The next day, early morning.
Ghost Island, back mountain.
Kaido sat on a flat rock, holding a wine jar, drinking deeply.
Suddenly, the shadow beneath him stretched strangely, wisps of black smoke drifted, and twelve figures appeared simultaneously.
“They’re here?”
Kaido carefully looked at Eric's offspring.
4 boys and 7 girls, among them was the little granddaughter, Hanabi, who had knocked him down in one move before.
“Good morning, Grandpa~”
Hanabi giggled, greeted her grandfather.
Kaido almost laughed along, but held back at the last moment.
Unlike Yamato, who called him “Bastard Kaido”, his little granddaughter was polite.
“I'll leave these children in your care for now.”
Eric wanted to laugh too. He was fascinated by Hanabi's cute appearance. Kaido hadn't realized that this girl was a trickster.
While her nature wasn't bad, finding fun was her instinct, she needed to follow the path of joy, drawing more strength from it.
“I’ll keep my promise, you can rest assured!”
Kaido said in a deep voice, got up and walked in front of the children.
Eleven offspring looked at Kaido. Yesterday they were enemies, today the enemy commander was their future Haki teacher for a period of time...
“Show me your Haki!”
One after another, they demonstrated their Armament Haki before Kaido.
Nine out of eleven offspring had already mastered it, only Emerald and Hanabi hadn't learned it yet because they were only a few days old.
“Hanabi, you don’t know Armament Haki?”
Kaido frowned. His granddaughter had even awakened Conqueror's Haki, how come she didn’t know Armament Haki? How did Eric, the father, teach her?
“No one taught me, Grandpa.”
Hanabi blinked, looked at the Armament Haki displayed by her brothers and sisters, silently raised her small hand, “Is it like this?”
With a thought, instantly, her palm was dyed a dark black.
“It’s unexpectedly simple~” Hanabi giggled, “Now I know it!”
Kaido's expression froze for a second.
“???”
Learn it with just a glance? What kind of talent is that?
“Good, good, good, you’re my granddaughter after all!”
After a while, Kaido couldn't help but laugh, praising Hanabi's talent.
Only a genius like her was worthy of being his granddaughter, much stronger than her mother, Yamato!
“As for you… why don’t you know it?”
Kaido looked at Emerald again. Compared to Hanabi, his attitude towards Emerald, who wasn't his daughter, was not so friendly, his face was very cold.
Emerald silently turned her head, looked at her sister Hanabi, and replayed in her mind the process of her sister using Armament Haki.
Then, she understood.
“Is it like this?”
Emerald's voice was cold. As she raised her hand, the same Armament Haki was born.
It was just condensing one's spirit into a force. It was like an invisible armor, worn on the body.
The only difference was that Hanabi's Armament Haki was of higher quality, while her Haki was slightly insufficient, unable to cover her whole arm, only her palm was wrapped in Armament Haki.
Seeing this, Kaido was stunned.
Learned it instantly again!? What kind of little monsters are they!
Was it not a matter of Yamato's talent, but inheriting her father's talent?
“What’s your name?” Kaido asked in a deep voice, “Who’s your mother?”
“Teacher Kaido, my name is Proudmoore Emerald, my mother is Kozuki Hiyori.”
“Kozuki Hiyori?”
Kaido frowned, it was actually Kozuki Oden's granddaughter.
And just like his granddaughter Hanabi, she had powerful talent.
Kaido was very unhappy about it, and his attitude towards Emerald became subtly unhappy.
However, this unhappiness was fleeting. With his status, he wouldn't be so petty with a child.
“I’ve already seen your strength. Next, I’ll teach you the Armament Haki of Wano Country, it’s called “Ryuo”!”
“It contains the meaning of flow, making Armament Haki no longer an armor, but water that flows through the body.”
“It can focus all your Haki on one point, greatly enhancing the attack and defense of that point!”
“Those who only know a little about it often think that Ryuo is the advanced stage of Armament Haki…”
“It’s not wrong to think that!”
Kaido was very serious about teaching the children. Although he was forced to do it, not being able to teach them would make him feel a little bit embarrassed.
Eric walked to a flat rock and sat down.
Ryuo, he didn't know either, so he just listened to the master's lecture.
After about half an hour, the teaching continued, the offspring were all very serious about learning.
Suddenly, Eric turned his head slightly. At some point, a girl with horns on her head and a mask appeared on the back mountain.
The girl was accompanied by a follower.
The Perospero siblings, Reiju and Page One...
Eric paid a little attention, and finally saw the numbers on their heads this time.
0 and 0!
“So young. Counting their ages, she’s only 16 years old now.”
Eric thought silently, the siblings might think they were hiding well, but they were already discovered by him.
With a thought, Eric turned into a shadow and disappeared.
Behind a giant rock, the siblings were still whispering to each other.
“Big sister, we’ll be found out if we get any closer!”
“Shut up! Perot!” Reiju had the aura of a big sister, “Aren’t you curious? Kaido-sama went to the back mountain early in the morning… It turns out he’s teaching others Haki. But who are those people?”
“They’re my children.”
A voice came from inside the rock.
Reiju was startled, then she saw that a head suddenly popped out of her shadow projected on the rock.
“Yaaaah! Run, Perot! We’ve been discovered!”
Reiju pulled her brother and ran away like the wind.
Eric: “…”
He scared the little girl.
And it was obvious that she recognized him.
Eric shook his head helplessly, “What am I, a flood beast? We’ve already stopped fighting.”
A woman who met the requirements, 16 years old, a good age, Eric decided to marry her.
He had already put a shadow mark on her. Wherever Reiju went, he could instantly lock on to her.
Just as he was thinking about how to propose, the system's voice suddenly rang.
【Your offspring Emerald has mastered Ryuo, you have synchronized mastery of this skill.】
Instantly, a mass of complex knowledge flooded his mind.
Eric shuddered, naturally mastered Ryuo, and had a corresponding understanding of it.
“This understanding… comes from Emerald!” Eric turned his head in surprise and looked at the training ground, “Is that her comprehension? As expected of a genius who can create breathing techniques.”
Even he, the father, was surprised. As for Kaido, the teacher, he was completely dumbfounded.
At this moment, in the training ground.
All the offspring looked at Emerald. A gentle Haki was wrapped around her palm, like a gentle mass of gas that could be seen with the naked eye.
“She learned it in half an hour…!! ”
Kaido looked at her with wide eyes, falling into a state of questioning his life.
He had used ten whole days to master it with his talent.
Making the Haki flow all over the body, and controlling it at will was not an easy task!
On the contrary, it was very difficult for him.
Because he knew the difficulty, Kaido found it unbelievable. A 12-year-old girl, just listening to him talk for half an hour, could understand it by herself!
No one would believe it if you told them!
“It can't be because of the Kozuki bloodline, it must be inheriting Proudmoore Eric’s talent!”
Kaido took a deep breath, unable to accept that Kozuki Oden’s granddaughter was so talented.
If Kozuki Oden had this talent, would he have lost to him back then?
The Proudmoore family, these little monsters are really terrifying!!