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Nami sat there for a moment as the blonde red clad teenager floating on a glowing orange cloud gave a long laugh of full on hilarity at the warning she gave him.
…His laughter was kind of annoying.
"What's so funny?" she growled in annoyance.
His laughter began to fade, but even still, by time he stopped a few moments later, he was literally wiping tears of mirth from his eyes. He genuinely did find her warning him that Arlong would kill him, absolutely hilarious.
"The fact you think a weakling like Arlong, a Grand Line drop out, could beat me," Kaden snorted, giving her an almost pitying look, "Like, do you even know who Arlong is?"
The question was almost insulting, "Of course I know who he is," she growled, "I've dealt with the bastard for eight entire years."
"Do you really though?" Kaden raised an eyebrow at her, lazily leaning forward and perching his chin atop his fist and staring her in the eye, "Because if you did know who Arlong is, you'd know he's just a little guppy that ran away from the Grand Line like a little bitch after getting kicked out of the Sun Pirates."
The sun pirates. Nami grimaced, she'd heard vague talk about them and their leader, Jinbei one of the seven warlords of the sea and there was talk she'd overheard here and there about how he'd unleashed Arlong on the East Blue in return for becoming a Warlord because he was too hard to control.
And she'd overheard Arlong himself boast about such a thing before she was sure.
That didn't really make much sense to her, but she didn't know much about the Warlord's in general, only that they were absurdly powerful and influential pirates. If one of them couldn't even control Arlong, it showed just how strong he was.
Wait.
"Kicked out?" Nami blinked, "No that isn't right, he got let loose because the Sun Pirates leader couldn't control him, right?"
Kaden outright goggled at her, "…What?" his jaw dropped and he just stared at her for a moment.
Like she was an idiot.
She didn't like that.
Her teeth grit together and a vein pulsed on her forehead. He obviously wasn't trying to, she knew that, but at the same time, it felt like he was completely invalidating everything she and everyone who suffered under Arlong's rule, as if Arlong was truly nothing.
"Arlong wasn't let loose by Jinbei because he was too hard to control, Arlong was literally kicked out of the Sun Pirates because of how violent he was towards humans, he'd literally be locked up right now still in Impel Down if Jinbei didn't use his position as a Warlord to get him out," Kaden spoke before she could blow her top, "But he didn't let him off lightly. Jinbei beat the crap out of Arlong and kicked him out of the Sun Pirates and after that he ran here because he was too scared and weak to hack it in the Grand Line without Jinbei's protection. In fact, he's so low tier as a pirate, Jinbei doesn't even know where he is. Granted, that's because of the corrupt marines he's paying off."
No.
She tried to deny his words. This kid, popping out literally just out of nowhere and talking nonsense like this? She wouldn't allow herself to believe it.
Couldn't.
If she did. Then…what was she doing all this time? It would have meant she could have just went and seduced the first decently strong Grand Line pirate she came across and had him defeat Arlong and his crew for her with ease.
"Honestly, even this Arlong Park is just a copy of Sabaody Park where rich and powerful humans enslaved a lot of different people and races, and were big on getting fishmen slaves," the kid continued on, casting a glance at Arlong Park, "I gotta say, even his aura is pathetically weak from what I can feel from here. I honestly expected it to be stronger but, he feels like fodder. Physically he's nothing to write home about and from what I can feel mentally, you're vastly stronger when it comes to willpower."
What….just what?
Nami was having a hard time processing this, "What do you mean aura? How strong he feels?" she asked, "Is that a power you have from a devil fruit?"
Kaden turned back to her with a grin, "Nah, my devil fruit is a zoan and stupid powerful, but what I'm using to scope Arlong out is a pretty common power in the later half of the Grand Line," he replied, "It's called Haki, specifically I'm using Observation Haki that among other things let's me sense how strong people are, feel their emotions, sense people over a distance, that kind of thing. Honestly, I might actually be able to take Arlong out from here without doing a thing, that's how pathetic he is."
He was bragging, the kid was literally bragging about what he could do and how weak he thought Arlong was in comparison to him.
Nami wasn't sure how to feel here right now. It was so convincing, but at the same time, she wasn't sure how to feel about how it invalidated all of her struggles in a way.
…That explained why he just popped down on his dumb cloud in front of her after seeing her leave Arlong Park. He could literally feel how much she hated Arlong.
And it seemed the Grand Line was even scarier than she thought if that kind of power was common.
"I could literally give you one of the Devil Fruits I have right now and within a few days you'd be capable of beating his ass yourself," the boy laughed, "That would be hilarious actually."
…What?
"You have more Devil Fruit?" she blinked, "And you'd….just give me one?" Nami asked, thoughts stuttering to a halt. Weren't they supposed to be incredibly rare?
"Hilarious as it would be, no," Kaden snorted, "You kidding? The fruit I have that would let you beat Arlong and his entire crew within just a few days is a high tier logia devil fruit. If I wanted to sell it, I could get a billion beri or more pretty easily for it and probably just as much for the other one I have as well, even the weakest devil fruits go for a hundred million as a starting price."