A few days ago, numerous news reporters had hailed Maud as the terminator of the old era. Using that title, they had racked their brains and taken turns showering him with extravagant praise.
Now that the Navy's newly drafted Bounty Poster had been released, those reporters had abruptly changed tack and started wildly praising Maud again.
He had shaken the Four Emperors' position.
A new emperor had ascended the throne.
The king of the new era.
They tossed out all kinds of articles without even pausing for breath.
Anyone who didn't know better might have thought Maud had bribed every news worker with a fortune.
"A new emperor?"
Kaido coldly watched the Bounty Poster and newspaper turn to ash. As he muttered to himself, a tangible, terrifying aura shook cracks into the surrounding floorboards and wooden furniture.
At that moment, his gaze and expression looked remarkably similar to Charlotte Linlin's reaction after personally hearing Maud speak several days earlier.
Take it to the peak—
How was that statement, which Kaido considered unbelievably arrogant and ignorant of the vastness of heaven and earth, any different from the reporters' extravagant coverage now?
It was truly infuriating.
So infuriating that, in the next second, he wanted to pick up his old profession again—go on an expedition and attack any living creature other than himself.
Kaido struggled to suppress his fury.
His current principle was to focus on developing his strength, so he had long since abandoned his old profession and had not mobilized an expedition in many years.
Yet his first major expedition to Marineford in many years had been ruined by the Red-Haired Pirates.
But that had merely been the trigger.
Maud, who had stolen the limelight at the Summit War and had then been openly praised to the highest heavens by