A little girl stood by the window, curiously looking around. She wore a kimono and had the same pair of horns as Kaido atop her head.
She was Kaido's daughter, Yamato—the kind who had not yet been brainwashed and possessed by a soul artifact.
"Hard to imagine, isn't it? Brother Kaido actually had such an adorable daughter. Come to think of it, he's rather like Oran in that regard. One day, they both suddenly announced they had a daughter."
"How has Oran's daughter been lately?"
"As for Miss Lyliana... I think she could pin you down and beat you up now."
After considering it for a moment, Absalom gave a fairly impartial answer.
"Muhahahaha, that's a good joke. How could that guy Oran raise his daughter to be so violent?"
"But... I wasn't joking."
Not long ago, Lyliana had been in seclusion training her Conqueror's Haki. For intimidation practice, she had even used Terra, a dragon, as her target.
Mental intimidation was ineffective against androids, while dragons had far greater tolerance than humans, so Terra had been dragged into the training ground by Lyliana.
There had been some results so far. Even Terra had gradually mastered the absurdly intimidating technique known as dragon might.
However, the cats living in the royal city felt terrible about it. Whenever it was time for Lyliana to train, they would head out in groups.
That kind of intimidation at the biological level made them extremely uncomfortable.
Recently, Lyliana had even begun to feel that knuckle dusters were not heavy enough, and had started studying warhammers as a new weapon. Saying she could pin Queen down and beat him was Absalom being polite, since fewer and fewer people could spar with Lyliana.
Aside from Shiki and Oran's fabricated sparring partners, opponents such as Bear and