with a hint of excitement on their skinny faces.
Nineteen years have passed, and my heart, which I thought had long been reduced to ashes, has once again simmered with sparks.
This is a note found in a village on the outskirts of the Flower City. This note is still very new... The mark drawn on it... is definitely them, the five people who disappeared from the world nineteen years ago! It belongs to Master Shi.
Prophecy... In addition, there is also a very convincing evidence: this kind of code pattern, which requires a certain amount of cultural knowledge and insight to be written down, can only be drawn by those samurai under Kozuki Oden's sect!
The common people in the countryside, a bunch of illiterate people who cannot read Chinese characters, are not in a good mood to make such a bad joke.
"The time...the place...should be right there!"
The fat, bald man who looked like a large Maitreya Buddha narrowed his eyes and asked his companions who were in extreme distress, "Do you want to go together?"
"Is there anything else we can do?"
The wanderers laughed one after another, "It's been such a long time. I always feel like this heart hasn't beat for a long time."
They looked at each other and laughed loudly.
"Keep your voice down! If exposed, let Orochi's people know..."
"Don't worry, the big snake lives in the General's Mansion in the Capital of Flowers, how could he pay attention to such a trivial matter in the gutter..."
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"There has been no news about Jiro, Kawamatsu and Asura. It is not an option to continue like this."
In a remote village on the border between the Flower City and Kuri, Kinemon hunted an animal and roasted it using the fox fire style swordsmanship. He tried it himself and found that the poison was not serious, so he gave it to Momonosuke for consumption.
Momonosuke was very hungry and wolfed down the food.
The marks were scattered for several days, but Kinemon was still worried. He held the mark paper in his hand and muttered: "Kawamatsu is a fish man. He might be hiding at the bottom of the river. I have no way to find him. Asura originally
He is just a mountain bandit. Once he hides in the mountains, he can hide in seclusion for three to five years without coming out... Denjiro is very clever. His hiding place may be in the busiest flower city, right under the nose of the big snake...
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Kin'emon's eyes became firm, even if he had to take some risks, he would not care about it in order to contact Denjiro.
If Denjiro has a safe hidden identity, he might be able to entrust His Highness Momonosuke to him for the time being... huh?
"Your Highness?!"
Kin'emon looked up, but Momonosuke was nowhere to be found. Kin'emon was anxious and rushed out of the door, almost blacking out on the spot. In the middle of the road in a small village that was supposed to be deserted, a burly strong man and a man with an expression on his face were seen.
The old-fashioned ronin was talking to His Highness Momonosuke.
"Kin'emon, look at this!" Momonosuke turned around and pointed at the two men. In their hands was the note that Kin'emon had scattered.
Senor met a child and just asked a few questions casually. He didn't know what was going on here, but at this moment he was secretly alert, but his face remained calm, and he raised his chin towards Kinemon through his sunglasses.
He said calmly as if he knew everything well: "Want to help?"
Even if you don't know the specific details, you can't go wrong by saying this.
These words sounded like fairy music to Kinemon's ears, almost making him cry. Nineteen years later, I didn't expect that there were still samurai loyal to the Kozuki family in Wano Country!
"Okay, okay!" Kin'emon touched Senior's shoulder and said with emotion, "Well done to you! Of course we have to help, the more people the better! But you've also seen it, and we haven't arrived yet.
The gathering time agreed on the code..."
"Huh?" Buffalo was confused. What did this man suddenly say? What did he mean?
Password? Assemble? Senior held the note and nodded slightly, "There is always something to do."
"Of course!" Kinemon said, "I'm about to take Momo and Inuko to the Flower City to distribute the notes and gather more colleagues with lofty ideals for joint righteousness in the future."
Inuko?! Kin'emon, you are so brave! I... Momonosuke took a deep breath, but he also knew that these times were different from the past, so he could only lower his head and acquiesced to Kin'emon's statement.
Oh...are these people trying to make enemies of Kaido? Senor guessed that although he felt that the local samurai were overestimating their abilities, he personally would just take this bite.
He is a tough guy. So if such a tough guy is sent to Kaido in exchange for information on Lynch's whereabouts, it shouldn't be too much, right?
