"Looks like there's still no progress!"
After leaving the office, Chaos went to the room where Betty was sleeping. The sharp-tongued woman lay with her eyes closed, her severed arm bandaged. Her breathing was steady, and she looked just like a sleeping beauty.
Without her usual sharp tongue and snarky comments,
Chaos honestly felt a little unaccustomed to it.
Maybe he'd gotten so used to hearing her complain that now, without it, something just felt missing.
Baccarat wasn't there. She had probably gone to Gold City to collect some luck.
That left only two maids in the room.
Before long, Chaos left with a furrowed brow and took the elevator straight down to Caesar's lab beneath the Gaia Building.
"How's the research going?"
The high-tech door opened. Chaos looked at Caesar, who wore a white lab coat and was muttering to himself as he studied some sort of liquid. To be on the safe side, Chaos put on a gas mask too.
"Not much progress, BOSS. I still haven't figured out the nuclear fusion you told me about."
Caesar's nervous manner settled, and he looked at Chaos while continuing to operate some kind of instrument.
Every transmigrator knew what nuclear fusion was.
It had to do with nukes.
That was right. Chaos wanted to make a nuclear bomb. Then, paired with Kuma's ability to send things flying, he could hit whatever he aimed at.
The entire world would be under the threat of nuclear annihilation.
His Richest Group would become invincible.
Unfortunately, Caesar still hadn't made much progress after more than four years. Chaos didn't understand the details either, so he'd simply told Caesar to make bombs with enormous explosive power.
But technology in the world of pirates was both advanced and backward.
So far, there had been no major