User blog comment:Nobody700/The next cover story/@comment-10543621-20131115032347/@comment-10543621-20131116085743

I'd prefer he actually took over the island as well. I mean, it's kinda deflating the whole hype given to the supernovas if they're so willing to immediately seek employment under someone else right after entering the new world. With X-drake being a former marine, him wanting to work under Kaido feels even more unlikely, unless he had some ulterior motive/grand master plan.

Having said that, I think beating up an employee to ask the boss for a job sounds like an excellent way to secre an employment as a pirate though. What better way to prove you're more suited for the job than demonstrating it directly that you're better than the other guy?

As for why Scotch is hanging around if X-drake really took over the island, maybe uhhh he got his ass handed to him so badly by X-drake that he decided to join him instead? Or he got reprogrammed somehow. He might be more robot than cyborg for all we know...