"In that case, let's go without further ado." Senior nodded lightly. Originally, he and the buffalo had been waiting for several days on the coast closest to the entrance of the waterfall to the south of Jiuli, but there was no trace of the Straw Hats and his party.
I had already planned to go to the Capital of Flowers to find Sister Sugar to discuss countermeasures, and now I happened to be on my way.
His behavior unknowingly deepened Kinemon's trust. He couldn't help but feel ashamed that he had concealed His Highness Momonosuke's identity just now. He quickly said: "You're right, let's get started without further delay."
So the two people in a group turned into a group of four and rushed towards the Flower Capital.
On the way, Kinemon asked the two Seniors about the changes in Wano Country over the years, especially where the samurai were and why it was so difficult to find their whereabouts.
How could Senior know, but they had been in Wano Country for a while, and they knew who Shogun Orochi had been hunting for, and the recent hunt had been particularly intensive.
"The search has been intensified recently?" Kin'emon was surprised, why? It's impossible for Orochi to already know the whereabouts of himself and others, right?
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Fu Lu Shou, who was shaped by the Ink Ink Fruit, entered the Flower City. Kanjuro naturally recognized the location of the Shogun's Mansion, and after entering the city, he went straight there quietly.
When we arrived at the General's Mansion, with Fu Lu Shou's face, he could naturally alert Lord Orochi. Even if it didn't work, he could also attract Fu Lu Shou himself. Anyway, he would definitely be able to pick up the head. If he handed over the secret letter, he would be able to remove Mo's clone.
, continue to hide his identity and play his own "Koyuki Retainer" and "Red Scabbard Samurai"...
Mo's clone, Fu Lu Shou, has gone away. On the streets of the Flower City, Sugar is teaching her sister Monet a lesson.
She picked up five grapes on her sugary fingers like a little girl, ate them one bite at a time, and licked her white and tender fingertips after eating.
She held Monet's collar with her other hand, glanced at the dazzling white, and scolded angrily: "Why are you dressed so coquettishly? Don't you know we can't attract attention?"
Monet squatted down, grabbed his sister's little hand, and said with a wry smile: "You have to ask for information, sister. Compared with the trouble that can easily be caused by taking action, wearing something cooler is actually a trivial matter."
"Show it, don't show it in front of my eyes." Sugar chewed the grapes expressionlessly.
Monet smiled, hugged Sugar, and said softly: "If my sister hadn't eaten this fruit, she would definitely be older than me..."
"Huh!" He stuffed his mouth full of grapes with sugar, his cheeks bulging, his expression disdainful, but his eyes said "What else?"
Monet held his sister's little hand and said to himself: "In Wano Country, if you dress too seriously, it will be difficult to act. If you say a few words, you will be misunderstood that you are interested in them, and even more exaggeratedly, you will ask questions on the spot.
My address, it looks like you are asking for a wedding and giving gifts..." She couldn't help but shake her head.
The two walked around twice more, and suddenly saw a familiar figure from the corner of their eyes. They looked for it quietly and came to a room in the corner of the alley. The owner of the house had been knocked unconscious and was leaning against the corridor outside.
"who are they?"
Sugar spit out the grape skins and looked at Kinemon and Momonosuke with a frown.
Senior just said: "Samurai."
Before he finished speaking, Kinwei stared at Monet with a red face and lowered his voice: "It's too, too slutty! As a woman, how can you dress like this?!"
"Shut up!" Sugar's eyes turned cold, "What she wears is her business. Who do you think you are?"
Kinemon was startled at first when he was scolded like this, and suddenly he had a creepy feeling, no, these people... are not from Wano?!
Senior took his hands out of his kimono arms, ready to take action at any time.
However, just when Kinemon commented on Monet's cool dress and Satou scolded him, everyone soon heard Momonosuke's laughter...
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"You, who exactly are you?!"
At the Orochi General's Mansion, Fu Lu Shou, the leader of the Imperial Court Fans, stared at the identical "himself" in front of him.
But this "self" smiled strangely, took out a letter from his arms and stuffed it into him, saying only: "If you don't want Lord Orochi to execute you, just give this to him intact." Then.
Then the whole person turned into a ball of ink out of thin air, and black ink splashed all over the ground.
"What kind of ninjutsu is this..."
