A Timely Assist

Stussy raced toward Lin Qi, parting her crimson lips to bite his neck.

Slap~

Her body abruptly halted as Lin Qi precisely seized her by the neck and lifted her into the air.

"Let me go! Don't even think about hurting the doctor!"

Even with her throat locked, Stussy refused to give up, punching and kicking Lin Qi relentlessly.

"Stussy, Lilith, both of you, stop."

"I'm willingly going back to the West Sea with Lin Qi." Vegapunk called out to stop the two of them.

After everything that had happened, he had come to understand.

If he wanted to conduct research in peace, he needed a powerful force to shelter him.

Looking back on his life, aside from the freedom he had enjoyed in his youth, he had always been either protected or imprisoned by other forces.

Before he turned thirty, he, Judge, Caesar, and the others had been hired by the underground Loan Shark King, conducting research in a secret laboratory.

Then, after the truth came to light, he was captured by the World Government and kept in a semi-imprisoned state for more than thirty years.

Though he had been imprisoned, Vegapunk had to admit that he greatly enjoyed that period of time.

The moment he opened his eyes each day, endless resources and materials for research would be laid out before him. To any researcher, that was a fatal temptation.

Of course, it would have been even better if the World Government had not always forced him to research things he disliked.

There were many reasons why he wanted to escape the World Government's control.

Their political ideologies differed, their beliefs differed, and there was the truth about the world soon being swallowed by seawater and the Void Century...

For all these reasons, he had no choice but