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Kaden ended up staying the night in Logue Town. He rented out one of the best rooms in the hotel usually reserved for high ranking celebrities, royalty and other rich types, what was the point of all the money he stole if he never used it after all.
It was a total rip off though.
Two hundred and fifty thousand beri per night. A complete and utter rip off. Though, the deal for it was that those staying could order food whenever they wanted and in however amount they pleased.
He got the last laugh with that.
They weren't expecting a dragon sized appetite after all.
As it was, the next morning found Kaden leaning over the balcony outside his expensive room overlooking the pool, lost in thought. Though, he couldn't help but wonder one thing, "…Why are the elites of this world more often than not ugly as fucking sin?" Kaden mused aloud as he stared down at the pool.
Most of the people down there, kid and adult alike, were butt ugly, with oddly shaped heads, teeth, hair styles and bodies. A good ninety percent of the people actually paying to stay at the hotel.
The ones that weren't ugly as fuck and didn't look like they hit every branch of the ugly tree upon falling out of it at birth….before being taken back up and tossed back down a few extra times for good measure, were their tag alongs. The ugliest men were being accompanied by real beauties, pretty faces, luscious hair, curves for days.
It was rather bemusing to be honest, Kaden shook his head.
Honestly, he should just be grateful he didn't look like the typical Celestial Dragon. He was real lucky in that regard he supposed.
A news coo landing on the balcony brought him out of his thoughts, and Kaden lifted a single coin out of the pocket of the shorts he was wearing and gave it to it in return for the newspaper it was carrying.
He wasn't really interested in the newspaper itself, but rather what came with it.
Fresh bounties.
He quickly pulled them out, finding a stack of four. Three of them, he couldn't place at all, two of them were smaller timers with under ten million beri bounties, the third had sixty seven million which wasn't bad, but it was the last one that truly caught his eye.
A familiar blue eyed spiky haired blonde stared back at him from the picture, covered in blood and holding that piece of shit Graydle up and stabbing him in the throat.
It was quite the brutal looking bounty picture.
"…Crimson Kaden, seriously?" his voice was deadpan when he saw the epitaph they gave him.
That was lame as hell.
And completely uncreative.
Well he supposed it was better than something like Buggy The Clown or Red Hair Shanks.
'I suppose it fits though.' he mused, it matched his scales in his dragon form at least. His eyes settled on the bounty and he just stared for a moment, "…I knew it was gonna be big, but damn." Kaden whistled.
One hundred and eighty five million.
He had a higher bounty than Luffy did after taking out a Shichibukai. He had a higher bounty than Zoro did after helping destroy Enies Lobby.
Huh, didn't that make him a Supernova? Like, right off the bat?
'Neat…' Kaden snorted.
Though that did mean he couldn't stick around here for much longer. It wouldn't be long before he was recognised in a densely populated place like Logue Town and then everyone would know he'd skipped back to East Blue.
He wasn't actually sure how they'd respond to something like that to be honest. But either way, he wanted some peace from that hubbub until he'd gotten some time to himself.
As it was though, he'd specifically stayed here in Logue Town last night because he didn't really have much of a plan beyond dealing with that idiot Bear King and his Trump Pirates.
He supposed he could stick around Clock Work Island after he dealt with them, nobody had bothered them really in the what, ten years they'd ruled the place?
…Seriously what were the marines in the East Blue even doing at this point? Letting a loser like that rule over an entire island and population.
Smoker especially. With his Smoke Smoke fruit, that fool could fly across East Blue and round up the fools like Arlong, Buggy, Krieg and more within a few weeks tops.
Kaden put that out of mind for the moment. Either way, the big problem he had facing him was a lack of strong enough opponents. There was not a single pirate or marine in the East Blue right now, that could push him at all.
His best bet for good opponents to train against was literally at Dawn Island where Luffy trained. The wild life there would be great to train against for his Observation Haki at least.
Hmmm…actually.
What if he trained against Luffy?
Right now, he probably wouldn't be much of a match. But Luffy got stronger quickly in the face of stronger opponents, and Kaden knew of a quick way for him to ramp up his strength with Gear Second and Gear Third.
"Now there's an idea." Kaden grinned. Luffy coming at him with Gear Second, would be an amazing opponent to train his Observation Haki against.
And he couldn't deny, that even if he had decided to not to try and join Luffy on his adventure like he'd dreamed of back in his own world, he still wanted to meet him.
Yeah…actually, yeah! The more he thought about it, the more that seemed like a really good idea. Besides, forging a friendship with Luffy would probably come in helpful down the line.
"Let's do that then." Kaden laughed, stuffing the bounty poster inside his pocket before making his way back into his rented room to change into his actual gear, marine issue boots and pants, a white tank top and his shiny new crimson red coat, then he holstered his new meito blades over his shoulders.
Once that was done, he stepped out onto the balcony once more and held his hand up, a large glowing orange cloud forming out from his palm, which he then jumped up on and sat cross legged on.
And a moment later, at his bidding the cloud speed off through the air, carrying him atop it.