Chapter 14: Faker

"Kaido!" Moonlight Moria gritted his teeth, his eyes nearly bursting into flame, but he also understood that at this moment he had no capital to take revenge on Kaido.

Straw Hat and Kaido.

Two people with a grudge were right before his eyes, and right now neither was someone he could handle.

Luffy stared blankly at Kaido, panic and shock also on his face.

"Why is Kaido here?"

At this moment, the Navy's three Admirals turned their gaze to Kaido.

The threat this gate-crasher now posed had already surpassed Straw Hat's.

"How terrifying." Kizaru kept the same tone: "I didn't expect even Kaido to show up."

"This war has nothing to do with you, but if you want to interfere, then I'll deal with you first!" The stone slabs beneath Akainu's feet had already been melted by lava, fully revealing his killing intent.

"Ah lah lah lah, one trouble after another." Aokiji's hands emitted a chill.

"Don't think you can get away."

Sakazuki coldly glanced sideways at Straw Hat.

You have a new private chat message.

Su Lin: "I'm Su Lin, not Kaido, don't blow my cover!"

"Eh—!" Luffy suddenly shouted, looking at Kaido in the distance in disbelief.

'This idiot...'

Su Lin thought speechlessly, if he weren't afraid of being split open by Luffy going Gear Fifth, he wouldn't have told Luffy the message in advance.

"Eh—?!"

In everyone's line of sight, Straw Hat kept glancing at the lower left of his gaze then looking up at Kaido, not knowing what was going on.

"Straw Hat!" Kaido roared, drawing the attention of the entire field.

'You can call me Teacher Kaido now.'

"Teacher Kaido? Why?" Luffy shouted in confusion, not understanding what Su Lin meant.

"Kaido... Teacher!!!???"

The surrounding Navy marines cried out in shock.

The pirates and Navy in the distance also heard it.

"Straw Hat is Kaido's disciple?!"

"Gura la la la, cough cough." Whitebeard laughed so hard he coughed a few times: "This is too interesting."

It was simply more absurd than someone saying Devil Fruits taste good.

This strange development had already steered the situation in a bizarre direction; did this mean Kaido had come to help Straw Hat?

Whitebeard hadn't been dealt with yet, and on the field there was a Straw Hat who could match Admirals and the Fleet Admiral in combat, and now Kaido had come too.

If Vice Admiral Garp hadn't fallen.

In this moment of crisis, the people subconsciously pinned their hopes on that former Navy hero.

When did Vice Admiral Garp get up from the ground?

When did Master Meng Qi D. Luffy seek out Kaido to become his master and learn? That's impossible.

Kaido had always been in Wano, the Navy had always monitored Kaido's movements, the two's trajectories had no intersection.

Wait, Sabaody Archipelago, the Straw Hat crew was sent flying by Kuma and disappeared, could it be...?

Sengoku began to suspect that during these ten days, Straw Hat's mastery of Haki was Kaido teaching him!?

But even if an Emperor of the Sea was teaching him, this was way too fast.

Did Straw Hat really have such terrifying talent? Never seen before, never heard of. That bastard Garp actually let a grandson with such talent become a pirate.

Sengoku had already lost count of how many times today he wanted to immediately have a fight with Garp.

No, the trouble now was Kaido's stance.

"GARP—!" Sengoku stretched out a golden palm and slapped it toward Garp.

"What happened." Garp suddenly leapt up, catching Sengoku's palm with one hand: "Why are you attacking me."

"Don't give me that crap!"

"Look at the good deeds your grandson Straw Hat has done!"

"You must go today and resolve your grandson's mistakes!"

Let it be public then, it wasn't a secret among the upper echelons anyway. If he and Garp didn't fight seriously today, the situation would be very hard to control.

But for the mid-level Navy, this news was a bombshell.

"Straw Hat is Vice Admiral Garp's grandson?!"

"Eh—!"

The fighting soldiers on both sides suddenly didn't want to continue fighting.

It just felt like today they'd eaten too much melon.

Even Marco, Jozu, Spider, Vice Admiral Tsuru and the others stopped fighting and pulled back to watch the focal figure in the field.

"That Garp's... grandson..."

"Isn't he Ace's little brother?"

"Isn't Ace Gol D. Luo Jie's son!?"

"How did Navy hero Garp get dragged into this too?!"

Thud thud thud—

"I can't take it, my head is so messed up, what is going on with this family!!!"

Some pirates were already banging their heads against the ice.

"Why is it that the grandson of a Marine hero ended up as a pirate!" a Marine elite cried, clutching his head.

"No wonder Vice Admiral Garp got taken down in one punch — he was throwing the fight on purpose."

"......"

Are those words something a Marine Lieutenant Colonel like you should be saying? The people nearby silently edged away from the guy, afraid of being mistaken for the one who'd said it.

"Hey! Kaido!" Garp stood on Sengoku's fist, completely oblivious to Sengoku's sour expression. "Since when did Luffy become your disciple?"

"Oh? He's your grandson?"

Master Meng Qi D. Luffy: That's right, since when did I become Kaido's apprentice!

Su Lin: This is to honor Master Kaido's painstaking efforts! Don't mind it, just play along and help me buy some time. Use Gear Fifth whenever you need to — I won't hold back.

Su Lin: Of course, you can go a little easier on me.

In the eyes of the crowd

'Kaido' didn't bother answering Garp. While frantically sending messages in a private chat, he ran toward Luffy.

Aokiji's eyebrow twitched; he flash-stepped on ice to Kizaru's side.

"Today I've come to give you your final lesson!" Conqueror's Haki coiled around the spiked club like black lightning.

"On this sea! Only Haki — is eternal!"

Accompanied by 'Kaido's deafening voice, the earth shattered as the iron club smashed down toward Luffy.

"Kaido and the Straw Hat kid are fighting!"

Amid the cries, between the spiked club and the fist clashed bursts of Conqueror's Haki.

Rayleigh, who was drinking and eating meat while watching the livestream on Sabaody Archipelago, took a sip of his wine and said helplessly: "This is too far-fetched. Is Kaido's teaching really this good?"

He hadn't expected Ace to be the old captain's son, and now it was too late for him to go to Marineford. The Marines had hidden the news far too well.

Still, Luffy's leap in combat power had genuinely startled him. He'd originally planned to train the kid himself if he got the chance, but it looked like Luffy had found a more suitable teacher.

Only the Red-Haired Pirates knew this was fake, because Kaido was currently confronting them.

"Rubber Stamp!"

"Thunder Bagua!"

Boom—

Rumble—

Luffy: "Su Lin, what's going on with your appearance and strength?"

Su Lin: "Just think of it as me having copied it over. This look is Mr. 2's ability."

Su Lin: "The main thing is paying-to-win. Pay-to-win, and you get stronger."

Luffy: "What's pay-to-win?"

Leaving no room for the onlookers to doubt it, the Conqueror's Haki Su Lin was using right now had been provided by the Pirate King, Gol D. Luo Jie. The intensity of that Conqueror's Haki had spread across nearly all of Marineford.