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"Well, since you define Kozuki Oden as a 'samurai', let's put aside his incompetent status as a general and talk about his samurai side."

Xie Wen was not in a hurry to rescue Yamato. He sat cross-legged opposite Yamato, supported his cheek with one hand and rested the other on his knee, and spoke slowly.

When he said that Kozuki Oden was an incompetent general, Yamato clearly showed a tendency to refute, but she opened her mouth for a long time and still said nothing, and finally closed it slowly.

Obviously, Yixiao, the chatterbox, had already told Yamato about Xie Wen's analysis of Kozuki Oden. Compared with those brainless fans on Earth, she did have one advantage, which was that she could at least make some sense.

Seeing Yamato's attitude, Xie Wen nodded with satisfaction. It was good that she could reason with him. Otherwise, after he had been talking for a long time, she would use the unreasonable tactics commonly used by brain-dead fans, such as "I don't want to listen" and "Ignore the facts"...

Xie Wen was worried that he would not be able to resist chopping her with his knife.

"As a samurai, Kozuki Oden is not as bad as he is as a general, but if you say he is the greatest and the best...ha..." Xie Wen sneered and said with disdain: "Then you are just lying with your eyes open."

“Nonsense!” Yamato wanted to stand up, but she could only jump a little because she had no strength. However, even though she was sitting on the ground, she still excitedly refuted: “When Lord Kozuki Oden and the Nine Red Scabbards fell into the hands of Kaido, the bull-headed gorilla, he relied on his own strength to carry his subordinates and survived the cauldron-cooking punishment for an hour! With such heroism, how can he not be called the greatest and most outstanding samurai?!!”

Hearing the name "Minotaur", Kaido shook his ears subconsciously...

He suddenly wanted to change his name.

"But the reason they ended up in this situation was originally Oden's fault." Xie Wen reached out and rubbed the big cat's head, and continued slowly: "General Oden made mistakes, and Oden as a samurai made up for it... If you count it that way, this samurai Oden did a pretty good job."

After Xie Wen explained the whole story to Yamato, he did not spend too much effort arguing with her about this matter. The punishment of cooking in a cauldron was the reason why Yamato admired Oden. For her, it was like the white moonlight of first love, which was full of filters accumulated by time, so he simply acknowledged the performance of the samurai Oden in this matter.

Moreover, the Death by Cooking in a Cauldron is indeed one of Kozuki Oden's highlights, even though he was still being played around by Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi at the time.

"but……"

Xie Wen changed the subject.

"If this can be considered the greatest samurai, then where do you put Shimotsuki Ryoma? For a samurai, it is certainly admirable to disregard life and death, but can it be considered the greatest if you cannot win and cannot protect the weak? Kozuki Oden did die calmly, but in the fight against Kaido and Orochi, were there not many samurai who died calmly? And if you really want to count, those samurai who died all chose to believe in Shogun Oden, so they suffered such a disaster..."

Looking at Yamato who tried to speak several times but couldn't utter a single word, Xie Wen asked again:

"As a samurai, he can't defeat the enemy, can't protect the people, and doesn't even have the vision to 'choose a lord'. His passion and will are commendable. How can such a samurai be called the greatest and the best? Not to mention the legendary Ryoma, even right now, Yixiao is a better samurai than him."

"Oden, he...he united Kuri and defeated the mountain god before the fall of Wano! He even went to Raftel with the Pirate King!"

Yamato was completely defeated by Xie Wen's continuous questioning. She hesitated for a long time before she remembered to bring up Kozuki Oden's previous achievements. However, this time, she never mentioned anything "great" or "excellent".

Haha...it turns out that when the brainless fans whitewash their own giegie, they all use the same routine.

Xie Wen laughed and shook his head.

You were the one who started digging up old scores...

"However, when Oden did these things, he was a daimyo and a general, but not a samurai." Xie Wen also started to look up the past, "What did he do when he was a 'samurai'?"

Yamato looked confused.

Obviously, her understanding of Oden began when Kaido invaded Wano Country, and at most she added the "Horcrux" diary that she picked up later. Yamato was completely unaware of the absurd things Oden did in earlier times.

This situation is actually very similar to that of those little star-chasing girls on Earth. The idols they see are "finished products" that have been packaged by the company and appear with a perfect image. As for what these idols did before, they have no idea at all.

So, Xie Wen was like those self-media on Earth who specialized in digging up dirt on others, “kindly” spreading the “glorious past” of Kozuki Oden to Yamato…

"He got drunk and got into fights, was wanted for causing floods, occupied temples, abducted women to build a harem... these are what Kozuki Oden did during his samurai period." Compared to those self-media, Xie Wen still has integrity, so he added: "Although some of these things are misunderstood or excusable, overall, he caused more trouble than he did during that period, so he was driven out of the Flower Capital by his father, and then Kozuki Oden unified Kuri and became the daimyo of Kuri."

"It's normal to make mistakes when you're young, but Kozuki Oden's mistake was that he never got his place right. When he was a samurai, he failed to be a good samurai. By the time he became a fairly good samurai, he had already become a ruler like a daimyo or a shogun."

Xie Wen shook his head and gave a relatively objective summary: "If there had not been external interference from Kurozumi Orochi and Kaido, Oden might have slowly learned how to become a qualified general after returning from overseas. But unfortunately, there is no if in this world. The actual situation is that because of Kozuki Oden's 'delay', Wano Country eventually fell into the hands of Kaido and Kurozumi Orochi."

"…So, you also think Oden is an excellent samurai, right?"

After a long silence, Yamato blurted out these words, which made Xie Wen choke and roll his eyes.

So I said so much, and you only heard this? !

Fortunately, Yamato's main purpose in saying this was just to save face for her idol, and she didn't intend to continue arguing with Xie Wen, so she quickly added: "You are here to deal with my bastard dad, right? Please let me help too!"

As she spoke, she held her chained hands in front of Xie Wen, "The mistakes that Oden once made, I, the son of Kaido who inherited his will and name, will make up for it!"

"Wait a minute, meow!"

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Kaido-nyan finally couldn't keep calm this time. He slowly typed a question mark, "You just said...Son of Kaido...Nyan?"