Wano Country, Flower Capital, Rakshasa Town.
On the bustling street, Sephiroth kept tossing the cloth bag of gold coins in his hand up and down, making a "clatter!" as he contemplated his next move.
At present, he did not know much about the distribution of forces within Wano Country, nor Kaido's troop deployments on Onigashima...
In short, the most important thing for him now was to gather intelligence!
Only with sufficient information could he find an opening, gradually build up his own forces in Wano Country, and improve his odds when he went to war against Kaido in the future.
Of course, if he wanted to defeat Kaido now, there was another way... find outside help!
Whitebeard and Kaido had no small grudge between them.
Kozuki Oden had been the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division and Whitebeard's sworn brother. By both sentiment and reason, if given the opportunity, Whitebeard probably would not refuse to go to war with Kaido...
The biggest problem with attacking Wano Country was breaking through its two lines of defense: the outer sea and the inner sea.
Just look at the Queen Mama Chanter of the Big Mom Pirates. It had been carrying a whole group of Four Emperor crew officers when, while climbing the waterfall, it had been kicked back down by King the Conflagration and Marco, one kick each, nearly sending everyone to a watery grave...
Anyone else would probably fare even worse!
But...
With the powers of the Door-Door Fruit, Sephiroth could allow the Whitebeard Pirates to pass directly through both sea defenses and appear in Wano Country.
However...
Even if you invaded Wano Country with troops that utterly crushed the Beasts Pirates, if you pushed Kaido too far, he could still use Flame Clouds to lift the entire Onigashima into