User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 986 Wano Wars: Attack of the Scabbards/@comment-73.254.157.142-20200802165457/@comment-108.83.222.210-20200806033735

On movie I once watched had a character point out "Revenge has a habit of rebounding upon oneself". There are too many sayings related to revenge to show how it can go wrongly for me to cover them, but you get the idea. Orochi wanted all of Wano to suffer as he did and his vengence has caused untold suffering upon so many in a way that made him worse then those who persucuted him. In the end, vengence ends up working like a merry-go-round and catching people who happen to be nearby in it. I recall one book I read in which a character desired vengence upon an entire family because one of its members killed one of his family members. He pointed out that he had already killed three cousins, but it "wasen't enouhg of a sting". To him, killing individual family members was like avenging the fingers or toes of his lost family member; to him an eye for an eye means the whole family must die. That is wrong since the rest of them had nothing to do with what happened. If he wanted to kill the person who killed his family member I could understand that, if he wanted to kill the family patriarch who organized that little plan then I could understand that (so would most of the patriarch's family. Aside from the person who committed the murder most of them don't really like him much). At any rate, Orochi was a fool as you said for trusting Kaido, but he seemed to have too much of a sense of self-importance. He happily agreed to Kaido's demands up to this point and only disagreed because Kaido was threatening to take what he considered his. I could go on, but I think I have made my point.