Chapter 131: A Child Not Marinated by Oden?!
Momousagi and Chaton knew that this "Nation-Destroyer" from the East Blue possessed immense potential.
According to the intelligence gathered by CP agents who retraced the route of the Canaan princess in the New World, this person was only twenty years old. At just twenty, she already possessed the power to match the two of them and was still growing rapidly. According to their projections, it was highly likely that this person would reach the pinnacle and become a top-tier monster in the world even before they themselves were promoted to Admiral.
For such an existence to return to the Beasts Pirates, the consequences would undoubtedly be quite terrible.
Chaton and Momousagi exchanged glances. After conveying and receiving each other's thoughts, they silently nodded. "This person must be left here forever—"
"..."
After a long while, under everyone's gaze, the figure that had been lifted by the storm rose from below the glacier. The crowd cast their gazes, wanting to learn more of Yelena's features, but in the end, they could only see that her hair was white. Other than that, there was no more information.
Kaido shouldered his Hassaikai club, looking with great interest at the figure being lifted by the storm, slowly appearing before him. When he saw Yelena's face and long white hair, he raised an eyebrow slightly. "A woman? So you're not my clone?"
"Kaido." Yelena, who had awoken from her brief unconsciousness, raised a slender hand to wipe the crimson blood from the corner of her mouth and forehead, her gaze growing colder.
"Not bad! You took a hit from me and woke up in such a short time. You're stronger than King and Yamato!"
Suddenly, Kaido's gaze became strange, and his words came to an abrupt halt.
"Yamato?"
Yelena frowned slightly. She slowly landed at the edge of the glacier, raised a hand to catch her World-Breaker war hammer which had been blown away by the wind, and gripped it with both hands.
Opposite her, Kaido was frozen in place, staring at Yelena's red eyes, long white hair, and the face that left a deep impression on him.
"..."
After a good while, Kaido casually smashed his kanabō, Hassaikai, into the glacier. His expression shifted unpredictably, and then he threw his head back and began to laugh like a madman. "Worororo!"
This bizarre scene caused a subtle change in the eyes of the two from the Big Mom Pirates. For a moment, they didn't know what to say.
A moment later, Kaido stopped his awkward laughter, looked down, and gave Yelena a meaningful smile.
"I see. So you're the child that woman secretly gave birth to? I knew those black horns sounded familiar! Before she died, she was talking about you!"
Hearing these words, Yelena's expression became dazed. Although she had already guessed it, when she heard it with her own ears, an endless sadness still welled up in her heart.
"She's dead?" Yelena pressed her lips together.
Kaido nodded with a blank expression, cruelly stating the truth. "Dead. Over a decade ago, when I went to a Marine prison ship for a meal, she seemed to have heard the news, snuck aboard, and stole the key."
Kaido was not a sentimental creature. He believed in the cold, ruthless law of nature and would not put on a tender act for a child. He would only use the cold, hard facts to make his offspring join his grand plan, thereby achieving his own goals.
A strange look flashed in Yelena's eyes, and her tone became peculiar. "She saved you with her life?"
To this, Kaido shook his head indifferently. "No. By the time I woke up, she had already been discovered and was shot in front of the prison cells."
When Kaido was young, he had always liked to provoke the Marines and get himself captured and sent to a prison ship for a meal. After he had eaten and drunk his fill, he would leave on his own. He didn't need any rescue at all. Kaido felt that what the woman had done was completely unnecessary. But her actions had also deepened his impression of her, making him remember her completely. So much so that she was not like Yamato's mother or Kaido's other lovers, forgotten in a corner of his memory.
Kaido looked at Yelena, who looked so much like that woman, and the corners of his mouth turned up in a joyous laugh. "Worororo! Come! Come back to your father! Become the shogun of the Land of Wano, and rule Wano, and even the whole world, with me!"
Kaido could feel it. This wild child of his was very outstanding, much more so than the Yamato he had let run free at home. If it were Yamato who had taken a direct hit from his Thunder Bagua, she would have been lying down for at least a few days. But this wild daughter of his had recovered her fighting strength after just a short while.
Therefore, at this moment, Kaido had only one thought: to bring her back to the Land of Wano and have her replace Kurozumi Orochi. As for Yamato, she had already been cast to the back of his mind. After Yelena's appearance, that son of his who had been polluted by Oden was no longer so appealing.
At this moment, Kaido felt as if his plan was being blessed by heaven. One child was polluted by Oden, and now a brand-new child, one who had not been steeped in the foul samurai atmosphere and marinated by Oden, had appeared before his eyes.
"The world is just so wondrous. Bloodline will guide you and I to meet, just like now," Kaido said, staring intently at Yelena, sincerely inviting her to return to the Beasts Pirates.
In the distance, the faces of the two from the Marine side had already turned as black as the bottom of a pot. The thing they had least wanted to see was happening right before their eyes.
On the other side, Perospero of the Big Mom Pirates was already stunned, looking as if he had seen a ghost. Beside him, a hint of shock also appeared in Katakuri's eyes. After some thought, he decisively took out his Den Den Mushi to report this matter to Mama.
Kaido's invitation did not stir the slightest ripple in Yelena's heart.
She took a deep breath, met Kaido's slightly expectant gaze, and asked the question she had been searching for all this time. "Where is her grave?"
"It's near an abandoned base of the Beasts Pirates, on what is now a deserted island. If you want to go, I can have someone take you."
Although Kaido thought Yelena's mother's death was meaningless and felt no grief for it, from the moment she had risked her life to sneak onto the prison ship, she had already set herself apart from his other lovers, enough to make him remember her. Therefore, after he had casually destroyed that prison ship, he had, in the end, brought her body back to his base at the time.
Of course, it wasn't that he missed her much. On the contrary, in the blink of an eye, he had other lovers. Not long after, the child whom Kaido had named Yamato was born. It was just a pity that Yamato, whom Kaido had originally considered his only child, had been shaped into someone else's form after a moment of carelessness.
It wasn't until now that Kaido knew that that woman had also given birth to a child of his, and had wanted to tell him about it before she died. In the end, she had only left behind a sentence about "black horns" and some other words before dying in front of the prison. As for what the other words besides "black horns" were, Kaido had paid no attention at all.
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