In an attic in the Flower Capital.
"Devil Fruits..." Kaido murmured.
He recalled the humiliation he had suffered at his own banquet on Onigashima a few days earlier.
He clenched his fist instinctively, and the sound of shattering lenses came from the binoculars in his hand.
Then he lowered the binoculars he had crushed into a lump.
He had always used his fists instead of his brain, and his brain had not worked in a long time. Driven by resentment and humiliation, it finally began turning again.
A smile of a successful scheme gradually emerged on his gloomy face.
He seemed to see Pero losing all his strength after touching Seastone.
Then being pounded to death by his punches, one after another.
He had always craved battle, but when someone really was stronger than him, he was unhappy about it.
For the sake of his title as the Strongest Creature, he could only resort to this underhanded plan.
He summoned his cleverest Headliner and whispered a few instructions to him.
"Go out onto the streets of the Flower Capital and leak this information to that man." Kaido stuffed a slip of paper into the Headliner's hand, a smug smile appearing on his face.
"Make sure you act well. Don't let him catch on."
"Pero, at this moment, your life is like a candle flickering in the wind."
On the street, Pero and Kizaru finished the bowl of oden with its soul-defining sauce.
Pero still wanted more.
But looking at the bland food around him, he really could not muster any interest in wasting his last jar of Lao Gan Ma on it.
He wondered when he could go back to the floating restaurant and swipe some more.
As for now.
Wano Country was so big that he could wander