02 / A — The character’s story
The retainer behind the quiet welcome
How do you return to a duty when the world has lived twenty years without you?
The story here runs through the beginning of the Onigashima raid.
Oden’s household
A loyalty formed together.
Kikunojo becomes one of Oden’s retainers alongside the companions who will share the Kozuki family’s fate. That service gives her more than a master to follow: it binds her to people whose promise will outlast the household they lose.
The time jump
Living behind an ordinary role.
Sent into the future by Toki, Kiku arrives in a Wano shaped by twenty years of oppression she has not experienced in the same way. Working at a tea house lets her remain within everyday life while concealing the warrior and retainer who has returned.
The raid
Stepping back into the promise.
When the alliance moves against Kaido, Kiku joins the retainers taking their long-delayed fight to Onigashima. Leaving concealment behind makes her loyalty public again, placing the hope carried through time into a struggle she must face in the present.
