To avoid causing a stir, Uranus did not go to Fish-Man Island itself. Instead, Bright brought him deep into the Sea Forest, near Vegapunk's laboratory.
Even so, this still came as a tremendous shock to quite a few people.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!! Is this the King of the Skies?"
For example, a certain old man who ought to have been busy with the Seraphim Project right now.
"So this is the Bloodline Factor creation of the Bikans from back then?"
Though he was already an old man with a head of white hair, and more than half his head had been cut away, Vegapunk moved as nimbly as a monkey. Brimming with excitement, he crawled all over Uranus, touching here and examining there.
He was practically like a child entering an amusement park for the first time.
"Amazing! Truly amazing! So the idea for Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits came from this fellow? Just looking at him, I can feel the immense power contained within his body!"
Vegapunk was nearly obsessed.
It was no wonder. None of the three Ancient Weapons had simply been born that way by nature. In truth, all three Ancient Weapons were products of technology.
Even Poseidon, the Mermaid Princess, the most natural of them all, had only gained the power to command all Sea Kings through Bikan technology.
Not to mention Pluto and Uranus. Both had been designed and manufactured by Bikan scientists from the ground up.
The difference was that Pluto was the pinnacle of mechanical creations, while Uranus was the ultimate creation of biotechnology.
Uranus was the strongest artificial life-form created by Bikan scientists using Bloodline Factors.
A creation Joy Boy believed to be the prototype of Zoan Devil Fruits.
The first Mythical Beast.
"He sure is lively."
Red-Hair did not mind Vegapunk's antics