Luo Chen did not say much regarding Yamato's clarification.
He was, of course, well aware that Yamato was a "dutiful son."
He simply didn't feel like explaining everything himself, so he prepared to reincarnate Kaido and let the man explain things to his daughter personally.
Luo Chen performed the Impure World Reincarnation with practiced ease.
He cut a piece of flesh from Kaido's thigh and then approached the living pirate sacrifice.
With a flick of his finger, numerous grayish-white sheets of paper manifested out of thin air around Kaido's flesh and the pirate. These papers swirled and encased the pirate, who let out a miserable scream as dense white smoke billowed out.
As the white smoke dissipated, a towering, stalwart figure appeared in his place.
With wild black hair and a beard, a rugged countenance, and a predatory aura—it was none other than Kaido.
Yamato's eyes widened behind her mask.
"Who... who is he?" Yamato asked, stammering as she pointed at Kaido.
Kaido was momentarily dazed, but he quickly grasped the situation.
There was no need for Luo Chen to instill the details of the Impure World Reincarnation into his mind. By now, the whole world knew that Luo Chen possessed the ability to reincarnate the dead, controlling them as puppets to fight for him.
The moment Kaido regained consciousness, he realized he must have been reincarnated by that "little brat."
His face darkened. He looked at Luo Chen and raised his mace to strike, but his body immediately froze against his will, rendering him unable to move.
"Explain the specific details to Yamato," Luo Chen said. As soon as he finished speaking, his figure flickered and vanished.
Yamato stared at Kaido in bewilderment, then hurriedly searched for Luo Chen's silhouette, only to find him eerily appearing in the air above the distant castle.
"Who is he? You... you're not dead, you old geezer?" Yamato was full of doubts.
Kaido let out a cold snort and slammed his mace heavily onto the ground.
He had no desire to explain, but under Luo Chen's absolute command, he had no choice but to comply.
As Kaido slowly recounted the events, Yamato's expression behind the mask shifted repeatedly—from shock to joy, and back again.
When she heard that Kaido had killed Momonosuke with a single strike of his mace, she suddenly erupted in anger:
"You killed Oden's son?!"
"No, that was my son too!"
Hearing this, Kaido's face grew even darker. *Like hell he's your son.*
This "stupid son" of his was truly beyond saving.
When she heard that her own father had died, she showed neither anger nor grief. Yet, hearing that Oden's son was dead, her reaction was this intense.
Kaido said coldly, "Don't think that just because I'm dead, I can't beat you. You couldn't become Oden before, and you never will in the future."
This "stupid son" Yamato had once read Oden's travel journal and had been obsessed ever since, constantly muttering about becoming Oden, defeating Kaido, and liberating Wano Country. Today, she even considered Oden's son to be her own; Kaido couldn't fathom how he had sired an offspring with such a low IQ.
Behind the mask, Yamato's expression turned cold.
Since Momonosuke was dead, she was determined to give the old man a beating regardless.
"Thunder Bagua!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Yamato leapt into the air. Her mace was shrouded in Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, with bolts of lightning crackling around it as she swung it toward the top of Kaido's head.
"Stupid son!" Kaido was fuming. He swung his mace to counterattack.
*Won't listen, will you?*
*Then I'll beat you until you do.*
---
Inside the treasure room beneath Onigashima.
Luo Chen was busy "recharging" when he suddenly heard the massive commotion coming from outside.
With a sweep of his Observation Haki, he realized Kaido was "educating his son."
He couldn't help but chuckle.
This pair of father and daughter—or more accurately, father and son—was quite the sight.
Kaido had raised Yamato as a boy since childhood, referring to her as his "son." Yamato had accepted this, identifying as a male, and due to her idolization of Kozuki Oden, she wished to become him and fulfill his unfinished business—such as defeating her father, Kaido, and liberating Wano Country.
"What a pair of eccentrics," Luo Chen mused as he traversed through space to leave the castle.
