Kozuki Hiyori

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Kozuki Hiyori — Momonosuke’s younger sister, daughter of Oden and Toki. Shown as a small child in the flashback to the night Oden Castle burned (p. 9); unlike Momonosuke and the retainers, she was NOT sent forward in time and stayed behind in the past with her mother Kozuki Toki.

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Wano Country (Ch. 1056)

• Reunited with her living grandfather Kozuki Sukiyaki; weeps and tells him not to apologize — “just knowing another relative is still alive is such a relief” (pp.5–6).
• Plays the shamisen in the recovery scene; tells Kin’emon and Momonosuke the Straw Hats said their goodbyes that morning and have already left (pp.11–12).
• (last_appearance → 1056.)

Wano Country — Flower Capital festival (Ch. 1053)

• Performs at the Flower Capital victory festival as the “Moon Princess” / Princess Hiyori; dedicates “a favorite of my friend and yours, brother Oden” with Brook on music (p.7).

Wano Country — return to the capital (Ch. 1050)

• Reappears in the Flower Capital as “Oiran (top courtesan of Wano),” shocking the public who had just held her funeral (“Is that a ghost?!”); arrives with Denjiro to present Momonosuke as the new shogun of Wano (p. 17).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1049)

• At the Treasure Repository (Tori Floor), plays the shamisen (“Be-beng ♪”) to lure the grief-maddened Orochi out, continuing the plan begun at Ch. 1032 (p.10). Intercut with a memory of the years she spent protected in hiding.

Wano Country — Onigashima treasure repository (Ch. 1047) — seized by Orochi

• In Onigashima’s treasure repository when Orochi’s serpent breaks free; he seizes her, intending to take Oden’s daughter down with him (p. 17). Cliffhanger — her fate held.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1044)

• In the Treasure Repository, disguised as Komurasaki, Hiyori lets the pleading Orochi beg for rescue, recounts Oden’s suffering (the boiling-cauldron hour, the five years of dancing, the hostage country), then reveals her true name: “My name is Kozuki Hiyori!!” (pp. 6-9).
• As Orochi burns in Kanjuro’s flame, she says “The dawn is sure to come.” (p. 10).

Wano Country — Onigashima Treasure Repository: the Komurasaki lure (Ch. 1032)

• Acts on her vendetta against Orochi: disguised again as the “dead” oiran Oiran (top courtesan of Wano), she plays the shamisen in the Treasure Repository to draw the grief-maddened Orochi to her — “Neither can I, my lord!! I am always… always by your side” (pp. 16–17). See A Hidden Shamisen-Playing Noblewoman Shelters Zoro And Vows To Kill Orochi.

Wano Country — flashback: the staged-death plan (Ch. 974)

• Flashback: living as the oiran Oiran (top courtesan of Wano), Hiyori secretly bankrolls the Denjiro charity (“I have more coins for you, Ushimitsu”) so coins reach the poor of Ebisu Town; a retainer warns her to wear blood bags under the kimono and reaffirms the plan to “separate Komurasaki from Orochi through ‘death’” once the 20-year mark arrives — Orochi is smitten, unaware she is Oden’s daughter (p. 2). Pays off Kyoshiro’s Killing Of Komurasaki Reads As A Staged Show Of Loyalty.

Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 973) — flashback (child): the Komurasaki name origin

• As a small child she did not time-leap with Momonosuke — she remained in the past, sheltered for a time by Kawamatsu (his “kappa dance” as she plays shamisen), then drifted as a starving orphan into the Flower Capital (pp. 13–16).
• Found and taken in by Denjiro (disguised as Kyoshiro), who renames her Oiran (top courtesan of Wano) and hides her — the origin of her concealed oiran identity (p. 17).
• Earlier, atop Oden’s shoulders, she plays the shamisen song “Moon Princess” for her father (pp. 2–3). See Oden’s Play-It-At-My-Funeral Request.

