A Samurai's Mercy

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Orochi Castle is in chaos. From outside, people cry, "Lord Orochi!! Please calm down!!" and someone calls the destruction "what an absolute waste...!!" Inside, Orochi has transformed into the Mythical Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: Yamata no Orochi. His many heads surround Komurasaki while he rages over her beauty: "Your beauty...!! What an absolute waste... It almost makes me not want to bite your head off." He tells her that if she begs for mercy from the bottom of her heart, then he will go easy on her. Komurasaki remains silent, facing the monster without lowering herself.

Orochi pushes Komurasaki toward surrender, asking whether the one who falls in love first is the one who loses. "Is that because you're so attached to me..?" he says, but Komurasaki answers only, "I refuse..." He demands that she beg for her life, while the others shout, "Big sis!!" and "Stop it!! Don't provoke him any further...!!" Her refusal enrages him. "How dare you!!!" Orochi lashes out with his snake heads, but the attack does not stay focused on Komurasaki. His rampage throws the surrounding guests into danger, and people cry, "Why's he attacking us...!!??"

Orochi's monstrous body tears through the banquet hall and even shakes the castle itself. People scream, "Kyaa aah!!" and "G'yaa aaah!!" as the heads crash through the room. One guest calls Komurasaki arrogant, but Orochi accepts her defiance as a challenge and says, "Fine. As you wish, Komurasaki!!! You shall die by my hands..!!" The room cries for the courtesan: "Miss Courtesan!!" "Dayu Komurasaki!!" "Lady Komurasaki!!" She is thrown down before Orochi's jaws while the castle trembles around them.

Daikoku orders the ninja to stop the shogun only enough to save the courtesan: "You and the other ninjas need to stop the shogun...!! And rescue the courtesan!!" Another retainer insists, "The shogun can do as he pleases. Nobody can tell him what to do!! Besides, there is a more important matter at hand." That matter is the intruder. The Oniwabanshu announce that they are trying to capture one, and the women realize that O-Robi is being accused. O-Toko laughs and begs, "Hey, big sis!! Please help the courtesan!!" Nami, still hidden, says she does not even know if she can save Robin, especially since Robin has angered the shogun.

The noise from the banquet reaches Nami and Shinobu, who ask, "What is going on over there!?" and "What's wrong with you two!?" The castle guests beg to be saved, saying they will be cursed to death. Then Brook appears in full ghostly terror, shouting, "There's a ghooo ooost!!!" and "Feel my vengeance." His skeletal form sends the room into panic: "The starving skeleton isn't just a fable!!" and "Kyaaah!! It's a ghoooost!!" In the confusion, Robin reaches O-Toko and says, "Ah! I'm glad you're okay, O-Robi!!" The fear Brook creates becomes the opening they need.

Brook keeps the act going as Bonekichi, and O-Toko praises him: "Bonekichi!! That was marvelous, thank you!" He answers, "Yohoho!! I'm pretty cool right now, aren't I?!" Robin decides it is time to leave: "Mille Fleur... let's all leave the castle safely!!" Her giant hands burst into the room with "Gigantesco Mano!!!" sending guards flying and making them scream that this is more of her demonic arts, or even an army of ghosts. Nami asks what they should do, and Shinobu decides hiding is pointless now. Even Brook is in there with Robin, so they will back them up.

Nami suddenly realizes who is beside her. "Did you say... Shinobu!?" she asks. Another voice demands, "Who are you? Another ninja?" The man recognizes her as Hanzo and is shocked she is still alive after all these years, calling her "the bewitching kunoichi who was known to seduce men and kill them." Shinobu proudly declares, "I am Shinobu!!" and attacks with "Ninja Arts: Ball Buster!!!" The strike lands hard, though Nami asks in disbelief, "Is that really a ninja art!?" Shinobu apologizes calmly, saying she mistook the man for someone else.

Hanzo tries to bind them with "Ninja Arts: Binding!!" and Shinobu is caught, grumbling, "Ugh... I can't move." The bound man mutters that this is the power of the man killer, and Shinobu snaps, "Is that why you were called that??" but tells Nami not to act like that was her plan. She cuts loose with her "Sexy Ninja Arts" and tells Nami, "Let's go, O-Nami!!" Chaos spreads below as Kare-san-sui collapses the ceiling. Guests scream, "The ceiling collapsed!!" and "Lord Orochi!!" while Orochi's heads crash through the room.

