Marine Based - 3

Which brought him to the final entry on the page.

Well, there was five originally, but he crossed off Fishman Karate. Since he highly doubted any fishman within their kingdom would happily teach him even if he did visit and the only thing that came to mind to learn it, was to head to East Blue, slaughter Arlong and his crew and force Kurobi to teach him the basics under threat of death.

Not something at all viable right now, even if Fishman Karate was one of the few abilities capable of harming Kaido due to the shockwaves one could produce with it and bypass physical toughness.

Alas, just not viable for him right now.

Which brought him to the most obvious on the list.

Devil Fruits

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Devil Fruits, the ultimate equalizer in this world. With some luck, a complete weakling could go from trash to being able to crush anyone without Armament Haki or sea stone weapons.

The problem being, getting his hands on one. If he wanted to buy one, they were ludicrously pricey. Even the weakest or ones with unknown effects, went for at least two hundred million beri.

That was literally one thousand times the amount he got paid by month. So unless he managed to claim the bounty on some hot shot pirates with high bounties, that wasn't happening.

Beyond that, was the option for killing the holder of a devil fruit and grabbing the devil fruit when it reincarnated.

Only, the type of fruit a devil fruit reincarnated in varied and from what he knew had to be healthy and ripe to begin with. He'd literally need to carry around an assortment of fruit while being on the lookout for devil fruit users and they wouldn't last very long at all.

Honestly, he only knew of one single devil fruit that reincarnated into a specific fruit from his memories. The Axolotl zoan devil fruit reincarnated into apples.

So if he killed the user of it and had a ripe apple on hand, he could get it for himself. Which wasn't a bad idea in practice. Because zoan fruits even in the base form, enhanced the users physical abilities. And Axolotl's could regenerate.

'Except the Axolotl devil fruit is currently being used by a now sentient giant blob of toxic corrosive gas.' he snorted, then laughed despite feeling no amusement over it.

Like how the fuck was he supposed to deal with that?

Wait.

Speaking of Smiley, there was a devil fruit he knew the location of and a particularly powerful one at that.

The clone of the Mythical Zoan devil fruit - Fish Fish Fruit: Model: Azure Dragon.

Momonosuke and the red scabbards hadn't appeared in the timeline yet again and weren't due to for a while yet.

…And coincidentally, Punk Hazard was not far from here. In fact, it was a known location if thought abandoned place by marines as a whole where they used to store prisoners for experimentation.

That should be great. Why not? Literally a few days sail from where he was, he could find and get his hands on the equivalent of a mythical zoan devil fruit and one of the most powerful in existence.

Only, the thought abandoned research facility was currently being used by a meglomaniac with a powerful logia devil fruit, who was being attended by a woman with a snow logia. Who had a giant toxic sentient Axolotl pet at his command.

And was currently working for Doflamingo to produce fake zoan devil fruits known as 'SMILE'.

And was selling them….to Kaido.

Who would want his head if Kaden in any single way messed with that operation.

"Fucking annoying." he groaned.

There was not a single, simple answer for him at all. Honestly, if he could get his hands on that dragon devil fruit, he could use the flame cloud ability of it, to literally just fly away.

He could go anywhere he wanted with it, even a sky island and just avoid everything.

To get it though, he'd need to slip in, avoid everyone there, and there was quite a few pirates turned prisoner that had been 'helped' by Caesar Clown, the resident meglomaniac producing SMILE. They had forces numbering in the hundreds, most of them from the New World, if fodder that didn't last long.

Still far stronger than your typical person though.

After all, he struggled with just a few New World fodder from his memories and he was considered pretty damn strong in his old marine base.

"Guess I can literally only do one thing…" he sighed, running a hand through his hair in defeat.

He would have to train.

And train.

And train.

And if he wanted to make any headway quickly with the Rokushiki or Haki, he'd most likely….need to talk to Vergo and ask him.

"Peachy, just fucking peachy."

….He was freaking talking to himself now.

Well, at the very least, he liked working out and relished in the feeling of his body getting stronger. He was an avid sports player and even trained in martial arts in his own life and one of the few things he and the Kaden who originally had this body of his seemed to similar on, was training their bodies and getting stronger.

And maybe their taste in women.

But…who didn't like a curvy, voluptuous babe?