XX-level Hokage

"Just obtaining Whitebeard's DNA took me a lot of effort," Stussy pointed out, "the flaws in the 'Blazing Gate' plan."

"Well, I haven't really considered that right now," Vegapunk sighed. You see, the World Government and the Navy have always restricted cloning research.

"Furthermore, artificial Devil Fruits currently have significant flaws. Not only are their powers unstable, but they also have numerous side effects. Otherwise, you wouldn't have allowed Caesar to steal the data on the artificial Devil Fruits," Stussy continued.

"You're right, this plan will indeed take some time, but I believe I'll be able to solve these problems in a few years. You need to..."

"Don't stay and help me," Vegapunk said.

After Caesar left, he was in dire need of a smart enough assistant.

Forget it, I have no interest in being someone else's subordinate. I wasn't originally a scientist; I just want to gain wealth and status through my own abilities.

"This technology is my life's work, and I can't possibly give it up," Stussy said with unwavering determination.

"Okay, I understand." Even though he knew this would be the answer, Vegapunk still felt incredibly disappointed.

"However, I still want to thank you for reminding me. I really should discard some useless things, and in order to ultimately succeed, I also plan to start from the embryo."

"I'll start cloning the embryo, then raise it to adulthood. With a white-bearded clone working for me, my later years will be incredibly smooth," Stussy said with a smile.

Just then, a robot walked into the laboratory.

"Master, a stranger has arrived at Egghead Island and requests instructions." As the robot spoke, a screen appeared above its head, displaying the images of Mashiro and Toki.

"This person, Vegapunk, looked at Mashiro on the screen and suddenly laughed. In the center of Egghead Island, Mashiro led Kanzuki down from the Senbon Tower."

Looking at the unique scenery around them, Tenzuki was incredibly excited, and Mashiro was also quite surprised.

This island has a unique style, unlike any other, filled with a technological feel and vibrant colors. Just then, a middle-aged man with a somewhat enormous head flew over.

"Taoquan Palace, is there something you need from me?" the middle-aged man asked. "Who are you?" Zhenbai asked softly.

"By the way, let me introduce myself. My name is Vegapunk, I'm a scientist, and also the owner of this island," Vegapunk began.

“Vegapunk, I’ve heard so much about you.” Shinpachi said with a smile. [Name: Vegapunk]

Gender: Male Age: 42

Affiliation: World Government; Haki: None

Devil Fruit Ability: Paramecia-type Brain-Brain Fruit

Height: 234cm Luck Value: 85 Approval Rating: 25

[Paramecia Type: Brain-Brain Fruit: Possesses unlimited brain capacity; his brain can store an unlimited amount of information, but the more data he absorbs, the smaller his brain becomes.]

This ability doesn't seem to have any particularly strong aspects.

An unlimited brain capacity sounds impressive, but if you're an idiot and lack talent, brain capacity is still useless. From this perspective, Vegapunk should still be an extremely outstanding genius even without the Brain-Brain Fruit.

Just as Zhen Zi guessed, Bergabank's innate genius and unlimited brain database made his brain the largest in the world, and it continues to grow to this day.

“I have long admired Prince Izumi’s name. You know, this is the first time a Celestial Dragon has voluntarily chosen to join the pirates and free the slaves. Even I never expected it,” Vegapunk said.

Upon hearing this, Shinbai paused for a moment, scrutinizing Vegapunk with his eyes, especially his enormous head, as if pondering why Vegapunk knew so much.

But looking into Mashiro's eyes, Vegapunk seemed to have misunderstood what he meant and said, "I didn't mean to belittle you. I'm just very surprised by your feat. This is the first time in history that someone has offended the Dragon People so much."

I also dislike the Celestial Dragons and am disgusted by their unbridled bullying of civilians. Therefore, I have been secretly studying historical documents to find out why the World Government treats the Celestial Dragons this way, but I have not yet come to any conclusions.

