One Piece: Starting with Sharingan, First Mate Uchiha

Wood chips scattered in the air and hit the walls of the corridor.

Inside the room, the noise and flames outside were completely different from those in the hall.

The place was filled with the strong smell of disinfectant and the regular, monotonous "beeping" sounds of various complex medical instruments in the darkness.

Kaido walked with incredibly heavy steps to the large hospital bed in the center of the room.

He was once his equal and reigned supreme in the new world for decades.

Even Charlotte Linlin, another Yonko who had bestowed a Devil Fruit upon him during the Rocks Pirates era, was now lying lifelessly and quietly on top of him.

The once-powerful steel balloon, the arrogant and tyrannical queen, is now covered in thick white bandages.

She was wearing a heavy ventilator, her chest rising and falling weakly and slowly with the aid of the equipment.

She was completely oblivious to the earth-shattering thunder and fire outside, the agonizing screams and carnage of the remnants of the myriad nations.

Looking at the old woman in front of me, whom I once knew but who has now fallen into such a miserable state.

Kaido's mind was filled with the image of Jack's severely swollen corpse, and the anger he had just suppressed surged wildly in his chest once more.

"Lingling... my most loyal subordinate perished at sea because of your Charlotte family!"

Kaido let out a deep roar, and the dry, hard muscles on his arms bulged like layers of rock.

The black and red lightning, a color reminiscent of a tyrant, leaped wildly in the void once more.

He slowly raised the heavy, rough spiked club, "Eight Precepts," high above his head.

If this blow lands, not only Charlotte Linlin, but also the hospital bed and all the medical equipment around it will be instantly crushed into a pile of indistinguishable flesh and blood.

However, just as that spiked club, radiating an aura of endless destruction, was about to be swung down with the force of wind and thunder, it struck mercilessly.

Kaido's movements abruptly stopped in mid-air.

"boom--"

The violent force of the stick created a gust of wind that swept through the narrow ward, lifting Charlotte Linlin's oxygen mask and revealing her aged and bloodless face.

Even with the imminent threat of death, the woman lying on the bed showed no signs of waking up, her eyes tightly closed.

Looking at the fragile body before him, like a candle flickering in the wind.

The rage that had been dominating Kaido's bloodshot eyes began to cool down little by little.

Instead, there was a strong sense of astonishment, as well as a deep sense of contempt and disdain.

"Hmph... I came all this way."

"Am I supposed to swing a stick at a dying man like you who can't even speak?"

Kaido is a tyrannical, cruel, and war-mongering maniac who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, but he also has his own morbid bottom line.

He revered absolute force, the clash of power, and the glory of dying on the battlefield.

Killing a severely injured, unconscious, and defenseless old woman is not revenge at all.

This is an insult to his unparalleled and domineering power.

This scene involuntarily reminded him of the fateful duel he had with Kozuki Oden, the invincible samurai, in Wano Country twenty years ago.

Back then, Kozuki Oden had already severely injured him with "Togen Ten Fists".

Just as the battle was about to be decided, that damned old woman with the Imitation Fruit transformed into Momonosuke, causing Oden to be distracted during the clash.

Although he won the game with that bat, the humiliation and frustration of winning unfairly tormented him for twenty years.

Therefore, he ruthlessly killed the self-righteous, sneaky old woman himself afterward.

Inside the Castle of Nations, that familiar sense of humiliation surged back into his heart, completely extinguishing his interest in wielding the spiked club.

His huge hands, raised high above his head, slowly released the force.

"Bang!"

A dull, loud bang.

Kaido slammed the heavy "Eight Precepts" onto the hard floor with the force of gravity.

Just as Kaido withdrew his killing intent, a series of intermittent sounds of flesh scraping against the ground suddenly came from the dilapidated corridor outside the ward.

"Mom...don't...touch my mom..."

The dying Perospero's once magnificent dress had long been torn to shreds by the previous sword energy and lightning.

At this moment, he had multiple broken bones in his hands and feet, but with an astonishing determination to protect his mother, he used his broken fingers to painstakingly crawl through the gaps and into the special care ward along the corridor.

Behind him, on the expensive carpet, a long, dark red trail of blood was left.

Perospero used the last bit of life force in his body to finally crawl to the bedside amidst heavy breathing.

He trembled as he opened his blood-soaked arms and tightly shielded the elderly woman on the hospital bed behind him.

His swollen eyes stared at the giant before him with resentment and terror, and he growled in a hoarse, inhuman voice:

"Kaido...you monster!"

"Come at me if you dare! Don't you dare touch Mom!"

Looking at this ant that couldn't even stand up but still tried to show its claws to him, Kaido bent down expressionlessly.

His large, thick hand reached out as if he were picking up a tiny chick.

He grabbed Perospero by the neck and lifted his massive body into the air.

No matter how weakly Perospero pounded his wrists, Kaido's large, iron-like hand remained unmoved.

He looked down at his eldest son with a somber gaze:

"Shut up, you weakling."

"I wouldn't stoop to slaughtering a piece of trash that's already been destroyed."

"To answer my question, although Lingling, this old woman, is not as strong as before, she shouldn't have been beaten like this."

"Was it really that straw hat kid who beat her up to this half-dead state?"

Perospero, whose fate was being strangled, began to turn from white to blue as he suffocated.

Large spurts of blood kept gushing from the corners of his mouth, dripping onto Kaido's hand.

Upon hearing Kaido's question, the fear in his eyes gradually faded, replaced by an endless resentment and madness.

Perospero stared at Kaido and uttered, haltingly, the two names that were renowned throughout the seas:

"It's...it's the Straw Hat Pirates...Straw Hat Luffy..."

"And that damned Crimson Lotus... Victor..."

Upon hearing these two names, even Kaido, who prides himself on being the strongest creature in the world, fell into a moment of silence.

For a moment, only the cold ticking of medical equipment filled the hall.

He recalled the newspapers from before, and Doflamingo's defeat.

He finally began to realize that these two kids, whom he had regarded as ordinary overseas Chinese not long ago, had experienced the earth-shattering battle of Zou.

They are no longer helpless brats, but true monsters capable of overturning the new world and disrupting the established order of the Four Emperors.

After a brief silence, Kaido suddenly let out a cold snort.

In those bloodshot dragon eyes, the raging killing intent that had just cooled was instantly reignited by an unprecedented fighting spirit and excitement.

Since Charlotte Linlin is already useless.

But in this world, there are now powerful rivals who can excite him.

This means that his boring and long life can finally usher in a satisfying and destructive battle.

"Hahaha! This is so funny!"

"Straw Hat Boy, and Crimson Viktor... I'll be waiting for you in Wano Country!"

Kaido sneered and casually tossed the half-dead Perospero into the corner of the room like a piece of trash.

With a dull thud, Perospero fell unconscious in the ruins.

Kaido didn't even bother to glance at these defeated survivors from Whole Cake Island, and strode out of the hospital room filled with the smell of medicine.

The moment his imposing figure stepped out of the corridor, the power of the fruit within him once again went berserk without reservation.

His bones began to expand rapidly, and layers of hard, bluish scales instantly covered his entire body.

"roar--!!"

Accompanied by a deafening roar that shattered the clouds above the sea.

Kaido once again transformed into that colossal blue dragon that blotted out the sky.

His enormous, mountain-like dragon body soared into the sky, ruthlessly smashing the massive, dilapidated dome of the Cake Castle.

The giant dragon circled once in the night sky amidst thunder and lightning and raging fire.

He then changed direction and sped back towards his territory, Wano Country, at an extremely high speed.