"This is the Iron Giant that attacked Saint Mary Geoise two hundred years ago."
Besides having Klee Meow help optimize the Mother Carmel Flame and milking Vegapunk for technology, Xie Wen also had him take him and the cats to see the Ancient Robot.
Vegapunk had hidden it in a corner of Egghead Island with a Holographic Projection. Normally, all anyone could see there was a wall. No wonder Xie Wen had failed to find it no matter how hard he looked.
It had briefly been exposed when Klee Meow swallowed the Mother Carmel Flame, but everyone's attention had been drawn to the Research Layer, which had lost its barrier, and the two members of the Five Elders who appeared afterward.
Even if any pirates had caught sight of it, its battered appearance, lying amid a huge heap of garbage, had failed to attract anyone's attention.
"Can I take it apart, meow? Check-It!"
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Meowrah stared at the enormous robot before her with shining eyes, looking eager to get started.
"Of course not!!!"
Vegapunk's reaction was intense, very much in the style of a pirate.
"Why, meow? This guy clearly can't move anymore."
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Little D-Roll asked in bewilderment, "And if you don't take it apart, how do you study it? Haven't you already built a replica robot, meow?"
"It's not that I don't want to take it apart. This robot can't be disassembled normally. It can only be forcibly dismantled," Vegapunk explained. "So I only used instruments to scan its internal structure."
Seeing that Meowrah was still pouting reluctantly, Vegapunk continued to persuade her. "Aside from its unknown power source and relatively tough materials, the technology used in this Giant Robots isn't particularly outstanding. The internal schematics I scanned are enough to understand how to build it."
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