Starting a year ago, Caesar Clown had felt his luck taking a turn for the worse...
First, that jealous bastard Vegapunk had ordered a halt to the weapon of mass destruction he was developing. Then, at Vegapunk's instigation, the World Government had arrested him for forcibly detonating the unfinished product.
Although he later managed to escape from the prison ship transporting him, Caesar Clown had been forced to conceal his identity and behave himself on a remote island for quite some time to evade capture.
After finally evading the Marines' searches and sneaking back to Punk Hazard, he discovered that Smiley, the contingency he had left behind, had long since vanished. Even much of the equipment on the island had been hauled away. As for any prisoners who might have survived, there was not a soul in sight.
Caesar Clown, who had planned to use Punk Hazard's unique environment to continue secretly researching his unfinished "Dead Nation," was instantly dumbfounded.
What left him even more speechless was that, because the poisonous fog over the island had dispersed, he happened to run into members of Cipher Pol coming to investigate when he landed...
Although his greater familiarity with Punk Hazard allowed him to escape the CP Agents pursuing him, Caesar Clown also ended up taking the blame for Xie Wen's "theft of the Science Unit's research results and equipment."
And so, Caesar Clown's bounty instantly shot up from three hundred million Beli to five hundred million.
In short...
It was all Vegapunk's fault!
However, this little setback was not enough to crush Caesar Clown. Although he was a cruel, cunning scumbag who bullied the weak and feared the strong, he was also a mad scientist.
To create the "Dead Nation" he dreamed of and prove himself a more brilliant scientist than