The banquet hall is in shambles. People ask what is happening and where the two kunoichi came from after Hanzo falls from the attic. Brook enjoys the havoc, crying, "Wow! Feel my vengeance, O-Nami!" while Nami asks why he came there to help her. Then the room's attention shifts. Kyoshiro stands before Komurasaki with sword drawn, breathing hard. He says, "...Now you've done it... Komurasaki... Are you prepared?" Komurasaki, kneeling before him, answers with steady composure: "Yes, indeed."

A brief hesitation hangs over the room. Someone calls, "Wait a second... Boss Kyoshiro!?" but Kyoshiro moves before anyone can stop him. His blade flashes, and Komurasaki is cut down in a single sweeping strike. The force knocks her body back through drifting petals and debris. The hall is stunned. For a moment, even in the middle of Orochi's rampage and the intruder alarm, all eyes fix on the fallen courtesan.

The witnesses freeze in disbelief: Nami, Brook, Robin, and even Orochi stare as Komurasaki falls. Outside the castle, the news spreads instantly: "He cut the courtesan!!" and "In one slash, the dayu Komurasaki was...!!!" The woman called the most beautiful in Wano Country lies motionless after Kyoshiro's blow. The page treats the cut as a public execution, the kind of act that changes the entire uproar in the castle from confusion into shock.

The hall erupts again. O-Toko screams for "Miss Courtesan!" while a guest cries, "The most beautiful woman in Wano Country... What a pity..." People ask Kyoshiro, "What have you done!?" and "Who gave you permission to kill her!?" Kyoshiro answers coldly, "...I showed her a samurai's mercy." He says it does not matter who it is: when someone stands up to the shogun, they have committed a serious crime, and that is an iron-clad rule. Even one of his own men wonders whether he did it to prove his loyalty, while another cannot believe Kyoshiro would do something so extreme.

Orochi sees Komurasaki's fallen body and screams her name, then turns his fury toward O-Toko. "That child!! I'm gonna chew her to pieces!!" he roars. Robin clutches O-Toko and tries to get her out, but Orochi demands, "Hand over the girl, O-Robi!! And you better tell me who you are, too!!" Nami calls after Robin, "O-Robi!!" and Robin shouts back, "Come on out!!" Orochi blames the whole disaster on the child, yelling, "If you hadn't laughed at me, none of this would have happened!!!"

Nami calls down Zeus, and the cloud answers happily: "Heeeey, did ya call for me?! Nami!!" She offers him a weather egg, and Zeus brightens with "Really?!" Nami orders him to get Orochi. The guards still try to regain control, shouting to capture the intruders, exorcise the ghosts, and stop Lord Orochi's rampage. Brook complains that now is not the time to worry about some vengeful spirit, while one of Orochi's heads wonders if he is not going to attack them. Nami prepares the thunder strike while the hall is still full of panic.

Nami warns everyone, "Get down, everyone!!!" and releases her ninja arts. The attack gathers over Orochi's many heads as she calls, "Thunder..." A tremendous bolt crashes into the banquet hall with a sharp "clap!!!" The blast tears through the castle roof and sends screams through the Flower Capital below. People outside see the castle erupt and hear the cry, "Gyaa aaahhhhh hhhh!!" Nami's lightning turns the already ruined banquet into a full disaster.

The following morning in Wano Country, at Kuri's Okobore Town, the amnesiac Big Mom, now addressed as O-Lin, has eaten all the o-shiruko. She apologizes, "My apologies, O-Lin. We're all out..." but Big Mom laughs, "Maaaama mamamama ma!!" and thanks O-Tsuru anyway: "It definitely wasn't enough, but you still gave me food, even though you're a poor person. Thank you, Tsuru! O-shiruko is so sweet and yummy!" Chopper knows they are in trouble if her memories return, but Kiku says this is their only chance. Big Mom hears that there is lots of o-shiruko in Udon and asks, "Udon?" Then she decides at once: "You said there are lots of o-shiruko there? In that case, let's go there right now!!" Nine days remain until the final battle.

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