Tearfully Swearing Allegiance! Oden and Kin'emon!

The Mountain God continues its rampage around town in search of its baby. Upon hearing that the Mountain God swallowed Tsurujo, Kin'emon decides to battle it head on. Despite having stabbed the beast, Kin'emon is knocked back into the ground and defeated. Oden then appears and faces the Mountain God, slicing the beast cleanly in half with a single dual-sword slash. Although there were no casualties from the incident, a quarter of the town was destroyed by the Mountain God. When Kin'emon's tries to confess his guilt over incident, Oden knocks him out and takes the blame before he receives the notice of disavowal from his father and is expelled from the capital. Due to their admiration for Oden, Kin'emon and Denjiro decide to follow him. Oden stays at Hakumai and meets the region's daimyo, Yasuie, and his servant, Orochi. After Oden leaves to travel to across Wano and eventually to Kuri. Afterwards it discovered that the room Oden stayed in is absolutely destroyed. When it is also revealed that Yasuie's money has been stolen, Orochi steps forward and claims to have witnessed Oden take it. While the Daimyo's staff quickly believe the young servant, Yasuie himself is suspicious, knowing that Oden would have made more of a spectacle of the matter. As he, Kin'emon and Denjiro travel, Oden is also joined by others. In Ringo they're joined by Kikunojo and her older brother Izo (the future 16th division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates) who were sons of a dancing instructor, but their family had recently been split due to the father being jailed for a crime, forcing them to dance in the snow for money. In Kibi they met Kanjuro, who stole hair from the living and the dead to make brushes to sell for a living. In Udon, they met Raizo, who had quit the Kouzuki Clan's Oniwabanshu after a female ninja had turned him down, who begged to join Oden, no longer wanting to live in the shadows. Oden eventually arrives at Kuri and prepares to fight the bandits there, including Ashura Doji.