"The result? If you want to know this, I can give you a heads-up. The Celestial Dragons are descendants of the Twenty Kings. Legend has it that the Twenty Kings saved the entire world. As descendants of the Twenty Kings, the Celestial Dragons never eat Devil Fruits. In recent years, the World Government has been building the Intercontinental Bridge, and the Dragonkin live in the Holy Land of Mariana, located atop the Red Earth Road." At this point, Mashiro fell silent.

She believed that if Vegapunk was truly as intelligent as rumored, he would arrive at a plausible conclusion. After hearing Mashiro's words, Vegapunk paused, his brow furrowing, as if he had indeed thought of something. "Let's not talk about that now. Did Taoquan Palace come to Egghead Island specifically for something?" Vegapunk asked.

“I’m here to see someone,” Mashiro replied. “Someone?”

"Her name is Stussy."

Chapter 95: Back to the Future

Following Vegapunk into the laboratory, Masami met Stussy, who was conducting research.

When Vegapunk led the two to the laboratory, Stussy glanced at him with some confusion before turning to look at Mashiro and Toki. As Stussy looked at them, Mashiro was also observing her.

Unlike the Stussy that Mashiro meets in the future, the Stussy at this time is already a middle-aged woman. Although she is still incredibly beautiful, she is far from having that peaceful and confident temperament.

[Name: Bakingom Stussy]

Gender: Female Age: 41

Affiliation: Pirates; Haki: None; Devil Fruit: None; Height: 168cm; Luck Value: 70; Agreement: 0

“Vegapunk, who are they?” Stussy asked.

“My name is Sassarian Spring, you can call me Spring, this is my companion Toki,” Mashiro introduced herself.

"So, is there something you want to see me about?" Stussy immediately guessed that Mashiro had come to see him.

“Mr. Vegapunk, can we talk alone?” Mashiro asked with a smile, looking at Vegapunk beside her. Hearing this, Vegapunk hesitated for a moment, then ultimately left the lab with the robot.

“I’ve come here to make a deal with you,” Mashiro said to Stussy after Vegapunk left. A deal? Tell me about it. Stussy said softly.

“I want your cloning technology. In exchange, I can give you a drop of my blood,” Mashiro said with a light laugh.

"Your blood? Are you kidding me? Even if Whitebeard offered his own blood, I wouldn't agree. Do you think you're stronger than Whitebeard?" Stussy said with a hint of sarcasm.

Qi Bai remained silent, watching Stussy quietly, his pale green Rinnegan silently activating. Instantly, Stussy knelt on the ground.

Sweating profusely, dazed, and with drool involuntarily dripping from his mouth, he nearly lost control of his bladder. "What kind of power is this...?" Stussy asked incredulously.

"I forgot to tell you, the deal I'm talking about is one-sided, and you have no room to refuse," Qi Baitan said with a smile to Stussy.

“Okay, okay, I understand,” Stussy said, filled with immense fear. Ten minutes later, Mashiro left the laboratory with Amatsuki Toki.

"Did you get what you wanted?" Vegapunk asked from a short distance from the laboratory entrance.

"It's alright, but I'm not really cut out for research. I wanted to give these materials to an acquaintance of mine, and he should be very interested in them," Mashiro said calmly.

"Can you tell me? Who exactly are you?" Vegapunk suddenly asked. "Oh? Have you thought of something?" Mashiro looked at Vegapunk with great interest.

"Pure white eyes—this peculiar structure is something I've never heard of before, even in some rare species."

Each race will undoubtedly possess a unified adaptability to the ocean.

Just now, when you walked into that laboratory, I secretly activated the radio wave scan.

The results were completely unexpected. Your physical structure is stranger than I've ever seen, and your physical abilities are stronger than I've ever seen. Furthermore, there's a special energy flowing and changing within your body.

"These things are inexplicable. Through computer comparison, you're practically inhuman," Vegapunk said. "Perhaps," Mashiro didn't refute.

In a sense, having completely transformed into an Otsutsuki, she can no longer be considered human.

“Three days from now, everyone in this world will forget my existence, and all evidence of my existence will be erased,” Mashiro said suddenly, looking at Vegapunk.

"What are you talking about?" Vegapunk asked, puzzled. He couldn't understand what Zhenji meant.

