Chapter 232: Vegapunk's Ambition
Dr. Vegapunk stared fixedly at the writhing dark vortex in Roy's palm, his expression almost freezing in an instant.
His Adam's apple bobbed, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Roy slowly clenched his fist. The darkness that seemed capable of swallowing everything gradually dissipated, and the air seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as it resumed flowing.
"As you can see, in this world... Teach is not the only one who can eat two Devil Fruits."
"...!!"
Vegapunk sucked in a sharp breath, his breathing hitching as if something was stuck in his throat.
His brain went blank for a few seconds, struggling to function like a crashed system.
"Dual Fruit user... he... he just admitted it like that?!"
He stood frozen, lips trembling slightly. Words like "Dark-Dark Fruit" and "Dual Fruit Ability" echoed in his mind, churning his thoughts like waves.
But Vegapunk was, after all, the user of the Brain-Brain Fruit. As the smartest brain in the world, his consciousness quickly broke free from the shock.
In just a few seconds, his mind was already spinning at lightning speed.
He took a deep breath, casting a sharp gaze at Roy: "...Why tell me this?"
He didn't deny it, didn't scream. His first question was—motive.
Roy looked at him quietly, eyes devoid of any jest, and spoke slowly:
"Because after eating the Dark-Dark Fruit, I finally understood... why Teach was so obsessed with it."
Vegapunk frowned slightly. "Why?"
"This fruit can steal the abilities of other Devil Fruit users."
"BOOM—!!!"
Like thunder piercing the sky, this sentence exploded in Vegapunk's mind instantly!
His pupils contracted violently. He staggered back a step, the color draining from his face abruptly.
"...Wh-What?!"
In an instant, Vegapunk's brain almost overheated—but not from fear, rather from that familiar state of runaway thought.
Sweat beaded on his forehead, his cheek twitched, but his eyes were brighter and more manic than ever before!
"If this is true, then this isn't just an anomaly among Logia fruits... this is simply god-level power!!"
His thoughts spread wildly, rapidly connecting deductions and consequences on various levels:
Military Level: Create an army of ability users, dominating the battlefield!
Technological Level: Research ability structures, recombine and combine, create "Ability Fusers"!
Political Level: Overthrow the Yonko, destroy the Celestial Dragons, tear apart the World Government!
"This is no longer an ordinary fruit ability..."
He muttered to himself, his voice trembling: "This is a power that can rewrite the 'Rules of the World'!!!"
Under the laboratory lights, an unprecedented gravity appeared on Vegapunk's face. His tone was low and urgent: "Roy... do you know what this means?"
"Of course I know."
"That's why I came to you."
"I need your wisdom, Vegapunk."
In that moment, the air seemed completely frozen.
Vegapunk stared deathly at the man before him, as if confirming whether he truly understood the price and risk behind this power. Roy's silence and calm explained everything.
He finally spoke slowly, his tone heavy: "What do you want me... to do?"
Roy's finger slowly pointed to the unconscious Wapol on the ground: "His fruit ability is—the Munch-Munch Fruit. You should know about this."
Hearing this, Vegapunk's gaze immediately fell on Wapol. A light flashed in his eyes as the Brain-Brain Fruit instantly retrieved all known and potential data on the Munch-Munch Fruit—
Devour All: Can consume any substance including metal, machinery, and poison, converting them into part of the body or resynthesizing new structures;
Morphological Modification: Can consume own organs to change appearance or body shape, achieving "Reconstruction";
Ability Plunder (Unconfirmed): Theoretically possesses the potential to consume ability users and copy their abilities, but with extremely high risk.
His pupils contracted slightly, his brain rapidly unfolding logical calculations and probability modeling.
"As long as we possess the Munch-Munch Fruit..."
"Just by devouring scrap heaps and scrap metal, we can automatically construct equipment. Any rare material can be copied and synthesized..."
"This would be an ultimate intelligent weapon with even greater evolutionary potential than the 'Pacifistas' or even the 'Seraphim' currently under development!!"
Just as he was falling into a feverish deduction, Roy's voice interrupted his contemplation again:
"With your current research results, Zoan fruits... should already be able to be 'eaten' by inanimate objects, right?"
Vegapunk snapped back to reality and nodded. "Yes."
He walked quickly to the console, tapping the holographic panel with his fingertip. A 3D light projection instantly appeared in mid-air.
"Let me show you."
An uniquely shaped longsword appeared on the screen. The blade looked like beast fangs, the body embedded with patterns like metallic muscle fibers.
As the projection activated, the sword twisted slightly, then deformed violently like a living creature—
"ROAR—!!"
A low roar sounded. The sword body transformed into a massive metallic war elephant, kicking up virtual dust as its four hooves landed!
"Funkfreed the Elephant Sword."
Vegapunk introduced it with pride in his eyes: "This is an experimental product where I endowed a cold weapon with life using the Zoan 'Elephant-Elephant Fruit' as a base, through gene induction and nanostructure mimicry technology.
It has been classified as a tactical experimental weapon by the World Government, capable of independently judging friend from foe and engaging in combat."
Roy looked at the screen, his tone flat yet sharp: "Then... what about Paramecia?"
As his words fell, a series of crazy concepts flashed through Vegapunk's mind instantly.
His breathing gradually quickened, eyes turning slightly red, heart booming in his chest like a war drum!
But the next second, he closed his eyes abruptly, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm down.
When he opened his eyes again, his gaze had regained clarity.
"Zoan fusion technology is mature," he said. "As for Paramecia..."
He pushed his glasses up, tone grave: "It's still unstable currently, requiring extensive debugging and experimentation. But—"
"If you can provide a ready-made Paramecia fruit sample..."
A fervent light rose in his eyes as he promised without hesitation: "Within two years, I can make it a reality."
As soon as his voice fell, Roy didn't respond immediately.
He just glanced at Vegapunk indifferently, then raised his right hand.
The next moment, a vortex pitch-black as an abyss quietly surfaced in his palm.
That was the darkness that had vanished just now—
The power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, re-emerging!
The air oscillated as if being pulled instantly. The light in the laboratory seemed swallowed and distorted.
"A ready-made Paramecia fruit sample..."
Roy waved his palm violently, and the dark vortex directly swallowed Wapol's body!
"Guh...!!!"
Although Wapol was unconscious, his body twisted violently under the devouring of the dark vortex, as if instinctively sensing some tear from the depths of his soul.
A few seconds later, Roy slowly opened his palm—
In the center of his palm, a purple fruit covered in spiral patterns, with a metallic biting maw in the middle, slowly took shape, emitting strange fluctuations. It was precisely—
The Munch-Munch Fruit!
"This is the 'sample' you wanted."
Vegapunk's pupils shrank abruptly, his face full of shock and disbelief!
"You... you actually stripped the ability?!!"
He took a sharp step forward, almost pressing against the fruit, his voice trembling, even carrying a hint of fanaticism:
"This isn't theory, not speculation... this is PROOF!! It's true Devil Fruit ability extraction technology!!!"
Just as his thoughts were about to fall into a deeper tide of deduction—
Roy's voice suddenly sounded softly in his ear, like a cool night breeze.
"Doctor..."
"Now do you think we... have a chance?"
The air seemed to freeze in that instant.
Vegapunk didn't answer.
But deep in his eyes, a fervent light had quietly ignited.
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