Watching Judge's shifting expression, Xie Wen was eighty to ninety percent sure he would agree to his terms.
After all, this involved the Raid Suit Klee Meow wanted. That reason alone was enough to push the odds past fifty percent.
Setting aside supernatural factors, Xie Wen, who had read the manga, also knew perfectly well how obsessed Judge was with Vegapunk. Even if the information Xie Wen offered was bloody useless to him, as long as Vegapunk's name was attached, there was no way he could calmly analyze whether it was worth the price.
It was fortunate that he had run into Kizaru and Sentomaru in Dark Reef Town earlier. Otherwise, Xie Wen really would not have known whether Vegapunk had moved his research base yet.
Come to think of it, he had already lost count of how many times he had used information from the manga to milk the World Government.
It was all information he had gotten for free anyway, so he felt no qualms whatsoever about selling it.
Sure enough, after a brief struggle, Judge promptly agreed to Xie Wen's terms.
Xie Wen then told Judge that a major accident had occurred at Vegapunk's original laboratory, forcing him to abandon it and move to a new island. He did not mention Egghead's name, though, and as for the name of the island where the accident had happened... Xie Wen could not remember it.
"Something happened on Punk Hazard?" Judge muttered excitedly. "To think even you would slip up, Vegapunk!"
Huh? Judge actually knew that island was called Punk Hazard?
Xie Wen was a little surprised, but that was all.
After all, given Judge's obsession with Vegapunk, along with his status as both a scientist and the king of an affiliated nation, finding out a name probably was