Intelligence

After chatting with Stussy, who was under Kotoamatsukami’s control, for a while, they exchanged contact information. He also had her join forces with Doflamingo. With the abilities of those two working together in collusion, they could already encompass at least seventy to eighty percent of the Dark Emperors’ power.

This also amounted to building a tight intelligence network. Whether there were any unusual developments or he wanted to collect Devil Fruits, he could draw upon the strength of this network.

In truth, if he had not still been wary of the World Government’s hidden trump cards, Yota would have gone looking for trouble with them long ago. As long as he could overthrow the World Government, then use Kotoamatsukami to brainwash certain key departments, Yota could completely bring the entire Pirate World under his control.

What? No governing experience? What a joke. Did Yota have any governing experience back in the Naruto World?

This was a supernatural world where individual strength reigned supreme. If he lacked governing experience, he could simply find someone capable of governing but lacking any real strength, hit them with Kotoamatsukami, and guarantee they would become even more devoted public servants than public servants.

Yota had already tested this approach in the Naruto World. He had to admit, it was simply perfect. Half of the Naruto World’s current peace came from the Genjutsu Space, while the other half came from all those Daimyo, nobles, and the like becoming moral saints, wholeheartedly serving the people.

Besides, in a world like the Pirate World, where everyone was just competing to be less terrible, no matter how bad Yota was, he could not possibly be worse than the World Government, right?

"What a pity… I still don’t know who Imu really is. Doflamingo does know some things about the Celestial Dragons’ National Treasure, but that superweapon clearly doesn’t have much to do with Imu… Seriously, twenty years of serialization is a bit too long, isn’t it? It’s all because Oda the Old Thief keeps digging holes without filling them in!"

The so-called Celestial Dragons’ National Treasure was a superweapon powered by life force. However, according to Doflamingo, he had seen Celestial Dragons who had used the Op-Op Fruit, yet he had never seen Imu. Clearly, there was another mystery buried beneath this one.

Besides, on these seas where personal strength ruled supreme, even if Imu possessed the most advanced weapons imaginable, if Imu’s own strength were lacking, there was no way Imu could have ruled the World Government for eight hundred years and been revered by the Five Elders like a god.

Yota then asked Stussy whether she needed them to help eliminate the other Dark Emperors. Stussy merely smiled and refused. "Agents from our CP Organization are embedded beside every one of those so-called Dark Emperors. If we want to, they absolutely won’t be able to return to their own territories."

"Besides, some of them have dealings with the World Government as well. They won’t talk recklessly."

Hearing that, Yota was secretly amazed by the World Government agents’ ability to infiltrate. The people of the Pirate World might be idiots in the original story, but when it came to infiltration, they were remarkably skilled.

Of course, compared to the Naruto World, it was child’s play. That world was the true land where spies ran rampant.

As for people who would not talk recklessly… Yota immediately thought of a certain plucked chicken. Morgans might seem obedient in ordinary times, but he was really just holding back for something big. To him, big news was more important than his life.

Still, Stussy’s matter was not enough to qualify as truly big news. That fellow should behave himself.

With the intelligence network of Stussy and Doflamingo, Yota finally found news of someone he had been trying to locate—the Strongest Creature in the World whom he had driven out of Wano Country.

When Yota drove Kaido out of Wano Country, he had not thought much of it. More importantly, he felt he had already squeezed all of Kaido’s remaining value dry. For Yamato’s sake, he had spared Kaido and the Beasts Pirates.

It was only after Yota got involved with Kozuki Hiyori that he truly began thinking about Kaido again.

Mainly because another wild idea had popped into his head… As everyone knew, Kaido’s artificial Devil Fruit army, which he had spent enormous effort cultivating, had encountered its natural nemesis: Tama’s Millet-Millet Fruit. The result had been a complete reversal, with the entire army turning against him.

So what if he fed Kaido the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit, then gave him a millet dumpling as well…

After all, Kaido had once been Wano Country’s Guardian Deity King. This time, Yota intended to make him truly fulfill that duty and provide Wano Country with some protection.

However, after Kaido left Wano Country, there had been no news of him at all. Yota had thought that, given Kaido’s personality, he should have quickly made a name for himself wherever he went. Unexpectedly, several months passed before any news finally came.

According to the intelligence Stussy provided, Kaido had actually gone to Elbaf, the land of giants. It seemed he intended to recruit some giants as fighting power.

Because Elbaf was a nation inhabited purely by giants, even the World Government’s intelligence agencies could not infiltrate it—after all, the disparity in size was right there.

That was precisely why Kaido had nearly vanished from the seas during this period, with no one able to find him.

But now, Kaido seemed to have recruited several powerful subordinates from the giants’ nation. The Beasts Pirates had reappeared on the seas and occupied several small island nations.

Yota was not particularly surprised that Kaido could recruit subordinates in the giants’ nation. After all, Kaido was nearly as large as some smaller giants, and his physical strength was exceptionally formidable. For giants who worshipped strength, it was perfectly normal for a few admirers to gather around him.

The biggest reason he had not recruited giant combat power before was probably those Ancient Giant test subjects under his command. However, in the last battle, those so-called Ancient Giants had not only been utterly weak, but had also been almost completely wiped out. Naturally, Kaido no longer had any reservations.

If Kaido had continued wandering around, he might have been difficult to find. But since he had conquered several small island nations, he had practically exposed his whereabouts completely.

In Dressrosa, Yota was using Pudding’s Memory Fruit to erase certain toy-related hidden dangers among his subordinates when he received the intelligence. He immediately transformed into a dragon and prepared to go find trouble with Kaido. He already had the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit in hand, along with a bag of millet dumplings made from the Millet-Millet Fruit he had taken with him when leaving Wano Country. All the conditions were in place; it was the perfect opportunity for an experiment.

This time, Yota did not bring Ulti and her younger brother. No matter what, they still had some feelings for Kaido.

However, Violet was indispensable. Her search ability was simply too useful to Yota. Since Violet was coming along, Kyros, who could not rest easy about his sister-in-law, naturally would not stay behind.

And Pudding, who had only recently joined Yota’s side, naturally would not miss such a good show.