Chapter 73

".... I have told you everything you wanted to know. Please, don't take these two swords." Sukiyaki begged again, and Zeus kept staring at him, lost in his thoughts.

"Old man, have you ever heard the name Pluton?"

The question froze the former Shogun of Wano, and he raised his head to meet Zeus' eyes.

"No."

"You lie." He smiled. "Lie to me again, and I will kill you."

Sukiyaki stayed silent and then took a deep breath before he drew the dagger from his waist and prepared to commit seppuku.

"You would rather die than talk about Pluton?" Zeus smiled.

"There are secrets that have been entrusted to me from my ancestors, and I shall not divulge them to someone who is not sincere to my Nation."

"And what makes you think that I mean harm to Wano and its people?" He curiously asked.

"I don't know. But I know that you don't care about Wano." Sukiyaki said and closed his eyes, ready to kill himself.

"Very well." Zeus laughed. "Let's make a deal then, Old Man. You will tell me about Pluton, and I will save Wano for you when I am strong enough to deal with Kaidou."

His words froze Sukiyaki, and he opened his eyes again, curiously looking at him.

"You are an old man. Are you still going to grow stronger at this age?" He asked, and Zeus smiled at him.

"I am actually young enough to be considered your grandson, Old Man. What you are looking at is just a disguise." He lightly said and watched Sukiyaki's eyes go wide in surprise.

"So, I take it that Zeus is not your real name?" He asked again, frowning a little.

"No. My real name is Black D. Sin."

Sukiyaki kept looking at him for a good minute as if scrutinising him and then narrowed his eyes.

"What are your intentions?"

"I have my reasons, Old Man. But if you tell me about Pluton, I will save your Nation one day, and I will protect it from that day onwards."

"You want to take over Wano." Sukiyaki immediately caught onto the underlying meaning behind his words.

"Can you blame me? It's a beautiful place." He shrugged and laughed when he saw the worry on the old man's face. "But don't worry, Kozuki Blood will inherit the Nation after me. There is something very interesting I learned today."

His words made the former Shogun frown.

"What?"

"Your granddaughter is alive, and she is working as a geisha in the Red Light District of the Flower Capital."

"W-what?" The blood drained from Sukiyaki's face when he heard those words.

His granddaughter, a princess, working as a geisha in the Red Light District?

Sin smiled as he watched the old man's body tremble, thinking the worst.

"Don't worry old man. She's still untouched. There is a man who is protecting her. The owner of that Brothel served your son, and both of them now have new identities that they go by. I just happened to hear a conversation they had earlier today, but considering your granddaughter's Will to do anything to survive, and the attention she is getting from powerful people over her beauty, she's not safe there."

Komurasaki was one of the first People of Interest that he had marked with his Haki, and in the last two days, he had been listening and keeping his watch on her.

Sin was quite shocked to learn her true identity when he overheard her conversation with the man, whose real name was Denjiro, but now went by the name of Kyoshiro.

Sukiyaki was visibly relieved after hearing his words, and then his eyes brimmed with tears as shame washed over him again.

"I planned on taking her away and taking over Wano in the future even before I met you." Sin smiled, coming clean about his intentions, and Sukiyaki's instincts told him that he could not stop this man from acting on his plans. "And I might just make her the new Shogun."

"What do you want to do with Pluton?" The former Shogun asked.

"For now? I just want to keep it out of the hands of the wrong people. It is not something that should come to light." Sin honestly said, and Sukiyaki surprisedly looked at him.

"You seem to already know what it is." He frowned.

"I do. What I need to know is if it is safe, and where exactly it is."

"It's safe." Sukiyaki immediately said. "It's at the bottom of the Mount Fuji, under the Old Wano."

"Old Wano?" He frowned.

"It's an old city, now submerged in the water. 800 years ago, Wano was at the New World's sea level, but then these walls were created..."

Sukiyaki told him everything that had been passed down to him from his ancestors and watched Sin frown deeper and deeper at the things that he revealed.

"How did they create these walls?" He asked.

"That's something I don't know," The former Shogun replied, and then took a deep breath. "Can I see my granddaughter before you take her away?" He requested.

"Go somewhere on the western end of Kuri where there are no people around. I will find you and bring her there." Sin said as he stood up. "And don't worry if you see storm clouds in the sky later today."

Sukiyaki nodded to his words and accepted the two swords that Sin handed back to him.

"I won't return Nidai Kitetsu." He smiled.

