Reincarnated as Kaido, married Big Mom, and formed a dual-Emperor pirate crew.

Chapter 258 The Helm of Destiny, Kaido's Preparations

"Captain Kaido, something's happened!"

Today, after the quarterfinals ended, the battle for the top 100, ranked 33rd to 66th, is still being held on the stage.

Therefore, Morgans handed over the entire presiding duties for today to his subordinates, while he himself came to report to Kaido with the latest intelligence he had received.

"These are the recent movements of the navy; they seem to be preparing to take action against us."

Morgans handed a paper document to Kaido.

In the past year, under Kaido's orders, he opened branches of the World Economic News Agency everywhere.

His newspaper has branches on almost every island in the New World, and even on many islands in the four seas.

Therefore, even though the navy tried to maintain secrecy during the operation and made a probing blockade of Morgans' newspaper, Morgans' subordinates still managed to glean some intelligence.

Then, based on this limited information, they conducted further investigations, which is the information that Kaido now has in his hands.

After quickly reading through the intelligence report, Kaido didn't show much surprise.

"The Navy's movements are within my expectations, but it is still difficult to determine the Navy's ultimate goal given the current situation."

Based on Kaido's understanding of the Five Elders' pride, they should be quite disdainful of him.

In Kaido's memory, the Five Elders didn't react much to Luffy, who hadn't awakened his powers yet, destroying Enies Lobby. This was no small matter.

Therefore, unless there is accurate information about Nika's resurrection, everyone should be considered as insignificant as an ant in the eyes of the Five Elders.

The reason why the Four Emperors were not moved in the original timeline was not only because it would be too costly for the Navy to fight them, but also because the Four Emperors were meant to threaten the world and force countries to pay the Heavenly Gold.

Kaido, who has not yet obtained all the intelligence, finds it difficult to determine whether the Navy intends to wage a full-scale war against him or is planning to take advantage of the World Martial Arts Tournament to linger on the fringes of the battlefield and pick off the defeated.

After a brief moment of thought, Kaido said to Morgans:

"Pass down the word: prepare for a full-scale war between the Navy and us! Have the main force on Onigashima on standby, and also prepare defenses on the Whole Cake Island Islands!"

"Captain Kaido!!"

Morgans was startled.

"Would the navy be so crazy as to start a direct war with us?!"

"do not know."

Kaido looked into the distance, as if he could see the large naval fleet advancing towards him.

"But we must prepare for the worst."

Upon hearing this, Morgans' eyes showed a serious expression.

"Understood, Captain, I'll go and inform everyone right away!"

Kaido nodded slightly, then continued, "Also, go and inform all the pirates who made it into the top 32. Also, call the Marines and the Knights of God. Tell them I have something important to announce tonight!"

"They even notified the Navy and the Knights of God?"

Morgans looked puzzled, but he quickly figured out the key point.

Kaido is trying to intimidate and scare away the Navy.

Regardless of whether the Navy is truly prepared for a full-scale war with them, Kaido should first unite the pirate forces.

Therefore, if the navy insists on going to war, it will inevitably encounter the fiercest resistance and suffer heavy losses.

If the navy doesn't want to bear such losses, it can only roam around the periphery of the battlefield, capturing some weak pirates as a consolation prize.

As for notifying Sakazuki and the other two, as well as the Knights of God, it was a purely calculated move to shift the difficult question of whether to go to war onto the Navy.

Of course, there is a crucial prerequisite for this plan to succeed: tonight, Kaido must ensure that he can unite the pirates' forces.

Otherwise, the Navy would only learn about the fact that the pirates had split up ahead of time.

In that case, even if the navy wasn't initially prepared to fight, they certainly wouldn't let this opportunity slip by.