Chapter 113 The First Liberation of Thought

"Harem chaos...Hinyori...is that the kind of harem I was thinking of?"

Momonosuke felt his heartbeat quickening, his breath coming heavily through his nostrils, and his mind was already fantasizing about the beautiful sisters in the flower street.

[Note: Momonosuke is currently eight years old, which is exactly the age he traveled to 20 years later in the original novel, the age when he was lying on the mountain with a look of wanting a beating on his face.]

Hiyori, who was standing next to him, knew what her brother was thinking without even looking. She jumped up and punched Momonosuke on the right cheek.

"boom!"

"Put away that ridiculous expression of yours, asshole!"

Momonosuke's cheeks were swollen and his eyes were full of tears. He glared at Kohiru, but he knew he could not beat her.

But...that's the harem!
Just thinking about it makes my heart beat faster!
Hiyori raised her fist and shook it, causing Momonosuke to shrink his neck.

On the podium, Robin looked at the students below after introducing the true story of Kozuki Oden.

"Now, please think about it from your own perspective. Are the choices made by Lord Oden from his birth to now right or wrong? Is it good or bad for us?"

Then, the students in the audience began to whisper.

Children are different from adults.

The new teaching method was novel to them, and the story was about the past of Lord Oden.

Although the teacher said that they don't need to address her as an adult, their long-term education has made them still believe in their hearts that Kozuki is a greater adult than the nobles.

This way of teaching feels more novel to them than the previous method of reading from a textbook.

"General Oden... it is wrong to go to sea because he is breaking the law."

"Mother said that the years when General Oden went to sea were the years when father was captured and taken to the mines."

"Me too……"

"And I."

"Woooooooo..."

……

At that moment, several students in the audience burst into tears. Before this, they were not qualified to enter the school to attend classes because their parents were samurai who supported Kozuki.

Only after the death of Kurozumi Orochi did they return to Huadu, and their children were assigned to attend the No. 1 School in Huadu.

Robin, who is not much older than her, also had tears in her eyes, but she knew that she had to teach the class to make these children learn to stand on their own feet, to recognize right from wrong, and to distinguish good from bad.

"The Kozuki clan has been ruling the country of Wano as generals since hundreds of years ago."

Robin's voice rang out, and the sobbing in the audience gradually stopped.

"So, students, what are the responsibilities of a general?"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a natural response from the audience: "Harem?"

"Bang! Bang bang bang..."

After a beating, the blushing Xiao Rihe decided that she would definitely not sit with this perverted brother tomorrow.

It's so embarrassing!
Robin on the podium moved his hand, but seeing that Momonosuke had already been beaten, he did not activate his ability.

"Although there are other hidden reasons behind the harem chaos caused by Lord Kozuki Oden when he was young, as the next shogun, his responsibility must not be to build a harem and expand the Kozuki clan."

"According to research records, basically if a king has many children, there will be greater chaos in the struggle for power. When order becomes too chaotic, ordinary people will lose their lives."

"Among those present here, there are descendants of nobles, merchants, and commoners. However, the upper class is a minority after all, so the majority are still commoners."

Robin looked at most of the people in the academy, "So you want chaos?"

"do not wish!"

"There will be nothing to eat, my father will be arrested, and my mother will be very tired."

"I just want to have enough food to eat every day."

"I hope my mother can survive!"

"And my grandfather. He replaced my father in the mines. He loved me the most, but he was taken away that day and never came back."

……

Robin continued, "Yes, because the people of Wano Country recognized the Kozuki clan, the Kozuki clan was able to become the generals of Wano Country hundreds of years ago."

"Then why do people recognize the Kozuki clan? It's because everyone believes that the Kozuki clan can make Wano Country a better place, so that everyone can have food to eat and survive."

"So now we can see the responsibilities of the general. The general is a position responsible for the entire Wano Country, not a high-ranking person who can do whatever he wants because of the power in his hands."

