As a rare fish-man shipwright, Tom had an equally rare hobby: searching the seafloor for sunken ships to explore.
Unlike others who enjoyed salvaging treasure from wrecks beneath the sea, Tom mainly wanted to study the structures of those former vessels. It was something only he, as both a fish-man and a shipwright, could do.
Then one day, in a remote stretch of sea, Tom discovered a strange metal wreck.
That metal wreck looked completely different from every other ship. After exploring it for a long time, Tom found a peculiar metal box. He also finally uncovered the identity of the metal wreck: the legendary Ancient Weapon, Pluton.
Seeing this, Doflamingo finally could not help complaining. "What kind of damn metal wreck is this? This thing isn't a ship at all! If you told me it was a space battleship, I'd believe you."
Wasn't that the truth? A bridge at the front, thrusters at the rear, and streamlined wings on both sides—wasn't this obviously an aircraft?
And that box did not contain any blueprints, either. Judging from the instructions on it and how Tom used it later, it was clearly a projection diagram of the craft's structure, specifically made for repairing the aircraft!
Fine, Pluton was a warship capable of blasting an island apart with a single shot. A warship could be a naval vessel, and naturally it could also be an aerial vessel... my ass! Pluton, if you were showing off like this, where was that supposed to leave Uranus?
Swallowing a bellyful of complaints, Doflamingo patiently continued reading.
After that, Tom became obsessed with the projection diagram on the spot and lingered in that sea region for several years. Besides studying the diagram, he also dismantled the underwater metal aircraft from top to bottom.
The so-called Pluton blueprints