"Old man, what is the meaning of this?" Kaido asked Kozuki Sukiyaki, his expression hostile.
Kozuki Sukiyaki's attitude-using him and then showing him the door-left Kaido deeply displeased.
"Mr. Kaido, thank you very much for helping Wano Country defeat these invaders. You will be our most honored friend," Kozuki Sukiyaki told him with a squinting smile.
"It's just that Wano Country has so much to rebuild right now. We'll be busy restoring people's livelihoods for some time, and we may not be able to attend to you properly."
Kozuki Sukiyaki fully displayed Wano Country's idiocy. Completely blind to the gap in their strength, he genuinely treated Kaido as a good brother of Kozuki Oden who expected nothing in return-someone to discard once he had served his purpose.
"Shurorororo! Are you trying to drive me out?" Looking at Kozuki Sukiyaki's serious expression, Kaido couldn't help laughing.
"I'm not an idiot like Oden. Controlling me won't be that easy."
"As it happens, I don't have any territory yet. From now on, Wano Country will be my base!"
The moment Kaido spoke, the faces of everyone from Wano Country changed drastically.
"Kurozumi Orochi, I'll leave these people to you!" Having said his piece, Kaido left the rest to Kurozumi Orochi, then transformed into a blue Divine Dragon and departed.
After defeating Saro yesterday, Kaido hadn't wiped him out. Instead, he had wanted to recruit him.
Clearly, Saro wasn't particularly defiant. Faced with Kaido's threat of force, he had knelt without hesitation, as had the members of the Kurozumi Family accompanying him.
While Kaido was drinking last night, Kurozumi Orochi had even openly expressed his desire to govern Wano Country for him.
He had also warned Kaido in advance about how Kozuki Sukiyaki and the others might react, and laid out his own plan.