"That bastard! Who does he think he is, acting so arrogantly?"
Caesar slammed his fist into the lab bench, his chest heaving.
"What are you going to do? You've already studied that fruit. It doesn't mean much to you anymore, does it? You'd better hand it over."
Caesar turned and glared at Luo.
"What do you know? I don't believe that Thunder Swordsman would dare come to Punk Hazard for me, unless he wants Kaido, one of the Four Emperors, hunting him for the rest of his life."
Luo said nothing more. He gave Caesar a flat look and silently cursed him for a fool.
Luo had seen Werther at the Summit War half a year ago. Even Red-Haired had needed to negotiate with three parties before the war ended.
And one of those parties had been Thunder Swordsman.
The Laboratory door opened from outside, and a beautiful woman with green hair walked in.
She had a full figure and a pair of golden eyes.
She was Monet, the spy Doflamingo had planted beside Caesar.
Monet had not yet become half woman, half bird. Her long legs made her all the more striking.
"What happened? I could hear the shouting from outside."
Monet wore a gentle smile as she sat down at a desk in the Laboratory.
Caesar snorted.
"Some fool wants the Devil Fruit I have. He must be dreaming.
How are those children? Have they had any adverse reactions lately?"
Caesar had a secret: he had quietly accepted a large sum of research funding from Big Mom.
Big Mom had given him that money to research how to make humans grow to giant size.
Caesar's work was not entirely unsuccessful, but his method was cruel and caused irreversible harm to its subjects. It still fell short of Big