Once people reached a certain age, they might start to enjoy alcohol.
Perhaps not to drown their sorrows.
But simply to enjoy that slightly tipsy feeling, the state of forgetting everything after getting drunk.
Onigashima. The earlier alarm and the commotion caused by King heading toward the outer seas had not affected its master, Kaido.
Inside the enormous, luxurious hall, thunderous snoring echoed nonstop.
Following the sound of the snoring.
On a massive wooden bed, Kaido lay sprawled without the slightest regard for his appearance, drunk and fast asleep.
The edge of the bed was piled high with all kinds of bottles and gourds.
The entire room reeked of alcohol, as if it would explode the moment a flame touched it.
Kaido was like a sleeping beast.
Though he was merely asleep, the aura unintentionally leaking from his powerful body kept the ordinary pirates of the Beasts Pirates from daring to step into the room.
"Hey, hey, who's going in? Sea Knight Jinbe has attacked us. This isn't a small matter.
"If we don't report it to the Governor in time, Jack might have us executed!"
At the entrance to the huge, alcohol-soaked room.
Several pirates whispered among themselves, their faces twisted with hesitation and terror.
Their eyes were filled with fear.
After all, everyone in the Beasts Pirates knew that no one should ever wake Kaido while he was drunk, because he would go on a drunken rampage.
And once Kaido started rampaging, not only would he destroy Onigashima, but anyone near him would be the first to suffer.
Thus, the situation was practically a dead end for the pirates standing outside the door.
Because whether they went in or not, their lives would be in danger.
They exchanged glances.
In each other's eyes, they all saw the desire