Chapter 1

"Look who’s here? Is it the most, most, most... adorable Yuanyuan in the world?"

A middle-aged man, who looked to be around forty, held a tablet in his hand and greeted a little girl, who appeared to be about seven or eight years old and full of mischief, through the video call.

"Daddy! Today is Yuanyuan’s birthday. Yuanyuan wants Daddy to come home and have dinner with Yuanyuan and Mom to celebrate the birthday!"

The little girl in the video was very cute, with two buns on her head, her eyes filled with the longing to have dinner with her father.

"Oh, I’m very busy today! I need to discuss a business deal with a company’s boss! This deal is very important for Daddy’s company!"

The middle-aged man looked at the little girl in the video with some distress. Although he also wanted to be with his daughter, he indeed had very important matters to attend to today.

"Sniff, Daddy, you promised that you would have dinner with Yuanyuan today and celebrate her birthday together!"

The little girl’s eyes welled up with tears when she heard that her father couldn’t have dinner with her and celebrate her birthday. Her voice started to tremble, and it seemed like she would burst into tears at any moment if her father’s next words didn’t please her.

"Um... that’s right! Yuanyuan! It’s your birthday today! Can you guess what birthday gift Daddy has prepared for you?"

The middle-aged man couldn’t bear to see his daughter cry. Since he had her late in life, she was the apple of his eye. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and tried to divert her attention.

"Gift?!"

Children are children. The moment she heard about a gift, her face lit up, and the tears that were about to fall disappeared. The little girl was so excited that the corners of her mouth almost reached her ears.

"That’s right! Daddy bought you the action figure of your favorite character from One Piece, the anime you love the most!"

The middle-aged man, seeing that his daughter’s attention was on the toy, immediately became enthusiastic, gesturing excitedly.

"Ah! The toy from One Piece! Let me guess, you must have prepared the plush toy of my favorite character... Chopper, right?"

The little girl’s expectant gaze fell on the middle-aged man’s shoulder through the video.

"That’s right!... It’s the custom-made statue of Kaido..."

"!!!"

The middle-aged man, meeting her expectations, lifted a half-meter-tall Kaido action figure with one hand. From its luxurious and uniform color and the incredibly detailed craftsmanship, it was clear that this Kaido action figure was not cheap.

"Sniff, sniff, sniff... Mom! Daddy is bullying me!"

The little girl, seeing the menacing Kaido action figure in the middle-aged man’s hand, finally couldn’t hold back her tears, which flowed like a fountain.

"What? You actually like that little gay Chopper? You don’t like Kaido?"

The middle-aged man had spent a year watching One Piece, skipping through the long anime, to choose a gift for his daughter. He decided to give her a Kaido action figure because he thought it matched his own temperament, so he had a friend in R country custom-make one for her.

The middle-aged man thought his daughter would be moved to tears when she saw the gift, but he didn’t expect that she would indeed cry, but out of anger.

"What’s wrong, Yuanyuan? What did Daddy do? Is it because he can’t come home for dinner? You have to understand Daddy..."

Just as the middle-aged man was silent, looking at the action figure in his hand, a beautiful woman in her thirties appeared in the video. She gently hugged her daughter Yuanyuan and comforted her tenderly.

"No, it’s because of the gift Daddy gave me..."

Yuanyuan lightly pointed to the Kaido action figure in the middle-aged man’s hand, her voice trembling.

"Ah? Darling, how can you give your daughter such a scary thing? You should throw it away! Why don’t you go to a plush toy store and find a proper gift for her? Don’t you even have the time for that?"

The beautiful woman, seeing the action figure in the middle-aged man’s hand, finally couldn’t hold back her frustration and scolded him, despite her good manners.

"I..."

The middle-aged man had a hundred things to say, but he couldn’t express them. The people in the video were his loved ones, his wife and daughter, and there were some things he couldn’t say to his family.

"You finish your meeting today, then go to the toy store and pick out a new gift for your daughter. After that, come home quickly to celebrate her birthday! As for that thing in your hand, get rid of it! It’s too scary..."

The woman hung up the video call without waiting for the middle-aged man to respond, not giving him a chance to speak.

"This..."

The middle-aged man, staring at the disconnected video call, was at a loss for words. But it didn’t matter what he said, as the call had already been hung up.

"Boss, please look over this contract. If there are no issues, you can sign it!"

Just as the middle-aged man hung up the video call, his secretary, who had been holding the document and staring at him intently, rushed to his side with lightning speed.

"Not in a hurry..."

The middle-aged man waved his hand at the secretary, his eyes slightly furrowed, deep in thought about a profound cosmic truth.

"..."

The middle-aged man sat in his office chair, lost in thought for half an hour.

His secretary’s face turned pale, thinking the middle-aged man had decided to abandon the contract, but finally, the middle-aged man had an epiphany.

"Of course! Little girls like pink, cute plush toys that look like backup food. They don’t like muscular, strong-looking men!"

At that moment, the middle-aged man finally understood.

He smiled, relaxed, and leaned back in his chair, his eyes radiating a wisdom that humans couldn’t fathom, a wisdom like that of a water goddess, something the world couldn’t possess!

"Boss! Boss! Are you okay?"

"Hey! Boss, don’t scare me like that!"

"Boss?!"

...

"Kaido!"

"I’m standing right here! Even boiling oil can’t take my life! Watch this! In twenty years, someone will open the gates of Wano Country that you have sealed! Open your eyes and witness your failure!"

A man, his body covered in burns but his eyes still shining with an extraordinary light, wearing a samurai outfit and with a menacing face, stood in a pot of boiling oil, shouting madly at Kaido, who was not far away.

"Bang!"

"What are you shouting so loudly for? Damn, you scared me!"

A muscular man, startled by the menacing man’s roar, shuddered and subconsciously pulled the trigger. A bullet shot through the head of the man standing in the boiling oil, who was unafraid of the high temperature and looked like a god of war.