Izou

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character and is therefore not canon

**Izou** was the former 16th division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates and prior to this, a retainer of the Wano Country daimyo Kozuki Oden. He was the older brother of fellow retainer Kikunojo.

## Statistics

### Occupations:

Samurai;[3] Retainer of the Kozuki Family

## Personality

Izou was very loyal to the Whitebeard Pirates and Whitebeard, as he was willing to risk his own life in order to save Ace from execution during the Summit War of Marineford.

As a samurai, Izou appeared to value a glorious and meaningful death in battle over his own life, stating that he missed the chance to have one too many times, and is therefore ready to lose his life in the raid against Kaidou's dominion over Wano. At the same time, Izou did not believe it was fine to simply accept death too readily as long as a person has something to fight for.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Kikunojo

Kikunojo was Izou's only sibling. After their father was arrested and convicted, they stayed together to survive in the streets of Ringo and they both joined Kozuki Oden. When Oden, Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and Izou went missing, Kiku expressed worries as she could not find her brother and the others while crying. Later, when Nekomamushi and Inuarashi returned to Wano and informed Kiku about Izou staying with the Whitebeard Pirates, Kiku expressed positivity, knowing that her brother would be happy.

During the raid on Onigashima, they reunited for the first time in over 25 years, and he was pleased to see Kikunojo again. Right before his death, Izou's last words were for Kiku to survive the battle and live on.

### Crew

Before Izou joined the crew, he was cold towards Whitebeard when Oden’s life was in grave danger. After Oden officially joined the Whitebeard Pirates, his attitude changed as he became close with the crew. When Oden left the crew, Izou chose to remain.

As they were both interested in liberating Wano from the Beast Pirates and Kurozumi Orochi both Marco and Izou would travel to Wano together alongside Nekomamushi and the Guardians to join the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance. Follow Izou's own death, Marco agreed with Kin'emon to have Izou buried in Ringo as Izou would be laid to rest in his homeland.

### Allies

#### Nine Red Scabbards

Izou, along with his sister, served Oden along with other vassals, which would later be known as the Nine Red Scabbards, where he was very close to all of them and had a lot of fun with all of them. When Izou happily returned to help his former teammates in the Raid on Onigashima, everyone was very happy to see him again.

### Kozuki Oden

Because Oden fed him and his sister, Izou along with the latter decided to follow him. When Oden decided to make him one of his servants, Izou cried with joy. His loyalty to his lord was so great that he and some of his companions attempted to steal money from another daimyo, Shimotsuki Yasuie, to support Oden. When the latter gave them more money and told him and the other servants to educate themselves and become proper servants, Izou and the others spent years studying for the sake of his lord's reputation.

However, Izou like the rest of the Retainers did not like Oden's insistence on joining the Whitebeard Pirates and leaving Wano. Therefore, when his lord decided to follow the crew in secret, he tried to bring him back. But once Oden was accepted, he followed without any objection. Although not following Oden, when the latter joined the Roger pirates, he still patiently wished for his return. Once he found out about Oden's death, Izou was one of those who wanted to go to Wano to avenge him, but he didn't do it because of the consequences he would have on the country.

After a long time, Izou was finally able to go to Wano so that he could avenge his lord.