Anyway, glazing aside, and trying to not have his captain do something stupid, he warned Luffy not to do something stupid. Give it like 5 minutes and some stupid shit would happen.
Merely 5 minutes after the clone vanished, Luffy somehow got in trouble. He ran into Smoker in a bar and now the Strawhats were running away from the Marines.
He couldn't stay out of trouble for one second.
Meanwhile, Bon Clay was being dragged by seastone chains behind the Strawhats, making sure he couldn't pull any sneaky shit.
As for touching Nami's face, he wasn't able to do such a thing. He only had Chopper, Usopp, and Luffy's faces.
Everyone else? He didn't have their faces.
So yeah, they'd rather keep it that way. His hands were currently gloved in order to stop him from trying to do anything sneaky.
Kairo, meanwhile, was currently in a meeting. As Mister 0 revealed himself, it was none other than Crocodile. And while the others were shocked that the hero of the nation was a fraud—Kairo wasn't too surprised. He felt like he already knew this... just like his friends in his past life used to say...
Heh, he forgot his friends' words, even their names. Odd. He knew he had friends, but now he couldn't even remember them, as if false-ish memories were being erased from his mind.
Nah, he was wrong. The One Piece world was like 500 or so years behind in inventions compared to the world he was from. Like, how could they possibly have anything to mess with his memory?
Enough about this unimportant plot point. His focus was on Crocodile. He was recording the whole thing—apparently Crocodile framed the king and wanted a civil war. Something about him wanting something in Alabasta, and while the nation destroyed itself, he'd take what he needed.
Mind you, Kairo's Den-Den Mushi was filming from the fat slow guy's point of view, not him. So if someone got framed for this, it would be him and nobody else.
Kairo intended to do this shit as secretly as possible.
Gauging Crocodile's strength, Kairo's brow furrowed. This guy was weaker than him. Current Kairo would scale roughly to Doflamingo-ish. Or like, a bit weaker than Marco.
TL;DR: he was like Yonko second-in-command level. So Fujitora would whoop his ass. The scaling was kinda hard, but oh well.
As Crocodile revealed his marvelous plan about how Mister 2 was going to act like the king and slaughter a bunch of people—how they were going to watch the country go to hell—Crocodile looked at Kairo before saying:
"From what was reported, has Mister 3 taken care of the Strawhats?"
Shit felt more like an order than a question anyway.
"I've seen no trace of the Strawhats in Little Garden."
Crocodile seemed thoughtful before showing Luffy's wanted poster.
"Oh, I know this guy, I met them on my way here," Kairo said, looking at the picture.
He passed his hand over his face.
Showing Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper's faces.
"I couldn't get them all. The Navigator wouldn't allow it." The zest was crazy, but oh well.
Crocodile ordered wanted posters to be done of them.
Kairo was going to make sure none of them reached the public. Getting praise from a mass murderer wasn't on his bingo card, but okay.
Meanwhile with the Strawhats.
"I want some water," Luffy looked thirsty. They had been going across this desert for hours now.
"We just need to get past those dunes, then we can rest for a bit," Vivi said calmly. She, along with Nami, was riding a camel.
"Eyelash, let me get on, this is tiring," Usopp said, looking like he was about to die.
The camel looked away.
Chopper looked drained, his fur wasn't helping him. And Zoro was dragging his sorry ass.
Sanji, of course, was near Nami. Bon Clay was also dying in the heat.
"How villainous of you, letting someone as flamboyant as me die of thirst~"
"Shut it, bastard!" Nami shouted at the man.
Zoro meanwhile didn't look too bothered by it. He was trying to coat his sword in Haki. It was a bit hard, but he was sure he could do it.
Luffy seemed to get an idea.
He had a smile on his face.
"Luffy, why are you grinning like that?" Usopp asked, looking at him.
"Ninja guy probably has something to help. Come on, help me Usopp, he probably has water."
Nami watched as the two idiots were focusing.
"The hell are y'all doing?"
"Asking for water."
"As if that's going to wor—" Before Nami finished her sentence, Kairo appeared.
"You do know I am not your personal servant, and Haki clones cost a lot of Haki, right?" The clone said with a dead blank stare at Luffy.
Luffy smiled.
"Ninja guy, can you use that water jutsu stuff or wind, please?"
"And bring water," Usopp added in the background.
The clone gave them a deathly blank stare.
Time Skip.
Everyone in the group now had what seemed to be satchels filled with water. And if you were wondering where they were—
They were several feet in the air... like 400 feet, moving at 200 mph. Why, you may ask?
Well, you see, Kairo told Luffy to inflate himself like a balloon and have everyone hold onto him... before using Wind Style: Great Breakthrough.
While everyone screamed, all he heard was a "thank you."
He sighed. Did he join a crew filled with idiots?
On an unrelated note, he gave Chopper some rain powder to study. He hope he finds a useful way to use it soon.