Leaving Wano

4 months later.

This was the day Ian and co were finally leaving Wano in. Everything was already done, Wano was back to its feet, and Ian and co finished their business.

After the war, they had enjoyed a party for a whole week. All around Wano food was distributed and everybody joined in on the celebration.

The news that Orochi and Kaido were gone spread around the whole land in a single day. That alone was the sole reason everybody was filled to the brim with happiness.

Afterward, everybody from the allies started to leave.

Apart from Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and some other minks with them, all the rest had already left Wano after the war. They had their own duties to their kingdoms so they left. As for the two rulers, they had a duty to their lord Momonosuke, so they would stay a bit more, or so they had said.

Some, like Law, left after the first week, and some others spent a bit more, but Only Ian and co stuck around so much, enough to see the changes the land of Wano went through.

Even the straw hats had already left. Their job was done, they had helped their allies, and had taken care of their problem against Kaido, which resulted from destroying the smile factories…

A promise to fight when Luffy reaches the top was shared between Ian and him too. Both Ian and Luffy were excited about that… Ian mainly for seeing what other new gears Luffy was going to come up with.

The newest addition to their crew, Yamato, also started her journey with them with full enthusiasm.

For Zoro, he was given Enma as a gift. That was unlike what he was thinking before. Since it belonged to Oden, he thought he would have to give it back. But it turned out he could keep it.

Their crew was given gold and silver as a gift too, which all wanted to refuse, but Nami ended up accepting it on their behalf.

Her eyes while doing so, were scary for the samurai handing them the gifts…

****

Due to Ian, various things had changed around the whole of Wano.

Ian right now was heading out to the pier with Kin'emon to join his crew, before finally leaving Wano.

"Sigh. I can't believe four months went by so fast…" Kin'emon sighed as he walked with Ian.

Ian smiled as he looked at the changed Wano.

Everything was just… better.

The scenery of the trees in full bloom, the roses on the sideways, and the fresh smell of nature that was lost to them, all came back.

Everything was so full of life, Ian felt relaxed…

Ian had already told his crew to get things ready so that they could leave. Meanwhile, he had gone and joined Kin'emon for a conversation concerning a favor he had to ask of him.

But only he and Kin'emon talked about this. The rest had already gone away to the pier in preparation to send off Ian.

Basically, Kin'emon had asked Ian to stand by their side when the time comes for them to open the land of Wano.

They had over the course of their journey came to witness the existence of the world government and how fearsome it was.

In fact, if it was not their late lord's will to Open Wano, they wouldn't dare do so.

As such they could only rely on Ian's prowess and reputation to survive at that time.

Ian didn't mind so it was resolved easily. When the time comes, the land of Wano will surface into the world, as a country under the protection of Ian D. Louis. The fifth emperor of the sea, now fourth since big mom was dead, and the captain of the Nightmare pirates.

Ian before going back promised the little guy Momo to come to visit and to also help train him in the future.

That kid got a friend in Tama, and the little girl Toko. They each gotten along quite well and played around since the end of the war…

Tama had promised to be a ninja that is to him, something similar to what nine scabbards were to Oden.

And as expected Momo didn't feel strongly about that, until he had to admit her strength after she showed him her ability to tame wild beasts.

As for Toko, she was the maid of his sister, and since his sister Hiyori was always around him, she was permitted to play with them.

Ian had even helped to heal Toko from her sickness so she could play like a normal kid…

One might ask how did he cure her?

Well, Ian found out that the healing water he could produce turned out to be able to cleanse the polluted soil of the land of Wano.

So Ian was requested to help with this particular problem.

He didn't mind of course.

The land of Wano, apart from the capital, was completely reduced to wastelands.

And Ian changed that.

That was the very next thing he did right after making sure the news of Orochi dying and Kaido being taken care of was spread out among the citizens.

He did all this along the course of the four months of course…

He went around the country and using his powers he created a huge quantity of healing water, by drawing water from nearby rivers and adding his healing energy to it, after which he used this new water and changed the polluted soil into a fertile one.

Once he had done that, he left the next task to the men of Wano to prepare locations near each city, to make something akin to the paradise farms. Except for this time, it was for all regions and not just one.

These paradise farms would produce high-quality crops such as rice, fruits, and vegetables as well as various high-quality livestock, poultry, and seafood such as chicken, eggs, beef, mutton, tuna, and salmon.

In this way, Ian had resolved the problem of food the whole land of Wano was facing.

And now due to that, there was no reason someone like Otama would starve…

And during that time, due to chopper, Ian even discovered that the sick people of Wano would be cured of their problems if they drunk the healing water. Including the ones who had eaten defective smile devil fruits.

This was how Toko was healed.

****

Kin'emon was also admiring the changes along with Ian before he started to speak.

"I cannot thank you enoug-" He was cut short however soon by Ian putting the tip of his spear right at his throat.

"If you thank me one more time, I'll beat you black and blue! Damn it people how many times do you have to thank me? I get it already…" Ian released a frustrated sigh.

Imagine everywhere you went in Wano people would bow to you. Ian didn't care the very first few days, but then this went on for four months and people were still thanking him left and right. Whenever he is walking around those people would bow down dropping whatever they are doing at the time, treating him respectfully until he moved past them.

It had started to become annoying. After all, he was not one of those celestial dogs…

Kin'emon gulped.

"H-However Ian-dono, what you have done for us can't be forgotten so easily…" Kin'emon replied with heat in his voice.

Sigh.

Ian stored his spear back.

"I know… sigh," Ian replied and sighed for the umpteenth time.

"That is why it's getting annoying." He added.

Kin'emon smiled. He knew Ian didn't mean that. He was a nice guy.

If Ian knew what he was thinking, he would really consider beating the hell out of this guy.

'If I beat the shit out of you would you stop thinking I'm a nice guy?' Ian had this brief thought pass through his head.

And Kin'emon felt a shiver down his spine with the way Ian was looking at him menacingly. But he shook it off. It must be his imagination.

Soon they had reached the ship. And it was finally time to leave.

When Ian got onto the ship and joined his crew, Kin'emon and the rest stayed on the pier watching. This time they had smiles on their faces.

Then when everything was ready, Ian's crew were busy moving things away, and Libell took her role of steering the ship.

Ian waved his hand at them before the ship started to sail soon after.

Kin'emon and the rest yelled their thanks for one final time.

"Thank you for helping us, and not looking the other side when we were in need!"

Ian grinned as he shook his head.

He turned to look forward and started to consider their next destination.

The final words Kin'emon added ringing in his ears.

"May your journey be filled with adventures and good times!"