## One Piece Chapter 969, pages 11-12: The Idiot Lord - Chapter: 969 - Pages: 11-12 - Characters: Kozuki Oden, Kurozumi Orochi, Hyogoro, Okami-san, Kurozumi Higurashi, Kaido ### Summary Page 11: Three years after Oden's return, the people still mock him: "The idiot lord is back!" Four years after his return, nothing has changed in the country, and Oden is still embarrassing himself. Hyogoro's wife, Okami-san, teases him kindly: "Your dancing is steadily improving, you know?" Oden says, "I will never be at his service!" and she answers, "Oh stop it, Okami-san!" The tone changes in the fifth year, when Shogun Orochi finally appears in Kuri. His arrival is announced with fanfare: "It's Shogun Orochi!!" "The shogun has arrived in Kuri!!" Oden's strange bargain with Orochi is about to be tested. Page 12: Orochi tells Oden he wants to build multiple factories in Kuri and expects his cooperation. Oden asks the questions that have mattered for five years: "What about the boat? And what about Kaido?" Orochi answers as if the old promise means nothing: "First I'd like to ask you, shogun..." then says he wants to transform Wano into a gigantic weapon factory. He also reveals that Hyogoro refused to comply, so Orochi left him in Kaido's hands and he will probably be killed. Worse, Hyogoro of the Flower was captured in the capital, causing his men to revolt, and the result was the killing of sixteen of Hyogoro's men, including his wife. Higurashi laughs that the woman who followed Hyogoro was shot. Oden finally understands the cost of waiting.