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Chapter 629 A loving father and a filial daughter
"That's right!"

Yamato stood up unsteadily as if he had mentioned something remarkable, "I am Kaido's son, also known as Yamato! But please call me Kozuki Oden! This is the name and identity I am using now!"

Even though she had already reluctantly admitted Xie Wen's evaluation of Kozuki Oden, the stubborn Yamato still did not give up inheriting his name. In her simple mind, the whole logic was like this -

Become Kozuki Oden → Retake Wano Country in the name of Kozuki Oden → Find Kozuki Momonosuke who escaped that year → Return Wano Country to the Kozuki clan.

In this way, Wano Country can be considered to be "back on track."

After proudly declaring his identity, Yamato leaned limply against the wall again, then gave Xie Wen a silly smile: "Hehe... do you have anything to eat? I haven't eaten for a long time."

No wonder Yamato looks so exhausted, and...

Xie Wen glanced at the shackles on her wrists.

If he guessed correctly, these shackles were most likely the low-purity seastone shackles worn by the slaves in the Rabbit Bowl Quarry.

In fact, when reading the comics, Xie Wen also had doubts. Yamato’s strength was obviously not bad, so why didn’t he remove the shackles on his body like Rayleigh did?

However, after coming to the pirate world and learning and mastering the advanced use of Armament Haki, he finally figured it out...

No one taught Yamato how to use this kind of armament Haki to destroy his internal strength, and coupled with the influence of seastone on his strength, Yamato was confined to Onigashima with a pair of explosive shackles.

So, Xie Wen did not take out the food for Yamato immediately, but reached out and grabbed the shackles on her hands...

"Wait……"

As soon as Yamato opened her mouth, the shackles in her hands were broken by Xie Wen.

The shackles mixed with seastone are indeed much harder.

"Be careful! It will explode!!!"

She could only remind him loudly as quickly as possible.

However, Xie Wen, who had known about this for a long time, threw the shackles away after breaking them.

"boom--!"

As expected, the shackles that were thrown out exploded, and directly blew a big hole in the ceiling of the underground floor. However, there was no partition above the dungeon, so it failed to blow through. However, the power displayed by this bomb was no less than the bang bang bomb that Klee used regularly...

Having been weakened by seastone and the New World having fixed the "bombs can't kill people" loophole, Yamato will most likely not be able to withstand this attack.

"That damn bull-headed gorilla! He actually wanted to kill me!!!"

Obviously, Yamato also realized this.

Although he had always wanted to make trouble for his father, Yamato still had a glimmer of fantasy that there was a bomb in the shackles. It might be that Kaido was trying to scare him, or that the power of the bomb was not that great and at most it would only blow off his hands.

But with the explosion just now, Yamato finally gave up completely.

"I understand everything now! That guy is no longer a father!!!"

Yamato roared in shock and anger, with an imperceptible disappointment and sadness hidden deep in his eyes.

Xie Wen also pulled the corner of his mouth speechlessly...

Although on Earth, Kaido is highly regarded by readers because of the actions of Kozuki Oden and his crazy fans, in fact, apart from the filter created by people's hatred of Oden's forces towards Kaido, he is just a pure villain in his setting.

At most, it means that they are relatively strong.

Kaido's situation with Yamato is similar to Yamato's. He put explosive shackles on his eight-year-old daughter, which were only worn by slaves, locked her in a cave and starved her for more than ten days, and deliberately led her to fight with hostile samurai...

Kaido's patience with his daughter is even less than that with those he wants to recruit.

If those warriors from Wano Country had not offered their food to Yamato and risked their lives to help her escape before she starved to death, Yamato would have died in that cave at the age of eight.

Even in Xie Wen's opinion, Yamato's initial admiration for Oden was more out of her own kindness and admiration for samurai. The actions of the Wano country samurai in the stone cave were the main factors that truly influenced her and made her determined to fight Kaido in the name of Oden.

Well... and that "Horcrux" should have played a big role as well.

As for the theory that "calling Yamato 'son' proves that Kaido is actually a good father", Xie Wen thinks it is more like Kaido does not care about his daughter.

Of course, if you say that Kaido doesn't care about his daughter Yamato at all, that's not the case. It's just that Kaido's concept of "survival of the fittest" makes it impossible for him to have much tenderness towards a rebellious daughter.

In Kaido's "simple" concept, if Yamato is willing to follow his arrangements, it doesn't matter whether she wants to be a daughter or a son, or even change her name to Kozuki Oden.

But if she still stubbornly goes against me, then it would be better for her to die...

All in all, Yamato, who was infected with the Oden virus, is indeed not a reliable daughter, but Kaido is not a qualified father either. Kozuki Oden is not the main factor in the current situation between the two sides.

Even if there was no Kozuki Oden, there would be Shimotsuki Oden, Fugetsu Oden, and Amae Oden. This father and daughter with completely different values ​​would sooner or later fall out.

The daughter wants to overthrow her father's rule, and the father doesn't take his daughter's life seriously... What a loving father and filial daughter family...

While Xie Wen complained in his heart, he took out food and water from his bag and handed it over.

"Thank you."

Yamato wiped the tears from his face, took the food and swallowed it in big mouthfuls.

Kaido Meowth on the side looked up at the huge hole in the ceiling that was blown out and frowned.

Kaido, who usually takes care of the little cats in the investigation team and has trained many follower cats in the Monster Hunter world, simply cannot understand why the other Kaido would treat his own children like this.

"Blue Star..."

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Kaido withdrew his gaze and said to Xie Wen with a serious expression: "Please let me fight another Kaido alone, meow!"

"Another...Kaido?"

Yamato, with food crumbs still on the corners of his mouth, raised his head and looked at Kaido in confusion, "Are there two more bull-headed gorillas?"

"It's not a bull head, nor a gorilla, but a cat." Kaido Meow pointed at himself seriously and replied: "My name is also Kaido Meow."

"Ah, ah..."

Yamato was speechless as he looked at the cat-fur creature in front of him, whose demeanor and temperament were inexplicably similar to his father. His simple mind was unable to understand it for a while.

"If it's just the same name, there's actually no need to fight that bull head... uh... there's no need to fight him alone."

After a long pause, Yamato finally understood the situation and kindly reminded, "Although I am reluctant, my bastard dad is so powerful that even Oden and Uncle Ichisho are no match for him."

"You don't have to worry about that."

Xie Wen patted Yamato on the shoulder and said, "When they fight, you will understand that this is not just a matter of name."

(End of this chapter)