Future Events Theory: Kaido's motivations will be cleared up during this flashback.

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During Kaido's flashback we learned how important Joyboy was to Kaido's motivations, but we never saw how he learned about the existance of Joyboy, we just saw that he already knew about it before learning that Oden wanted to open the country for the warrior of liberation.

The God Valley section of the flashback always seemed like it was deliberately skipped, but maybe it was because Oda wanted to include the whole story here in one flashback.

So now during these events we are witnessing in this Kuma story, Kaido may see the slaves talking about Joyboy, everything he represents and how he'll liberate the entire world.

Here Kaido might also realize what he must do to make Joyboy appear, he has to enslave to people. This would give Kaido a second option on how to save the world, either he accomplishes his original plan of bringing equality with a world of violence (by enslaving people and making them work in his factories) or these actions bring forth the hero that will liberate the world. Joyboy.

Another aspect that might be explores is his obsession with death completing a person. He saw how Rocks was defeated and forgotten by the whole world, and that might have been what triggered his obsession with epic deaths like the ones Whitebeard and Roger had and not like the one Rocks had.
 
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