White Light Mixes with Dark Shadows, Giving Birth to Eternal Darkness

"What... do you mean?!" Kozuki Oden said with a grim face. For some reason, in front of Makima, it seemed like everything was laid bare.

"What I mean is that you should have understood that the current era is not the time for you to appear. I think you should also understand this." 

Kozuki Oden's face darkened. He didn't care about Roger beside him and immediately swung his twin blades towards Makima.

The speed of this strike was too fast. Because Kozuki Oden suddenly attacked, not aimed at himself, Roger didn't notice it immediately.

By the time he saw Oden's action, it was too late. Oden's twin blades had already slashed directly at Makima's neck!

Splurt!

Blood sprayed from her neck, and Makima's eyes became lifeless as she collapsed to the ground.

Kozuki Oden stood in front of Makima, frowning.

Makima was dead... just like that?

This woman, who was glorified outside, was killed by him in an instant?

The result...

Seemed to be exactly that.

He was sure that his strike had taken Makima's life. He had expected Makima to defend or dodge in some way, but she had directly taken his blade. It was quite eerie.

"Kozuki Oden..."

Roger, watching from a distance, also found this scene eerie. It was because of this eeriness that he refrained from acting.

Makima...

Was she really dead like this?

Clearly, of course not!

Just as Kozuki Oden felt puzzled, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. The next moment, blood gushed out violently!

His heart seemed to be beating violently, and the residual Bohun fragments attached to it seemed to be beating even more violently than his heart!

Kozuki Oden's face twisted instantly, and he even half-knelt on the ground!

And at this moment, Makima, who had fallen down with her face still covered in his blood, slowly stood up again.

This scene surprised even Roger from a distance. Because he could confirm that the Makima just now was indeed dead, directly killed by Kozuki Oden's slash. Makima, who had no defense whatsoever, was definitely supposed to have only one path - death.

But now, Makima had risen again, and her face showed no signs of pain or surprise. She remained calm, even showing a hint of indifference.

In contrast, Kozuki Oden, who had just been powerful and had even killed Makima with a single blow, suddenly fell to the ground.

Things happened too suddenly.

Makima suddenly reached out with one hand and pierced Kozuki Oden's body as he half-knelt on the ground!

"?!" Kozuki Oden shrank back, his body spasming uncontrollably, and he groaned in pain, the sound extremely piercing and agonizing, horrifyingly tragic!

Even Roger felt a bit reluctant after hearing that sound. Looking from a distance, he saw Makima's hand penetrate Kozuki Oden's heart area and then extract his beating heart.

"What is... that?" Roger saw in Makima's hand, on the pitch-black heart, there seemed to be a special attachment.

On that attachment were countless tentacle-like sticky threads, connecting Kozuki Oden's body, as if connecting all the organs inside his body.

So he was in such pain!

Because what Makima did was equivalent to taking out all the organs from Kozuki Oden's body!

But strangely, Kozuki Oden didn't die?!

Even after his heart was taken out, and all the organs inside his body should have been rearranged, he didn't die in such a situation?!

What kind of monster was this?!

This made Roger think of the first time he dealt with Atrox. At that time, he thought Atrox's weakness was his heart or neck, but these parts were not fatal to demons.

The Kozuki Oden before him...

Had he really become a monster like Atrox?

Although there was still a gap in power, fundamentally there was no difference.

"I see..."

Meanwhile, Makima, looking at the heart in her hand, said softly, "It's such a small thing..."

Kozuki Oden used all his remaining strength to stare at Makima with a resentful gaze, as if he wanted to tear her apart?!

Makima smiled slightly, her smile shallow. It seemed like some power emerged from her hand, and then...

In Roger's and others' incredible gaze, she once again inserted her hand forward?!

This time, her hand inserted back into the bloody hole from before, seemingly putting Kozuki Oden's heart back in place?

"Ah!"

Kozuki Oden groaned lowly, and the next moment, his body spasmed again, his face seemed to be contorting.

"Makima, you..." Roger was about to say something, but was interrupted by Makima. "I temporarily sealed the darkness within him. He cannot die yet."

"Why?" Roger frowned.

Makima looked in a certain direction, where there seemed to be nothing, but because Makima looked, others suddenly had a feeling that there must be something there.

Was it Swallow?

Now that everyone who should have appeared had appeared, the only one left in secret was Swallow.

However, in the end, no one appeared there.

"Instead of making everything unstable, it's better to control the development of things in our hands," Makima withdrew her gaze and said.

"As for that demon lord, he will definitely come. Even if we kill Kozuki Oden, it will be the same. So instead of letting him descend now or at an unknown time, it's better to control that time in our hands."

"What... do you mean?" Roger shrank back.

"In about thirty-three years..." Makima said, "By pressing the seed of darkness, I extracted some information."

"When the pure light mixes with the pitch-black shadow, the Horn of Hades will awaken, giving birth to eternal darkness."

"As for now..." She looked at Kozuki Oden, who was rapidly recovering, and then glanced in another direction.

Himura Kenshin is coming...

"Since it is a matter of Wano Country, how about leaving it to the people of Wano Country to solve it?"

"..." Roger looked at Makima, somewhat confused as to what she meant.

However, Kenshin had already walked over at this time, and he said softly, "Mr. Roger, please don't take action again."

"Kenshin..." Roger looked at Kenshin and said

The experience during this period of time seems to have changed Kenshin a lot.

"Since everything started because of me, then let me end it."