I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

After drawing more than a dozen tubes of blood from the Black Charcoal Snake, Xie Wen removed the seastone chains from his body.

Although Kurozumi Orochi didn't understand why, he transformed into Yamata no Orochi again, and while guarding against the seastone chain that Xie Wen had thrown to the side, he bit Xie Wen again...

Then he was beaten up by Xie Wen with his bare hands, and some of the Yamata no Orochi's scales, flesh, horns and other body tissues were collected from him.

After collecting all the materials sufficient to support Huiyuan Miao's research, Xie Wen was satisfied and wrapped the seastone chain around Kurozumi Orochi again.

"Want to take revenge yourself?"

Xie Wen turned his head and looked at Kozuki Hiyori who had been watching silently on the side.

"C-can it?"

An expression of surprise suddenly appeared on Kozuki Hiyori's face.

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute!"

Seeing that Xie Wen didn't kill him, but only took some materials from his body and drew some blood, Kurozumi Orochi thought he had saved his life. He quickly begged for mercy: "Xiao Zi! It's me! Haven't you always loved me?! I was wrong about what happened to the maid before, but I already regret it!"

Xia Ermi, who had returned to Xie Wen's shoulder, also covered her mouth with her little paws and laughed, "Puff puff puff... Xie Wen dear~ Is this guy an idiot, meow?"

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"It's obvious." Xie Wen spread his hands, "And he's a complete idiot with no self-awareness."

Although Kurozumi Orochi secretly hated Xie Wen and Maomao for their ridicule, he did not dare to make any rebuttal. He just looked at "Xiao Zi" anxiously and placed his hope of survival on the other party.

"You actually said that I love you, how ridiculous..."

Kozuki Hiyori sneered and stood beside Xie Wen, staring at Kurozumi Orochi, gritting his teeth and saying, "I don't have the slightest affection for you!"

"Eh--?!!"

Kurozumi Orochi looked shocked, as if he had suffered a great shock.

Xie Wen: "..."

So where on earth do you get this confidence?!

"My father kept his promise..." Tears streamed down Hiyori's cheeks, but her expression became calmer. "He believed the promise you and Kaido made to 'release Wano Country', and believed that you would let everyone go as long as they could stay in the oil pan for an hour... This naive idea is still being laughed at by people outside."

Xie Wen, who was called out, touched his nose awkwardly.

"Father, father?" Kurozumi Orochi finally realized what was happening. "Could it be that... you... you are?!"

"That's right! My name is Kozuki Hiyori! I'm the daughter of Kozuki Oden's 'foolish prince'!" Hiyori took out a dagger from her sleeve and pointed it at Kurozumi Orochi, "I'm here to take your life today! To avenge my father!"

"I...I also like Oden very much! I was just...used by Kaido!"

Kurozumi Orochi is still quibbling, but such words that even Kozuki Oden would not believe if he were to be resurrected naturally cannot stop Kozuki Hiyori's approach.

But Xie Wen can...

"Wait," Xie Wen pulled out a samurai sword from his waist bag and handed it to Kozuki Hiyori, "Use this 'Sandaike Kitetsu'. This is the sword made by your grandfather Kozuki Sukiyaki."

Kozuki Hiyori was only stunned for a moment, then took the "Sandaike Kitetsu" obediently, then quickly walked to the front of Kurozumi Orochi and pointed the tip of the knife at his heart.

“Waaaaaah! No!” The giant snake held by the seastone chains could only lie on the ground in panic and beg for mercy loudly: “Stop it! Revenge is not popular nowadays! Even if you kill me, you can’t defeat Kai…”

"puff!"

The sharp blade pierced deeply into Kurozumi Orochi's heart, interrupting his pleas for mercy and ending his life.

Kozuki Hiyori silently drew out the "Sandaike Kitetsu", turned around and knelt in front of Xie Wen, and held the sheathed Kitetsu in both hands and returned it high.

"Thank you, Master Wen. I have no way of repaying your kindness to the Kozuki clan."

"..."

"???"

What about the next sentence?

After taking back Kitetsu, Xie Wen waited and waited, but did not hear Kozuki Hiyori say the next sentence, and he couldn't help feeling depressed.

How about even saying “I want to be a slave in my next life”?

Xie Wen, who has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder, complained in his heart.

Kozuki Hiyori had no idea what Xie Wen was thinking. After returning the Sandai Kitetsu, she knelt down in front of Xie Wen and then slowly stood up.

"Hold on."

Of course, Xie Wen couldn't force the other party to "work like a slave" or "give himself to him", so he bypassed Hiyori and used his body as a cover to take out the hunter's knife and stab the Kurozumi Orochi again.

Sure enough, the Yamata no Orochi Fruit that Klee disliked did not appear, and at the same time...

Nothing appeared either.

"Oh?"

Xie Wen raised his eyebrows.

In the comics, Kurozumi Orochi did come back to life after having his head chopped off by Kaido, but the price was that his Yamata-no-Orochi form was missing a head.

So, it's not just beheading, but no matter how you die, you can be resurrected by consuming your head?

Xie Wen used his Observation Haki to sense, but was unable to sense any sound or breath from the Kurozumi Orochi. He removed the seastone chain, but there was still no reaction from the other party.

He wasn't sure whether Kurozumi Orochi was playing dead again or whether he needed time to revive, but he didn't plan to wait for him to come back to life and then chop off the remaining heads one by one...

Anyway, there are substitutes for the Yamata no Orochi fruit, and the original comic also tells Xie Wen how to get rid of the Kurozumi Orochi in one go -

"Kelly, lend me a light."

Xie Wen tilted his head and rubbed the little doll on his shoulder.

"oh--!"

(=`=)

Klee raised her little paw and flicked her finger, and a golden flame popped out.

The flames lightly landed on the black charcoal snake and spread to his entire body in the blink of an eye.

As the flames fell, the lifeless Black Charcoal Snake lying on the ground did not react at first, just like a real corpse. However, Klee's golden flames that could easily burn through stone could not even burn the Black Charcoal Snake's hair...

“Aaaaaaaa——!!!”

After burning for a while, the black charcoal snake, which had been motionless, suddenly screamed.

He wailed and rolled around in the snow for several times, but failed to put out the flames on his body. Instead, the flames burned more and more fiercely. Then, he turned into the appearance of Yamata no Orochi again, but this time Yamata no Orochi only had two heads left. The other head was no longer moving, and it drooped next to the main head and gradually turned into charcoal.

With the disappearance of the seventh head, the black charcoal snake, which maintained its beast form, fell to the ground again and lost its voice. Its body, which had previously refused to be burned, was rapidly carbonized and eventually burned to ashes, leaving only a scorch mark on the ground that was still emitting heat.

"Kurozumi" eventually died in a fire, which is in line with Oda's original work, the "destiny" he designed, and the conclusion of the world line.