The Multifunctional Tool

Outside Onigashima.

Pier.

Caesar, bruised and battered, lay beside a pile of garbage.

Doflamingo removed his pointed leather shoes from Caesar's face, which was swollen like a pig's head, and then jumped onto his Doflamingo Pirate Ship with a gloomy expression.

He originally thought he had found a treasure and could use it to establish a relationship with Kaido.

I never expected this guy...

He was given a chance, but it was useless!

To say that Caesar was a complete fraud would be somewhat unfair to him.

However, this guy uses over 80% of his research funding to indulge in debauchery and pleasure. If his Big Mom found out about this, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Doflamingo was unaware of the collaboration between Caesar and Big Mom.

Having just heard that he took the Big Mom's job and apparently got into some trouble, Doflamingo decisively abandoned Caesar.

After all, even someone as arrogant as Doflamingo wouldn't want to mess with a veteran monster like Big Mom.

Caesar collapsed to the ground, his limbs convulsing.

Once he was sure Doflamingo was really far away, he slowly sat up.

"Who exactly is that despicable Masked Man? How did he know I used research funds to go to brothels?!"

Caesar shook his head in frustration, gazing at the vast, surging sea, feeling a headache coming on.

He was abandoned by Doflamingo, his negotiations with Kaido broke down, and he absolutely dared not return to Big Mom's side.

In this way, no matter how vast the world was, it seemed there was no place for Kai to hide.

"Oh! Isn't this Dr. Caesar?"

Caesar looked up and saw a handsome young man in beach shorts and a floral shirt walking towards him, followed by several bodyguards who looked like they were not to be trifled with.

Who are you?

Caesar looked at the man before him and felt that he looked vaguely familiar.

However, let alone the world of One Piece, even in the world of martial arts, the probability of being recognized after removing one's mask is extremely low.

Ma Qiao gave a hearty smile and pulled out a Pure Gold postcard, handing it to Caesar.

"President of the Big Bird Consortium, Minister of Agriculture of Alabasta, Scientific Advisor of the Marine G-2 Branch..."

Caesar looked up, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "What do you want with me? Are you looking to research weapons of mass destruction?"

"Weapons of mass destruction, what a memorable term!"

Ma Qiao shook his head. "I'm a peace-loving businessman, I have absolutely no interest in weapons of mass destruction or anything like that, but..."

"In my hometown, there's always a small group of malicious individuals who slander things like gas cylinders, Laiyang steel pipes, fire-fighting drones, and nitrogen-containing fertilizers as weapons of mass destruction. It's absolutely outrageous!"

Caesar paused, then asked, "If it's not a custom-made weapon, why are you looking for me?"

"Fertilizer can be used to make explosives, and explosives can be used to make fertilizer..."

Ma Qiao smiled and said, "I am but a humble merchant, the largest grain merchant in the East Blue..."

"Fertilizer? I have no interest in that stuff. I want to create a terrifying weapon that can kill ten thousand people with a single shot!"

Caesar shook his head, used the Gas-Gas Fruit power to transform his body into an element, and prepared to float away.

Whether you're interested or not is not up to you!

Graves put on a gas mask, slid forward, and raised the Zaun technology in his hand.

This is the gas canister used by Singed, the Zaun scientist and alchemist specializing in poison gas; it's the thing Singed carries on his back.

Of course, Ma Qiao preferred to call it a gas cylinder combined with a vacuum cleaner.

Just as Caesar was about to float away, he felt a tremendous suction force pulling at his elementalized body.

"Damn it, what the hell is this thing?!"

Caesar cried out in alarm.

As a scientist, his combat abilities were unremarkable.

However, he is, after all, a guy with a bounty of 300 million Beli, and also Logia user.

Seeing that escape was hopeless, Caesar quickly threw out a castanets.

"Gas Clapboard!"

This is a tactic Caesar used for self-defense in emergency situations.

He stored the gas he produced in advance in a special clapper.

Once suddenly released, the large amount of concentrated gas will be detonated by the clapper, causing a violent explosion.

"Crescent Guard!"

Xin Zhao, who was guarding Ma Qiao, swept his spear, creating a circular ripple.

The ripples were essentially dense air currents created by the high-speed movement of the spear, making them impermeable.

Xin Zhao swept away the Gas Clapboard with a single shot, causing a violent explosion in the distance.

Ma Qiao sighed.

In fact, since he recruited more and more heroes, he has rarely taken to the battlefield himself.

If this continues, Ma Qiao is worried that his Silver-level skill will decline further.

While being a hero is part of one's own abilities, there are times when it's inconvenient to have bodyguards.