Wano — Oden’s execution (Ch. 972) — flashback (child)

• Named with Oden’s dying breath (p. 16); shown as a child in the post-execution flashback. Oden’s request “Please. Give the children these swords” (p. 19) is the on-page origin of the Oden sword bequest she later honors. See Zoro Inherits Oden’s Sword Enma.

Wano — Oden flashback “Sentenced to Boil” (Ch. 971) — flashback (small child beside her mother)

• As a small child beside her mother Kozuki Toki and brother Momonosuke, away from the execution crowd (“It’s safe for you, Lord Momonosuke, Lady Hiyori”; “Brother?”) (p. 2).

Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 970) — flashback (small child at Oden Castle)

Oden flashback — reunion as an infant (Ch. 968) — flashback (infant)

• Held by Toki at the reunion with Oden (p. 8); Toki stayed behind with her through the era’s troubles.

Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 966) — infant stowaway on Roger’s ship

• An infant stowaway on Roger’s ship (Oro Jackson) with Momonosuke and mother Toki, following Oden (p. 14).

Wano — Oden-era flashback (Ch. 965) — infant aboard the Whitebeard ship

• Shown as an infant aboard the Whitebeard Pirates’ ship by the fourth year of Oden’s voyage (“Hiyori, Momonosuke, it’s all right!”, p. 15) — born during the voyage like her brother Momonosuke.

Wano Country — Onigashima (Ch. 1041) — unmasks; pins Orochi with sea-prism nails

• Disguised as the courtesan Oiran (top courtesan of Wano) in the Treasure Repository (2nd Floor), Hiyori plays the shamisen tune “Moon Princess” to lull Orochi, having pinned him with sea-prism-stone nails so he cannot transform into his serpent form (pp. 5-7).
• She tells Orochi she never had “the tiniest affection” for him and unmasks herself as the daughter of Kozuki Oden — “How could it possibly put a smile on my face?” (pp. 6-7). “Moon Princess” was both Orochi’s and Oden’s favorite song.
• See Oiran (top courtesan of Wano), Orochi, How Did Orochi Survive His Beheading.

Wano Country — Amigasa (Ch. 955) — confirmed alive; = the oiran Komurasaki

• Alive. Rescued by Zoro; her survival is relayed to the Nine Red Scabbards (pp. 2–3). She “will refrain from meeting the others” before the battle and worries for Toko (“Otoko”), asking Kawamatsu to lend his strength to the others (p. 2).
• Momonosuke is told she is “18 years older than you now” (the time-leap gap) and describes her as “rough-and-tumble but soft at her core.” Kawamatsu weeps with relief (pp. 2–3).
• Having recognized Zoro’s Wado Ichimonji, she gave him her father’s memento, Enma (Kozuki Sukiyaki confirms this, p. 16). The reveal that Komurasaki = Hiyori (her staged “death” @0933) is now in full effect.

Wano Country — Ringo (Ch. 954) — names Oden’s two swords; the Shusui-for-Enma deal

• Tells Zoro that her father Oden wielded two full-size swords: she was given Enma, her elder brother Momonosuke was given Ame-no-Habakiri — both forged by two famed Wano bladesmiths (p. 2).
• Asks Zoro to surrender the stolen national treasure Shusui (the grave-sword of Ryuma) so it can be returned to its rightful place, formally offering Enma in exchange; Zoro agrees on condition he may visit the grave (pp. 2-4).

Wano Country — Ringo (Ch. 953) — recounts Ringo’s history; reunions; offers Enma

• Shown grown, at Bandit’s Bridge in Ringo, reuniting with her old caretaker Kawamatsu; she recounts Ringo’s history — the Shimotsuki clan, daimyo Shimotsuki Ushimaru, the fox Gyukimaru, the Eternal Graves (pp. 4-8).
• Recognizes Zoro by his Wano alias “Zolojuro” (p. 15).
• Reveals she holds Enma, the sword of her late father Oden — “the only one to have ever wounded Kaido” — and offers it to Zoro in exchange for returning Shusui to Wano (p. 17). See Enma Odens Sword The Only Blade To Have Wounded Kaido Offered To Zoro.