"Death follows those who wield the Kitetsu. The curse of this one might be weaker than Shodai Kitetsu, but it always brought a horrible death to everyone who wielded it." He warned.

"Don't worry, Old Man. Death has always been hiding in my shadow. I have a very fond relationship with it." He smiled and lazily stretched his arms. "Keep these, you might need them in the coming years."

The former Shogun of Wano caught the pouch that was thrown his way and was surprised to find several Gold Coins inside it.

And before he could react, Sin had already moved out of the door.

He could not believe his luck, which was a little too kind to him lately.

Sin had planned to grab these swords and then grab the princess before leaving, having not heard a single clue about Pluton, which meant that it was relatively safe for now.

But he finally understood the whole picture and even learned the whole truth about what happened in Wano after Oden's return.

It was something that Rayleigh had requested when he gave him the external Log Pose to Wano. And now, the tasks he had come to Wano for had been accomplished.

"Alright. Time to have some fun." He grinned before he started running towards the western edge of Kuri and then continued flying further into the sea.

When Sin was far enough from the mainland, he finally started flying up into the sky and then spent the next few hours searching for a storm in the New World Sea to bring it to Wano.

When the sky over their country turned dark as night in the middle of the day, they panicked a little.

The constant thundering of the clouds made them restless, and instinctively, people started returning to their homes and searching for shelter to avoid the likely torrential rain that seemed inevitable.

However, they were not prepared for the lightning strikes that soon rained down on them.

Several powerful and devastating lightning bolts landed in different parts of Wano, and some even landed in the Flower Captial, destroying property and harming life.

And under their guise of these lightning strikes, Sin landed in the Flower Capital, quite close to the Red Light District, and as soon as someone spotted him, they fell uncontrollably on the ground.

The rain started pouring down rather heavily, and when he arrived at the door of the brothel and entered it, no one really questioned why he was wearing a cloak.

A few gold coins did the rest, and a hostess happily led him to the private room where he waited for the famous and rising oiran, Komkrasaki, whom he had asked to play for him a few of his favourite songs.

She took her to come to the room, carrying her Shamisen, and wearing a mask over her face.

Nonetheless, a smile crossed Sin's face at the beautiful shade of her turquoise hair, a shade that he had never seen before in his life.

She soon sat down on the tatami mat and then prostrated to him in a greeting.

"Komurasaki is at your service, esteemed guests. What would you like her to play for you?"

Her melodious voice entered his ears and he smiled as he sensed her trying to make him fall for her charm.

"Remove your mask." He ordered.

"My apologies, esteemed guest..."

"Removed it." Sin grimly said, and the girl's body stiffened.

Hiyori eventually reached for the mask and took it off, and the smile on his face brightened.

She was 16 years old, and her face could only be defined as perfect. She was undoubtedly a beauty that could make people lose their minds.

"I see. They were not wrong to call you the most beautiful girl in Wano."

"Thank you for your high praise." She lightly bowed to him, wearing a charming smile, but froze again when she looked into his cold-grey eyes.

Her blue eyes quivered as her heart became restless, feeling naked under his gaze, and she found herself unable to look away from him as well.

Suddenly she felt chillingly cold, and her body trembled as a result, and then she watched the tall old man stand up and approach her.

"Let's go." He grabbed her arm and made her stand up before taking off his cloak and covering her with it.

Hiyori was extremely terrified right now, and her mind went blank when he suddenly leaned near her ear and whispered his threat.

"Behave or I will be forced to harm you, Princess." He said and then faceted her head and face under the hood.

She regained some clarity as they passed through the corridors of the brothel, and her heart lept to her throat when she saw bodies littered everywhere.

At first, she thought that everyone was dead, but then she heard a fat man snoring, and she understood that they were all sleeping.

Her nerves calmed down a little, and when they arrived outside in the street, she heard some footsteps and a rattled call from Denjiro, who was searching for her.

However, before she could even consider shouting to him for help, her mind went dizzy and she felt herself wrapped in a very tight embrace.

She felt a little dizzy when she felt the ground her her feet again, and her body swayed a little as her mind took its time to regain some clarity.

"Here's your granddaughter, Old Man. I will give you some time to talk to her." She heard the man, who had brought her somewhere outside the Flower Capital, speak, and it was then that she noticed another old man, who was sitting under the tree, and a certain sword in his lap that she immediately recognised.

"Enma..." She whispered its name.