"Wahahahaha! Xie Wen, your ship's a lot better than the ones the Navy's been outfitting lately!"
As everyone prepared to leave Fish-Man Island and head for the surface, Garp and Sengoku shamelessly abandoned their own Marine warships and boarded the Toot Toot Forward.
"It can even turn into a submarine! Our warships can only turn into airships."
Xie Wen gave Garp a sidelong glance and said flatly, "If the blueprints Cipher Pol stole from Water 7 were the originals, they must have included the Dire Miralis form."
"Hahahaha! Is that so? I wouldn't know much about that."
Garp rubbed the back of his head and laughed it off, looking as though he hadn't picked up on Xie Wen's sarcasm at all.
Hearing them discussing the Dudu, Meowrah came over and offered an objective assessment. "It's probably not that the Navy doesn't want to build it, but that they don't have a stable energy source to support multiple transformations of the hull. I only had the confidence to design the current Dudu because we have Klee and Shalmy, meow! Check-It!"
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"Another reason is that doing that wouldn't be cost-effective for the Navy and the World Government, meow."
Meowrah continued, "Mass-produced warships don't need multiple forms. If it were me, I'd build separate ships with different transformation types and divide them into different squadrons. Warships with multiple forms are better suited to special units, like CP Agents, meow~ Check-It!"
(ゝω)~☆
Although Sengoku did his best to suppress his surprise, Xie Wen still caught the fleeting expression on his face.
It looked as though Meowrah had hit the mark.
But that made sense. The people in the Navy weren't idiots. Since they had already copied the "Valstrax," they certainly wouldn't pass up the other forms.
"Oh, right! That's another way to do