Seeing Caesar make contact with Big Mom, Xie Wen quickly pricked up his ears.
Neither of them had any intention of avoiding other people, so he easily heard Caesar's pitch to Big Mom for funding...
Slightly contrary to what Xie Wen had expected, Caesar made no mention of human giantification. Instead, he was promoting "Dead Nation," which was still in development.
Right, although giantification was the "PowerPoint pitch" Caesar used to fool Big Mom, he probably hadn't known about her demand for it at the very beginning.
And despite Big Mom's brutal disposition and her titles of "Natural Destroyer" and "Evil God," since she had established "Totto Land" with the aim of creating "a home where members of all races and tribes could live in harmony," she might not have been all that interested in a weapon of mass destruction like the "Dead Nation" poison gas bomb.
Besides, given Big Mom's lack of patience, she preferred getting finished products directly. Just as she would later treat Germa 66, she would simply kill them and steal their technology, without considering whether they might develop something better afterward.
Had Caesar pitched it to Kaido instead, his chances of success would actually have been a little higher. Jack had indeed used poison gas bombs made by Caesar to attack the Mokomo Dukedom in the manga.
Provided he didn't run into his former MADS colleague, Queen.
Sure enough, things developed just as Xie Wen had expected. Big Mom had no interest whatsoever in Caesar's pie-in-the-sky promises. Picking up a large platter of sweets and pouring them into her mouth, she waved a hand and said indistinctly, "Even without that sort of weapon, my children can easily wipe out our enemies... If you don't have any other special technology, get out of the way and