A/N:
I've been contemplating about what to do regarding this book as I don't want to drop the first one that I wrote. I see a lack of interactions among characters with my previous chapters, so I'll focus on that too. Do tell me what you miss from this.
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Wano is a big country. Not comparable to Alabasta maybe, but still a big country. To protect such a big country, and to make it peaceful, shuunya needs a lot of manpower. And he have them.
When Shuunya was in the prison, he convinced the prisoners that they would work under him if he ever managed to bring them outside, and that he did. But not in a way they expected him to do so.
Rehabilitation Program. Its a concept from Modern World. Wano itself has a rehabilitation program, to mine in the sea stone mine. And this is actually a wonderful idea in normal times, But shuunya has to leave the country soon, and he doesn't want the place he was born in to be chaotic, to say the least.
Kaido, this was his biggest problem that he knew would occur in the future. And he has to prepare for the best if he wants to solve it. Now that there is no Orochi, Kaido might attack Wano directly instead of playing a game. Though a game should also be possible considering there is still one person left from the kurozumi clan, that capable old woman.
Speaking of her
"Raizo"
"Yes. What is it that you want to talk about?"
"I just want to ask you if you have found the old woman that I asked your group of ninjas to look for?"
"No. We have cleared almost all regions, but we not found anything about her. There were clues of her prior appearances in small villages, but she got cautious of Orochi's death and started covering her tracks."
"Well, she can change her appearance however she wants, so finding her would indeed be difficult. Try to search for depilated houses around Kuri and Capital, its the most dangerous place that is also the safest."
".. I understand. I'll have the squads looking for her right away"
"Speaking of squads, how is the training going for the recruits?"
"We have indeed started training for the new recruits, but the funding is insufficient if we want to expand more though."
"... thats troubling isn't it? Even though we have increased the funding by 30% compared to last year?"
"Yes, it takes a lot of money to maintain a 2000 strong squad, considering you also have to focus in armed forces training."
"..."
"..."
"You can go now please call Kinemon and Ashura inside."
Outside the office
Raizo walked outside the office and looked at the morning sky for a while, and finally sighed. Then he walked towards the common room to call Kinemon.
Thump Swish
"Ooh Raizo, you look exhausted. Did you just come out of chief's office?"
"Kinemon, Chief is calling you."
"... Haah"
The red scabbards all looked at each other and sighed. They didn't recognize someone weaker than them as their chief at first, but only for Oden-sama's wishes but, his capability to control the overall situation and change Kuri to a prosperous place comparable to the capital, changed their minds.
However now they feel exhausted for his paranoia for increasing armed and scout forces in a secluded country relatively in peace times. They tried requesting to Oden-sama to talk to Shuunya, but to their shock, he supported shuunya and told them he is doing it for the greater good of the country.
"... I'll be back soon."
"... Ok"
Inside the office
How is the overall situation looking considering all the negative factor, Al?
"Its progressing in a smooth direction, but there is a high chance that the plan to repel kaido might fail if the remnant is not found"
Yeah, I have to something about that huh? Though I think we might be able to find her soon with the methods we implemented.
Shuunya decided that since she can change her facial appearance, it is not possible to recognize her at all with standard procedure, so he got the craftsman to make many sea stone bracelets to inhibit devil fruit powers, and handed them to the search ninja party to check each and every person by letting them wear it. Any person who feels weak or dizzy, will be captured to reveal their fruit power. Though this means invading personal privacy if they wanted to hide it, desperate times call for desperate measures. And it isnt illegal considering he has authority and reason, and that this is a shogunate.
Man, thinking about it, I almost went bankrupt convincing oden to let me do as I see fit.
Flashback
"Na Oden, do you want o Hang out for a while and go for a drink?"
"Huh? That's new coming out of you. You never wanted to drink at all."
"I don't want to drink now either but, we never truly hung out for a while so, what do you think?"
"Fine by me but I want to ask others if they want to go with us together."
"Sure Sure, lets go"
After a while,
"Thats odd, why is no one free right now?"
Why do you think I asked you now?
"Well, we can't do anything about it if they are busy. Lets go then"
"Alright"
Both of them walked towards the streets reminiscing about old times. The times where shuunya snuck out of prison to train, the times where they tried to sneak out of the country together by swimming, and then a raft. The times when they are swallowed by fishes or drowned because of whirlpools, and their journey from oden being disowned to becoming the daimyo of kuri.
(A/N: Now he just became one. Kinemon and others are are busy to settle down and make arrangements, and to train to become proper subordinates for Oden).
"A lot of time has passed, huh? Every one has grown a lot."
"True. And that includes you too. Now you are no longer rash to swim out of Wano."
"Wahaha. Memorable times indeed. Man, we are together for more than a decade huh?"
"Yeah."
Dude, you're making me feel bad for cheating you later. Though it isn't cheating as it will be for the better of you too.
When they reached the shop, they walked in and sat down at a table. They ordered some drinks and started talking about their plans and when to start their shenanigans to leave the country again. Shuunya poured a lot of alcohol to oden in hopes of getting him drunk. Unfortunately for him, oden is quite a drinker.
And there goes my savings. Guess I have to hold of going to Flower district for a while. .. Nah, there will be some money here and there. That's a problem for the future me.
"Why do you want to go outside in the first place?"
"ahh.. huh.. hmm... to seee tha wurld ei gess"
"It's all our ancestors's fault in the first place. Why should they close off our borders?"
"Hmmm.... Izz beczz off ...."
The next morning
In a room filled with around 10 people, few of them started to discuss with each other.
"Why do you think oden-sama called us all together now?"
Swish..thump
"Good, you are all here. From today, shuunya will be the chief retainer."
Hmm, I can see that they are not convinced. Kinemon and Denjiro loof fine, they saw me dodging the attacks of that boar. The others don't know much about me, but they shouldn't make a fuss because of Oden.
Flashback ends
I told Oden that if in case we ever get a chance to leave the country, the country would be undefended. Although the samurai are strong they can't match kaido once he gets serious.
Knock Knock
"It's Kinemon"
"Come in"
Kinemon comes in looks at shuunya and sighs. He proceeds to step forward and sits down and hangs his head down sighing again.
Not even trying to look good anymore huh. Anyway, the prepararions are almost over so you can rest after a while.
"You look exhausted, Kinemon. You should probably take a break for a while."
"Give me one for me to take it, bastard"
"How is the training and production going?"
"No response huh. The weapons and traps made with sea stone are in abundance. The soldiers are training well enough."
"Could have elaborated it a bit. How is Operation KD going?"
"They are ready to proceed according to the procedure at any time, including Operation M."
"Looks like you are preparing well enough. Fine by me. Lets check in later to see whats wrong again."
"For the amount of training they have done, they would probably do it in their sleep."
"Well lets do it once more. You can never be too safe, right?"
"I hate you"
"A pleasure working with you too pal. Now off you go, I have other things to think about. Get them ready for a surprise visit."
"Its not a surprise if you surprise them once a week."
3 years later
Oden and his retainer were discussing about something when they heard someone shot from the outside,
"Oden-sama, there is a huge ship stranded on the coast of Kuri. They look like pirates."
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