Wano Country — Bandit’s Bridge, Ringo (Ch. 952) — shown present-day; raised by Kawamatsu

• Present at the Zoro/Gyukimaru fight as “Lady Hiyori”; recognizes the leaping fish-man — “Kawamatsu?! Is that you?!” (p. 4).
• Backstory revealed: after her parents died she was raised by the kappa Kawamatsu; she ran away from him years ago because she was terrified he would die from giving her the little food he could find (pp. 14–15). Weeps in reunion: “Master Kawamatsu… I’m so glad…!!!” (p. 17).

Wano Country (Ch. 941) — found in the Ringo well-hut (name withheld on-page)

• Zoro and Brook stumble onto a woman living in a well-hut at the Ringo Northern Graveyard; she is stated on-page to be the younger sister of Momonosuke, hidden there on Kin’emon’s orders (the offerings left outside the well were for her) (pp. 10-11). Brook is mistaken for a ghost when he barges in.

Wano Country — Hiyori reveals herself (Ch. 939)

• Reveals to the recovering Zoro (“Zorojuro”) that she is Kozuki Hiyori, Momonosuke’s little sister, daughter of Oden and Toki (pp. 2–4). See Kyoshiro’s Killing Of Komurasaki Reads As A Staged Show Of Loyalty.
• Recounts losing her entire family the night Oden Castle burned 20 years ago; she was as young as Toko then and is now 26 (p. 3).
• Time-leap: it was “either him or me” — only one Kozuki could leap forward, so the bloodline would survive if the other died; Momo (biologically 8) jumped 20 years, Hiyori stayed (pp. 3–4). See The Kozuki Time-Leap.
• Was raised in hiding by Oden’s vassal Kawamatsu the Kappa from childhood; separated from him around age 13 (pp. 4–5).
• Names the full Akazaya Nine for Zoro and is certain they will surface now the capital is in uproar over the Kozuki crest (pp. 5–6).

Wano Country (Ch. 938) — first present-day adult appearance; reveals her name to Zoro

• First present-day, adult on-page appearance. A kimono-clad woman nurses the wounded Zoro at Ringo’s Northern Graveyard with stolen “toad oil,” thanking him for saving her and Toko’s lives (pp. 10–12).
• Confides her secret to Zoro: she is searching for her older brother, Kozuki Momonosuke, from whom she was separated 20 years ago, and reveals her name is Hiyori (p. 13). See Hiyori Searches For Her Lost Brother Momonosuke, Kozuki Hiyori Survives In Hiding.
• Visually identical to the “slain” oiran Komurasaki and travelling with Komurasaki’s kamuro Toko — strongly implies she IS the oiran (faked death).

Wano Country (Ch. 928) — named (present-day); not shown

• Momonosuke tells Otama he has a younger sister, Hiyori, who “if alive would be 26 years old now”; unlike their mother (whose death was witnessed), no one has confirmed Hiyori’s death (p. 17). Her identity must stay secret: “If Hiyori’s identity is known… Orochi will set his sights on her!!” (p. 17). See Kozuki Hiyori Survives In Hiding.

Wano Country — at Orochi’s end (Ch. 1048)

• In her Oiran (top courtesan of Wano) likeness, she is present as the Kazenbo flames consume Orochi; answers his dying call with the old promise to “share a drink again… when we meet in the afterlife.” (p. 15–16)

Wano Country — Flower Capital, the Kozuki restoration (Ch. 1051)

• Recognized by the capital crowd in her Oiran (top courtesan of Wano) oiran guise (“Why is Komurasaki here?”, p. 2); revealed publicly as a surviving child of Oden alongside her brother Momonosuke as the new shogunate is proclaimed (pp. 2, 8, 16). See Hiyori Searches For Her Lost Brother Momonosuke.