“Thirteen tis!?”
Hearing this, almost everyone, including Ian, was stunned. Ian couldn’t help but ask, “With Kaido’s strength, he failed that many tis to destroy Wano Country? Is Wano really that powerful?”
“Mama mama! Did you think Kaido was always as strong as he is now?” Big Mom laughed heartily. “You’ve got it all wrong!”
Her expression shifted slightly, becoming more serious. “Although the world says that Kaido is the strongest when it cos to one-on-one fights, nearly everyone knows that he’s also been defeated and captured many tis. And this isn’t just a rumor. Kaido has fought against all of us, the other three Emperors, including . He lost and was captured by
once, and twice by Whitebeard. But without exception, none of us could kill him!”
“How could there be soone who can’t be killed?” Lu Feld, one of the underworld bosses, interjected.
“Kaido is a strange one,” Big Mom shook her head. “Besides his enormous vitality, he also has a peculiar ability. He seems to be able to adapt to any kind of environntal change! I once had Perospero encase him completely in sugar, sealing him off to suffocate, but sohow, he managed to breathe inside the sugary cocoon…”
Adapt to any environnt? Hearing this, Ian suddenly had a realization. It reminded him of the dragon on Punk Hazard Island, one of Vegapunk’s creations. Could Kaido have a similar ability?
Big Mom was telling the truth—she indeed hadn’t found a way to kill Kaido. Her Soul-Soul Fruit power could extract soone’s lifespan, but only under one condition: the person must harbor even the slightest bit of fear. Fear would cause the soul to waver, allowing Big Mom to extract it. However, Kaido, being the madman he was, showed no fear of her even when she captured him. As a result, her ability had no effect on him.
Kaido’s body, like Big Mom’s, possessed the strength of iron. No matter how sharp or powerful a weapon was, it couldn’t harm him.
The reason Big Mom valued Ian so much was due to the power he displayed during the New Edd Sea battle—his ability to directly seize another person’s soul. In her eyes, if she could learn how Ian wielded such soul-related powers, she might finally have a way to kill Kaido.
“So you’re saying that Kaido wasn’t always this strong, but through constant challenges, he beca stronger and stronger. Is that what you an?” Ian asked.
“Exactly!” Big Mom nodded. “That’s why he’s so obsessed with fighting and attempting suicide. Any force that fails to kill him is sothing he adapts to. But at the sa ti, he does get injured. You must have seen that massive scar on his abdon, right?”
“Yes!” Ian nodded. “I was puzzled at the ti. With his kind of regenerative power, it didn’t make sense that even that scar couldn’t heal.”
“That scar must have been from when he first appeared in the New World,” Big Mom explained. “At least, by the ti he first ca to fight , that scar was already there. And I suspect that scar was left by soone in Wano Country!”
“So you’re saying Kaido’s repeated attacks on Wano were out of revenge?” Ian asked.
“It is revenge, but not for the injury,” Big Mom said with a sinister smile. “It’s for avenging the death of a friend!”
“Avenging a friend?” Ian asked, puzzled. “Kaido had friends? And soone from Wano killed his friend?”
“Not many people know about this!” Big Mom said as she grabbed a large donut from the table, devouring it in a few bites before licking her fingers. She continued, “It’s a story passed down by the pirates who once followed him!”
After finishing the donut, Big Mom added, “I don’t know if you’ve heard, but in Wano Country, there’s a legend about a dragon-slaying samurai. Long ago, an evil dragon attacked the cities of Wano, but it was slain by a samurai nad Ryuma. Ryuma beca a hero to the people of Wano, and the skull of the dragon he killed was preserved and displayed in Wano for people to see.”
“What does that legend have to do with Kaido attacking Wano?” Lu Feld and the others asked, puzzled.
“Mama mama! Of course it’s related!” Big Mom laughed heartily. “Because, according to the pirates who once followed him, after Kaido invaded Wano, he found the skull of that dragon and hugged it, crying his eyes out!”
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. “No way! Kaido’s friend… was that dragon!?”
But Ian’s mind was racing. Suddenly, everything seed to fall into place for him.
However, Ian still had a lingering doubt, so he asked, “But the story of Ryuma slaying the dragon happened a long ti ago, right? Fifty, maybe even a hundred years ago? How could Kaido have been friends with a dragon from such an ancient ti?”
“Who knows?” Big Mom sneered. “Even I thought it was impossible when I first heard about it. The legend of the dragon-slaying is from so long ago, and Kaido’s age is at most similar to mine. How could he have a friend from such a distant era? But he’s convinced that the samurai of Wano killed his friend, so he’s obsessed with organizing pirate invasions against Wano over and over.”
“In the New World, Elbaf is recognized as the strongest nation, but Wano is not far behind!” Big Mom continued, “Kaido organized multiple pirate assaults on Wano, but they were all defeated by Wano’s samurai. Wano is a country that reveres swords, and it has many master swordsn and great swordsn. Ordinary pirates are no match for them. And, aside from Kaido himself, how could one man destroy an entire country? So when Kaido realized this, he started forming an army of Devil Fruit users… I think his original goal was to invade Wano and desecrate the grave of the dragon-slaying samurai, Ryuma, to vent his rage. But funny enough, just a few years ago, before Kaido could invade Wano, sothing happened—Ryuma’s grave was robbed! His body and the burial artifacts were all stolen. With nowhere to unleash his fury, Kaido turned his focus toward the entire country of Wano. That’s when he shifted his strategy from brute force to inciting civil unrest. He wants to overthrow the entire country!”
Ian hadn’t expected to hear such a shocking story from Big Mom.
Big Mom wasn’t aware of the hidden details, but Ian, because of his connection with the Revolutionary Army, had learned so things from Dragon. As he pieced it together, he quickly ford a hypothesis.
Kaido was likely a creature created by Dr. Vegapunk, who had taken over the World Governnt’s original “Artificial dragon” project. Considering that Vegapunk had used lineage factor technology to create dragons, it wouldn’t be surprising if Kaido had dragon lineage factors in his body. This could explain Kaido’s ability to adapt to any environnt.
Ian speculated that dragons might have actually existed in this world long ago. The dragon-slaying legend from Wano likely had so truth to it. Moreover, the existence of massive Sea Kings, rare creatures like griffins in Big Mom’s collection, provided further evidence.
Not to ntion Zunesha, the enormous elephant that served as the ho of the Mink Tribe…
These rare creatures had beco incredibly scarce in the world today, but it seed that Vegapunk had cloned dragons using lineage factor technology—and not just one dragon, but several.
Perhaps this was why Kaido, during his ti at the Punk Hazard research facility, had genuinely bonded with one of Vegapunk’s dragons…
As an experintal subject, no one saw Kaido as a normal person. In the eyes of the researchers, Kaido was a monster, and only a monster would befriend another monster.
However, sothing might have happened later on Punk Hazard Island. The dragon that had beco Kaido’s friend likely escaped the island and flew away, never to return.
When the first accident occurred on Punk Hazard, Kaido seized the opportunity and escaped as well…
After his escape from the lab, his first thought was probably to find his old friend, the dragon that had fled from Punk Hazard.
And it was during this ti that he heard about the dragon-slaying legend from Wano…
Although the tiline didn’t match up at all, Ian speculated that after searching in vain for so long, Kaido had likely lost his mind. To Kaido, that dragon was his true “companion,” so without considering whether Wano was really responsible, he launched an attack on the country, seeking revenge for his friend without questioning whether Wano was the true enemy.
Of course, over ti, as he continued his attacks on Wano, Kaido also discovered so of the country’s hidden secrets, like the Road Poneglyphs, which only fueled his obsession even more…
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