"It really is her."
"Kozuki…"
"No!"
"At this point in ti, she should be Amatsuki Toki."
Ike looked at the beautiful young woman who had boarded the ship and recognized her identity. He secretly nodded.
Sure enough.
There was basically no major difference from what he had guessed.
"Greetings!"
Amatsuki Toki looked at Ike, bowed slightly, and said softly, "Thank you for saving my life. Could you take to Wano Country?"
"Wano Country…"
Ike looked at the woman before him, naly Amatsuki Toki, and thought briefly before saying, "I am indeed going to Wano Country. However, you should know that Wano Country is currently in a closed-country state, correct?"
"That's wonderful!"
"Closed-country state?"
Amatsuki Toki nodded and said, "I know that. My na is Amatsuki Toki. Thank you for your help!"
"Wait." Ike raised his hand to stop her. "I did not agree to take you to Wano Country. I am going to Wano Country because there are so matters I need to handle there."
"As for you…"
Ike shook his head. Amatsuki Toki considered it and asked, "May I go to Wano Country with you?"
Amatsuki Toki asked softly.
She knew.
Or to be more precise.
She possessed an extrely sharp perception ability. This ability was not Observation Haki, but it was extrely keen. She could sense that Ike truly was not a good person. However, there was no other way. Right now, her choices were either to continue traveling through ti or follow Ike to Wano Country.
As for whether she could actually reach Wano Country?
All that could be said was…
That truly depended on each person's own judgnt.
However!
Amatsuki Toki knew that if she left now, she definitely would not be able to reach Wano Country.
"No." Ike shook his head and said, "However! If you explain clearly why you ca here from 800 years ago, then perhaps I can consider it."
Ike said this very casually.
However!
The atmosphere instantly fell silent.
Everyone around them widened their eyes in disbelief. Amatsuki Toki was like this, and so were Sif, Remi, and Gonlu. Even the surrounding soldiers were shocked.
A person from 800 years ago?!
Amatsuki Toki had just been about to say sothing.
However!
In an instant.
Ike had already arrived before her. It was still the sa point—do not look down on Ike too much. Although Ike usually looked like soone coasting through life, that truly did not an he was weak.
Quite the opposite.
Ike's strength was not weak at all. Now, with the increase in his Spiritual Energy and Life Energy levels, compared to his big brother, he was probably not much inferior.
Click!
Before Amatsuki Toki could even activate her ability, a collar had already been fastened around her neck.
"What is this?" Amatsuki Toki felt a weak and powerless sensation throughout her body. She collapsed limply to the ground. Seeming to want to struggle, she hurriedly asked, "What did you do to ? Why…"
"Why can't you activate your ability?" Ike returned to his original position and said calmly, "That thing around your neck is called an explosive Seastone collar. It can suppress Devil Fruit abilities. Also, you had better not forcefully try to remove it. It will explode. In addition, if you leave a range of three hundred ters around , it will also explode instantly."
Amatsuki Toki lay weakly on the ground. She seed to want to say sothing, yet did not know what she should say.
"Mm~~~"
Ike said casually, "Don't look at like that. I am not soone who especially cherishes won. At the very least, I am not that kind of person."
Ike felt completely indifferent.
First of all!
He was not soone who cherished won tenderly. That was an absolutely certain matter.
All along, his wives and concubines had either been seized or bought. Expecting him to cherish beauty? His tolerance for his own wives and concubines was quite high, but for won outside his family, he had no real tolerance, nor did he like wasting words.
"Enough!" A soldier had already brought over a chair. Ike sat down and said very casually, "Amatsuki Toki, speak directly. Tell what your purpose is, and why you crossed 800 years to reach the current Wano Country."
"Explain it clearly."
"I can consider not killing you."
Everyone around them was stunned listening to their lord's, or husband's, words. Good grief! At the very least, shouldn't he say that perhaps he might take this young woman to Wano Country?
In the end.
He really opened with one sentence: I can consider not killing you?!
Was this really how things were done?!
No one had expected this situation at all.
Ike said casually, "Amatsuki Toki, do not think about stalling for ti. As the user of the Paracia Ti-Ti Fruit, I still understand this Devil Fruit very well. So, there is no need to think about delaying things with ."
No joke.
The mont Ike confird that Amatsuki Toki was Amatsuki Toki, he had already prepared the explosive Seastone collar. He simply seized the opportunity. With his strength, and with the other party completely unprepared, he could lock it around her neck in one strike.
