Chapter 104: Everyone "Loves" Louis
In the depths of the New World, Wano Country - Ten kilometers outside the Udon Prisoner Mines, on a stone forest.
An Azure Dragon, its body covered in impenetrable scales, with oni horns and dragon horns on its head, and of an extremely massive size, was lying on its back across the stone forest in a casual posture.
More than half of the several-kilometer-long stone forest was shattered, and countless fragments of rock were scattered for thousands of meters. The Azure Dragon's head hung in mid-air like a dead snake, its huge eyes tightly closed. It looked as if the dragon had fallen asleep mid-flight and crashed headfirst into this stone forest, causing such massive destruction.
Not far from the stone forest, a chubby man in overalls looked at the Azure Dragon hanging like a dead snake in the distance, momentarily at a loss for words.
Beside him, a man only as tall as his calf asked tentatively, "Lord Queen, how should we handle this situation?"
The man called Queen glanced at his subordinate, then pulled a megaphone out of nowhere. After kicking away a several-meter-wide rock, he took a deep breath and shouted through the megaphone, "Big Brother Kaido! We have news about that Mythical Zoan brat!!"
The huge sound made the subordinate next to Queen's face contort in pain as he subconsciously covered his ears.
The next moment, Kaido, who was hanging on the stone forest, seemed to have registered the keyword, and his massive dragon body jolted. With a violent tremor and a sky full of dust, he began to move.
A cloud of dust swept over from the distance, enveloping Queen and everyone else, making the pirates instinctively cover their mouths and noses and cough violently. Soon, a gust of wind blew the dust away, revealing Queen and his men once again.
This situation made the pirates under Queen freeze, their faces blank.
"!!"
However, the next moment, they all received a considerable shock, falling backward one after another, staring dumbfounded at what was in front of them. A giant dragon's head had arrived before them at some unknown point. Its cavernous mouth, filled with sharp fangs, was slightly open, and its chilling dragon eyes were staring intently at them.
"You just said Mythical Zoan, right, Queen?!"
The thick smell of alcohol that washed over him made Queen's face twist. "Where did you go drinking again after leaving Wano?" he complained subconsciously. "You reek of booze!"
To this, Kaido extended his giant dragon tail and knocked it straight onto Queen's head, making the latter's face contort, his small eyes almost bulging out from under his sunglasses.
"Get to the point!" the giant dragon's head let out a deep, middle-aged man's voice.
Queen sat up from the ground, rubbed his face, and then reached behind him to pull out the newspaper and bounty posters from a few days ago.
"A few days ago, that guy named Louis seems to have caused a big incident with the two captains of the Giant Warrior Pirates. They destroyed Enies Lobby."
"That Louis, who ate the Mythical Zoan, Model: Angel, is now wanted for 1.8 billion Berries!"
"And on his ship, there's a person with oni horns who's wanted for 700 million Berries!"
Kaido was taken aback for a moment, then changed back to his human form, plopped down on the ground unsteadily, and picked up the newspaper to read. The next second, a look of confusion appeared on Kaido's still-flushed face. "Why can't I read this?"
"..."
Queen covered his face. "Big Brother Kaido, just how much did you drink?!" he complained again. "You're holding the newspaper upside down!"
His Hassaikai club cut through the air and smashed heavily onto Queen's head, sending him flying without a sound. Beside him, the group of pirates who had been affected by Queen's antics were scared into making comical faces.
"Lord Queen's been silenced!!"
Kaido couldn't be bothered with these small fry. After turning the newspaper the right way up, he lifted his gourd, took a large swig of sake, and began to read with the buzz of alcohol.
"Hm?"
A strange light flashed in Kaido's eyes. He noticed that in the Enies Lobby incident, the little brat who was the supposed Angel Fruit user was not mentioned as being present at all. This made him smell something unusual. What kind of incident could make a person's bounty skyrocket from a few tens of millions to over a billion?
Kaido grinned, revealing a chilling smile. This piqued his interest, and he had a hunch that this matter was probably not over yet.
Then, without raising his head, he instructed Queen, who had returned to his side at some point, "Queen, keep an eye out. There might be signs of a major incident on the sea soon. Let me know when it happens!"
With that, Kaido threw away the newspaper and picked up the two bounty posters instead.
Kaido looked at the string of numbers under Louis's bounty poster and a meaningful smile subconsciously appeared. "1.8 billion Berries?"
"Not bad, kid!"
"As expected of the third Calamity of my Beasts Pirates!"
In front of him, Queen was stunned, asking with a face full of disbelief, "Huh? This brat is one of us? How come I didn't know??"
Queen was a little confused. He didn't know when his family had gained a Calamity he had never met. Could it be that Big Brother Kaido went out on a trip and subdued that brat?
To this, Kaido took another large swig of sake and laughed wildly, "Worororo! As a Mythical Zoan user, isn't it only natural for him to join my crew?! When he gets to the New World, he will naturally join my crew and become the third Calamity!"
"I see!" Queen heard him and nodded as if it were a matter of course. He believed that Big Brother Kaido would definitely be able to subdue him.
Then, Queen looked at the other bounty poster in Kaido's hand and said thoughtfully, "Big Brother Kaido, this person seems to be like you, the Young Master Yamato, and Ulti, with the blood of the Oni flowing in them."
Kaido heard him and shifted his gaze to the other poster. He looked at the figure completely covered in heavy armor, wearing a gas mask with a single spike, with only a pair of black oni horns exposed.
"Black?"
Gradually, as Kaido looked at this photo, a strange feeling rose in his heart.
"Black—Why would someone have black oni horns?" Kaido was a little surprised, even momentarily forgetting to drink his sake.
Queen heard him, lit a cigar, and asked thoughtfully, "Is there any special meaning to black oni horns?"
"Special meaning? No. I just feel like I've heard about it somewhere—" Kaido shook his head, stopped thinking, and continued to drink. "I just haven't seen black oni horns in decades. Maybe he's just wearing a decoration on his head."
Queen looked thoughtfully at a nearby grunt who had white oni horn decorations on his head and nodded in agreement.
Then, Kaido put down his gourd and, after wiping the sake from the corner of his mouth, said with a burp, "Hic~ Keep an eye on this one too. Although a bounty doesn't represent strength, to be wanted for 700 million Berries, their strength definitely can't be that bad."
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