"Wings?"
Michael was puzzled.
He had thought the wife of Wano's shogun was preparing for so kind of political confrontation with him...
But all she wanted...
was to see his wings?
What was so special about them?
"That's right, I want to see your Wings." Kozuki Toki repeated with utmost seriousness, "This is... very important to ."
"What!? Mother, you want to see Michael-sama angelic Wings!? Could it be you've also been captivated by Michael-sama beautiful appearance!?" Kozuki Hiyori exclaid in delight, gripping her mother's shoulders.
"I'm not alone in this after all, ahahahaha!"
"What kind of nonsense is swirling around in that little head of yours?" Kozuki Toki reached out and tapped her daughter's forehead.
"This... is serious business."
Having said that, she turned her gaze back to Michael.
Her eyes brimd with anticipation.
If not for their earlier conversation... Michael might have agreed with Hiyori's speculation.
But...
It was just showing his wings.
Michael didn't say anything more. In the next instant, the Wings belonging to a Seraphim appeared behind him.
Still two pairs of large wings and one pair of smaller wings that had only recently grown.
Gentle Holy light filled the air, a sacred sensation overflowing throughout the entire garden.
Nourished by the Holy light, the budding flowers blood instantly.
Kozuki Toki observed the changes around them, then fixed her gaze unwaveringly on the Wings behind Michael.
Then...
Her eyes gradually reddened, tears spilling forth.
"So... the legends are true, you truly co from this ti..." Kozuki Toki murmured to herself.
Michael was taken aback.
Wait, what did that an?
What "legends"?
What "co from this ti"?
What exactly was Kozuki Toki talking about?
He understood every word individually, but strung together, they made no sense.
"Lady Toki... what exactly do you an?"
"Kikunojo, Izo, take Momonosuke and Hiyori away for now. I need to speak with Michael alone."
Without answering, Kozuki Toki commanded the Izo brothers instead.
Michael frowned.
Everything unfolding now was completely beyond his expectations.
But seeing the clarity in Kozuki Toki's eyes, Michael was certain she hadn't lost her mind...
"Yamato, Jack, since Lady Toki has requested it, you should step aside for now too."
Jack and Yamato exchanged glances, but neither had ever questioned Michael's decisions.
So the mont he finished speaking, they followed Izo without hesitation, temporarily leaving the garden.
With everyone gone, only Kozuki Toki and Michael remained in the garden.
Just as Michael was about to speak, Kozuki Toki threw herself into his embrace.
The wife of Wano's shogun, nearly as tall as Michael, held onto him tightly.
The impact of this mont left Michael completely frozen.
His entire body stiffened instantly.
He even forgot to break free from the embrace.
Only when he felt Kozuki Toki's arms tightening around him did Michael regain his senses.
"Lady Toki, I..."
Michael was about to say he wasn't into married won and try to disentangle himself when he felt a dampness on his left shoulder...
Tears.
Simultaneously, he seed to sense her agitation and... sorrow.
And at this mont, as if guided by so unseen force, Michael reached out and gently patted Kozuki Toki's back.
This gesture only intensified her emotions further.This resulted in Michael's clothes being soaked from his shoulders down to his waist.
Won truly are made of water...
Damn, she can really cry!
But jokes aside, faced with such inexplicable behavior, Michael found himself treading carefully.
He continuously emitted faint holy light to soothe Kozuki Toki's emotions.
He didn't know why he was doing this...
But deep down, he felt it was the right thing to do.
Slowly, Kozuki Toki stopped her silent tears and gradually cald down.
Only then did Michael gently push her away with a bit more force.
"Lady Toki, I need an explanation."
"Don't call Lady Toki! You can't call that!" Kozuki Toki stubbornly shook her head, as if transforming from a mature general's wife into a willful young girl in an instant.
"No, no! Absolutely not! You must call Toki!"
"Alright, alright, don't get worked up... Toki."
"Mhm!"
Hearing this address, Kozuki Toki's smile instantly pierced through the gloom of her tear-streaked face.
"Now, can you tell what's really going on?"
Hearing this, Kozuki Toki glanced at the wings behind Michael and showed an expression of sudden understanding.
"What are you looking at?"
"Your third pair of wings... they haven't fully grown yet. That ans you haven't truly awakened the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan: Seraphim Form."
Michael's eyes widened sharply.
Although he hadn't hidden his Devil Fruit abilities for a long ti, only a few old-tirs like Sengoku and Garp could accurately na his Devil Fruit.
So how did Kozuki Toki before him know?
Unconsciously, a hint of wariness crept into Michael's eyes.
This was... far too strange.
In the original story, though she was soone who had traveled through eight hundred years of ti, she didn't have much of a unique storyline and mostly served as a background character.
To put it bluntly, there wasn't much depth to her character or background, and even the "eight hundred years ago" tied to her was vague.
Gentle, innocent, straightforward, empathetic, intelligent, and never weak.
She didn't put on airs, worked alongside the people, and was beloved by them.
The perfect daimyo's wife.
But the Kozuki Toki before him now... was almost entirely detached from her original setting.
Bold, fierce, and cunning...
"Just who... are you?"
At this mont, Michael's confusion and psychological pressure facing Kozuki Toki even surpassed what he felt when confronting the Five Elders.
There seed to be a secret about her.
And this secret...
Was deeply connected to Michael himself.
"This goes back a very, very long ti... Over eight hundred years ago, there was a little girl nad Toki. Her parents died unexpectedly, leaving her to wander the streets as a beggar."
"Later, a six-winged angel descended from the heavens, took her in, and raised her into adulthood."
"Then one day, Toki accidentally ate a Devil Fruit... In her panic, her newly acquired powers went out of control."
"The six-winged angel happened to be within the range of her ability."
"Before disappearing, he told ..."
"He would wait for in the future." Kozuki Toki wiped away her tears and gave Michael the brightest smile she had ever mustered.
"It's been eight hundred years since we last t..."
"Father."
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