For example, wouldn't I still need to give that white-haired creature some private lessons?

What if Yamato plots against me at that time?

Boys need to learn to protect themselves when they're out in the world!

The reason why Ma Qiao thought this way was mainly because he had been shaken so badly by Yamato in her boudoir that he was Yamato and disoriented, and he had learned his lesson from that experience.

Despite possessing a top-tier Logia Devil Fruit and having developed it quite well, Ma Qiao felt that he was a whole level above Caesar in terms of micro-management and combat awareness.

So this guy would make an excellent sparring partner.

Onigashima is not Caesar's home turf, and he is clearly unable to unleash the power he displayed in Punk Hazard in the original storyline.

After being beaten up by his bodyguards, Ma Qiao was stuffed into a portable vacuum cleaner.

"Tsk tsk, with that old Garp around, it's hard to mess with Ace. Caesar, that idiot, can be used as both fuel and fertilizer, which is much more useful than the Flame-Flame Fruit..."

It really is the Flame-Flame Fruit; even a dog wouldn't eat it!

Ma Qiao patted the portable gas cylinder, looking very satisfied.

Moreover, he felt no psychological burden in enslaving this guy.

After all, these are unscrupulous scientists who use children for human experimentation.

Ma Qiao doesn't oppose human experimentation; after all, for science to advance and medicine to develop, recruiting volunteers for experiments is essential.

But you have to proceed step by step.

They started with Nezumi, then moved on to guinea pigs, then dogs, and finally monkeys and Masira. After ensuring the safety of the experiments, they recruited volunteers for multiple phases of clinical trials.

How can anyone use children as guinea pigs without any clear understanding of the potential side effects?

Ma Qiao planned to have Dr. Dr. Mundo and Singed interrogate Caesar thoroughly to find out whether his human giantification experiment had actually begun.

If any children have been kidnapped, Ma Qiao will send Garen to rescue them.

After all, Punk Hazard was originally a naval testing base. It wouldn't be appropriate for Ma Qiao, as an outsider, to enter so rashly.

It doesn't matter if it's Garen.

Although he is a colonel of the East Blue 16th Branch, Smoker, as the commander of Loguetown, can chase King Luffy all the way to the New World. I, the mighty Garen of Demacia, can certainly cross boundaries to enforce the law.

Furthermore, Garen had previously received commendation from Marineford for capturing Jack the Drought and bravely fighting against the "Emperor's Deputy" level powerhouse Black Filial Teach, thus gaining a little bit of fame in the Grand Line.

He was the perfect person to clean up the mess left by Caesar.

Moreover, if Caesar had already begun experiments on human gigantification, then the related technological accumulation would not have been wasted.

The so-called human giantification experiment was funded and highly anticipated by the Big Mom herself.

Influenced by the nun, Charlotte Linlin's dream is to establish a kingdom with all races— Totto Land.

Through marriage alliances and personal involvement, the Charlotte Family has encompassed almost every race in the world.

It's described as "almost" because three races are missing.

One of them was the Giant Tribe.

Because the Big Mom had committed a very serious crime in Elbaf when she was young, she was ostracized by the giants. Therefore, she was never able to mate or marry a giant.

Previously, the prince of Elbaf was captivated by the stunning beauty of Charlotte Lola, the twenty-third daughter of the Charlotte Family, and proposed to her. (See picture)

The Big Mom was overjoyed.

However, Lola chose to elope and leave the Totto Land because she didn't want her mother to control her life.

This further enraged the Giant Tribe, causing Big Mom's plan to collect giant bloodlines to completely fail.

Against this backdrop, the audacious and comical Caesar successfully exploited the Big Mom's psychology, stating that he could use Vegapunk's Lineage Factor technology to transform ordinary humans into the Giant Tribe.

However, this experiment was doomed to fail from the start; it was merely a gimmick used by Caesar to secure funding.

However, there is no such thing as useless technology.

Ma Qiao, however, believes that gigantification has great potential, with an almost terrifying market potential.

Using Caesar's technology as a blueprint, and then having Zaun Biotechnology improve upon it, it might be possible to produce drugs with fewer side effects and smaller gigantic size.

There's no need to make the whole person gigantic. As long as some key parts are a little bigger, just a tiny bit, this drug will be a great success.

This is much simpler than the artificial Giant Tribe that the Big Mom was pursuing; it's technically feasible.

As for the target audience for this drug...

Someone as gifted as Teacher Ma certainly doesn't need this kind of medicine.

Even if they were to drink something, it would definitely be Elixir of Iron, with Lulu acting as their maid to help them. They would never use drugs with side effects.

However, there are still millions of people in this world who need it.

