The New World, in an unknown stretch of sea.
After battling a vicious storm all night.
The Roger Pirates had strayed far off course.
Everyone looked thoroughly troubled.
"We're screwed."
"Where the hell have we drifted?"
"The Log Pose's response is really weak, too."
"We're way off course."
"What a pain."
Only Roger grinned broadly as he looked ahead:
"You lot!!!"
"Get ready!"
"Something big is coming!!!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Everyone aboard instantly tensed.
"What!!!"
"An enemy attack?"
"That can't be right. There's no one here."
"Captain Roger, could you not scare us like that?"
"Seriously!"
Roger chuckled:
"I'm not trying to scare you."
"I heard it."
"It's right... there."
As he spoke, his eyes narrowed slightly, as though he could see that enormous figure.
That ancient creature that walked the seas, day after day...
The New World, Wano Country, Onigashima.
The Beasts Pirates' base.
By now, Onigashima had begun to resemble what it would become in later years.
Still, it remained somewhat crude.
The main reasons were Kaido's strength and his wariness of that man aboard the Roger Pirates' ship.
But all of that would end today.
Inside an underground laboratory on Onigashima.
Compared with the crude surroundings outside, this place was remarkably sophisticated.
Experimental equipment was everywhere, and countless "test subjects" were locked in cages in the corner.
Kaido lay on the operating table, his abdomen cut open.
Wearing gloves, Queen worked on something inside Kaido's abdomen.
Every so often, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Finally, after half a day.
As he finished stitching the wound closed, Queen breathed a sigh of relief:
"Lord Kaido."
"Please get up and see how you feel."
With the mechanical lungs implanted, Kaido felt an endless stream of power surging through his body.
He even felt as though he were invincible