Fu Lu Shou held the secret letter in his hands and was stunned for a long time. Finally, he was startled, stuffed the secret letter into his wide sleeves, and hurriedly entered the house to find General Orochi.
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"Hey hey hey..."
Momonosuke originally wanted to pretend to be pitiful and throw himself into the arms of this sexy big sister for a good nuzzle. After all, in this cold and cruel world, there is only this... hmm? No, although it is indeed soft, but why
So cold???
"Hahaha, you are a little pervert." Monet smiled and rubbed Momonosuke's head. Since the eldest sister is so gentle, Momonosuke planned to temporarily forgive her for having such a cold heart and was about to enjoy it first.
At that moment, suddenly, there seemed to be a colder flame rising into the sky, and a voice that seemed to be mixed with the cold air of Huangquan approached my ears:
"Little bastard...what are you doing?!"
"What did you call me?"
Momonosuke was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had heard wrong, and then he became furious. He turned around and saw the little girl who was about the same age as him, and scolded, "I just endured not teaching you a lesson about your disrespect, you
You know I will..."
Before Kinemon could cover His Highness's golden mouth, he saw the little girl with an extremely ugly face slapping her hand towards His Highness Momonosuke who looked unhappy.
The little girl's little hands didn't have any strength at all and looked light and airy. Naturally, Kin'emon didn't take it seriously. Momonosuke didn't take it seriously either. Even if they called Kikinochei, Kanjuro and Raizo together, I'm afraid they wouldn't.
People would take it seriously and think that His Highness Momonosuke really inherited Oden-sama's ability to easily attract women, and actually attracted flirting and scolding from girls of the same age just like this...
Satou's little hand fell on Momonosuke's shoulder.
Monet looked on with a smile. The buffalo gloated. Senior was indifferent.
And the moment Satou's little hand fell, Momonosuke, under Kin'emon's gaze, quickly shrunk his body from the original image of the Tsukiyo-tai young samurai to a posture that was on all fours at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Soft fake fur grew on his body... and turned into a fluffy toy puppy in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the name, image, and all the memories related to the person "Kotsuki Momonosuke" followed him.
The dimming light in Kinemon's eyes was wiped away like a tide...
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"Secret letter? A person transformed by ink ninjutsu?"
At the General's Mansion, Orochi took the secret message from Fu Lu Shou and waved his hand to get out. The Heitan family had placed an undercover agent in the Guangyue family, and he didn't want anyone to know about it.
However, Kaido, who is in the same room, is naturally not among the "just people".
Kaido drank wine and said with a smile: "Did the little bug you raised really travel through time nineteen years ago?"
"Do you think you can stay out of the matter?" Orochi opened the secret letter tremblingly and read it at a glance. He was completely confused. "What did Kanjuro write? Momonosuke? Who is Momonosuke?"
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At the same time, on the Onigashima Island, after Kaido left, Yamato made several ups and downs, came to the top of the huge horned skull, and took out from his arms the voyage diary of Kozuki Oden, which he regarded as a bible. This book
She has read the diary countless times, but no matter how many times she reads it, the things recorded in it about the first child named Kozuki Momonosuke between Kozuki Oden and his wife Amazuki... are all impacting Yamato's mind.
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Who is Momonosuke? Kozuki Momonosuke?
There has never been such a person in Wano! Kozuki Oden has only one daughter, Kozuki Hiyori, who has disappeared for nineteen years!
That Oden... wrote lies in his diary?
It was the first time for Yamato to have such a wavering. Holding the old Oden diary, she felt very depressed. She felt that today, she should face this problem: since Mitsuki Oden was in the diary, he would make up a fundamental story.
The eldest son does not exist, so does the credibility of other parts of the diary also have to be questioned?
Is it Kozuki Oden that I admire...or am I just worshiping a symbol named Kozuki Oden that embodies my desire to rebel against my father?
Yamato, who had never attended school for a day, was a little confused at the moment.
It would be great if Ace was here. I really want to have a drink with him at this time, so I don't have to worry...
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"This idiot! Write me the whereabouts of Kouzuki Hiyori!"
Orochi angrily threw the secret letter on the tatami, "The woman who has disappeared for nineteen years is the only heir to the Kozuki family. As long as she is alive, I will be in trouble! What nonsense Momonosuke, this guy is undercover
After a long time, the brain is broken, etc. Could it be that this 'Momonosuke' is the nickname of Hiwa Kozuki among Oden's cronies like them?"