Hehehe~~~
No matter how absurdly powerful the Ti-Ti Fruit was, it was still a Devil Fruit, right?
As long as it was a Devil Fruit, it would be restrained by Seastone. Once soone wore Seastone, they definitely could not use their ability. This was inevitable.
So.
This proved it!
Amatsuki Toki lying on the ground verified his guess.
As for whether he had any special thoughts toward Amatsuki Toki?
Hehehe~~~
Ike could only say that although he had quite a lot of wives and concubines, he truly was not the kind of person who lost his ability to walk the mont he saw a woman. It was undeniable that in the original story, Hancock, Shirahoshi, and Kozuki Hiyori, who were praised as world-class beauties, might be slightly more beautiful than his wives and concubines.
But seriously, it was only by a little.
If divided by nurical value, they were 100, while the won in his family were around 95 to 99.
The difference truly was not large.
After being influenced by such beauty day and night, Ike truly did not place special importance on appearance anymore.
Besides.
If he were truly interested in beautiful won, all kinds of princesses from fallen kingdoms were top-tier beauties above 95 points. If he wanted them, he could buy them casually. They were not worth much at all, alright?
Seventy thousand Berries each!
The Berries his big brother casually brought back in a single paynt was enough for him to go three years without repeating a woman. No—seven years without repeating one.
To put it plainly.
Ike was more interested in Amatsuki Toki, this person from 800 years ago who had never entered Wano Country but insisted on going there no matter what.
Especially since.
Amatsuki Toki did not seem to care about when she entered Wano Country. That was interesting. What kind of matter was it that made it acceptable to enter Wano Country at any point in ti?
Amatsuki Toki still seed to want to resist, but Ike interrupted her directly. "Also! I do not like wasting words. You have three minutes. Explain your situation to clearly. Otherwise, I will absolutely kill you. Do not waste my ti."
Ike raised his hand, and the young maid behind him imdiately obediently handed him a pistol.
Click!
Ike slowly raised the pistol and aid it at Amatsuki Toki.
Sif, Remi, and Gonlu.
As Ike's concubines, they often fooled around casually. Remi, in particular, was of the Oni Tribe and did not care about those rules at all.
However.
At this mont.
They all obediently kept their mouths shut and watched quietly. In matters like this, they absolutely could not damage their man's authority.
"You have one minute left."
Ike continued speaking with a smile.
"My na is Amatsuki Toki…" Thinking of her mission, Amatsuki Toki silently chose to yield. She opened her mouth softly and said, "I co from 800 years ago. The Amatsuki Family left Wano Country 800 years ago and settled in the outside world."
"Tell sothing I do not know."
Ike said very calmly, "What you just said was only speculation to , but I had already guessed it. Say sothing I do not know."
"I accidentally ate a Devil Fruit." Amatsuki Toki said softly, "And according to Father and Mother's prophecy, Wano Country's future would be shrouded and ruled by a roaring Azure Dragon. Father and Mother hoped that I could travel through ti, go to Wano Country, resolve Wano Country's troubles, and at the sa ti open Wano's borders."
"That absurd?"
Ike looked at Amatsuki Toki and could not help complaining.
Wano Country's future would be ruled by a roaring Azure Dragon. There was no need to say who this referred to, right?
Of course he knew this was Kaido!
The problem was…
Was the Amatsuki Family's prophecy that ridiculous?
That was 800 years ago! They actually predicted sothing that would happen 800 years later?!
Good grief!
Ike was now even suspecting that they were transmigrators as well. Otherwise, could it really be this ridiculous?
However!
After thinking about it briefly, Ike felt it also seed understandable.
Thinking about Shyarly of Fish-Man Island, who could predict the future, the Amatsuki Family of Wano Country having prophecies also seed understandable.
"So…" Ike looked at Amatsuki Toki and said thoughtfully, "You prepared to go to Wano Country because of this prophecy? And you kept traveling through ti in order to reach Wano Country?"
"Have you never considered that if the ti you travel through becos longer and longer, Wano Country might solve this problem by itself?"
"Impossible!" Amatsuki Toki said without hesitation. "In Father and Mother's prophecy, I am the core of resolving all of Wano Country's problems. Without , everything in Wano Country absolutely will not co to an end."
"Mm~~~"
Ike casually tossed the pistol to the young maid, then rubbed his chin and began calculating.
How should he put it?
What Amatsuki Toki said was actually not wrong.
If Amatsuki Toki had not t Kozuki Oden, then Kozuki Momonosuke would not have been born.
