Uchiha Puppet Master, Starting from One Piece.

"You are free."

Bai Yu's voice was calm, but every word clearly reached everyone's ears.

An old man came out; he had an injury on his leg and walked with a limp. He walked up to Bai Yu, looked up at Bai Yu with his cloudy eyes.

"Who...who are you?"

Bai Yu looked at him and remained silent for a moment.

"A passerby."

The old man paused for a moment, then smiled. The smile was bitter, but something gleamed in his eyes.

"Passersby..."

He knelt down, his forehead touching the ground.

"Thank you."

The others followed suit and knelt down, one after another, like dominoes.

"Thanks……"

"Thank you, sir..."

Bai Yu didn't say anything, but simply turned around and walked out of the basement.

Rangiku glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, her lips moved, but in the end she said nothing and followed Shiraha.

It was almost dawn when they left the castle.

A pale dawn appeared in the eastern sky.

But in that direction, there was something even brighter.

No, it's not bright.

It's red.

It is fire.

It is a dragon.

A colossal azure dragon is flying toward the City of Flowers at an astonishing speed. Fiery clouds swirl around its body.

The dragon's roar rang out again, this time clearer and more furious than before.

"found it."

The dragon's roar was like thunder, falling from the sky and shaking the houses in the Flower Capital.

People on the street looked up at the dragon. Some screamed and ran away, some collapsed to the ground, and some knelt down and kowtowed.

"Kai...Lord Kaido..."

"It's Lord Kaido! Lord Kaido has arrived!"

"That black giant killed Lord Orochi, Lord Kaido must have come for revenge!"

"Run! This place is turning into a battlefield!"

Bai Yu raised his head, looking at the approaching azure dragon, and a smile curved his lips.

"Kaido of the Beasts".

His voice was very soft, but the people around him heard it.

Rangiku stood beside him, her hand already on the hilt of her sword. The expression on her face was no longer the cold smile from before, but a genuine, serious expression, the kind that comes when facing a formidable foe.

"It looks like a big guy."

Violet didn't speak, but simply looked into the distance.

Devil Fruit: Stare-Stare Fruit.

She is using her Devil Fruit powers to gauge the strength of the Beasts Pirates' support.

Artoria stepped forward and stood beside Bai Yu. Her golden holy sword was already drawn, its blade shimmering with brilliant light. Her expression was calm, but there was a hint of solemnity in her eyes.

The oppressive aura emanating from that dragon was unmatched by Orochi; it was perhaps even more formidable than Big Mom.

The dragon drew closer and grew larger.

When it flew over the City of Flowers, the entire city was shrouded in its shadow.

Kaido's body was already very large, even larger than Orochi's Yamata no Orochi form. His scales shimmered with a blue light in the morning light, like pieces of burning blue flames.

His eyes were looking down at the people on the ground.

When his gaze fell on Bai Yu, the dragon's eyes narrowed slightly.

Then, the dragon began to descend.

The enormous body landed on the ground, shaking the entire street.

The surrounding houses could not withstand the tremors; cracks appeared in the walls, and tiles slid off the roofs and shattered.

The dragon's body began to shrink and deform.

The scales fell away, the wings folded, the dragon horns remained, but the huge dragon head had turned into a human head.

Kaido.

Kaido of the Beasts.

Captain of the Beasts Pirates, the de facto ruler of Wano Country, and the strongest creature in the world.

He stood there, over seven meters tall, with bulging muscles and dragon-scale-like tattoos all over his body.

He was wearing a purple sleeveless kimono, with a huge spiked club at his waist.

He was holding a gourd in his hand, and steam was still rising from the mouth of the gourd.

His face was expressionless, but his eyes burned with suppressed rage.

He looked at Bai Yu, and Bai Yu looked at him.

The distance between the two people was less than twenty meters.

The air seemed to freeze.

More figures appeared behind Kaido.

Those were the members of the Beasts Pirates.

There were humanoids, beast-like beings, and a hybrid of human and beast. Ancient Zoan and Mythical Zoan users, all sorts of Devil Fruit users, rushed over from afar and stood behind Kaido, forming a massive army.

The figures of several people were particularly eye-catching.

A man wearing a black mask and a black cloak stood with his hands in his pockets, staring blankly at Bai Yu and his group.

Flame of Destruction.

The top rank officer of the Beasts Pirates, the leader of the Three Disasters, and the user of the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Ancient Zoan type, Pteranodon form.

A man with an extremely bizarre physique.

Plague - Quinn.

The top scout of the Beasts Pirates, one of the Three Disasters, and the user of the Ancient Zoan type, Brachiosaurus form of the Dragon-Dragon Fruit.

There was also a tall man with extremely fierce eyes.

Drought - Jack.

The top scout of the Beasts Pirates, one of the Three Disasters, and the user of the Ancient Zoan type of the Elephant-Elephant Fruit, in Mammoth form.

In addition, there was a group of members dressed in black suits, including True Fighters, Gifters, and Pleasures, who filled the entire street.

The residents of Flower Capital had all fled, leaving only Bai Yu and his group, along with the Beast Pirates, on the entire street.

Kaido finally spoke.

His voice was not low, but deep, like a boulder rolling down from the mountaintop.

"It's you?"

He didn't ask who you were or why you were there; he just asked directly, "It's you."

Because he already knew.

That black giant, those screams, that dead black charcoal serpent.

All of this was done by the exceptionally handsome man in front of me.

Bai Yu looked at him and nodded.

"it's me."

Kaido narrowed his eyes, a dangerous glint flashing in them.

"Do you know that the giant snake is one of my people?"

"So what?"

"Do you know that Wano Country is my territory?"

"Yours? That's hard to say."

"Then you still dare to touch him?"

Kaido's voice remained low and deep, but the suppressed rage was becoming increasingly evident.

The gourd in his hand was squeezed out of shape, and the wine leaked out from between his fingers and dripped onto the ground.

Bai Yu looked at him, the curve of her lips unchanged.

"So what if it moved?"

Four words.

Four words, described in a light and understated way.

Kaido fell silent.

There was a three-second silence.

Then he smiled.