Bullet smiled too, then suddenly remembered something and asked Enel:
"Could we equip the Marines with these missiles on a mass scale?"
They were so convenient. One shot could wipe out an entire ship of pirates.
They were countless times more powerful than the explosive shells fired by the old-fashioned cannons currently mounted on Marine warships.
If everyone had one, it would save so much trouble.
Enel shook his head helplessly:
"No. We can only use them ourselves."
"They're too powerful. The government won't allow mass deployment."
"You saw the blast radius. If these were deployed en masse, what in the world couldn't we conquer?"
"An ordinary soldier could destroy an imperial warship just by firing a single missile."
"Ordinary pirate ships would be reduced to splinters."
"Even many of the Marines' current vice admirals couldn't withstand the power of these missiles."
"Not everyone has your immense reserves of Haki, Bullet."
"Haven't you noticed that everyone on the seas still uses those old-fashioned cannons?"
"Even the Marines' more advanced versions only have a slightly longer range."
"They won't let this technology spread at all. The moment they catch even a hint of it, the government sends people to stamp it out."
"Technology on these seas hasn't advanced in a very long time."
"They used these cannons centuries ago, and they're still using them now."
Bullet furrowed his brows:
"Is that so..."
Enel shrugged:
"That's how brutal it is."
"It's not as if there aren't kingdoms developing technology."
"Take Professor Vegapunk's homeland, for example. Modified animals, missiles, all that advanced technology."
"They developed it long ago, but the place was too remote for any of it to spread. And after Professor Vegapunk joined the research team..."
"The government stationed huge numbers of troops all across Future Island."
"And that's the official