Then, the Kozuki clan would have perished.
Then, the bug king Luffy would go to Wano Country.
Then, Wano Country would always be ruled by Kaido.
It could even be said!
Wano Country would completely beco a country of pirates.
So!
Don't even say it!
If one reversed things according to the original plot, Amatsuki Toki truly did play an extrely important role in all of this.
However!
No matter how much one said, Ike felt that Amatsuki Toki was truly rather pitiful. Because of this so-called prophecy, she exhausted all her effort to complete it.
And in the end?!
Her hard work was actually blocked because of her own son.
That was right!
Amatsuki Toki had actually failed. Aside from stopping Kaido, what Amatsuki Toki wanted more was to open Wano's borders. And Wano Country? Under Kozuki Momonosuke's command, it did not open its borders at all. This situation was truly rather ironic!
"Lock her up." Ike waved his hand. The surrounding guards imdiately stepped forward and took Amatsuki Toki away to be imprisoned.
No matter what, the fact that Ike did not directly shoot Amatsuki Toki dead already proved that he was relatively interested and satisfied with what she had said.
"Husband…" Sif asked softly, "Does that girl have sothing special about her?"
"You all heard it too." Ike said casually, "She cos from 800 years ago. No matter what, as the user of the Paracia Ti-Ti Fruit, I cannot let her leave."
Ike's attitude toward this was exactly like that. What a joke. Since he had already run into her, did she still expect to escape?
"Heeheehee~~~"
Remi grinned and said, "Husband, why don't I try persuading her and have her beco your concubine?"
Hearing Remi's words, Sif and Gonlu silently raised their heads. They looked at their sister and did not know what they should say.
Of course!
They did not think that their husband had too many won. Strictly speaking, they themselves had co later.
But their husband had just been about to kill the woman and had only barely spared her life. And now Remi wanted the woman to beco his concubine?!
Regarding this ability, they felt that they did not possess such eloquence. If Sister Selina were here, perhaps there would be no problem.
"It doesn't matter." Ike said casually, "Lock her up first. After we return to the Totto Land sea area, let Selina talk to her. If she obediently listens, then she can beco a concubine. If she doesn't listen? Then kill her."
Ike said this very casually.
Although!
It was true.
Amatsuki Toki's appearance was almost exactly the sa as Kozuki Hiyori's, possessing the sa 100-point beauty.
But to him, it was purely indifferent. A beauty like this could be taken into his crystal palace.
However!
If she did not listen obediently?
Hehehe~~~
Ike did not mind enjoying himself once and then directly killing her. Why waste so many words? Stop joking!
"Husband…"
Sif asked curiously, "I feel like you don't seem to care especially much about beauty."
"Sif." Ike sat in the chair and asked curiously, "Do you think Amatsuki Toki, who was just locked up, is more beautiful than you?"
"…"
Sif was briefly silent, then nodded. "She should be a little more beautiful than , but! I do not think I would lose to Amatsuki Toki."
"So?" Ike spread his hands and said casually, "Since that is the case, what do I care about? My wives and concubines are not inferior to her. I am also not the kind of person who cannot walk when I see a woman. I have plans for Wano Country. If she is a stumbling block, then I will simply deal with her directly."
A trace of killing intent flashed in Ike's eyes.
What a joke!
He had ideas regarding Wano Country. He did not rely want to trade with the Kurozumi clan.
He wanted to take down the entire Wano Country and transform Wano into a weapons factory.
How much money could robbery make?
Look at how much the Rocks Pirates earned from robbery. It was indeed a lot, but! That was the Rocks Pirates. The future Whitebeard Pirates definitely could not compare to them!
The Rocks Pirates were a pirate crew unprecedented before and never to be seen again.
However, if Ike replaced Kaido's position and beca an arms dealer in the underground world, then things would be different! Arms dealing was a natural-born business of enormous scale!
Robbery was him acting as a thug.
Business was him putting on a suit.
Ike quite liked a certain saying: Do not look at now wearing a suit and tie. If I pull off the tie, I can still act like a thug.
Pirates were thugs who did not follow the rules. They could do certain things that could not be done by those who had to worry about rules.
That was right!
But business was different! Therefore, Ike's attitude toward Amatsuki Toki was that if possible, he would take her in. If not, he would kill her and prevent her from interfering with his control over Wano Country.
"Alright!" Ike said, "Everyone, continue sailing. Head to the location we agreed on with the Kurozumi clan."
"Yes!"
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