The answer
To save 100 lives. Oden dances naked each week in the Flower Capital to honor his bargain with Orochi and spare Wano citizens from further harm.
Ch. 971, p. 15open pagesettled: yes
Key facts
- Where
- Ch. 971Wano Country
- Who
- Kozuki Oden
- First raised
- Ch. 969
- Status
- Settled · Ch. 971
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Chapter 971 · updated
Oden dances naked in the Flower Capital each week to save one hundred lives by honoring a bargain with Orochi. He performs the ritual as a public sign of apology to the Kurozumi family at an agreed time, and Orochi promised that the crew would leave Wano after five years once shipbuilding finished. ch. 971, p. 15 Every dance therefore prevented further kidnappings, sales, or killings of Wano citizens that Orochi's men would otherwise carry out. ch. 971, p. 14 The manga states this motive directly through Shinobu's later explanation to the crowd. Oden endured the humiliation alone for five years while still checking towns for changes, believing the promise would be kept. ch. 971, p. 15 Townspeople saw only the naked dancing and labeled him the idiot lord, unaware of the lives being spared. ch. 969, p. 8 "HE CONTINUED DANCING BECAUSE EACH TIME HE DID, HE SAVED 100 LIVES!" ch. 971, p. 15 "EVERY WEEK AT AN AGREED TIME, HE WOULD DANCE NAKED AS A SIGN OF APOLOGY TOWARDS THE KUROZUMI FAMILY." ch. 971, p. 15 "THAT'S WHY LORD ODEN ACCEPTED HIS PROPOSAL!!" ch. 971, p. 15