"Are you planning to wade into this mess?"
Shanks, who had been standing nearby and heard every word of Xie Wen's call with Morgans, kindly reminded him, "If you just want Devil Fruits, there's really no need to go to Egghead Island. It's the eye of the storm right now."
Xie Wen gave him a slightly surprised look.
After all, given Shanks's "hobbies," he should have wanted to join the fun and get everyone to do him a favor while he was at it.
Sure enough, once he had a daughter to worry about, even a hero like Shanks would change.
Xie Wen thought of those daughter-doting friends of his back on Earth again, instinctively curled his lip, then answered, "Of course it's not just for Devil Fruits. I also want to stop by and see what new technology Vegapunk has come up with."
Seeing how the Sapphire Star took all this for granted left Shanks speechless.
Leaving aside his former workplace, Punk Hazard, which had been voluntarily abandoned, Xie Wen had only recently gone and plundered his hometown of Baldimore, and now he was going to his latest workplace to help himself again...
Does Vegapunk owe you or something?
"Besides," Xie Wen continued, sounding thoroughly justified, "I also have to stop Kaido from getting Vegapunk's technology!"
"That's true..."
Shanks frowned. He had originally planned to stay out of it, but now he began to waver.
It would probably be all right if other pirates, even Big Mom, got their hands on Vegapunk's technology, but if that madman Kaido became even stronger with Vegapunk's technology, things would get rather ugly.
Of course, Shanks's thinking had also been influenced, to some extent, by the earlier "Illusion plan."
"If you need help, let me know right away."
Shanks had considerable faith in