Queen's idea of a pleasant partnership: as long as he acted like a suck-up, he could secure funding and disgust that bastard Caesar. Sometimes, being a subordinate was not so bad.
Kaido's idea of a pleasant partnership: both sides were evenly matched and qualified to speak as equals, or at least had equal value.
And in Kaido's way of thinking, only war could determine value. Either one could fight, or one could make others capable of fighting.
Since Queen had said so and specifically mentioned his research experience at MADS, that meant Queen could do the same things Oran could.
Kaido revered individual strength more, but he would not consider such an imposing giant worthless. In Kaido's eyes, something like this could only display its true value on the battlefield.
"Uh... Brother Kaido, you might not understand scientific matters. Oran and I specialize in different fields. This thing..."
"So you can't make it."
"No, Brother Kaido, listen to my explanation. This thing isn't something you can just use because you want to. First, you need..."
"You can't make it."
Kaido was not interested in the process. He only cared about the result, so all of Queen's explanations seemed pale and powerless before him.
"Tch, Queen, you know what? There's a saying among pirates: every ship has its stain. Looking at it that way, you must have been the stain on that research ship, right?"
Kaido knew exactly what Queen was capable of. If Queen really could build something like this, he would never have kept it hidden. He would have boasted about it to the whole world long ago.
At the very least, Kaido had no interest in beating Queen up right now. He had only picked up his spiked club to scare Queen a little.
No matter what, Queen