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Chapter 131

Title: Wano (2)

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The morning sun was radiant to the skin and dazzling on the seawater. The whole place was brightened up by the reflection of the glowing and dancing sea waves.

Under the light, the small crowd of people outside the pirate ship were whispering to each other. Their target of whisper was the man in front of them, clad in black, wearing a silver steel mask.

"It is kind of disgusting seeing you eat the food all raw."

The man, Amon, who changed his previous anonymous mask, said as the people looked at him confused. Obviously, as a pirate, he must be lying right?

After a few seconds of battling through the people's gaze, Hitetsu removed his sword from Amon's neck.

Amon grinned under his mask. His eyes created crescent moons.

"It is indeed disgusting and a little unhealthy too. Perhaps, you can make them delicious, traveler?" Hitetsu said, his voice still as stern as steel.

Hitetsu was quite strong, and with his high insight, he couldn't sense any type of malice from Amon. Though in truth, it was another form of 'hiding presence' from Amon's side, similar to Yona.

"Thank you," Amon smiled. "I had the plan to do so, to begin with."

Amon planned to get closer to them using one of the easiest ways, food.

«...★...»

The cooking fire was dancing.

Zzzhhh...

"F-Fascinating!"

Hitetsu exclaimed in shock and surprise. He was intrigued by Amon's cooking that his shining eyes were looking at.

"That's a fascinating scent, it's b-been a long time I smelled something like this."

Amon chuckled and continued to shake the spoon inside the pot.

Hitetsu gulped his saliva."To think I will witness such quality Oden made by someone other than Oden-sama!"

"Haha, you are praising me too much. I can't even cook it properly."

That's right, Amon was cooking Oden. In the pot, there was an assortment of vegetables and proteins such as processed fish cakes, mochi rice cakes, boiled eggs, daikon radish, konjac yam and tofu, and stewing them in a light broth seasoned with soy sauce and a special soup named dashi in a large hot pot at the center of a table!

As a cook, Amon wasn't at the level of Sanji or some other famous cooks, but he was at least confident enough in his abilities to outmatch the cooking of a swordsman like Oden.

"Haha, do you like the scent that much?" Amon quickly picked up a bowl from the other table beside him and filled it with Oden.

"Then how much will you like the feeling in your mouth?" Amon raised the bowl towards his face.

"O-ohh!"

With slightly shaking hands, Hitetsu accepted the bowl.

He loosened his mask a little only to show his large swollen lips and took a sip. His eyes instantly grew up as he jumped from excitement.

"Ohhh! This is great!" after a few seconds, Hitetsu's cheeks were covered in tears. "T-This is magnificent! Haha!"

The Oden was good, but not at the level of making him this emotional. Amon basically made the specific soup of Oden to control him emotionally, to form a connection between the dead Oden and himself.

"Young man, thank you..." and it worked.

"Than... Thank you so much," he was simply too happy tasting something like this, the food he last tasted when Oden gave him a bowl 23 years ago. "You don't know how happy I am..."

Hitetsu was born in Wano, he had wings just like his father and it seemed his ancestor came here from another country where people had wings, Birka. Unfortunately, being so far from the family tree, he didn't know much about the Birkan God, so Amon couldn't exploit his position here, sadly.

"It's fine, I am happy to make you so pleased," Amon said and handed O-Tama a bowl too, who was hiding behind Hitetsu's massive figure.

By now, Amon had already found out where Nidai Kitetsu was. Truthfully, he would have just taken the sword by force, but there was a better way by acting nice.

If he steals it, he can't stay here anymore. Thus, Ace's crew can't stay here anymore and they have to flee inside Wano. In that scenario, Kaido, who hadn't left yet, would come and kill Ace— thus destroying his biggest plan of all time in this world.

It would be meaningless to mess everything else just for that sword, to begin with, the sword was just a side quest.

Amon doesn't only want to take the sword, he also wants to take Oden and Toki's daughter, Hiyori's blood sample along with the Diary of Oden from Yamato.

Not only that, he needs to lay low to make it seem like he was a person from Ace's crew and everything he did was because of him. That meant after Ace would join Whitebeard (Amon would pull strings if canon doesn't go the same), then Kaido would not go after Ace since he won't try to pick a fight with Whitebeard, even if he does, it's not like he would be able to defeat them.

The only time he would go after Ace would be in the War of the Best.

'Why am I so sure he will go?' it's because he already tried to participate in the war in canon, just that Shanks had stopped him.

In the War of the Best— Against two Emperors and their army, the Marines will definitely lose. Thus, benefiting Amon and his plans, and with his interference, he might succeed at killing off Kaido as well, who knows?

All and all, it was a win-win situation— as long as Amon acted like a decent human being for a while.

«...★...»

Soon after, Hitetsu walked towards the tied-up Spade Pirates and bowed lightly.

"I, as a Samurai, am ashamed to have captured you, benefactors." He stayed in that position for a minute before raising his head. "Please, allow me to free you."

He took out his sword and before Ace could even feel any danger, slashed forward.

Sslt!

In the next seconds, the rope binding fell on the ground like old leaves.

"Woohoo!" The crew cheered as they stretched their limbs.

Meanwhile, Amon was busy giving people bowls full of Oden. They were excitedly eating after accepting it.

Among them, the girl named O-Tama was also eating, swiftly pouring everything in her mouth.

"Nom... So tasty!" She quickly finished her bowl as she noticed people asking for seconds and getting them. Fearfully, she walked towards Amon. "Big brother, c-can I have some more?"

Seeing O-Tama raising her bowl like that, Amon laughed and poured more Oden in the bowl. She showed a bright smile and again started to eat the food.

Hitetsu was very touched seeing this. O-Tama was like a granddaughter to him, she rarely has a full belly. This made him emotional and grateful towards Amon.

'Oden is certainly better than eating raw...' Sighing to himself, he grabbed a bowl from beside him and walked towards Amon to get a second.

«...★...»

"Yo, you are pretty good with children, mister."

The brown-haired pretty woman named Perry went to Amon and stroked his shoulder with hers. "I wonder how you will behave with your own children, hm~"

Amon lightly shoved her away and concentrated on cooking. "Don't disturb me."

"Ahh, why are you like this? Can't you spare some time and talk to a pretty lady such as myself?"

For a second, Amon stopped cooking and looked at her face. While she flinched, Amon observed her from head-to-toe and turned back with a chuckle. "I have fucked prettier ones."

"...what?"

"Nothing."

Amon shoved her away and prepared to cook some more Oden.

Amon concentrated on cooking while the woman kept disturbing him.

The crew also ate food while laughing. Ace eyed Amon and Perry every now and then. He was just happy that she was interested in another person outside the crew, only he knew how fortunate this was.

Still, it felt unpleasant seeing someone who was interested in you acting like that with another man.

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