Onigashima's palace trembled amid thunderous laughter.
Kaido sat coiled upon his skull throne, his enormous body heaving with laughter. He lifted a sake gourd large enough to hold a grown man, pouring amber liquor like a waterfall into a gaping maw that could have swallowed an ox. Liquor ran down his azure, dragon-scaled skin, soaking his bare chest.
"Ha ha ha ha-!!"
His laughter shook dust loose from the vaulted ceiling.
"I heard all about it!" Kaido casually tossed aside the empty gourd, smashing it against a stone wall. "You little brat, Boer! Cipher Pol Aigis Zero killed one woman at your side, and you got so scared you dissolved everything you'd built in Bernia and handed your years of accumulated wealth to the Navy for nothing?!"
He leaned down, his enormous shadow engulfing the figure in the center of the hall, as small as an ant by comparison. A wild, appraising light flashed in his slit pupils.
"That's nothing like you! Where's the brat who dared to storm Wano Country alone and make fools of my 'Calamities'?!"
Boer stood in the very center of the palace, his plain black casual clothes almost blending into the shadows in Onigashima's sinister firelight. His hands behind his back, he looked up to meet Kaido's gaze, his face as calm as a deep pool.
"Tell me." Kaido grinned, baring his white fangs. "What have you come to me for this time? But if you want me to avenge you-" He pointed a finger as thick as a tree trunk at Boer. "You've got to join the Beasts Pirates! What do you say? My crew needs 'monsters' like you!"
A mysterious, almost dangerous smile curled at the corners of Boer's mouth.
"I do have an idea," he said, his voice echoing clearly through the