Kaido raised his head and took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "Why are you beating around the bush when your own cronies write secret letters to inform you?"
The big snake resumed its violent rage.
Kaido sneered: "It's easy to find Hiyori Kozuki, just give all the women in the Flower City to Black Maria, and make sure no one can escape!"
"Are you crazy!" Orochi said as if he was being stimulated, "All the women in the Flower City? Doesn't that include my dear Xiao Zi?!"
Kaido said indifferently: "They are all bitches anyway, so what does it matter?"
"Xiao Zi is an oiran!" Da She held back his anger, "She is different."
Kaido drank the wine nonchalantly, "Then let's change the method and find all the women and kill them. Just go outside and bring women in to fill the gap."
"Isn't this even more feasible?!" Orochi said angrily.
"Oh, hey, hey, you are such a waste, Orochi!" Kaido's wanton laughter echoed in the inner chamber of the general's mansion.
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After the banquet ended, the oiran Xiao Zi's gorgeous cheeks turned red, "Crazy Death Master... do you think it would be better for me to die?"
"You're drunk, Xiaozi." Kuangshilang was walking beside her. There were so many people nearby that he couldn't call her by her real name, so he called her Hiyori-sama.
Denjiro smiled pointedly and said: "A unique woman like you is a rare treasure of Wano Country, how can you give up so easily?"
"Hehehe..." Xiao Zi breathed out the smell of alcohol and her eyes wandered, "Isn't it okay for the little girl to give birth to a more precious child?"
Kuangshilang said: "You are drunk."
"Hehehe... are you excited?" Xiao Zi swayed and did not look back, "It's really useless, Mr. Kuangshilang, you taught me all this."
Until Xiao Zi left, Kuang Shi Lang stood there, stunned and speechless.
A question vaguely emerged in his heart... Since Hiwa Kozuki is the only bloodline of the Kozuki family, what on earth have he been doing these years, and why did he shape her into an oiran? He rubbed it
On the forehead, he soon sighed secretly, Toki-sama, you should send Hiyori-sama to the present nineteen years later with Kinemon and the others, instead of letting her suffer in the Wano Country for these nineteen years...
Carrying a bottle of wine, the crazy man was walking on the streets of the Flower City. Suddenly his eyes flashed and he stepped on a piece of paper.
Opening the note with the mark on it, the drunkenness in Kuangshirou's eyes suddenly sobered up, and his breathing became a little short! You are finally here, Kinemon!
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Why did Kinemon become so stunned?
Momonosuke looked up strangely...Hey, no, why am I raising my head higher than before? No, no! How...why am I on all fours?!
Momonosuke suddenly felt panic in his heart. He wanted to stand up, but staggered and fell to the ground again. Only then did he see that his hands were actually covered with Neko Viper, Inuarashi and the others.
Fur...it's just that compared to their soft and beautiful fur, this fur feels more inferior.
Almost at the same time, Momonosuke heard a cold voice: "Contract: 1. You are not allowed to speak human words in the future. As a dog, you are only allowed to bark..."
Are you talking to me? Momonosuke was puzzled and angry. He opened his mouth to scold the little girl, but instead he let out a "woof" sound...
Monet observed with great interest that the pupils of the stuffed toy dog's eyes seemed to dilate in horror at the moment the "woof" was spoken.
Sugar continued to use the ability of the Childlike Fruit with an expressionless face, giving the stuffed toy dog she made "factory settings", and coldly read out the contract she made: "Two, any women you see in the future, please give them to me."
Ten kowtows from twenty meters away! And finally, three..."
Sugar raised her foot and stepped on the worried face of the stuffed toy dog. She suddenly smiled, but her eyes didn't mean to laugh at all. Looking at the crushed stuffed dog's face, full of disgust and annoyance, she said coldly.
Said: "As a dog, you only need to eat shit. This shouldn't be difficult, right?"
As soon as her voice fell, the Childlike Fruit ability took full effect.
While the existence of Kozuki Momonosuke was quietly hidden from everyone in the world, the three enforced rules were also stamped on his new body, the body of a stuffed toy dog, like a stamp of thought.