"You'll find out then. I'll preserve your memories, and when my future self comes to find you, she'll tell you everything." With that, Mashiro left with Amatsuki Toki.

Only Vegapunk remained, looking completely composed. What exactly did she mean by that?

After Mashiro and Toki left, Stussy emerged from the laboratory. "Vegapunk, I need your help," Stussy said. "What is it?" Vegapunk asked.

“Clone one of me,” Stussy said seriously.

Sitting on the cherry blossom, Mashiro turned her head to look at the Egghead Island, which had become just a blurry shadow.

She implanted something into Stussy's will to ensure that she cloned herself as Mashiro intended. "Are you going back soon?" Amatsuki Toki asked.

In the past few days, Mashiro has told Amatsuki most of her information, including how she got here.

"My intuition tells me it should be the day after tomorrow," Mashiro replied. Hearing this, Tenzuki Toki hugged Mashiro from behind, her expression somewhat forlorn.

"Don't worry, Shiki, you can activate the Time-Time Fruit's power to teleport yourself to my time, and I'll come pick you up then." Mashiro gently stroked Shiki's hair and said with a smile.

“I know that, but I’m still a little scared. I myself traveled from 830 years ago to this time, and now I have to travel another 20 years. I always have a sense of insecurity about this kind of time travel, as if no time will ever truly belong to me,” Tian Yue Shi said softly.

"Ah Shi, don't think like that. You need to know that time travel is a power that touches the future. As long as you want, you can see the truth of the past and also see the outcome of the future. It's not that there is no time that belongs to you, but that all time will belong to you."

Besides, don't you still have me? From the moment we met, your future time and my future time have already begun to overlap.

"No matter where you go in the future, as long as I am here, you will have a place to belong. This is my promise to you, and this is the vow I have made." Mashiro said earnestly.

Hearing Mashiro's words, Toki Amatsuki's tense heart began to calm down. Three days later, in the East Blue, at Cocoyasi Village.

At this time, Bellemere was not yet a formal member of the navy; she was still a teenage girl. A huge, cherry-pink bird descended from the sky and landed on the coast of Cocoyasi Village.

Out of curiosity, Bellemere secretly followed them. At the beach.

“You go ahead, Toki. Go to Cocoyasi Village 23 years in the future. There will be a girl named Nami in the village. Find her and just mention my name,” Mashiro said.

"Okay, I understand." Guan Yueshi nodded nervously. "Then, goodbye."

After saying that, a white light flashed, and Tianyue Shi disappeared from the spot.

Bellemere, who was watching from a short distance away, was startled by what she saw.

She instinctively turned to run, but found that Mashiro had appeared behind her at some point.

"Can I tell you my name?" Mashiro asked softly. "I... my name is Bellemere," Bellemere replied.

"Bellmeal, what a fine name. You'd be well-suited to be a naval officer," Mashiro said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Bellemere paused, somewhat confused about what Mashiro meant. "Could you take me to the village post office?" Mashiro asked with a smile.

“Yes, yes,” Bellemere nodded in the afternoon.

Four letters were sent from the village of Cocoyasi to an anonymous address.

The four recipients were Arlong of the Sun Pirates, Rayleigh and Shakky of the Sabaody Archipelago, Tsuru of the Marine Headquarters, and Vegapunk of Egghead Island. Mashiro used her Geass power to hypnotize the four seagulls that delivered the messages and implanted a Mark of Life into each of them.

The seagulls will deliver the message to its destination at an extremely fast speed. After doing all this...

An invisible force twisted around Mashiro. At the same instant, Mashiro also used her visual memory ability.

In an instant, all memories and information related to Mashiro vanished, and Mashiro's face turned deathly pale.

Changing the entire world in an instant was also a tremendous burden for her.

An unseen force is distorting the entire world, seemingly examining the traces Mashiro has left behind.

After confirming that nothing urgent had changed, the distorted power enveloped Mashiro. A moment of dizziness followed.

When Mashiro opened her eyes again, she found Perona floating not far away, watching her.

With a pout, she said somewhat angrily, "Seriously, are you even listening?"

Chapter 96: Let's do it together then.