Tap, tap, tap! Hurried footsteps echoed through the enormous factory.
Under the bright lights stood massive incubation chambers filled with pale green nutrient solution.
"Shurororororo, Judge, what do you think? Isn't this factory astonishing? Steel warriors cloned using Whitebeard as the template.
Judge, don't my research results fill you with admiration?
I told you, I'm the world's number one scientist. Oh, I forgot to tell you—Vegapunk is my subordinate now too!!!"
Showing off his status and achievements before an old colleague was one of Caesar Clown's greatest pleasures.
Caesar Clown had originally been furious when Roy brought Vegapunk back.
But after Roy decided to have Vegapunk serve as Caesar Clown's assistant and made Vegapunk acknowledge Caesar Clown as the world's number one scientist—
Caesar Clown was a vain fellow. The moment Vegapunk acknowledged him as the First Scientist, his anger instantly vanished.
At the same time, to ease Caesar Clown's concerns—
At Roy's instruction, Vegapunk agreed to clone his own Brain-Brain Fruit. Once the limitations of consuming Devil Fruits had been overcome, he would let Caesar Clown be the first to enjoy the benefits of the Brain-Brain Fruit.
Under Roy's various arrangements, Caesar Clown had been feeling absolutely ecstatic these past few days.
After all, his greatest rival had become his subordinate, while his former colleague was about to submit to him as well. That kind of pleasure was simply addictive.
With his confidence inflated to the extreme, Caesar Clown now spared no effort in flaunting his research results before Vinsmoke Judge.
Watching Caesar Clown grow increasingly carried away with himself, Queen, dressed in a white lab coat beside him, could not help rolling his eyes.
Still, he did not expose Caesar Clown's lies about exaggerating his research achievements.
There was no helping it. Caesar Clown was his superior now.