Kaido had been a pirate for quite a long time, but his resume was very special.
Back when he was in the Rocks Pirates, Kaido had held the identity of an apprentice for a long time, and not long afterward, the Rocks Pirates announced their dissolution.
When the other members began sailing independently on the sea, Kaido was still a lone wolf for a while. When the Great Pirate Era began, Whitebeard, Big Mom, and the others had already occupied vast territories and become great pirates worthy of the name.
Kaido, meanwhile, had holed up in Wano Country and slowly developed his forces. Compared to those old acquaintances, Kaido was also, in a certain sense, defined as a “rookie” of the New World. He belonged to the younger faction and had only begun to show his reputation in recent years.
Eighteen years had already passed since the God Valley Incident, enough for a new generation to grow up. Among the members stationed outside, many were also young people from Fishman Island.
They knew Kaido, but they did not understand history enough. If the veterans of the Fish-Men Pirates from back then had been here, their attitude would have been a little more relaxed.
“Kaido? Every time you show up at my family’s territory, you always have to break something, don’t you? Wait! Those things you broke eighteen years ago…”
“Ahem!”
A familiar voice rang beside Kaido’s ear, also breaking Kaido’s original calm.
Falling from a great height, then calmly climbing out of the crater and saying a few lines amid the smoke and dust—this was the entrance method Kaido had devised for himself.
From an entrance perspective, it was still quite intimidating, using something ordinary people could not do to demonstrate his strength. But the prerequisite was that no one started calculating the cost of the things he had smashed at a time like this.
Kaido knew Nanamo. If she were allowed to finish speaking…
The things he had broken eighteen years ago, calculated with compound interest, might have turned into some astronomical figure after interest piled upon interest.
That was not actually very important. At the very least, Nereus would not hound him endlessly over something like this.
But Kaido was certain that if Nanamo were allowed to finish speaking, the already scarce reputation he had in Yamato’s eyes would inevitably vanish in an instant.
Especially after seeing Hermes already skillfully form an abacus shape on his own body, Kaido hurriedly interrupted all of this with a cough.
“Hm?”
“It’s just some dirt and stone…”
“This is our entry point. Does the labor to fill it back in not cost money? Speaking of which, did you go and kidnap a hostage?”
Nanamo did not dwell on the old accounts for too long. She and Kaido could actually be considered people of the same generation, so she was merely teasing him a little. Very quickly, she shifted her gaze to Yamato, who was still being held in Kaido’s hand.
If one activated spiritual vision, they would see a soul body faintly drifting out from Yamato’s body. Anyone who was brought high into the sky and then suddenly subjected to a several-thousand-meter descent without a word would suffer a major shock.
Yamato herself could not fly, and after being born, she had not even left Wano Country before. It was only normal that Kaido doing this to her had scared her badly.
“What are you talking about? This is my daughter.”
“Yours?”
Nanamo’s eyes were full of suspicion as she kept comparing Kaido and Yamato. Aside from both having horns, she could not find any similarities between the two of them.
“What’s with that look of yours? In terms of body size, didn’t you also fail to inherit anything from the previous generation?”
“Kaido… from what I can see, did you come here today to pick a fight?”
Nanamo clenched her fists, and the Haki at her fingertips even produced faint sparks as they rubbed together.
“No, but if you want to fight, I’d be happy to oblige.
“I saw news about you in the papers in the earlier years, but there haven’t been any reports these past few years. I also want to see how strong you, Nereus’s daughter, are now.
“Find someone to look after her. Otherwise, I won’t be able to move freely.”
As he spoke, Kaido very carelessly threw Yamato toward Hermes. In his subconscious, Hermes seemed to be a nanny robot.
And while Hermes cursed Kaido under his breath, he did not disperse his body and let Yamato fall. He only silently picked up a Den Den Mushi and contacted Nereus on Nanamo’s behalf.
……
“That rotten old man… really can’t be trusted… Where am I now…”
Yamato woke up groggily, and then saw that she was surrounded by white clouds. The area beneath her was also soft and fluffy.
Beside her, there was also a winged person curiously sizing her up, and the top of the other person’s head seemed to be faintly glowing.
“So this is heaven…”
“What nonsense are you spouting? If you’re awake, hurry up and get down!”
Seeing that the person on his back had already woken up, Hermes did not stand on ceremony either. After a 360-degree turn, he flung Yamato over. Only then did Yamato notice that Kaido was currently fighting a small figure in the distance.
Judging from the current situation, Kaido was even somewhat at a disadvantage. Even though Kaido had not yet entered his Human-Dragon form, this situation was rare in Yamato’s eyes.
Moreover, Kaido even looked very happy. This situation only appeared when he was enjoying a fight to the fullest.
“I’m Chloe. That’s my Sister*. They were already fighting while you were unconscious.” [TN: It’s a formal royal address for a sister.]
Someone with wings was not necessarily an angel; they could also be a Lunarian. While Nanamo and Kaido were fighting, Chloe had been sitting beside Yamato the whole time.
What Yamato did not know was that Chloe had already tugged at the horns on her head several times, seemingly wanting to see whether these horns were real.
Even though many races lived on both Delta Island and Fishman Island, having horns growing on one’s head was still a rare thing in Chloe’s eyes.
As for the address “Sister,” Chloe had learned it in Dressrosa. She felt that addressing Nanamo this way in front of outsiders had more style.
“My name is Yamato… Is your sister strong?”
“Very strong!”
“Really? Then can she give my rotten old man a painful beating?”
The way children got to know each other was often different from adults. Sometimes, merely exchanging names made them seem very familiar.
Yamato did not care about those things right now either. If there really was someone who could give Kaido a painful beating, then no matter who that person was, she would support them.
This led to Kaido, who was still fighting, suddenly catching an unusual voice in his ears.
“Good luck, big sister I don’t know! Beat the crap out of that rotten old man!”
“Pfft… Kaido, looks like your family relationship isn’t very harmonious.”
Nanamo ultimately failed to hold back the laugh. Kaido, meanwhile, said nothing. Scales merely began appearing on the surface of his body. It looked as though he was preparing to activate his Devil Fruit ability, but Nanamo suddenly stopped.
In the next instant, a hand that was not particularly large, yet solid and powerful, landed on Kaido’s shoulder.
“Kaido, that’s about enough. How much of a commotion do you want to cause in my territory?”
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