"Damned Kaido!"
When Kozuki Oden fought desperately and was being pressed down by Gion, and finally saw Kaido walking behind Rosse and coming over to their side, his emotions collapsed.
Even though he had long known Kaido was untrustworthy.
But when Kaido actually raised his hand and surrendered, Kozuki Oden still could not accept it.
If he had known Kaido would surrender so quickly, what had his actions these past days amounted to?
He had brought Whitebeard and Golden Lion here, causing one of them to die.
He had forced a battle in the Flower Capital; the whole Flower Capital was destroyed, casualties countless, yet Rosse erged unscathed.
He had done everything he could, and the result was only this ridiculous outco.
In hindsight, he might as well not have resisted and simply fled with the Kozuki family.
"Hmph!", Kaido snorted, arms folded, looking at Kozuki Oden with disdain.
Even though he was a prisoner now, that didn't prevent him from mocking Kozuki Oden.
Sothing like him, what the hell could he possibly accomplish.
If Kozuki Oden hadn't fallen so early, maybe Golden Lion could have withdrawn accordingly.
It was precisely because Kozuki Oden was defeated so quickly that they lost even the hope of escape.
"You bastard, what do you an?", Kozuki Oden, furious, gave up fighting Gion outright and fixed his gaze on Kaido.
After all, there was no chance to win anymore.
Before it had been four against one; now on Rosse's side it was four against one.
They couldn't fight, couldn't do anything at all.
Rosse, Gion, Vanessa, Kaido.
Even the weakest, Gion, in her current injured state could not be beaten, let alone him, who had completely lost the will to fight.
Or rather, ever since the battle in the Flower Capital began, his fighting will hadn't been that strong.
This was the most prosperous city in Wano, now turned into a vast ruin; aside from a few stronger samurai who fled early, everyone else was buried in this rubble.
This outco, he could not accept it.
"Idiot, do you know how many mistakes you've made from start to now? If you'd done even one thing right, it wouldn't have ended like this," The battle was over. Seeing Rosse watching as if enjoying a show, Kaido didn't mind arguing with Kozuki Oden a bit.
Mainly, he felt wronged.
If not for Kozuki Oden being such an idiot, Wano would already have been firmly in his grasp.
"My gravest mistake was trusting you, YOU BASTARD!" Kozuki Oden ground his teeth.
He pinned all bla on Kaido.
If Kaido hadn't made those shocking remarks earlier about cooperating with Rosse to deal with them, Golden Lion wouldn't have initiated the fight, and he wouldn't have been forced into battle.
Given Rosse's state back then, perhaps the Flower Capital could indeed have avoided destruction.
"Hah! Short-sighted fool," Kaido sneered, arms folded, slanting his eyes and said, "Then answer !"
"Why did you get involved in the Holy Land incident?"
"Bastard, Whitebeard is my brother. If I don't help him, who will?", Kozuki Oden stomped and shouted.
A pirate can't not care about brotherhood, can he?
"Idiot, the Holy Land incident…", Kaido's voice paused there as he glanced at Rosse beside him.
So things are clearer from the vantage of an onlooker.
Moreover, in this matter he wasn't just a spectator; he was half a participant.
After Rosse ca to Wano, he replayed recent events countless tis.
By now the situation had basically beco semi-public.
There were several puzzling points in these events.
Especially after seeing Rosse's strength today, his doubts only deepened.
The first point was: how could a Five Elder be killed in the Holy Land incident?
Yes, to Kaido, this was absolutely unbelievable.
He knew the full picture of the Holy Land incident; from his perspective, that Five Elder's death was an extre coincidence.
The attack by Golden Lion and the others could be called an accident or coincidence.
But at that ti Rosse was heading to the Holy Land; the Holy Land was already thought untenable, yet all top fighters except the absent Kozuki Oden were basically occupied.
Even if that Five Elder hadn't gone into battle, the other top-tier fighters could have held out until Rosse arrived.
And for that Five Elder to go into battle, he must have considered Rosse's support ti, only if he was sure of his safety would he act so rashly.
Of course, it's also possible the Five Elder had been stationed there too long and simply acted foolishly and recklessly.
But that wasn't in Kaido's consideration set.
In his view, if Rosse truly wanted to save them, or if the Holy Land's top fighters had been a bit stronger, they could have been saved.
And so things are judged by their after-the-fact results.
At that ti there were four top fighters fighting in the Holy Land who belonged to the World Governnt.
Two were CP0, two were mbers of the God's Knights.
He didn't yet know CP0's fate, but those two God's Knights mbers were not punished, instead they rose to high positions.
One beca a current Five Elder, one beca commander of the God's Knights, and both were right there watching.
From the start Kaido felt there was sothing fishy.
Of course, the most crucial point was...
Clearly during that period he had restrained the Beasts Pirates and hadn't done anything.
But at that critical mont, a rumor suddenly spread that the Beasts Pirates had movent and might have gone to assist Whitebeard.
'Bullshit!'
Others did not know, but could he not know?
At that ti he had the entire crew pinned in Wano; no one was at sea. What movent?
Because of this, Zephyr personally moved to block him in Wano.
Who was Zephyr? A forr Marine Admiral, and also Rosse's dedicated CP0.
The forr identity made it reasonable for him to trouble pirates; the latter identity made things intriguing.
'Again, Rosse!'
And Rosse's support timing was definitely off.
Kaido estimated with his own strength that if Rosse truly wanted to support the Holy Land, he could have arrived at least an hour earlier.
Of course, no one expected in advance that Golden Lion and the others would target a Five Elder.
Maybe Rosse's personality was cruel, he didn't care about the Holy Land's lives.
He didn't know what the World Governnt's current situation was. On the surface, Rosse seed to have gained no advantage and remained as before.
He'd even heard the Jaygarcia family was almost wiped out; only Rosse and Saturn remained, so no one would think that family was behind the scheming.
But Kaido still believed Rosse was pulling strings behind the scenes.
Even if Rosse hadn't planned it, he couldn't be uninvolved.
If the Holy Land incident from start to finish was a conspiracy, then Kozuki Oden, who actively involved himself, naturally counted as the biggest fool.
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