Kaido's Unusual Move
When the Marines were defeated, the world began changing at an astonishing speed.
It was not just the Four Emperors. Kaido, Big Mom, and even Red-Haired had learned of the Marines' current situation through the broadcast. Aside from Whitebeard, who laughed uproariously, Big Mom and Kaido both began harboring other thoughts.
They could hardly be blamed. Pirates were a group much like sharks: once they caught the scent of blood from a wound on their prey, they gathered in swarms, eager to tear off the fattest piece of flesh.
Everyone understood pirates differently. Red-Haired was a gardener, Whitebeard a gatekeeper, Blackbeard a dictator, and Straw Hat the freest man. They were all different.
But one essential point never changed.
That was their challenge to authority, their plundering of profit, and their greed.
Other than the Straw Hat Pirates, adventurers flying a pirate flag, every other pirate crew was more or less the same.
If the Whitebeard Pirates could not act rashly because of Old Man Whitebeard's health, then Big Mom and Kaido had no such concerns.
It just so happened that Big Mom's eating disorder had flared up. All of the BIGMOM group's operations came to an abrupt halt, and the Whole Cake Island group began bustling about to satisfy Big Mom's sudden appetite.
Kaido, however, had no such problem. Though Leo did not think highly of the Beasts Pirates, they actually possessed the bearing of a true hegemon: building high walls—the natural defenses of Wano Country; stockpiling grain—Caesar and Doflamingo's development of artificial Zoan Devil Fruits; Wano Country's weapon-forging technology; and his daughter Yamato as a backup to replace Kurozumi Orochi. Among the Four Emperors, Kaido was the only one truly preparing and working toward One Piece as the ultimate goal.
His methods might not have