A few minor drug side effects certainly won't stop those guys.

Ma Qiao felt like mountains of gold and silver were beckoning to him.

Following the lucrative international grain trading industry, multinational pharmaceutical companies, these money-making behemoths, will also become an important source of profit growth for the Big Bird Consortium.

What a fitting, vivid, and pleasant-sounding name "Big Bird Pharmaceuticals"!

So, by all accounts, capturing Caesar alone directly solved the problems in three major areas: gas, fertilizer, and pharmaceuticals.

Even if it means taking the risk of being targeted by Big Mom, it's still a worthwhile investment.

However, before embarking on his grand ambitions, Ma Qiao needs to make good use of the slaves he has just captured.

That's right, Caesar didn't have the prestigious "younger brother" title with Teacher Ma.

His status was that of a slave.

Although he had promised Vivi that he wouldn't enslave others like the Celestial Dragons, Ma Qiao felt he hadn't broken any rules, since Caesar, a Human Traffickers, shouldn't be considered human.

Back in Yamato's boudoir.

Little White Hair couldn't contain himself any longer.

Because of the explosive bracelet on her wrist, she has never left Onigashima since she was eight years old.

So even if she's trapped inside Lantern and her freedom is restricted, she'll still be eagerly anticipating leaving Onigashima.

"Hey, stop dawdling! Get started! Time is precious!"

"Don't rush, let's draw the curtains. It wouldn't be good if someone saw us."

"Hurry up, I'm so impatient! I'm going to lie down now!"

"..."

Outside the door to Yamato's boudoir.

Queen and Jack had their ears pressed against the corner of the wall.

Hearing the conversation coming from inside, the two All-Stars exchanged a glance, and saw the words "Just as I expected" in each other's eyes.

Queen stood up and pulled Jack behind the artificial hill in the distance.

He took a deep drag on his cigar. "Jack, have the kitchen prepare more ingredients that nourish qi and blood."

Jack scratched his head. "Brother Queen, do you want red bean soup again?"

"Idiot!"

Queen jumped up and gave Jack a sharp rap on the forehead.

"It's not for me, it's for Teacher Ma to nourish himself. Teacher Ma is so thin and weak, I'm worried he... worried his body can't handle it..."

Jack thought about it Yamato's wild behavior and her powerful physique as the daughter of the Strongest Creature, he was also worried for his brother Ma Qiao.

This is definitely not something an ordinary man could handle.

"I've just saved up some savings, so let the chefs make a lot more oyster soup..." Brother Jack sighed.

The Wano Country, the Amigasa Village.

Tenguyama Hitetsu sat in the house, maintaining a newly forged treasured sword.

Outside the house, Tama and the other villagers were laughing heartily.

Their laughter made Tenguyama Hitetsu feel vaguely uneasy.

A mysterious toad oil merchant inexplicably gave Tama so much food.

The key point is that Tama really did bring the food back to the village safely.

This whole thing just seems so strange.

Tenguyama Hitetsu would never believe such nonsense as the food being a reward for a straw hat.

He's already investigated it quietly.

Although the crime scene had been dealt with, Fei Che, being a local strongman, still managed to find some clues.

On the road that Tama took back to the village, several groups of local thugs were silently killed.

The attackers, whether skilled with a gun, a staff, or a knife, were all highly proficient, yet their techniques varied.

Clearly, several people were involved in the operation at the same time.

Although they didn't seem to have any ill intentions towards Tama.

The impoverished Amigasa Village had nothing to offer for anyone to scheme against.

Even the food sent by that toad oil merchant was more valuable than that of Amigasa Village.

But the premise is that this Amigasa Village does not include... the Nidai Kitetsu in his own house.

Could it be for this demonic sword?

Or perhaps his identity has been exposed, and he was sent by Kurozumi Orochi as an assassin?

But if he didn't take action sixteen years ago, is it still necessary now?

Hopefully, it really was just that Tama met a generous and kind person.

Tenguyama Hitetsu shook his head. Just then, Tama's cheerful voice came from outside the house:

"Master, the vegetable soup is ready, and the barbecue grill is set up. Come out quickly, Toad Oil Uncle and Tahm Kench will be here soon!"

"Oh, they've arrived!"

"Oh, okay, okay!"

Tenguyama Hitetsu stood up and put the treasured sword back on the shelf.

But at that moment, the Nidai Kitetsu, which was hanging high on the wall, suddenly began to vibrate slightly.

"Kurewa..."

Tenguyama Hitetsu first frowned, then his expression turned to shock:

"The second Great Grade Meito, one of the 21, the Nidai Kitetsu... Is it... afraid?"

"This... how is this possible!?!"