"Hm?"
Kaido turned to look at Sirius.
Sirius! What are you saying?!
Jack looked utterly anxious.
Boss Kaido was already furious, yet Sirius still had to provoke him. Did Sirius really think Boss Kaido couldn't kill him?
Black Maria was also frantic. Yamato angering Kaido had already been troublesome enough, so why was Sirius making things worse?
"You said fear?"
Kaido hesitated for a moment, seemingly unsure whether Sirius was really speaking to him. "Kid, are you saying I'm afraid?"
Sirius let out a soft breath.
Of course he didn't want to anger Kaido either, but the situation was urgent, and he had no choice but to resort to this.
He couldn't just stand by and watch Kaido put explosive shackles on Yamato, could he?
Then Yamato would never be able to leave this island again.
And once she discovered that the shackles really could explode, with enough force to blow off her arm, she would completely break with Kaido.
For Yamato's freedom, and for the relationship between this father and daughter, he had really worried himself sick.
Sirius organized his thoughts, then smiled. "Aren't you afraid Yamato will leave you, Uncle Kaido? That won't do. Parents are supposed to smile as they watch their children leave once they've grown up, then silently wish them well in their hearts."
Kaido's expression did not change at all. He merely looked quietly at Sirius.
It was the calm before the storm.
Sirius naturally knew that words like these would do nothing but make Kaido's anger build, because this man had never been a competent parent.
What came next was the real centerpiece.
"Or is that not what you're afraid of, Uncle Kaido?"
Sirius scratched his head as though deep in thought, then suddenly looked enlightened. "Could it be that you're afraid Yamato