At this time, Momonosuke in the audience sighed.

The dream... is shattered?
But Xiao Rihe who was standing beside him was listening attentively.

She had attended the two speeches in Huadu before with her father, but she could only hear vaguely what the lecturer said on the stage, and she did not understand many of the words.

But she understood the lectures in the school, especially what the young lady said today, which was to look at right and wrong based on one's own standpoint.

So what is your position?

The Kotsuki clan?
No, my father has never thought that he is superior to others, and the same goes for my mother, except for this useless brother.

So, put yourself in the shoes of ordinary people?

"It was also wrong for Lord Oden to go to sea in pursuit of freedom after he came of age. Since Lord Oden was born, he has enjoyed the treatment brought by the position of general, but when it was time to fulfill his duties, he went to sea in the name of pursuing freedom without caring about anything."

"This also led to the fact that when Lord Kozuki Sukiyaki was seriously ill, it was easy for Kurozumi Orochi to temporarily take over the position of Shogun."

"By making such a decision, Kozuki Sukiyaki cannot escape the blame for the suffering of Wano Country over the years, and the same is true for Lord Kozuki Oden."

"In my opinion, power should not bring superiority, nor should it bring a hereditary aristocracy, but should bring responsibility for the future of the entire Wano Country."

As soon as he finished speaking, the children in the audience all frowned.

As they are just beginning to receive education, their thinking is not yet as rigid as that of their parents, nor have they been poisoned by the so-called samurai spirit.

To them, Kozuki Oden was just the biggest noble among the adults, but they were not aware of the class gap between nobles and commoners, so they dared to question.

At this time, Xiao Hiyori stood up and looked at Robin: "Mother told me that father went to sea for the future of Wano Country, because one day in the future Wano Country will be founded..."

Before she finished speaking, Robin raised her hand to interrupt her: "I know this, and I originally planned to put the content of this point in the next class, but it's not impossible to talk about it now."

"For the future of Wano Country, we can only ask the lower-class people to make sacrifices, right? The essence of this approach is this sentence."

"So if you, Hiyori, are not from the Kozuki clan, but are just an ordinary little girl in Wano Country, then for the so-called invisible future, would you be willing to cause your father to die in the mines, your family to starve, your brother to die of starvation, and you can only survive by becoming a singer in the flower street?"

Xiao Rihe was stunned by the question.

Because she was really considering what Robin was saying as a possibility, so would she be willing?
For the future that mother talked about?

Is founding a country so important?
Is the Kozuki clan that important?
If the Kozuki clan is really the necessary ruler of Wano Country, then why...

Suddenly, all the children in the classroom turned their eyes to Xiao Rihe.

Most of them are children of ordinary people in Huadu. Today is the first time that they question the once high and mighty Kozuki clan based on their own class.

...Under Robin's guidance, the day's classes in the school ended.

But all the children were in completely different moods. They were still thinking about the story the teacher told them in class today and how they should distinguish between good and evil.

Is it based on one’s own position?

So what is the position of Princess Hiyori from General Oden's family and Lord Momonosuke?

With doubts, all the children began to go home one after another.

The one who came to pick up Hiyori and Momonosuke today was Denjiro, and they take turns picking them up every day.

"Did the teacher criticize you today, Momonosuke-sama? Why are you all so upset? Maybe we can buy some delicious food on the street later."

Denjiro said as he looked at Hiyori again, "You can buy some pretty toys later too."

However, it seemed that he was the only one performing a one-man show, as Hiyori and Momonosuke ignored him.

Scratching his head, Denjiro said helplessly: "Okay. But if there are any questions you don't understand, perhaps I, an adult, can answer them."

Hiyori looked at him and said, "So it was a mistake for father to insist on continuing his journey to the sea at that time for the people of Wano Country, right? After all, it was during that period that Kurozumi Orochi stole the position of general and caused so many people in Wano Country to die in mines and weapons factories."

