Allen!

On the battlefield strewn with wreckage, a tense and strange atmosphere filled the air.

"Are you Joy Boy?"

At that moment, Kaido's weak, broken voice rang out, like a whisper struggling up from the edge of hell, shattering the unsettling silence.

Hearing Kaido's words, Allen slowly stood up. A trace of confusion appeared on his young, energetic face as he stared at Kaido with blazing eyes.

Kaido lay miserably on the ground. The demonic Black Energy that had covered his wounds had gradually dissipated, and, miraculously, the wounds were slowly healing at a visible rate.

"What Boy?"

Allen's voice echoed through the air, filled with innocence and confusion.

Kaido was speechless. If speaking were not so difficult right now, he definitely would have cursed, Are you deaf, brat?

Suppressing his anger, he asked again, "I'm asking whether you're Joy Boy!"

"Mr. Kaido!"

King could not help calling out from the side.

In King's heart, he had always believed that Kaido was Joy Boy, the savior of this world. But now, seeing Kaido deny it and claim that Allen was Joy Boy instead, he did not know what to do for a moment, much less how to comfort Kaido's wounded heart.

Allen immediately shook his head and loudly declared, "I'm Allen!"

Kaido was so angry he nearly passed out. This brat is doing it on purpose, isn't he? I'm injured like this, and he still has the mood to mock me.

"Don't get angry. Anger will make you die faster!"

Allen continued speaking in that careless tone, and Yamato could no longer stand it. She shouted at Allen, "Hey, can you shut your mouth already?!"

Allen grinned and said apologetically, "Sorry, it's a habit!"

Then Allen turned to Kaido and said seriously, "I'm not Joy Boy. He's been dead for eight hundred years. I'm Gol D. Allen!"

"I really don't understand why you all want to become this legendary person. Can't you just be yourselves?"

"When you become strong enough to be unmatched, your name will be remembered for eternity!"

Kaido fell into thought after hearing that.

A moment later, he felt that Allen made a great deal of sense, as though a door in his heart had been opened.

Once he figured it out, that supreme, domineering aura surged forth from him once more. He burst into laughter. "Hahaha~ I never thought there would come a day when I, Kaido, would be lectured by someone."

"Brat, you really are something special!"

Seeing Kaido pull himself together again, King let out a sigh of relief. The weight hanging over his heart finally lifted.

Allen waved his hand and smiled. "There's nothing special about me. I'm just like you all, a fine young man with goals and ambition."

"A fine young man with ambition?"

Kaido muttered to himself. Although he did not understand some of Allen's words, he did not want to dwell on them.

"Brat, then what is your goal?"

Allen thought for a moment, determination shining in his eyes. "The strongest—the strongest existence in this world!"

Kaido frowned slightly as he looked at Allen. "Brat, I admit you're strong, but there are still many people in this world stronger than you."

"For example, that old man Whitebeard. And the World Government is not as simple as you think."

Allen nodded.

"I know. There's also a group of Celestial Dragons called the Holy Knights. Every one of them is as strong as a Marine Admiral."

"Hahaha~ Brat, I didn't expect you to know so much!" Kaido laughed.

Then Kaido added, "Without them protecting those useless Celestial Dragons, their entire race would have been wiped out hundreds of times already."

"More Than them, there are also the Five Elders and the person controlling them!"

Allen's words stirred something in Kaido's heart. He knew Allen understood some of those secrets as well.

Kaido was startled and immediately asked Allen, "Do you know who that person is?"

Allen gazed deeply in the direction of Holy Land Marijoa and slowly spoke.

"Ruler of the World, Imu!"

"What?"

Hearing that name, Kaido's face filled with disbelief. Wasn't he one of the Twenty Kings of the World Government eight hundred years ago?

"How could he still be alive?!"

Allen answered calmly, "He probably gained immortality through a Devil Fruit!"

Those words were like a massive bomb, leaving everyone shocked.

Kaido was full of doubts and asked, "How do you know?"

Allen did not want to explain too much, so he casually brushed it off.

"I guessed, that's all!"

"Tch~"

Yamato immediately looked down on Allen. She had been listening with great interest, only for him to say something like that. It was truly speechless.

But Kaido and the others knew that ninety percent of what Allen said was true.

After all, every generation of the Five Elders consisted of extraordinarily powerful figures. Without someone capable of suppressing them, internal conflict would surely have erupted long ago. And Imu, who had gained immortality, perfectly explained everything.

At that moment, Kaido's calm voice rang out.

"Brat, you won. State your request!"

Allen propped up his chin and fell into thought.

Make Kaido his subordinate?

The moment that thought appeared, he immediately rejected it. He knew Kaido's temperament; Kaido definitely would not agree.

Then he turned his attention to Yamato. But when his gaze landed on her, his smile gradually vanished, replaced by a disgusted expression.

Yamato was actually picking her nose. The sight was simply unbearable.

Everyone followed Allen's gaze toward Yamato. Feeling several pairs of eyes upon her, Yamato finally lowered the hand that had been picking her nose. Her cool voice came from her lips.

"Why are you all looking at me? Is there something on my face?"

As she spoke, she touched her face. She looked like an innocent young girl, forming a stark contrast with what she had just been doing.

Everyone immediately looked away and Couldn't help but complain inwardly, What a waste of such a pretty face!

"Kaido, um..."

Allen felt a little awkward. He did not dare say that he wanted to take Yamato away, afraid that people would laugh at his poor taste.

"If you have something to say, say it. What's with that hesitant act?" Kaido said impatiently.

Allen finally gathered his courage and pointed at Yamato.

"My condition is that I take this idiot away and have her follow me!"

"What?"

Everyone was utterly shocked, unable to believe their ears.

Allen sighed helplessly. Just as expected. They must be laughing at me inside.

The moment Yamato heard that, her eyes lit up. She excitedly hugged Allen and shouted, "I knew it! You weren't just brushing me off before!"

Then she turned toward Kaido, Queen, and the others, wanting to prove that she was not some idiot who had been fooled. "See? He sincerely wants to take me away from here!"

Seeing Yamato like this, no one paid her any attention.

And Allen's eyes remained filled with disgust as he looked at Yamato.

Hearing that Allen's condition was to take Yamato away, Kaido was so angry that he laughed.

"Brat, you had countless chances to take her away, yet you waited until after defeating me to do it. Are you playing with me?!"

"Don't get worked up. I only wanted to defeat you head-on and take this idiot away fair and square."

As Allen spoke, he tried to push Yamato away, but she clung to him tightly. No matter how hard he pushed, he could not move her. She even whined, "You're the idiot! Your whole family is full of idiots!"