"What... do you mean?!"
Kozuki Oden said with a dark face, not knowing why, but in front of Makima, he felt like everything was seen through.
"What I mean, you should have understood. This era is not yet time for you to appear. I think you should also understand this."
Makima stood up and said calmly.
Kozuki Oden's face turned black. He ignored Roger beside him and immediately swung his twin swords towards Makima.
The speed of this slash was too fast. Because Oden suddenly attacked and wasn't aiming at himself, Roger didn't notice for a moment.
By the time he saw Oden's action, it was too late, because his twin swords had already landed directly on Makima's neck!
Puff!
Instantly, blood splashed out from her neck, Makima's eyes became unfocused, and she fell directly to the ground.
Kozuki Oden stood in front of Makima, frowning.
Makima... is dead just like that...?
This woman, who was rumored to be amazing in the outside world, was instantly killed by himself?
The result...
It seemed so.
He was very sure that his slash just now had taken Makima's life. He thought Makima would use some way to defend or dodge, but she was directly hit by his sword, which was a bit strange.
"Kozuki Oden..."
Roger in the distance also felt something was strange when he saw this scene. It was precisely because of this strangeness that he did not act.
Makima...
Will she really die just like that?
Obviously not!
Just as Kozuki Oden was wondering, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest, and the next moment, a burst of blood exploded!
His heart seemed to be beating violently, and the remnants of Mara attached to his heart seemed to be beating even more violently than his heart!
Kozuki Oden's face contorted instantly, and he even knelt on the ground!
And at this time, Makima, who had already fallen and whose face was still covered in his blood, slowly stood up again.
This scene surprised Roger in the distance, because he could be sure that the previous Makima was indeed dead. She was directly hit by Kozuki Oden's sword without any defense; she surely had no other path but death.
But at this moment, Makima stood up again, without showing any sign of pain, not even surprise. Her expression was normal, even mixed with some coldness.
On the contrary, Kozuki Oden, who had unleashed Kamui and even killed Makima with one strike, suddenly fell to the ground at this moment.
Things happened too suddenly.
Makima suddenly pierced through the half-kneeling Kozuki Oden's body with one hand!
"?!"
Kozuki Oden's pupils shrank. His whole body immediately convulsed, and his body contracted involuntarily, emitting painful whines from his mouth, sounds that were extremely shrill and painful, utterly heartbreaking!
Even Roger couldn't bear to listen to the sound. He looked from afar and saw that Makima's palm had pierced the area of Oden's heart and was pulling out his beating heart.
"What... is that?"
Roger saw that on the dark heart in Makima's hand, there seemed to be a special attachment.
There were countless thread-like tentacles on the attachment, and these threads were connected to Kozuki Oden's body, as if connected to all the organs within him.
That's why he was in so much pain!
Because Makima's actions were equivalent to taking out all of Kozuki Oden's internal organs!
But strangely, Kozuki Oden didn't die?!
Even though his heart was pulled out and his internal organs were displaced, he still didn't die in this situation?!
What kind of monster is this?!
This reminded Roger of the first time he fought Aatrox. At that time, he thought Aatrox's weakness was his heart or neck, but these parts were not fatal to demons.
Kozuki Oden in front of him...
Had he truly become a monster like Aatrox?
Although there was still a gap in power, there was no fundamental difference.
"So that's how it is..."
And up close, Makima looked at the heart in her hand and said softly, "It's such a small thing..."
Kozuki Oden used his last bit of strength and stared at Makima with hateful eyes, as if he wanted to cut her into a thousand pieces?!
Makima smiled slightly, the smile was very shallow. Something seemed to appear from her hand, and the next moment...
In the incredible gaze of Roger and others who had noticed, she actually pushed her hand forward again?!
This time, her hand went back into the previously bleeding hole, as if putting Kozuki Oden's heart back in?
"Ugh!"
Kozuki Oden let out a low groan, and the next moment his body convulsed again, his face seemed to be twisting.
"Makima, you..."
Roger was about to say something but was interrupted by Makima, "I have temporarily sealed the dark power within him. He cannot die yet."
"Why?" Roger frowned.
Makima looked in a direction. There was nothing there, but because Makima looked there, it suddenly gave others the illusion that there must be something there.
Is it Tunfo?!
Now that everyone who should appear has appeared, only Tunfo is left in the shadows.
However, in the end, no one appeared there.
"Instead of letting everything become unstable, it's better to have things develop under our control," Makima said, withdrawing her gaze.
"That Demon Lord will definitely descend, even if we kill Kozuki Oden. So, rather than letting him descend now, or descend at an unknown time, it's better to control that time within our grasp."
"Did you... say what?" Roger's pupils constricted.
"About thirty-three years from now..."
Makima said, "I extracted a piece of information by pressing the seed of darkness."
"When pure white light and pitch black shadow mix, the Horn of the Underworld will awaken, giving birth to eternal darkness."
"As for now..."
She looked at Kozuki Oden, who was rapidly recovering, and then glanced in another direction.
Himura Kenshin has arrived...
"Since it's Wano Country's business, why not let the people of Wano Country resolve it?"
"..." Roger looked at Makima, somewhat unsure of her meaning.
However, Kenshin had already walked over. He said softly, "Mr. Roger, please stop intervening."
"Kenshin..." Roger said to Kenshin.
The trials during this period seemed to have changed Kenshin a lot.
"Since it all started because of me, I will be the one to end it."
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