"Cut the crap! I'm not letting you see any weaknesses!"
What else could Linlin do, kill these two?
That would take too much effort!
Kaido alone would take ages to hack down.
Besides, she had been having children lately and hadn't had much time to train.
If she hadn't gained a few insights during the battle at God Valley, she wouldn't have grown stronger.
Her next plan was to build her forces using similar methods.
As for how they were supposed to grow stronger, she would leave them entirely to their own devices, just like Perospero, Katakuri, and the others.
Before she knew it, they would grow stronger one day!
All she really did was give them a Devil Fruit to eat whenever she had one.
"Couldn't ask for anything better!"
Kaido understood Linlin.
She put all her natural talent and formidable strength into building her forces.
He reckoned that in a few decades...
The Big Mom Pirates wouldn't even need to recruit crew members. They would all be family.
He had seen what Streusen looked like when he was cast aside.
Sure, he was still the vice captain now.
But he had been utterly bewildered when Linlin abandoned him back then.
If the two hadn't been such close friends, the biggest investment of Streusen's life probably would have come to nothing.
Fortunately, their relationship had ultimately become purely platonic, and that was how the current Big Mom Pirates had come together.
If Kaido joined her, who knew what things would look like in a few years?
She might kick him away once she was done exploiting his Oni bloodline!
How would he show his face in the New World after that?
Both had their own hidden agendas.
The force they unleashed canceled out all the shock waves from Shane