This Was the Erudite Advancement Quest (Continued)

He had even dreamed of bringing White Ghost into the Beasts Pirates!

So what if White Ghost wasn't a Zoan user?

As long as he was strong enough!

But...

"So it was you!!"

Kaido repeated what he had just said.

The ghostly blue energy at Adrian's fingertips instantly reminded Cute Kaido of something unpleasant.

A little over a year ago,

Kaido had finished a drink and, as usual, gone on a drunken rampage through the waters around Wano Country.

Then, out of nowhere, he had found himself in a fierce battle.

And someone had beaten him straight into the sea!

Kaido vaguely remembered that the person he'd fought was White Ghost.

But the problem was...

After defeating him, White Ghost had done nothing to anyone else in the Beasts Pirates. Nor had Kaido heard any reports of him operating in Wano Country.

In fact, White Ghost had vanished without a trace right after that battle.

Only later had Kaido heard that he'd gone to Totto Land to cause trouble for that woman Charlotte Linlin.

For a while, Kaido had wondered whether the person he'd fought in the waters around Wano Country really had been White Ghost.

Or whether he'd drunk so much that he'd had a terrible nightmare.

What pirate defeated an enemy crew's captain, then took pity on the rest of the crew and let them go?!

But the Ghost Energy glowing at Adrian's fingertips snapped Kaido back to reality.

I wasn't dreaming!

This bastard really did beat me up for no reason!

The White Thousand-Hand Buddha seated among the clouds, those sweeping trails of ghostly blue light...

The painful experience from a year ago rushed back, vivid as ever.

Kaido's eyes turned bloodshot, and he flew into a rage.

He bent his knees, then shot forward like a