Defeating Luffy many times, why didn’t Kaido take the Straw Hat captain’s life?

Many readers One Piece jokingly said that the dark king Rayleigh was Luffy’s theoretical teacher and the practical teacher for the Straw Hat captain was none other than Kaido. During the Wano arc, there were three times when the Yonko left after knocking Luffy unconscious. Being a brutal and violent person, why didn’t this Yonko kill the captain of the Straw Hats?

Kaio knocked Luffy unconscious many times but didn’t kill

Flipping back to the first encounter of these two characters, at that time the rubber-brained boy had just arrived at Wano. Seeing the people here being oppressed and living miserable under Kaido’s rule, Luffy couldn’t keep his composure using Gear 4 with the desire to defeat Kaido immediately.

After being drunk for a while, Kaido only needed a club in human form to make Luffy’s eyes white. At that time, Kaido did not kill the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, but only pushed him into Udon prison with the purpose of acquiring Luffy as his subordinate.

Different from his ferocious appearance, Kaido through Luffy’s incident and before that Kid always wanted to recruit more young pirates with enough strength to increase the position of the Beast Pirates. At that time, Kaido didn’t think Luffy was his opponent but the Straw Hat captain was just a kid.

This continues to be shown in the second confrontation, even when realizing that Luffy has grown in strength compared to the first encounter, Kaido is still not really determined to take the captain’s life. Straw hat. Luffy with his highly armed Haki and his awareness of Conqueror Haki’s power caught Kaido by surprise.

However, instead of killing the Straw Hat captain, Kaido sends Luffy flying overboard. Up to this point, Yonko Kaido still does not see Luffy as someone who can challenge and stop his power.

In the 3rd confrontation, this time with his mastery of Haki combined with attacks, Luffy proved not to be inferior and had a fair solo fight with the boss of the Beasts Pirates. Just when the Straw Hat captain was about to deal a decisive blow with Kaido, the CP0 commander intervened in the battle and caused Luffy to receive Kaido’s powerful attack.

This time, the Straw Hat captain was like the first time, lying unconscious but Kaido still didn’t check if Luffy was dead and really wanted to kill the main character. Instead, the person Kaido wanted to vent to was CP0 because the Yonko was very angry at his act of interrupting the fight.

Kaido himself is aware that even though Luffy is a very young pirate, his strength has increased to dizzying. Kaido recognized this strength and realized that Luffy would be his opponent on the path to becoming the Pirate King. But like the previous 2 times, this Yonko did not want to take Luffy’s life, what Kaido did was to continue to show his strength compared to others.

Does this come from Kaido really respecting Luffy or is he still subjectively thinking that the captain of the Straw Hats is not his opponent?

With the final details One Piece Chapter 1043, when the giant elephant Zunesha hears the drum of freedom and Joy Boy is about to appear, most likely that person will be Luffy. It is unknown when confronting a brand new Luffy in the upcoming One Piece installments, whether Kaido regrets why despite the many opportunities he still doesn’t really want to take Luffy’s life. What do you think about this, please leave your comments!