The wealth of Kaido and Big Mom wasn't as much as he expected, totaling only twenty to thirty billion Berries. It was likely that a great deal had been consumed to produce SMILEs.
The moment he reached the outside, the sounds of explosions became even more pronounced, and he could feel the earth trembling.
In the distance, Kaido had transformed into his Hybrid form, wielding his mace.
The mask on Yamato's face had long since shattered, revealing a strikingly beautiful female face. She had long, white hair that faded into a greenish-blue color at the tips.
After only a brief clash, blood was already trickling down from Yamato's forehead, and the sleeves of her white kimono had been reduced to tattered rags.
She gave a clear shout as white fur sprouted across her body, and her beautiful face took on the appearance of a pure white wolf.
This was Yamato's Mythical Zoan ability. As for the specific name, Luo Chen couldn't quite recall it.
He raised his hand and released a wave of gravity, forcibly putting a stop to the battle between Kaido and Yamato.
Both struggled instinctively, but upon realizing it was futile, they finally calmed down and deactivated their animal forms.
"That's enough. Kaido, go and reorganize the members of the Beasts Pirates across Wano Country."
"As for you, Yamato, are you willing to join the Jinghai Army?"
As Luo Chen spoke, he fired a burst of green energy into Yamato's body. The wounds on her face and arms healed rapidly.
Yamato touched her previous injuries in surprise, then looked at Luo Chen and nodded.
"Fine. You defeated Kaido and saved Kozuki Hiyori; I should thank you for that."
"If Oden were alive, I'm sure he would have agreed as well."
She looked at the black shackles on her wrists and pursed her lips. "Can you unlock these? If I leave Onigashima, they will explode."
From childhood to adulthood, Yamato had never left Onigashima. Kaido had used a pair of handcuffs to imprison her; one step off the island, and the handcuffs would blow her to pieces.
Luo Chen walked up to Yamato, gripped the handcuffs, and gave them a gentle squeeze.
The iron handcuffs snapped instantly. He tossed them high into the sky.
A massive *BOOM* echoed.
The flash of the explosion lit up the sky of Onigashima, which was perpetually shrouded in dark clouds. Under the crimson light of the blast, Yamato couldn't help but grit her teeth, glaring fiercely at Kaido.
This "old geezer" really did intend to kill her. An explosion of that magnitude would have surely ended her life.
Kaido met his "stupid son's" gaze with indifference.
He shouldered his mace and turned to leave. With his current body, he was utterly incapable of defying Luo Chen's orders. Even if he was entirely unwilling, he had no choice but to head toward the various parts of Wano Country to round up the Beasts Pirates.
---
After Kaido left, Luo Chen used the power of Yin-Yang Release to create a bird puppet.
He wrote a letter detailing the events in Wano Country and tied it to the bird's leg. Then, he opened a space portal and sent the bird back to Totto Land.
The contents of the letter were mainly to instruct Robin to dispatch a unit of the Jinghai Army as soon as possible to take over Wano Country. He would wait in Wano and depart only after the army arrived.
Having finished this, Luo Chen took Yamato and returned to the Flower Capital.
The moment they entered the Flower Capital, Yamato immediately broke into an excited and joyful smile. She looked at the pink cherry blossom rain falling from the sky and surveyed the bustling streets, her heart filled with happiness.
"It's been twenty years... I haven't left Onigashima in twenty years."
Yamato reached out to catch a falling cherry blossom petal, seemingly talking to herself, or perhaps explaining why she was so agitated.
Luo Chen smiled but said nothing.
Being imprisoned in a gloomy place like Onigashima for twenty years was indeed a grueling ordeal.
He was no longer in a hurry. Instead, he walked with Yamato at a leisurely pace toward the entertainment district.
Before the Jinghai Army arrived, Luo Chen naturally intended to find a comfortable place to wait.
---
**Would you like me to translate the next chapter, or would you like to refine any specific terms in the glossary?**
[Reviews - Power St0nes - Comments are highly appreciated to keep me going.....(+50 chapters) patre0n.c0m/talecrafter]