Stella felt relieved, while Vegapunk stroked his chin, having more ideas.
"This seems like a great opportunity. Relying on the World Government, my influence has developed enough. Next, I can use a fake death to escape into the shadows and then reappear with a new identity!"
"By then, I will also make up for my biggest weakness and become a truly powerful person!"
Hearing this, Stella's expression on the screen became a bit strange, as if she had thought of something.
Just then, another somewhat cold female voice rang out beside Vegapunk: "Hmm? Fake death to escape, a new identity? Becoming a truly powerful person? Boss, you probably just want plastic surgery!"
*Click*, Vegapunk's body froze slightly, and he turned his head bit by bit.
Standing behind him were two young women in their early twenties. One of them had long black hair, a mature and intellectual aura, and was dressed in neat denim clothes. With a strange smile on her face, she was looking Vegapunk up and down.
"Ha... ha... how could it be for plastic surgery..."
"If it's not for plastic surgery, then why did you, Boss, give up on the'Strongest Physical Body' project cultivated from Kaido and Charlotte Linlin's genes, and choose the genes of 'White Horse' Cavendish instead?"
The intellectual beauty's lips curled into a little devilish smile. She looked full of interest, and her words left Vegapunk completely unable to refute.
Having joined the World Government while secretly dealing with the Four Emperors and the Revolutionary Army, Vegapunk never lacked various research data and experimental materials. He even had plenty of cellular tissue samples from Charlotte Linlin and Kaido.
These two are practically the ceiling of talent in the One Piece World. Especially Charlotte Linlin; despite giving birth to several soccer teams' worth of children and overeating every day, this 'Big Mom' still sits firmly on her throne as one of the Four Emperors. Her talent is almost comparable to a monkey mutating into a gorilla. If one were purely pursuing strength, their genes would be the best materials.
However, both of them have Giant-like statures. Even with Vegapunk's technological means, he couldn't compress the cloned bodies created from them. For convenience, Vegapunk ultimately chose Cavendish's genes as the primary subject—though that was actually just an excuse; the real reason was mostly because Cavendish is handsome!
The Brain-Brain Fruit is indeed one of the top-tier Devil Fruits in the One Piece World, but while it provides a massive boost to intelligence, its reduction of physical constitution and charm is also immediate!
No matter how handsome or beautiful someone is, sporting a head several times larger than their body will definitely not leave an impression of handsomeness or beauty; it would only make people wonder if they've encountered an alien.
Not to mention, Vegapunk himself wasn't exactly a handsome man. Back then, because of that Giant head, he had often been subjected to strange looks from others.
Later, he was willing, like the original Vegapunk, to take the huge risk of directly cutting and separating his Giant head, turning it into a thinking-assist clone that functioned almost like a quantum computer. This decision was not unrelated to those stares.
Waving his hands twice, Vegapunk finally threw them up in resignation: "Fine, I admit it! Strength is a matter of a single version, but handsomeness is a lifelong matter! Is it wrong to want to look better?! Robin?"
"Of course not! But no matter what Lord Punk looks like, you're still my favorite!"
A crisp female voice rang out. It wasn't the mischievous Robin, but another girl standing beside her with stunning looks and a smoking hot body.
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl lunged forward and hugged Vegapunk tightly.
"Argh! Gent... gently! My bones, my bones are going to break! Hancock, let go!"
Vegapunk felt a wave of suffocation as his face was buried in two soft mounds. Unfortunately, he had no lecherous thoughts.
Like a walnut caught in a pair of pliers, Vegapunk felt his shoulders, ribs, and spine begin to creak and crack where he was being held.
"Ah! I'm sorry, Lord Punk! I couldn't control myself again!"
The stunning girl hurriedly and flusteredly let go. Vegapunk finally managed to catch his breath, but his whole body still throbbed with pain, making him grimace.
Damn it, I have to transfer my physical body as soon as possible, or else how can I live like this!
The Giant brain siphoned off nearly 99% of the body's nutrients. Whether it was Vegapunk's own training or his advanced biotechnological enhancements, they had almost no effect on this physical body.
On the contrary, the girl Hancock, due to her own exceptional talent, had reaped most of the benefits of Vegapunk's biological modifications. Her physical strength was now almost comparable to a miniature Charlotte Linlin.
Thinking about the five-year-old Charlotte Linlin, who could break several of a Giant's bones just by swatting a mosquito on them, Vegapunk felt quite relieved that he hadn't suffered any serious injuries until now.
Although Hancock couldn't compare to the current Charlotte Linlin even after being strengthened, she was much stronger than the six-year-old Charlotte Linlin. Furthermore, Vegapunk's constitution was far from being comparable to a Giant's.
Boa Hancock had been rescued from the Celestial Dragons by Vegapunk. As the World Government's top scientist, it wasn't difficult to request a few slaves from the Celestial Dragons, but the three The three Hancock sisters were high-value slaves, so Vegapunk had to pay a bit of a price.
Well, it just involved creating a few showy dragons for those idiot Celestial Dragons. At the same time, he took the opportunity to use miniature robots to secretly extract some of the Celestial Dragons' blood.
At first, Boa Hancock was quite resistant to Vegapunk, her savior. Although Vegapunk had helped her escape that hell, the three The three Hancock sisters, as slaves at the time, wouldn't trust anyone associated with the Celestial Dragons.
It wasn't until Vegapunk created a clone of that Celestial Dragon and secretly risked swapping the real one out to give to Boa Hancock that the three sisters became his die-hard loyalists.
In reality, that operation was quite risky. The Celestial Dragons had identity chips for identification. If Vegapunk hadn't already tampered with the dragons he created and been monitoring that Celestial Dragon, he wouldn't have discovered the location of the identity chip to complete the switch.
After Vegapunk performed two more such operations, he didn't dare to take any more risks. The Celestial Dragons were surrounded by numerous bodyguards and had identity chips. On the third attempt, Vegapunk almost failed.
Of course, the benefits of such risks were immense. The status of the Celestial Dragons within the World Government was unquestionable. By relying on those Celestial Dragon clones, Vegapunk not only obtained massive funding but also had his subordinates infiltrate many departments of the Marine and CP organizations.