The New World, Future Island.
From the outside, it was an island surrounded by enormous olive trees. However, its interior had already been transformed by Vegapunk, a scientist five hundred years ahead of the world, into a futuristic city brimming with advanced technology.
At that moment, with the distant Red Line destroyed and the Rainbow Country engaged in a great battle with the Navy, Cipher Pol, the World Government's intelligence organization, had appeared here.
Nearly twenty World Government warships were docked along the shore. Countless people were rushing back and forth, carrying all the scientific equipment and research materials from the island onto the warships.
As the owner of the island, Vegapunk had completely transformed himself into a half-machine, a futuristic warrior representing "Justice." He and his five embodiments, representing "Evil," "Desire," "Knowledge," "Violence," and "Lust," had been taken under CP0's control.
As he watched the island being dismantled into a complete mess, the five embodiments were clearly agitated. Vegapunk, on the other hand, looked completely unconcerned.
That made Spandine and Spandam, the father-and-son commanders of CP0 and CP9 who were in charge of the operation, rather unhappy.
However, they assumed that Vegapunk had accepted his fate, which was why he looked so calm. Spandam sneered.
"Fufufufu, Mr. Vegapunk, you should thank that esteemed person for giving you a ticket to the new era. Otherwise, you would have been buried beneath the power of Aqua Laguna along with those lowly commoners!"
Vegapunk glanced at the two men, who were complete idiots in his eyes, and spoke calmly.
"Imu actually brought idiots like you father and son into the new era? It seems that era isn't worth looking forward to after all."
Spandam instantly flew into a rage, but Spandine, as his father, soothed him.
"Don't get angry, my son. In