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An hour later, Kaden sat atop a chair in one of the local restaurants, the table itself piled high with empty plates on one side, and food filled plates on the other.
Sandai Kitetsu and Yubashiri, hilted within their sheaths hung over his shoulders while he gorged himself.
And his giant sack was ten million beri lighter.
The old man who owned the Arms Shop had tried to give him both blades for free. But he knew for a fact Sandai Kitetsu III was worth a million beri, and Yubashiri who was a tier above Sandai Kitetsu had to be more more. So he'd dropped ten million in front of the man just to be safe, before leaving on his way.
He could have gotten them for free, but that just wasn't cool. Two of the very best weapons in the world, given to him for free? When the man was already trying to make a living.
Nah, that just didn't sit right with Kaden.
After that, he'd made his way over to the Robecca Hanberg botique. He'd picked out quite a few clothes, but most specifically left them with one article of clothing he'd picked up and wanted the colour of it dyed a different one.
And as he happily gorged himself silly, Kaden's mind wandered, 'Where to from here?' he mused to himself as he tore a chunk of chicken from a huge drumstick.
Dawn Island might not be a bad idea. There were some pretty big and strong animals there that could be good to train against. It was unlikely they would push him much at all, but using his abilities in combat would be great training.
He had a few things he wanted to accomplish. Mainly getting a good hold on his devil fruit abilities, and mastering the last two of the Rokushiki. And then there was the fact he wanted to train his haki a bit more.
He'd noticed as he travelled, it was coming to him a bit easier. His range had expanded a decent bit and he the amount he could coat his arms in with his armament haki was a decent bit larger and easier to maintain.
Which meant either that brief battle with Graydle had pushed him to new heights without him realising-
Or it was due to Kaido's lineage factor from the devil fruit he ate. Either or was fine really.
'Honestly the ability I'd love most to get my hands on is Life Return.' Kaden mused as he chomped down on half of a burger, before tossing the other half down the hatch at breakneck speeds.
Among other things, it would be amazing for enhancing his physical growth training wise. And there were a few ideas he had that he could use with it to push further beyond for crazy benefits.
The problem was he only knew of two people that knew how to use it, the full thing at least without any devil fruit giving the ability.
But they were both Cp9 members and both highly loyal to the World Government. They'd probably rather die than teach him.
And he had no idea where to look into it to learn it himself. And that wasn't even going into how tough it probably would be to learn it and how long it would take.
If only there was a way for him to steal the information from them and-
"Gecko Moria could do that." Kaden blinked, thoughts coming to a stop. Luffy had gained the abilities of the shadows he'd taken in. If he got a CP9 member to Moria, the man could take their shadow and give it to him.
The only problem there was he couldn't keep the shadow permanently, so he'd need to ingrain the technique into himself while he had it over a short period of time.
He'd either need to kill Gecko Moria for the shadow shadow devil fruit, or ally with the man though.
Either way not something he wanted to approach right now until he was stronger than he was currently.
The man might have been completely out of shape, but he was one of the seven warlords for a reason.
One on one Kaden was sure he could take him, but it was another matter to do it in the heart of his own territory with all his subordinates around to help him.
…And a small part of him simply would rather not kill the man because it would make the cute ghost girl Perona hate him.
Speaking of thinking with his dick though, 'What should I do about Nami?' he wondered. He could easily take care of Arlong and his crew now. But just turning up and doing it when she wasn't around, would work against him.
Well he'd be flying around the East Blue a lot, so he could put a pin in it for now and see if he ran into her during his time here.
Besides, there was one more big reason why he was in the East Blue, beyond the Meito blades he had picked up, Nami and getting time to train and get himself ready.
…Well technically it tied into the Meito themselves.
See, as a marine he'd had access to a lot of marine only information. Such us Doctor Vegapunks experiments into imbuing Devil Fruits within a weapon.
He'd learned exactly how to go about it.
And just why it was only Zoan devil fruits that it was applicable with. It was because the zoan fruits bestowed at the very least, the mind of an animal upon anyone or anything that consumed them.
The other two types of devil fruit, did not. The Zoan's at the very least, had been discovered to have a degree of sentience and sapience.
That was why Paramecia and Logia devil fruits would not work with items. Because there was nothing there mentally to activate the powers.
…But what about a sentient Meito?
He couldn't be sure the theory would work. But, there was no harm in trying, except for the fact devil fruits cost a shit ton of money.
Luckily though, there were a few devil fruit users kicking around the East Blue. One specifically would pair really well with a sword actually.
The Hard Hard fruit.
And said holder of the Hard Hard fruit, had a weak ass logia user working under him. And both, appeared in the encyclopedia of devil fruits he'd picked up.
At least to his knowledge.
It was the Liquid Liquid logia devil fruit she had right? Either way, if it didn't work out, it wasn't that much of a big loss.
Shaking his head, Kaden put it out of mind for the moment as another serving of food was brought to his table.
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Two hours later after eating his fill and spending more than an entire months wage before he defected, Kaden stood within a changing room of the Robecca Hanberg Botique admiring himself in the mirror.
Beyond changing into a fresh set of marine pants and combat boots, and a white tank top, he hadn't really changed his look at all.
Except for one thing.
The large coat that now mantled his shoulders. A crimson bloody red with golden pauldrons on the shoulders. And on the back?
JUSTICE.
Was displayed proudly.
After killing Graydle, he'd stripped that undeserving boot licker of the Celestial trash of his coat and taken it for himself. And he'd left it to be dyed in his own colour.
It was basically just one last big fuck you to the World Government as a whole, and it brought a smile to Kaden's face.
So much so, he couldn't help but burst out into a great amused laughter, "Chadadadadadadadadadada!" he laughed.