"Hey, don't make things more complicated! Doflamingo won't be that easy to deal with."
Just as the two were about to fight, Drake walked over from the other end of the street with his Four-Bladed Axe on his shoulder. "If we fail Lord Loa's orders, neither of us will have an answer for him."
The voice came so abruptly that both Jack and Crocodile turned in surprise.
After getting a good look at the newcomer, Jack suddenly burst out laughing. "What a coincidence! The Fallen Rear Admiral, Drake!"
"Oh? One of the Three Calamities, a Yonko's trusted men? Someone as important as you knows who I am?"
Drake raised an eyebrow and stepped between Jack and Crocodile.
"Of course! Boss Kaido has had his eye on an Ancient Zoan user like you for ages." Two jets of air shot from Jack's nostrils as he tightened his grip on his Scimitar. "If I bring you to Boss Kaido, I'm sure he'll be delighted!"
Kaido, one of the Yonko and the World's Strongest creature, was known throughout the New World for his fondness for Zoan powers. All three of his All-Stars were powerful Zoan Devil Fruit Powers users.
In Kaido's eyes, true strength came from a powerful body. Compared with the soft powers of Logia users and the strange abilities of Paramecia users, the raw, physical force of Zoans was far more to his taste.
As the user of the Tyrannosaurus Fruit, a rare and valuable Ancient Zoan, Drake would have found it strange if Kaido hadn't wanted to recruit him.
Unfortunately...
"That's a shame. My boss now is Loa the Ice Dragon." Drake gave Jack an odd look and loosened his grip on his axe. "Are you sure Kaido would be happy if you dragged me back? If you are, come