Honestly, I'm somewhat disappointed after reading the translation of the scans.
First, I had the impression that Oden was doing all of that for Hyo's sake, and that Hyo was imprisoned. BUT, the reality is that Hyo was never even part of the deal. From what it seems, when Orochi asked Oden to help him in building weapon factories. Oden's reply was about having his own ship!
Which makes me believe that his whole plan was simply "GET OUT OF WANO" with a ship. For real!??? Is that really it?
I honestly HOOOPE, I'm wrong, and I want Oda to show more stuff that pressured Oden to agree to the deal.
Cause If that's really what it was all about, that Oden agreed to leave Wano for Orochi, making a mockery of himself for 5 years in hope of getting a ship, and leave Wano with his family and retainers!???
This will be a huuuuuge stain on Oden. I don't care what anyone would say. In fact, before oden. It will be a huge stain on Oda as a writer because as someone said before, he had to justify 5 years gap between Oden returning and Oden falling.
And he could have easily avoided that by simply one of two moves:
1- Either he could have spent 5 more years in WB ship after Roger crew. Returning to WB, staying for 5 years, then deciding that he wants to return home to his wife. SO MUCH BETTER than ruining his character like this. And at the same time, oden not feeling that his home needs him (meaning Oda not showing a panel of Oden having bad feeling about Wano when he was with Roger) so that is return is NOT rushed.
2- OR, Oda could have easily changed some dates. He could have made Oden die 25 years ago, Kinemon and co, time traveled 25 years into future not 20, and lastly, Toki says the prophecy is after 25 years, and not 20 years.
But honestly... I'm outraged at the reason that made Oden obey Orochi. Like, they never mentioned a threat to Hyo's family. They never mentioned a threat to his family (which he was fully aware of when he left Kuri and Toki told him the enemy can counter attack. There was no threat over the life of someone loved.
Yet for some reason, The CHAD, The never bowing, the always rebillious, the man among men, agreed to negotiate with orochi over a SHIP????
Dude, I'm done. If Oda doesn't add more reasons behind the agreement, like more pressure point, I'd be fucking pissed at Oda for humiliating Oden in the worst possible way over a freaking SHIP! and basically abandon Wano citizens and only taking his family and retainers probably