## One Piece Chapter 962: The Daimyo and His Retainers - Chapter: 962 - Pages: 0-13 - Characters: Capone Bege, Charlotte Chiffon, Kozuki Oden, Shimotsuki Yasuie, Kozuki Sukiyaki, Ashura Doji, Kurozumi Orochi, Kinemon, Denjiro, Izo, Kikunojo, Kanjuro, Raizo, Tsurujo ### Summary Page 0: The cover presents Chapter 962, "The Daimyo and His Retainers." The cover story reads, "Gang Bege's 'Oh My Family' vol. 12: 'We stumbled upon an intoxicated vacuum-kissing devil and her pursuers.'" Bege's group encounters a chaotic scene in Dressrosa, continuing the cover serial rather than the chapter's main Wano plot. Page 2: After being exiled from the capital, Oden leaves Hakumai. The people who see him go cry, "Are you really leaving, Sir Oden...!?" and, with mixed relief and affection, "We will be free of your trouble, but it will be lonely without you!" Oden's curiosity turns toward Kuri after he hears there is a beast living there, "a monster by the name of Ashura Doji!!" Yasuie calls Kuri "a cancer upon Wano" and says even Lord Sukiyaki does not touch the place. As soon as one crosses into Kuri, the laws of the shogunate become meaningless; it is so lawless that it may as well not be part of the country. Oden only grins: "How interesting!! I think I will take my own tour around the country!!" Page 3: Back in Hakumai, Yasuie discovers that his room has been wrecked and his money stolen. His retainers shout, "This is the room he stayed in!! Just look at this place!!" and "We should demand compensation!!" Yasuie tries to soften the judgment, saying, "Well... I would rather just pretend a natural disaster passed through..." but they insist, "Lord Yasuie, you are too soft on Oden!!" The money was locked in the safe, yet it is gone. Orochi nervously says, "Um... I hate to be a snitch, but... I saw what happened." He claims, "It was Lord Oden... He... stuffed all the money into a bag!!" When asked if he is certain, Orochi stammers, "Hee hee... Yes, please forgive me... I was just too scared to stop him..." The retainers believe him and rage that Oden repaid their hospitality by robbing them, while Yasuie falls silent. The story lets the theft sit on Orochi, not Oden. Page 4: Oden and his followers cause many incidents on their way to Kuri. Oden asks Kinemon and Denjiro, "How long are you two going to follow me!?" They answer with total devotion: "Forever!!" "We adore you!!" Yasuie looks disgusted by them, but their loyalty only grows. As Oden travels, he decides to keep a log, saying, "Apparently, sailors from the outside world do the same thing during their voyages. I have decided to keep a log." When Kinemon and Denjiro try to stand guard, Oden snaps, "What are you doing!?" They insist, "As your servants, we must stand guard!!" and he calls them dolts, telling them to come inside already. Page 5: Oden's log records the people he meets on the road. In Ringo, he encounters two filthy, starving brothers, Izo and Kikunojou. They were raised in a dancing school, but their family fell apart after their father was arrested and convicted. The locals mocked them as they danced in the streets to survive, yet the boys devoured the oden Oden made while tears streamed down their faces. Oden barks, "Eat up, you little brats!!" In Kibi, he hears of a demon that steals human hair whether the victims are dead or alive. That demon is Kanjuro, a weirdo who used the hair to make brushes. After Kanjuro targets Oden's hair, Oden beats him, and Kanjuro follows him ever since, crying, "Uwaaah, I yield!! I yield!!" while Oden tells him, "It seems that he was persecuted in the past, but you reap what you sow!" Page 6: Oden's log continues. In Udon, there are rumors of a heinous mountain bandit who fights any man he locks eyes with and kidnaps any woman. The bandit turns out to be Raizo, a genius ninja who resigned from the Kozuki family's Oniwabanshu after being rejected by a kunoichi. Raizo, miserable and dramatic, says, "Lord Oden!! I am sick... of living in hiding like some hermit!!" Still, Oden wonders, "Why do you guys keep following me...?" Meanwhile, Kuri waits ahead as the lawless land ruled by Ashura Doji. When Ashura hears, "Kozuki Oden is coming to Kuri?" he laughs that he would love to kill shogunate blood, ordering, "Bring him to me!!" Ashura hates privileged people with power most of all. Page 7: Oden's followers lose track of him because he has gone south instead of toward Kuri. They know his habits too well: "He often disappears for a day or two on a whim, right?" When they reach Kuri, the front gate is already broken. Kinemon is furious that he is late to the battle, shouting, "How disgraceful!! I swore that I would die for him... But I am late to the battle!!" Inside, Oden stands amid wreckage and bodies, facing Ashura Doji. Ashura asks, "So you are Kozuki Oden?" Oden answers that he was disowned, so that name is no longer his. He explains what happened: "After I broke open the gate... I was overwhelmed by the stench of blood,...