Vegapunk's Request! (24)

Even the government's internal special edition of the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia could not claim to have recorded every Devil Fruit. These miraculous fruits remained shrouded in mystery, and each year brought new, unprecedented varieties.

What could be confirmed at present was that when living beings gained abilities through Devil Fruits, it was a process of genetic alteration.

Vegapunk had stumbled upon this while pursuing the truth. After studying the blood of Devil Fruit Users and discovering this fact, he had happened to develop lineage factor technology—genetic modification technology.

The emergence of the Pacifistas further proved that a Devil Fruit User's abilities were engraved deep within their genes.

To give a specific example, it was roughly like the "X-gene" in X-Men.

A superpower born from mutation.

But that raised another question...

If it was a superpower that had to be acquired through genetic modification, then how could the "Devil Fruit transfer experiment" be explained?

The accidental discovery of lineage factor technology had made Vegapunk intensely curious about Devil Fruit Users, prompting him to continue his experiments.

At just that time, his experiments with Judge Vinsmoke were exposed. Their laboratory was shut down due to a government manhunt, and to keep his research going, he decisively joined the World Government.

Judge Vinsmoke, meanwhile, believed that the most important result was the ability of lineage factor technology to alter biological genes. He returned to North Blue and adjusted genes to create an invincible army of clones for himself.

The two went their separate ways from then on. One focused on Devil Fruits, while the other concentrated on developing gene modification technology.

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From Zoan Devil Fruit Users, Vegapunk discovered a highly unusual phenomenon.

Given the same physique and the same time of consumption, the cellular activity of Zoan users