The Next Day, Early Morning Sabaody Archipelago, Island 71, Inn Street.
Sephiroth, lying on a large white bed, groaned softly. He sat up, looked at Gion, raised his hand and touched the woman's soft black hair, greeting her. "Good morning!"
"Humph!" Gion didn't reply, but glanced at him with a charming look. After a moment, she sat up.
Two hours later, Gion left the hotel with a slightly wobbly gait. Sephiroth lay in bed for a while before going to the bathroom and quickly taking a shower and changing his clothes again. At this time, he suddenly remembered something. Gion didn't give him 50,000 Berry this time!?
"You've whitewashed it correctly! A loss! A loss! This time I had to pay the rent." While muttering, he used his Butcher's Knife, opened a Spatial Door, returned to the three-story villa on Island 41, walked to the kitchen, and made breakfast for Perona, who was still sleeping on the second floor. With her pampered and spoiled nature, Perona had really become lazy and completely turned into a cheat girl. If Sephiroth didn't wake her up, she would usually sleep until noon. Cooking or something, don't even think about it! If he wasn't at home and didn't cook, the girl would call the nearest Umbrella Corporation restaurant directly, order food, and have the restaurant deliver the food.
Fortunately, perhaps in terms of ability development, Perona was outstanding. After several years of development, she had figured out the ability to semi-spiritualize her body so that she could float and move in the air. If she could go further in the future and achieve complete ghosting, she could pass through all physical entities. That way, as long as you didn't use Armament Haki, you couldn't hurt her.
After a while, Sephiroth came out of the kitchen with a bagel and hot milk on a dining plate and went up to the second floor, to his own bedroom. As soon as he entered the door, the silver-haired youth saw Perona, wearing a pink silk nightgown, holding a small teddy bear in her arms, using her small pink and white legs, kicking the quilt, spreading her legs wide, and lying on the big bed in a very indecent sleeping position.
"Hey! Perona, wake up. Wake up for breakfast!" After Sephiroth put her breakfast on the bedside table, he raised his right hand and pinched the girl's pink face.
"Woo~! Morning, Sephiroth." As she spoke, Perona grabbed his pants. Because the pink-haired girl was a bad sleeper, she shouted for more than an hour before she was willing to get up, drink milk, and eat the breakfast he had prepared.
Back to the Laboratory Sabaody Archipelago, Island 50.
In one of the steel cages in the underground laboratory, Kozuki Sukiyaki, with metal shackles on his limbs, sat cross-legged on the metal floor paved with thick steel plates, his eyes closed, as if he were taking a nap. In front of him, a pen and a notebook.
Following Sephiroth's request, Kozuki Sukiyaki had written down his swordsmithing techniques. Of course, on some important points, he had deliberately created ambiguities and omissions. In his opinion, the silver-haired youth had captured him and imprisoned him in this unknown place, asking him to write down his swordsmithing techniques. This was his capital for survival, and he naturally wanted to preserve it. When the other party asked for a little, he revealed a little on the outside, to stall for time, and thereby allow him to find a chance to escape.
On the other hand, Kozuki Sukiyaki was pondering why the silver-haired youth would know his real name. He had lived in seclusion for many years with a mask on his back, and even the residents of Amigasa Village did not know who he was. Externally, Kurozumi Orochi had already announced his death, and years ago, no one except Orochi should have known about his escape from his cell. Therefore, after much deliberation, he could only assume the silver-haired youth was a subordinate of Kurozumi Orochi. Since the other party was coveting his swordsmithing skills in his heart, there was no rush to turn him over to Kurozumi Orochi.
DENG! With a sound, the door of the steel room was opened from the outside. Wearing a white coat on the outside and a black suit on the inside, Sephiroth, holding a tray in his hand, walked to Kozuki Sukiyaki. On the tray were two bagels and a big red apple. After the silver-haired youth picked up the book and looked at it, he suddenly stared at the white-haired old man.
"Where are the Swords Enma and Ame no Habakiri?"
There was an expression of astonishment on Kozuki Sukiyaki's face first. He pondered for a moment before speaking, "I don't know either." These two swords were his son Kozuki Oden's treasured swords. Therefore, after his son's death, he had already found a way to find them and found a place to hide them.
Without getting his own answer, and not getting annoyed, Sephiroth switched to a different question, "Where is the Ancient Weapon Pluton hidden in Wano Country?"
Hearing this, Kozuki Sukiyaki's eyes suddenly widened, and with a look of fear on his face, he asked without answering, "You actually know that Pluton is hidden in Wano Country...".
In response, Sephiroth smiled and instead threw out another question. "The method to learn the ancient characters and read the Poneglyphs...?"
"Poneglyphs... Who the hell are you? Are you a subordinate of Kurozumi Orochi?" The silver-haired youth told the secrets one by one from his mouth, which shocked Kozuki Sukiyaki, but he still refused to reveal the relevant information.
"You don't need to know these things...".
As he spoke, Sephiroth grabbed the white-haired old man's neck. In his mouth, two blood-sucking fangs appeared in an instant, and he bit the other's neck with one bite.
Blood Warning!
And the fragments of memory began to be read, from the questions he had just asked, to the memories of the swordsmithing techniques the Kozuki Sukiyaki wrote last night, and the thoughts that came to his mind, and he obtained the answers by sucking and dissecting the blood. After three years of development, his ability to read memories with blood had come a long way and could be read directly, within a month! In the future, as he continued to develop, it might be able to do so, and might go back directly to the memories of many years ago.
PLOP!
Sephiroth's cheek twitched slightly, and he threw the pale-faced old man in his hand, as if he were a ragdoll, straight to the floor.
"Full of industrial pollution materials... Your blood really tastes disgusting! I almost vomited." As he spoke, he took out a black handkerchief from his white coat and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. In the end, he also took out a document and threw it next to Kozuki Sukiyaki. "This is some Poneglyph, please translate it for me."
After saying that, the silver-haired youth turned and left the steel room without looking back. With regard to the underdog, Kozuki Sukiyaki, Sephiroth could not talk about any good or bad feelings, and he exploited him only because those feelings had utilitarian value. In addition, he was now ready to start planning a peaceful country. If he also left Kozuki Sukiyaki in Wano Country, it might cause him a lot of trouble in the future, which he did not want to see.
After all, compared to the extremely foolish Kozuki Oden and the immoral Kurozumi Orochi, Kozuki Sukiyaki's reputation in Wano Country was what the people wanted. If he wanted to stir up trouble and just raised his hands, it would definitely be echoed by everyone.
Kozuki Sukiyaki, who was lying on the cold steel plate floor, slowly sat up and looked at the closed steel gate. Just now, while the silver-haired youth was sucking his blood, a pinwheel somehow appeared in his mind. Combining the few questions asked by the silver-haired youth, he immediately figured out the reason. No! If he continues like this, he will definitely read all the secrets through my blood. I must find a way to stop him!
While thinking about it, Kozuki Sukiyaki's eyes shifted to the big red apple on the dining plate...
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