"..."
Who... is she?
Kozuki Oden looked at the woman, not saying anything.
Because even speaking was a luxury for him right now. He couldn't waste energy; he needed to save his strength to fight back.
If this woman came to kill him, then he could at least escape.
But what happened next shocked him.
"What... are you doing?"
Kozuki Oden finally couldn't help but say.
Because after the woman came over, she didn't attack him. Instead, she wrapped his wounds with bandages and then started fiddling with herbs to make medicine.
"You're seriously injured and need treatment."
There seemed to be some pity in the woman's eyes, but it made Kozuki Oden feel unbelievable.
She wants to save me? Does she not know who I am?
He, Kozuki Oden, knows better than anyone what the mood is towards him in Wano Country. The people of this country probably want to eat his flesh, drink his blood, and tear him apart limb from limb.
But this woman says she wants to save him?!
Is she crazy?!
Thinking this, he asked the question, "Don't you know... who I am?"
The woman was still making some kind of medicine. She said softly, "Who you are doesn't matter to me. I just saw a person near death and wanted to help."
Kozuki Oden was now wrapped up like a mummy, covered in bandages, with only his eyes and nose showing.
There was no other way, his whole body was burned badly. If a normal person had this degree of burns, then this level of full body wrapping was necessary.
But Kozuki Oden didn't need it. Although he looked like a normal person now, as long as he regained his strength, these injuries would disappear quickly.
At this moment, he didn't speak. He turned his head and looked at the woman who was fiddling with the herbs, and asked in a cold voice, "Woman, what's your name?"
"...Bellflower." Bellflower said quietly, "You better talk less, and you should live like this from now on."
After saying that, she stood up and brought the herbs in her hand to Kozuki Oden's side.
"Open your mouth."
Kozuki Oden frowned. He didn't like being ordered by others, but he didn't want to waste his strength on this woman right now.
And for some reason, he felt that Bellflower was definitely not an ordinary person.
If that's the case, he might not even be able to win.
Damn Himura Kenshin, damn Makima, damn Roger, damn World Government...
If it weren't for them, he wouldn't need to fake his death in this way, and he would never have been reduced to this state.
However, he was determined to leave this place as soon as he recovered a little.
The feeling of being discovered made him very uncomfortable.
But at this time, he obediently opened his mouth. Bellflower's lips curled up slightly, and then she poured the herbal medicine in the bowl into Kozuki Oden's mouth.
This wasn't just any herbal medicine, but super-soldier serum!
Although this thing is usually injected, if it's taken orally, it can also have some effect.
Super-soldier serum, in addition to giving people a strong body, can also purify the soul in a way. That is to say, it can make good people better and evil people worse!
And the Mara remnants in Kozuki Oden's body need a dark heart to become stronger. This super-soldier serum is used to accomplish this.
This serum will make the already dark and evil Kozuki Oden even more evil. At that time, the power that the Mara remnants can absorb will naturally be greater.
It's already past the stage where the Mara remnants made Kozuki Oden stronger. After Kozuki Oden relied on its power to revive, it can be said that Kozuki Oden has become its prisoner, except that he himself doesn't know it yet.
Perhaps...
In the long run, these Mara remnants will gradually grow into a new type of Mara seed.
This Bellflower is the person Genichi arranged for Kozuki Oden to complete this stage.
In fact, he didn't draw the Bellflower card.
But she was created in the image of Bellflower, because Kurozumi Semimaru died.
Kurozumi Semimaru was a copycat who ate the Mimic-Mimic Fruit and could transform into anyone's appearance. After her death, this fruit was eaten by the later Mr. 2.
And now, Genichi certainly wouldn't give him this chance. What's more, Makima was originally at the scene, of course she directly controlled the rebirth of that Mimic-Mimic Fruit.
After that, Genichi had an Esper eat it, giving them the ability to freely change into other people's appearances.
Bellflower came to be in this way.
Originally, the Mimic-Mimic Fruit could only mimic people it had seen, but this couldn't stump Genichi. He only needed to use the Machine Creation Machine to create a Bellflower-shaped robot. This essentially gives the Mimic-Mimic user an image to recall.
So this Bellflower is just an Esper indirectly controlled by Genichi, otherwise, would he have to personally take care of Kozuki Oden...
That would still be disgusting.
On the other side, Kozuki Oden originally didn't have any hope for the herbal medicine, but when that liquid entered his mouth, he was shocked.
Because he felt that after the herbal medicine entered his body, even his soul seemed to become hot.
His body reacted, his soul sent out a desire for that herbal medicine, and he looked at Bellflower with fiery eyes.
He changed his mind, he canceled his previous decision, yes, he wasn't planning to leave!
At least, not for a while.
He wants to drink more of that herbal medicine!
"What... did you make me drink?!"
But at the same time, he also wanted to know what Bellflower had done.
"An herbal medicine that can restore your body." Bellflower stood up again. At this time, Kozuki Oden saw her face for the first time officially.
A pair of dark eyes seemed to carry some faint sorrow, and a head of dark and shiny long hair was tied up with a plain white ribbon. Combined with her delicate features, she was definitely a beautiful woman.
Oden was initially the son of the general, then the Daimyo of Kuri, and finally the general of Wano Country. He had seen so many women over the years, and he even forcibly took women from the people, causing a harem rebellion, but none of those women could compare to Bellflower.
Especially her eyes, those sorrowful eyes that also had some sadness, as if something unforgettable happened in the past. Those eyes made people attracted to her without realizing it.
She was wearing a white top and red kimono pants, with a bow and arrow on her back, looking like a shrine maiden, but probably no shrine maiden would shoot arrows, right?
"Then I leave it to you..."
Kozuki Oden said in a hoarse voice with his almost burned throat.
"But remember..."
"Come every day."
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