Kaido’s Bounty at 70 million Berries

The Vodka Kingdom paid for its World Government membership by raiding its neighbours, and its strongest soldier at ten years old was Kaido. At thirteen he started asking how that arrangement actually worked, and the king, unsure what else to do with him, sold him to the Marines in exchange for the right to attend the next Levely.

He went over the side of the battleship before it docked, and the bounty came at once. It does not answer a raid, a boarding or a killing. It answers an escape, and one can read into it the insult done to a diplomatic transaction. On the day it was posted, Kaido captained nothing and owned nothing.

What he then did with it is stranger still. With no crew, no ship and no money, he let the Marines take him again and again, not out of any battle plan but out of hunger, eating his fill aboard the warships and slipping away with ease once he had finished. Until Hachinosu, the poster worked as a standing dinner reservation.

By fifteen he was on Hachinosu, getting the better of established pirates in such numbers that Edward Newgate came to recruit him for the Rocks Pirates. Everything the world remembers about him starts there. This figure belongs to the boy before it, and to the only stretch of his life in which being wanted was useful to him.