"What did you say?"
"You're resigning?!"
On Punk Hazard, home to the Academy of Sciences in the latter half of the Grand Line, a startled cry suddenly rang out across the entire island.
It drew the attention of researchers, lab personnel, and guards everywhere.
Inside the director's office.
Vegapunk stared in shock at the handsome young man with blue hair and a red nose sitting across the desk from him.
It was Buggy, dressed in a white lab coat with his hair tied in a single ponytail.
Honestly, when he got serious, he really was quite handsome.
"Yep, I'm done. Hurry up and stamp it, old man~"
Buggy lounged in his chair with one leg crossed over the other, his hands clasped behind his head as he urged him along.
"Do you know what you're doing?"
"You're already a senior researcher. One more step and you'll be a doctor."
"Wouldn't it be a terrible shame to give up now?"
Vegapunk composed himself and patiently tried to persuade Buggy.
Buggy had already proven that he possessed astonishing talent in the field of gunpowder.
Even without the Head Family Gunpowder Secret Recipe contributed by Tengen Uzui.
Buggy could still provide the World Government with gunpowder that had an energy efficiency of over fifty percent.
He might even develop super gunpowder with energy efficiency approaching one hundred percent in the future.
Vegapunk truly hated to see such scientific talent leave the Academy of Sciences.
"But I'm sick of it already."
"I want to go out and live the life I've always wanted. I want to become a sea... uh... an adventurer!"
Buggy tilted back his head and stubbornly stood by his decision.
Besides, Cipher Pol had dragged him here in the first place.
He had been too young back then and could only