Pirate Who Fights Kuzan to a Standstill

Mosen's speculation wasn't baseless. In the original work, Kuma also underwent modifications by Vegapunk, and his were even more thorough, turning him into a cyborg.

Ultimately, Kuma was transformed by Vegapunk into a cyborg similar to Queen, with his memories and emotions erased. Queen, on the other hand, retained his memories and emotions.

Mosen guessed that the mechanized heart was Vegapunk's experiment in human mechanization.

This was because, on the eve of undergoing the Lineage Factor modification, Vegapunk had said that their hearts needed to be modified because ordinary hearts couldn't bear the power of the Lineage Factor, thus requiring enhanced function and pressure resistance.

Thinking about it now, that reason was probably only partially true. Vegapunk's use of the mechanized heart was more about testing his human mechanization.

Moreover, compared to the Lineage Factor modifications, the human mechanization modifications seemed to have been successful.

The fact that Mosen and the seven individuals who received the Glint-Glint Fruit Lineage Factor modification were still alive was the best proof.

Vegapunk confirmed that the mechanized heart was fine. This was a very important discovery for him, allowing him to research human mechanization even more recklessly afterward.

Besides this, Vegapunk had another gain: the Glint-Glint Fruit's Lineage Factor was much gentler compared to other fruits.

It could be said that it was precisely because of this Lineage Factor modification experiment that Vegapunk was able to develop the Pacifista later on.

With this in mind, Mosen sighed. He remembered that only 49 people had initially agreed to participate in this experiment, which perfectly matched the 7 groups of 7 people each. He had been added at the last minute.

"I was wondering why there were 50 people! 49 would have been just right!" Mosen muttered to himself.

Afterward, Mosen returned to Extreme Cold Hell with slightly more food than last time.

As soon as Mosen returned to Extreme Cold Hell, he heard a prisoner's scream.

He glanced in the direction of the sound and saw a pack of Military Wolves attacking a prisoner.

Counting it up, Mosen had been in Extreme Cold Hell for almost two months, and this situation was no longer unusual.

Generally, Military Wolves wouldn't attack prisoners on their own. However, the prisoners were different. They were cold and hungry in Extreme Cold Hell, and to survive, they needed to find food.

Even the most heinous criminals rarely resorted to cannibalism, so the prisoners' targets could only be the Military Wolves.

But Military Wolves usually moved in packs. It was impossible for a single prisoner to kill a Military Wolf and escape unscathed.

A group of prisoners cooperating could achieve this.

This was also why prisoners banded together. Only by working together could they hunt Military Wolves and have a chance of survival.

Of course, some prisoners weren't accepted into the small groups. For example, Mia and the other three. The things they did before being captured didn't seem like the actions of Pirates. Their deceptive behavior naturally led to them being ostracized.

Then there were prisoners who were too weak. The top-tier prisoners in Extreme Cold Hell had bounties exceeding 300 million Belly.

While bounty didn't always equate to strength, many prisoners decided who to band with based on bounty amounts.

Prisoners with bounties of only slightly over 100 million Belly naturally couldn't integrate into these groups.

Of course, low-bounty prisoners also formed their own groups. However, compared to the high-bounty groups, it was difficult for a single person in a low-bounty group to subdue the others. Such groups often descended into arguments, and sometimes even fights.

Therefore, many low-bounty prisoners preferred to fight alone rather than join a similar low-bounty group.

The result of fighting alone was, more often than not, like the prisoner Mosen had just heard screaming, being mauled to death by Military Wolves.

In the past, Mosen couldn't understand why the Navy didn't just kill Pirates after capturing them, but instead sent them to Impel Down.

Now Mosen understood. On one hand, some Pirates hadn't committed overly heinous acts. They had only gone out to sea due to survival pressure. Such Pirates still had other value, such as being experimental subjects for Vegapunk or slaves for the Celestial Dragons.

On the other hand, surviving in Impel Down was a far greater torment than killing them outright.

Mosen ultimately didn't intervene to save the screaming prisoner. He sighed and pulled his food towards his cabin.

When Mosen returned, he saw Paddy carrying a prisoner and throwing him out. There were other fallen prisoners in front of the cabin door.

"What's going on? I was only gone for a few hours, and they're already fighting?" Mosen asked, frowning.

"Warden, it has nothing to do with us. These guys provoked us themselves," Mia said.

"Provoked you?" Mosen continued to ask.

"They think we're betraying you by siding with you, so they wanted to take care of us while you were away," said Ian, the one-armed Pirate.

"So you killed them?"

"Yeah, Paddy did most of the work. The three of us were just watching," said Michael, the one-eyed Pirate.

Mosen appeared calm, but inwardly, a storm raged. How strong was this female Pirate named Paddy?

Mosen had glanced around. The ones who had provoked Mia and the other three were Great Pirates with bounties over 200 million Belly, and none of them were wearing Seastone handcuffs.

Paddy, wearing Seastone handcuffs, wiped them out single-handedly. This was too absurd.

Mosen seriously suspected that without the restriction of Seastone handcuffs, this woman could probably single-handedly break through Extreme Cold Hell and escape.

"Paddy, how were you captured?" Mosen asked tentatively.

"My Pirate Group used to be an affiliated group of the Flying Pirate Group! After Shiki was captured, our affiliated groups were heavily besieged by the Navy.

I managed to break through and was planning to go back home and live in obscurity for the rest of my life. But unexpectedly, as we were returning to the port of our home country, we encountered the Navy, which had already been lying in ambush.

The leader at the time was Kuzan, one of the three rising monsters among the Vice Admirals.

Kuzan and I fought for two days and two nights, resulting in a mutual defeat. However, Kuzan had several times more men than my Pirate Group.

After fighting Kuzan, I was too exhausted to move and was captured just like that."

After hearing Paddy's account, Mosen gasped. Damn, this woman could fight evenly with Kuzan at this period! Such strength, and she wasn't sent to the sixth floor?

"Paddy, what was your bounty again?" Mosen continued to ask.

"170 million Belly."

"Only 170 million Belly? How can you have such a low bounty with your strength?"

"Because I don't really like fighting. My bounty is this high because I became an affiliated pirate of the Flying Pirate Group," Paddy replied.

"Paddy, I remember you saying before that you're skilled in Armament Haki. Your Armament Haki is quite strong, right?"

"I suppose so! Even Lord Shiki said my Armament Haki was pretty good back then," Paddy replied somewhat uncertainly.

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