A deafening burst of wild laughter suddenly erupted from Kaido!
The entire Onigashima shook violently beneath his terrifying laughter!
Rocks tumbled down, and the beasts howled!
"My son! Hahahaha! That's my son!"
Kaido threw back his head and laughed madly, tears streaming from his eyes.
"Not even two years old, and he used a Marine vice admiral as a punching bag?! He can even use the Gate of Opening?! Blood-red steam?!"
"Worororororo! Good! Excellent!"
"That's what it means to be Kaido's son!"
"Surpass me?! Hahahaha! Go ahead and give it a try, brat!"
"Wororororororororo!"
Kaido's laughter was filled with unparalleled pride and satisfaction!
The others watched this unfold.
They all cast unprecedentedly fervent gazes toward Lynn, who was still asleep!
The news birds of the World Economic News Paper blanketed the skies.
Their piercing cries scattered the latest newspapers to every corner of the sea.
Whether in prosperous island towns, pirate ships roaming the Grand Line, or heavily guarded Marine branches.
Countless people saw that newspaper's front-page headline at the same moment.
The bold black headline was savage and eye-catching.
[The World Is Shocked! Kaido of the Beasts Has a Young Son! Marine G-58 Branch Suffers a Devastating Blow!]
["Demon Child" Lynn! Marine Headquarters Offers an Exceptional Bounty of One Billion Beli!]
The photograph showed the blurred figure of an infant wrapped in blood-red steam.
Though his face could not be seen clearly, the ominous and terrifying aura that seemed to seep through the paper sent chills down the spine of everyone who saw it.
One billion!
Just hearing that number was enough to make one's scalp tingle!
And the target of that bounty was actually... a baby?!
"M-My eyes aren't playing tricks on me, right? One billion? For a child?"
A pirate rubbed his eyes furiously, and the wine glass in his hand clattered onto the deck.
"Kaido's son? That monster actually has a son?"
"Demon Child... that nickname is fucking perfect! That's no baby—that's clearly a little devil!"
"Have the Marines gone insane?! A one-billion-Beli bounty on a nursing baby?!"
"What the hell do you know?! Look at the state of G-58 Branch! One Marine Headquarters vice admiral was beaten half to death, while the other two fled in disgrace! Could an ordinary baby have done that?!"
For a time, the entire sea erupted into an uproar!
Discussions, cries of shock, and sharp intakes of breath rose and fell across every corner of the world.
The name "Demon Child" Lynn swept across the entire world like a hurricane!
The Beasts Pirates were already infamous for their brutality.
And now, an even more terrifyingly gifted "Demon Child" had appeared.
This sea was probably about to change completely!
New World, Whole Cake Island.
Totto Land, inside the castle of Queen Charlotte Linlin.
"Mamamamama... that bastard Kaido! He really stepped in shit!"
Big Mom's enormous body sat upon a custom-made throne. Having just finished reading the newspaper in her hand, her face was livid, and her voice brimmed with undisguised jealousy and fury.
The air was filled with the sweet, cloying scent of cake, but it was now mixed with a suffocating pressure.
She viciously crumpled the newspaper into a ball and hurled it to the floor.
"A brat under two years old! One billion Beli! One billion!"
Big Mom's spit sprayed everywhere.
"Where are my sons and daughters?! Perospero! Katakuri! Smoothie! You useless trash! You rice buckets!"
She roared furiously, her gaze sweeping over her trembling children below.
"Look at Kaido's son! Then look at all of you!"
"You call yourselves elites, but what's the result? You can't even compare to a little brat!"
"Why can't I give birth to children with that kind of promise?!"
Perospero licked his candy cane and forced out a smile.
"Mama... Kaido just got lucky, that's all..."
"Lucky?!"
Big Mom suddenly slammed her palm against the armrest, making the entire castle tremble.
"Damn it! Do you think you can just stumble across a monster like that through luck?!"
"If even one of you had half that brat's ability, would I still be in such a passive position right now?!"
Katakuri remained silent. His crimson scarf hid his expression, but his clenched fists revealed the turmoil in his heart.
Smoothie did not dare utter a word, afraid of provoking her enraged mother.
The other Charlotte Family members barely dared to breathe.
The more Big Mom thought about it, the angrier she became. She grabbed a cake Homies made from souls beside her and viciously stuffed it into her mouth.
"I'm dying of jealousy! Kaido, you damn bastard! Why does he get all the good things?!"
"Mamamamama... no! I need to find a way to produce someone even stronger!"
Greed and resentment flashed in her eyes.
The appearance of this "Demon Child" had made her feel unprecedented pressure, along with... deep jealousy.
The latter half of the Grand Line, the New World.
The Moby Dick.
Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, sat upright in his enormous captain's chair, holding a massive sake bowl suited to his size.
Ever since the matter with that traitor Teach, he had been in a foul mood.
The atmosphere aboard the ship was somewhat oppressive as well.
"Pops."
Phoenix Marco walked over slowly with a newspaper in hand, his expression somewhat strange.
"Oh? Any new news? Gurararara..."
Whitebeard took a huge gulp of sake, his deep voice carrying his distinctive laugh.
Marco handed him the newspaper.
"It's about Kaido of the Beasts... he has another son, and the Marines put a bounty on him."
Whitebeard accepted the newspaper. His huge fingers pinched the thin paper as his gaze fell upon the front-page headline.
When he saw the words "Demon Child Lynn, one billion Beli," his drinking motion paused slightly.
The air fell silent for several seconds.
"Gurararara..."
Whitebeard suddenly let out a low laugh.
"A brat worth one billion Beli... Kaido really knows how to stir up trouble in this sea!"
He casually tossed the newspaper aside, raised his sake bowl, and took another huge gulp.
On the surface, he seemed not to care.
But Marco sharply noticed that, when Pops saw that news, a complex emotion had flashed deep within his eyes.
There was surprise, gravity, and a trace of... barely perceptible displeasure.
The commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates also gathered in twos and threes to read the newspaper.
"One billion? You're kidding, right? That's higher than the combined bounties of several of our commanders!"
"Kaido's son... he sounds like a monster already!"
"If that kid grows up, wouldn't that be a disaster?"
Amid the discussions, Whitebeard raised his sake bowl again.
He gazed at the rolling sea, his eyes deep and distant.
"Other people's sons..."
He muttered softly, so quietly that only he could hear it.
Blackbeard Teach's betrayal had been like a knife plunged into his heart.
And now Kaido's "Demon Child" had appeared as well.
That contrast left the old man, who regarded every crew member as his "son," with a heart full of mixed emotions.
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