Vegapunk: ???

Somewhere in the New World,

On a small island filled with a modern atmosphere, buildings stood everywhere. At first glance, Austin had thought he had traveled back to his old world.

"I have to say, this world's tech tree is really skewed~"

Austin looked around, clearly curious about everything surrounding him.

"Tech tree? What does that mean, Austin-kun?"

Vegapunk had heard this novel term for the first time. Filled with a thirst for knowledge about all things, he turned and asked curiously.

"Despite having such advanced technology, the Marines are still all using flintlock guns, while most pirates at sea use swords. Isn't that extreme gap pretty strange?"

But on second thought, Austin accepted it.

After all, in a world with supernatural powers, huge disparities in anything were normal. Take Vegapunk's Brain-Brain Fruit, for example—it allowed him to stand at an absolute, unmatched peak among scientists.

Even in the real world without magic, the gap between rich and poor was enormous.

Let alone in a world as wondrous as this one.

"Austin, are you saying the power of technology should be made available across the entire world?!!!"

Vegapunk was shocked by those words. His tongue-sticking-out mouth fell slightly open, his expression full of disbelief.

"Why not? Wouldn't that let most people have enough to eat and the power to protect themselves..."

Austin spoke as if it were a casual remark.

And even if technology truly became widespread and ordinary civilians got weapons with some degree of lethality, the only people they could threaten would be those not much stronger than themselves.

Before monsters like Austin, that kind of technological power was little more than a fire poker.

"And if that happened, ninety-nine percent of the ordinary pirates out at sea wouldn't be able to invade other countries whenever they felt