On an island belonging to a certain country in the northern New World, where snow blanketed the mountains and plains and the frigid north wind howled through the sky, a group of pirates clad in fur armor trudged through the snow, rushing into a gigantic cavern that looked like a massive tent, likewise covered in snow. At last, they arrived breathlessly before a giant.
Even while seated, he appeared extremely tall and powerfully built.
Even in the somewhat dim cavern, it was clear that he had shoulder-length black hair, a pair of long horns resembling dragon horns, and a long beard that looked like dragon whiskers. His left arm bore a dragon-scale tattoo, his upper body was bare, and a hideous crossed scar marred his right abdomen. A purple shirt hung from his waist, with two golden chains dangling from its hem. He wore loose dark-green trousers, a shimenawa around his waist, and a purple fur cloak. He looked like a "demon" incarnate.
At that moment, he was drinking alone from a gourd marked with the character "heaven." Beside him lay an enormous, vicious-looking kanabō stained with blood.
"Something's wrong!"
"Lord Kaido!"
"Lord Kaido! Something terrible has happened!"
"It's a disaster!!"
The pirates finally rushed before the giant who was drinking, all of them shouting the name "Kaido" in panic.
That was right. The man before them, the one drinking and being disturbed by the pirates, was none other than the governor-general of the Beasts Pirates, one of the "Four Emperors" of the New World, a monstrously powerful man with unimaginable defensive strength and vitality, known as the "Strongest Creature." His bounty was an astonishing 4,611,100,000 Beli. He possessed the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Model, and was known as the "Beasts"—Kaido!
"Hm?"
"..."
"Gulp, gulp..."
Yet when he