Well(_)
Denjiro didn't know how to answer for a moment. After all, even the nine of them... no, eight of them didn't understand Lord Oden that time.

During that period, life was very hard, and the clothes of the mistress and the young master were full of patches.

The mistress would go out every day to help everyone with their work, which reduced the people's resentment towards Lord Oden a lot.

And later...

Facts have proved that Lord Oden's choice was indeed wrong, but how could he, as a retainer, say such a mistake?

"Hiyori, father will never be wrong no matter what."

At this time, Momonosuke on the side spoke.

Hiyori looked at him.

Momonosuke continued, "As the father of the Kozuki clan and the successor to the general, you can't be wrong about Wano Country!"

"We are not on the side of the common people, we are on the side of Kozuki!"

After the last sentence was spoken, Hiyori's eyes widened.

Xiao Rihe, who grew up together and understands her brother, is only two years apart in age.

next second...

"what!!"

"boom!"

He kicked Momonosuke in the face and sent him flying.

Hiyori put her hands on her hips and put one foot on Momonosuke's chest: "So you, a guy with a head full of perverted ideas, are obsessed with the chaos in father's harem, right?"

Eh?
As if he had heard something extraordinary, Denjiro was a little confused.

Wasn’t the harem chaos something that Your Highness was responsible for when he was young?
Besides, I don’t know whether the mistress knows about this matter, so how could the two young masters know about it?

"open!"

"No! You sick-headed guy!"

Momonosuke struggled for a bit, but found he couldn't get free, so he just lay on the ground, but his eyes were no longer as pitiful as before.

"I am a member of the Kozuki clan, and I am also the future general of Wano Country! This... this is my position!"

"They...what they said is all wrong! Father killed Orochi and is the only legitimate general of Wano Country. I will be too in the future!"

Xiao Rihe was stunned for a moment, and unknowingly loosened his foot.

Sister Robin's words in class flashed through my mind.

"Power can bring many things, but it can also bring endless desires. No one can be sure that they will not be tempted and can stay sober. Therefore...power needs to be checked and balanced."

Xiao Rihe felt her mind was in a mess. Today was the first time she learned how to think and how to judge.

But it was this first time that made her feel that the people around her also felt unreal.

Momonosuke climbed up, brushed the dirt off his body, glanced at Hiyori, and walked towards the Shogun's mansion.

"Hiyori-sama..."

Denjiro also didn't know what to say, so the three of them returned to the Shogun's Mansion one after another.

And at a place on the street, a warrior saw all of this, then turned and left, heading towards Bai Wu.

……

Late at night, in Bai Wu’s Daimyo Prefecture.

Shimotsuki Yasuie continued to look at the records on the table in front of him over and over again. These were the contents of the speeches and lectures in various regions of Wano Country in recent days.

The easy-to-understand guidance and the in-depth speeches made Shimotsuki Yasuie's face increasingly ugly.

"Oh!"

"Crack!"

A fist came down in anger, and the table was shattered.

"Bewitching! Bewitching!"

Shimotsuki Yasuie threw the record scroll in his hand and smashed it in front of the retainer.

"What do they want to do? Let Wano Country fall into chaos again?!"

"The Kozuki clan is questioning the new shogun. Do they want to make all the people of Wano Country rebel?!"

"For hundreds of years, Wano Country has been safe and sound under the leadership of the Kozuki clan and nobles like us. They just defeated Kaido. What right do they have to question Kozuki?!"

"Revolutionary Army!"

"This group of people is the source of chaos..."

The retainer kneeling on the ground trembled slightly and did not dare to raise his head.

Recently, this daimyo, who was extremely gentle and kind in the past, has become more and more irritable, and the cause is all due to the recent ideological education speeches and classes.

"Huhuhu..."

Shimotsuki Yasuie, who had calmed down, looked at the records at the bottom of the desk.

And the above are exactly what Momonosuke said while lying on the ground. These words finally made Shimotsuki Yasuie smile.

……

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