flashWhen Inferno Calamity King arrived at the port, he saw a Pirate Ship that had already set sail and traveled some distance.
Besides that, there was nothing else, and King frowned.
"Since Big Brother Kaido told me to come to the port, he must have sensed something, so..."
As he spoke, King looked at the Pirate Ship that had already traveled some distance. Big Brother Kaido wouldn't make a mistake, so there was only one possibility left: that ship must have a problem.
Just as he was about to spread his wings to catch up with the ship, he suddenly noticed a barrel floating on the sea not far away.
"Hmm?"
An ordinary barrel would naturally not catch his attention. Upon arriving at the port, King had already pushed his Observation Haki to its limit. Just now, his Observation Haki detected that there seemed to be something inside that barrel.
Moreover, the barrel was already covered in frost, with wisps of cold air emanating from it, and the sea surface showed a faint tendency to freeze.
King was curious about what was inside the barrel, so he immediately flew over and retrieved it.
"Oh? Interesting."
The cold air actually made him feel cold. In just this short period of contact, the cold air had already covered his palm.
One must know that he was from the Lunaria race, naturally possessing a type of flame. Ordinary cold had no effect on him whatsoever. The last time he felt this was from a kid with an Ice-Ice Devil Fruit in the Marine.
This made King increasingly curious about what was inside the barrel... The scene returns to a few minutes earlier.
After Karl put himself into the barrel and jumped into the sea.
Karl saw the Pirate Ship sail away through a small hole on the side of the barrel and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Phew, finally escaped."
After estimating his current distance from the shore, Karl thought for a moment and decided to remove a plank from the barrel to use as a paddle.
He was now a Devil Fruit ability user. Although he didn't know what kind of Devil Fruit it was, since he had eaten a Devil Fruit, his fear of seawater was a given. Otherwise, he would have already swum that distance.
As for the Devil Fruit's freezing ability to freeze the sea, please, he couldn't even control the cold air he released now, let alone freeze the sea.
No sooner said than done, just as he was about to remove the plank, he suddenly felt a shake, followed by getting further and further away from the sea surface.
"What the heck, what's going on? You're not going to be that unlucky, are you?!"
Karl thought it was some other pirate who had nothing better to do than pick up barrels to play with.
King sensed the movement inside the barrel, and his curiosity grew. He immediately opened the lid of the barrel.
The moment the lid opened, a figure leaped out swiftly, raising a fist directly towards King's face.
King was a little surprised that there was a kid inside the barrel, and he even dared to attack him.
King casually grabbed Karl's fist that was aimed at his face.
"Hey, kid, why are you in a barrel, and what special happened at the port just now?"
King held the kid in his hand and began to inquire about what had happened at the port.
The captured Karl resisted frantically, ignoring King's questions, and continued to curse wildly.
"I'll f*** you, you motherf*****."
When the barrel was picked up, Karl knew that this time he might be doomed.
But he couldn't just sit there and wait for death, so Karl decided to strike when he opened the lid, hoping for a glimmer of hope.
However, his long-prepared attack was easily neutralized by that person, which made Karl feel a bit frustrated.
Damn it, I'm going all out. I did so much to escape from the Pirate Ship, and now I'm caught again.
It seems today is a dead end, so I might as well not care. If I can't beat him, can't I at least curse him?
Listening to the foul language coming from the kid in front of him, King's forehead was already covered in black lines. He couldn't help but want to teach this ignorant kid a good lesson.
But when he saw the kid's horns, which were identical to Big Brother Kaido's, King's pupils contracted sharply.
"Could it be Big Brother Kaido's kin?"
Thinking of this, King ignored everything else, picked up Karl, and flew towards the tavern.
Karl was still spewing profanities, using everything he had learned in his previous life.
King was utterly annoyed. Where did this kid get so many insults?
King gave Karl a sharp rap on the head with his other hand.
Karl felt as if his head had been struck by a heavy object, and then little stars appeared before his eyes.
"Phew, peace at last."
King exhaled a long breath. If it weren't for the fact that this kid might be related to Big Brother Kaido, he would have ended him with a single blade long ago.
He, King, was no benevolent person. Ever since he was saved by Kaido, he was now like someone who would rush to the front to clear the way for Big Brother Kaido, even if it meant declaring war on the World Government immediately.
Before long, King brought Karl to the tavern where Kaido was.
Kaido and the others were still drinking. Kaido saw King return and asked with a laugh.
"Wurorororo..."
"King, what happened?"
King's face showed little emotion, but the admiration in his eyes for Kaido was undeniable.
"Nothing happened, but I found a kid."
As he spoke, King showed Kaido Karl, who was still seeing stars, held in his hand.
The others also looked at King curiously, wondering what he had gone out to do and why he had brought back a kid.
When Kaido saw the kid's horns, the iconic symbol of the Oni race, he couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh.
"Wurorororo... Wurorororo..."
"That's right, it's an Oni! It's an Oni! King, you did well!"
He didn't expect King to find an Oni person when he went out. Now, there were barely any Oni left.
With Kaido's influence, he only had two Oni under him. He was the strongest among the Oni race now, and the fact that he only had two Oni under his command showed how rare Oni people were now.
Either they didn't dare to show their faces, or they were captured by the World Government. But the Oni race could be said to be an army of all, with a natural craving for battle in their bones.
So, saying that Oni people didn't dare to show their faces was basically nonsense; there wasn't an Oni who wasn't warlike.
Karl and his parents were all Oni. Originally, they also wanted to join Kaido, but Karl was too young, so they wanted to wait until he grew up a bit before going.
But circumstances were unpredictable, and they ended up encountering pirates first.
Kaido took Karl from King's hand and held him up in front of him, shaking him. "Hey, kid, time to wake up!"
Karl finally woke up from the shaking. The first thing he saw was a towering figure like a giant.
Karl's eyes widened, looking at the person in front of him in disbelief.
"You, you, you are Kaido!!"
"Kaido!!"
Seeing the expression of the kid in front of him, Kaido let out a hearty laugh.
"Wurorororo..."
"Kid, you know me?"
Karl couldn't believe that the person in front of him was Kaido, and such a young Kaido!
Then who was that person just now?
Black wings, flames behind his head.
King!
Inferno Calamity King!!
So the current timeline he was in was twenty-something years ago, seemingly before Kaido entered Wano Country, but he didn't know the exact duration.
"Kaido is the strongest among our Oni race now, of course I've heard of him."
Karl replied.
Hearing this answer, Kaido and his subordinates burst into laughter.
"Wurorororo..."
"Hahahahaha"