Kaido had never been a pirate who only knew how to act through brute force. It was just that, most of the time, he did not care about such things.
If something could be solved with force, why waste so much brainpower on it?
The super brain's answer was to use super strength, and overwhelming others through force also fit Kaido's values.
But with only Queen available to use, he had to spend a bit more effort thinking things through. Without Alber as his right-hand man, without Jack as a rising star, many things became slightly more troublesome to handle.
Because of this, Kaido also became interested in those samurai. In any case, those samurai were a considerable fighting force.
Since there was already one successful example, he naturally had the thought of using it as a reference.
What Wano Country became, and who ruled Wano Country, were all irrelevant matters to Kaido. All he needed was for this country to satisfy his demands.
As for Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido had never thought much of him in the first place. If he had to choose between the two, Kaido still admired Kozuki Oden more. Whether his brain was useful or not could be discussed later, but Oden could at least fight.
"Kaido! This is blatant betrayal! Do you know what you're doing?!"
"Betrayal? Worororo, I'm a pirate. Betrayal is the norm in pirate alliances! A piece of trash like you can just quietly go die!
"A guy like you having the ability to resurrect... that's practically an insult to him! Thunder Bagua!"
Kaido and Nereus's relationship was not very complicated, but it was more of an admiration born from strength. This ability to resurrect inevitably made Kaido think of Nereus, which also made him feel even more disgust toward Kurozumi Orochi.
"Semimaru!"
The Yamata no Orochi had granted Kurozumi Orochi more than one life. Otherwise, that previous blow would already have ended Kurozumi Orochi's life.
But Kurozumi Orochi was still scared to death. As he tried to dodge by scrambling and crawling away, he also shouted someone else's name.
Buzz!
An old man nearby crossed his fingers, and in the next instant, a transparent barrier enveloped Kurozumi Orochi within it.
Boom!
With a loud crash, the transparent sphere smashed through the floorboards and embedded itself deep into the ground. But Kurozumi Orochi inside was completely unharmed.
Kurozumi Semimaru, like Kurozumi Higurashi, had once left Wano Country and had eaten the Barrier-Barrier Fruit.
The barriers it created possessed extraordinary defensive power. Even Oden's slash back then had failed to break through this defense.
However, when it blocked Oden's slash, Kurozumi Orochi could use the people of Wano Country as hostages and threaten Kozuki Oden into compromise.
But against Kaido, Kurozumi Orochi had no bargaining chips at all.
Aside from the final battle with Oden, whether it was when Wano Country was being transformed before, or when the issue with Oden was later handled, Kaido had never appeared openly. Instead, he had hidden in the shadows.
The current Kaido needed Kurozumi Orochi's head to complete the final step of his plan.
The Barrier-Barrier Fruit allowed Kurozumi Orochi to hold out for a while longer, but it could not change the final outcome.
"A Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit... and it actually got eaten by a piece of trash like you. After all the effort I spent, I only ever found that one..."
Kurozumi Orochi tried to resist at the end, displaying the form of the Yamata no Orochi, but it was useless.
"Queen, I'll leave the rest to you. Wipe out Orochi's forces, and find a way to make those samurai believe that all of this was something that idiot Orochi caused."
Kaido naturally had no interest in refined propaganda work, so he directly threw all of it to Queen. It would not be easy for him to accomplish the same thing as Nereus.
Unlike Nereus, who himself was a citizen of Fishman Island, Kaido was, no matter how one looked at it, an outsider to Wano Country. It would be difficult for him to gain the locals' recognition.
However, there was good news for Kaido as well. For example, some people had been sent to the future using the Time-Time Fruit, and the people left behind either chose to hide their identities or chose to endure for twenty years, waiting for that so-called prophecy.
During this period, Kaido had plenty of time to complete his plan.
He did not need everyone to believe him. As long as a portion of people were willing to believe him, and then those people influenced some of the indecisive ones, he would be able to achieve his goal.
Divide, win over, suppress—the general process had been studied thoroughly by Kaido.
Because Kaido had thought the name of the techniques sounded bad back then, he had always kept it in mind. After coming to Wano Country, he had also carefully studied the local culture.
After some time, he actually managed to give himself the epithet of Wise King and won the trust of some people.
After all, the locals of Wano Country were not particularly clever to begin with. Otherwise, they would not have let Kurozumi Orochi's plan to make Kozuki Oden dance naked proceed so smoothly.
Furthermore, Kurozumi Orochi simply wanted to oppress Wano Country, leaving the country filled with widespread resentment. After killing Kurozumi Orochi, Kaido merely changed the intensity of the labor slightly and achieved his goal.
He had recruited a group of samurai to supplement his own forces, and the weapons factories were also in operation. For now, Kaido was satisfied with this state of affairs.
Compared to Wano Country, he was now more concerned about another issue: his daughter, Yamato.
Their father-daughter relationship was currently not very harmonious. Kaido's educational philosophy was actually very simple. He needed Yamato to listen to him, and then become stronger, and the way to make the other party stronger was education through the club.
Under such circumstances, naturally, there was no way they could be very harmonious. At this moment, Queen was standing trembling before Kaido, while Kaido was weighing his kanabo in his hand, no one knew what he was thinking.
"Queen, explain to me what's going on with that diary."
"Boss Kaido, I don't know about that. Maybe Miss Yamato picked it up herself. The situation back then was very chaotic, and no one paid attention to that kind of thing."
The diary Kaido spoke of was Oden's diary, which recorded Kozuki Oden's experiences while sailing overseas. It was said to have an effect like Voldemort's Horcruxes, taking over others at specific moments.
However, Kozuki Oden had not done anything big outside. Compared to Nereus's deeds, it amounted to nothing. With the two offsetting each other, the influence was not very great. It only made Yamato no longer want to keep staying cooped up in Wano Country.
"Good. Then explain to me again, what is this"Biography of Nereus"about?!"
"This... This was a manuscript that Wobbegong wrote out of boredom back when we were in MADS. There are some boastful and fictionalized parts inside, but it is generally still true.
"That day, when I was doing research, Miss Yamato kept asking me questions, so I gave this to her..."
"Then do you know that because of this thing, she now feels there is a big problem with my methods and wants me to govern Wano Country according to what's recorded in this biography!"
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