User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Baseless Predictions/@comment-972068-20140531235255

"Here is my point of view.. He may had ONLY haki but i thing he ate gomu gomu no mi because shanks had that fruit and he founded after rogers death.. As we know devil fruits are made again after the owners death (ace's mera mera no mi).So i bet he had gomu gomu no mi, after all its like luffy is a reincarnation of roger (he wants to be king of pirates, he uses strong haki, franky tom apetience mad his ship, he is childish like roger, he started hearing all thing after time-skip like sea kings and above all he has rogers straw hat)"

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