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Kaden's first destination before he headed off to Dawn Island to find the future sun god himself, was Clock Work Island.
It wasn't actually all that far away from Logue Town, being one of the last islands before reaching it and heading on to Reverse Mountain.
It only took Kaden a half an hour to reach there following a simple map he picked up in Logue Town yesterday.
"God damn is that castle fucking ugly." Kaden winced as it came into view in the horizon
It started off as a white tower that resembled overlapping, lopsided white crowns painted with the symbols of playing cards, leading up to an observatory throne room at the very top.
Kaden was almost offended by how ugly it was.
Like, it was big and spacious for sure. but it was ugly as all hell. He couldn't ever imagine himself living in such a gaudy place.
It was tempting as all hell, to just transform right now into his full on dragon form and blow it away with his Blast Breath. Just legitimately wipe it off the face of the planet.
It would make the world itself twenty percent less ugly by his estimates. That was how god damn ugly it was!
The only reason he didn't, was because he wasn't sure where that buffoon Bear King kept his crews treasure.
…Speaking of his crew though.
Before heading towards the castle itself, Kaden directed his flying flame cloud down to the very bottom of the island suspended in the sky, to the multiple coves around it and circled the island a few times.
"Gotta admit, not bad." Kaden whistled, he was somewhat impressed despite himself. He supposed those like ten years the Trump Pirates hunkered down at Clock Work Island didn't go to waste.
Through circling the island in total a few times and spreading out his awareness with observation haki, he was able to get a full scope of the fighting force the Trump Pirates had accumulated in their time here.
He could sense so many people, he couldn't even count them with his current haki limits. But it was definitely well over a thousand people.
And a total of fifty five ships, each and every single one a match in size for a marine cruiser, which typically could have up to one hundred marines stationed on them.
That was just impressive.
He wondered if the Trump Pirates had a force that could equal Don Krieg's armada?
Well, not that a few thousand pieces of fodder amounted to munch. The vast majority of them had presences that didn't even measure up to some toddlers he'd felt in the New World.
Still, they were worth claiming. He didn't have a crew or anything, never mind enough subordinates to captain over fifty ships. But, that could very well change in the future.
Nodding to himself, Kaden directed his flame cloud to zip back up higher into the air and ascend to the peak of Clock Work Island, right up to the gaudy castle up top, and then stepped off.
He plummeted down, feet first, smashing through the glass ceiling and landed smack dab in the middle of a spacious throne room.
It was just as gaudy on the inside as it was on the outside. It was an oval room, with plenty of windows and natural sunlight coming through, with a raised station where a large ace-card shaped throne sat, and dozens of card symbols painted over the walls, while below him was a thick glass flower displaying the winder of a massive clock turning around in clock wise motions.
"Who the hell are you supposed to be?" a massive, oddly shaped man sitting upon the throne stared at him queerly.
And when Kaden said oddly shaped, he meant it. He had short squat legs, thick lank arms, a massive potato like torso and his head hung midway down his torso like he was a hunchback. He had a fat rounded face and a massive bulbous nose, with wild black hair jutting out all around it, and so much hair covering his shoulders it looked like fur.
He was the only one in the throne room, and Kaden found himself stunned speechless for a moment at just how ugly the man was.
Hell he even had fur circling his wrists, what the hell?
And what was with the black spade on his forehead? No wonder this dude had to have his subordinates kidnap girls for him.
"Nobody you need to worry about," Kaden shrugged, "Just dropping by to kill you and take your devil fruit to experiment with something, nothing important."
Bear King blinked, before bursting out into loud peals of laughter, "A runt like you is here to kill me? That's a good laugh!" his huge fist pounded against the armrest of his throne in amusement, before he pushed himself up, "I suppose I was actually getting a little bored, pulping your head between my palms might amuse me a-"
Bear King never got to finish, because before he could Kaden disappeared in a blur of speed using Soru and was upon him before the man could even react, his leg flashing out in a blinding fast round house that caught him in the cheek and bodily lifted the ten foot plus man into the air and sent him soaring through the air to crash into the wall hard enough to create spider web cracks and shake the entire throne room.
Kaden took the time before the huge hairy man smashed into the wall, to casually land on his throne and recline back in it, one leg crossed over the knee of the other and perching his head on his fist, "What was that about you pulping my head between your palms?" he bared his teeth at the huge man in a grin, "Weakling."