Watching Kaidou's expression, Queen shuddered violently. A cold jolt ran straight down his spine. Swallowing hard, he stammered, "The prison... it was broken into."
"What did you say?" Kaidou's eyes flared with explosive fury. Reaching out, he snatched Queen by the collar and hoisted his massive body clean off the ground!
Seeing this, King and Jack immediately lowered their heads, hardly daring to breathe.
Under normal circumstances, Kaidou treated them like brothers. But seeing him handle Queen like this meant one thing—the captain was genuinely furious!
"I entrusted Udon Prison to you..." Kaidou roared into Queen's face, "and you let every single prisoner walk free?!"
Udon Prison housed countless formidable martial artists, master craftsmen, and rebel fighters—an almost endless supply of dangerous individuals.
With all those prisoners out on the loose, they could easily form a formidable army—one capable of posing a direct threat to the Beast Pirates' dominance in Wano!
"Captain, you can't entirely blame us for this!" Queen gasped out frantically. "That Ryuma guy was far too crafty... He engaged all three of us in battle to tie us down, but he had already secretly sprung the prisoners beforehand..."
"You're telling me he emptied the entire prison right under your noses while fighting you?" Kaidou's rage boiled over. "What useless trash are you three?!"
Queen took a deep breath, steeling himself as if preparing for execution. "Captain, it was completely bizarre. Ryuma kept fighting me directly without stepping foot inside the facility. By the time Jack and King arrived as backup, the bastard just transformed into a cloud of shadow bats and flew off!"
"Oh? Shadow bats?" Kaidou paused, his grip loosening. He tossed Queen aside, letting him crash onto the floor with a loud thud.
A faint, menacing smirk spread across Kaidou's face as he slowly clapped his hands together. "Well now... that makes things rather interesting, doesn't it?"
Not long ago, Kaidou had fought Gecko Moria in a decisive battle—a crushing victory where the Beast Pirates suffered virtually no casualties while Moria's crew was practically wiped out.
Kaidou's expression darkened, his tone dropping low. "So... according to you, this Ryuma absorbed Moria's Devil Fruit power?"
"Precisely," King stepped forward slowly. "I can vouch for that. Besides, Moria's Thriller Bark is still anchored in Wano's territorial waters and hasn't departed. I led a boarding party to search the vessel and rounded up everyone on board. Moria's crew claimed their captain hadn't returned in a long time. They searched for him secretly, but only located the corpses of two Lead Performers—Absalom and Hogback—inside Ryuma's tomb. Moria's body was nowhere to be found. Preliminary findings suggest Moria met his end there..."
Kaidou let out a cold snort. "It seems this situation is becoming more entertaining by the minute."
"Boss, how do you want us to handle this?" Jack asked grimly.
"How else?" Kaidou growled. "I don't care whether he can swallow Devil Fruit powers or not. I'm giving you three days. If you can't capture this so-called Ryuma within three days, how do you dare call yourselves the Three Disasters of the Beast Pirates? Hmph... don't expect any mercy from me if you fail!"
Hearing Kaidou's ultimatum, the three Lead Performers nodded frantically like chickens pecking at grain. Without another word, they hurriedly backed out of the hall.
This time... Kaidou wasn't playing around.
If they failed to track down the youth claiming to be Ryuma, Wano Country was going to be turned completely upside down.
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