Countdown: One Day to Go

"Cloning?" Li Ziming stared at the message Sanji had passed along. He was completely bewildered.

"Oh, cloning?" Reiju appeared before Li Ziming once again. "That's not a bad name. But why do you look so familiar with it? You understand this kind of technology too?" The look Reiju gave Li Ziming gradually became strange.

"I heard you suddenly appeared in this world. You couldn't possibly be..." Reiju stared at Li Ziming in surprise.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not a clone..." Li Ziming shook his head. "I'm a genuine human..." He had no intention of arguing with Reiju. Instead, he silently mocked the technological absurdity of One Piece. When he had found artificially manufactured Devil Fruits at Donquixote Doflamingo's place, Li Ziming had already thought these scientists were ridiculously talented. But now that he saw they had even created clones, he wondered whether they could make mechanical soldiers next and shoot another pirate-themed Star Wars movie. Then Li Ziming immediately wiped his forehead, because Pacifistas could technically be considered robots too. Could they really make a One Piece version of Star Wars?

"Are you all right?" Reiju looked at Li Ziming in confusion, not knowing what he had thought of. His expression kept changing.

"You don't happen to have any Jedi, do you..." The moment Li Ziming said it, he wanted to slap himself.

"Huh?" Reiju froze for a moment. She had not heard of anything called a Jedi.

"It's nothing, it's nothing. Just pretend I'm being weird..." Li Ziming shook his head. "By the way, what did you come here for?"

"Can't I come over when I have nothing to do?" Reiju said with a laugh. "Maybe I just wanted to chat with you..."

"Do you think I'd believe that?" Li Ziming rolled his eyes. "You'd better tell me what