Charlotte Linlin could not quite figure out Kaido's intentions:
"Cooperate?"
Kaido's sneering voice came through the Den Den Mushi:
"That's right. Cooperate."
"Even if your Poneglyph was stolen, you should still have a rubbing."
"Give me that rubbing."
"Then we'll seize the other two Poneglyphs and get our hands on the One Piece first."
"Once we have it, everything else will be easy."
Charlotte Linlin snorted, instantly seeing through Kaido's scheme:
"You want me to help you become the Pirate King."
"You've got to be kidding..."
Kaido's voice came through the Den Den Mushi:
"Wororororo!"
"It's cooperation, Linlin!!!"
Charlotte Linlin looked displeased, anger flickering across her face:
"I refuse!"
"Kaido!!!"
Click-
She hung up.
Charlotte Linlin's expression darkened and shifted.
Honestly, it was a good plan. Even if they split the spoils equally, neither side would lose out.
But one unavoidable problem remained: they needed someone who could read the Poneglyphs.
The only person they knew of was Pudding. But not only was she unable to read the Poneglyphs before her Three-Eye Tribe ability awakened, the Marines had also taken her during that battle...
The news that had spread around the world had made no mention of Pudding.
Clearly, the Marines had kept it secret.
So, apart from the core members of the Charlotte Family, no one on the seas knew that Pudding had been captured-and on Whole Cake Island, at that.
She had already suffered enough humiliation.
Was she supposed to expose the fact that not only had her Poneglyph been stolen, but her only hope of deciphering the Poneglyphs had been taken too...?
Charlotte Linlin could never bring herself to say that...
In the New World, Wano Country.
Inside the great hall on Onigashima.
Kaido stared at the disconnected Den Den Mushi.
His expression instantly darkened:
"What's