Watching Dr. Vegapunk descend into madness and prepare to harm himself, Sengoku and Garp in the office were both startled.
"Bring the water and splash it on his face!"
Sengoku looked at the cup of water on the table and spoke to Garp.
Garp quickly realized that Dr. Vegapunk might have been triggered and fallen into a trance.
He immediately grabbed the cup and splashed the tea on Dr. Vegapunk face.
As the cold water hit his face, Dr. Vegapunk shuddered and finally calmed down.
"Ah, when you get old, your mental resilience weakens so much!" Dr. Vegapunk wiped the cold water from his face and said self-deprecatingly.
"It's alright, Doctor. These things are inevitable!" Garp comforted him from the side.
"Doctor, perhaps you should focus on future technology!"
"According to our intelligence, the teleportation talisman developed by Pryce was likely created based on ancient texts from a bygone civilization!" Sengoku said with a furrowed brow.
"Old, im so old, I can't keep up with the young anymore!" Dr. Vegapunk sighed.
At that moment, Garp and Sengoku suddenly noticed that Dr. Vegapunk body seemed to have aged significantly in an instant.
Sengoku opened his mouth, about to offer some words of comfort.
Suddenly, Dr. Vegapunk stood up abruptly.
"But even if I'm old, I won't admit defeat!"
"Fleet Admiral, please lend me this teleportation talisman for research for a while!"
Dr. Vegapunk eyes shone with determination as he looked at Sengoku.
Sengoku lips curled into a smile, and he decisively handed the teleportation talisman to Dr. Vegapunk.
Without waiting any words, Dr. Vegapunk focused his mind and instantly returned to his laboratory.
...
Sengoku office.
Watching Dr. Vegapunk leave the office using the teleportation talisman, Garp and Sengoku exchanged glances.
"This Pryce guy is really something!" Sengoku said with a frown.
"Hmph!"
"More than just something, this kid invention nearly drove Vegapunk mad!" Garp snorted and said.
"Can't be helped. These research types tend to get stuck in their own heads!"
"But once he snaps out of this slump, Dr. Vegapunk will undoubtedly reach new heights!"
Sengoku waved his hand, indicating it was no big deal.
"Let's hope so!"
"After all, how long has it been since we started researching the Senzu Beans, and we're still nowhere!"
"For the Navy to get Senzu Beans, we still have to rely on intermediaries to buy them from the Whitebeard Pirates!" Garp sighed, disappointed.
"That reminds me of something!"
"The Senzu Beans we've been buying from the black market have significantly weaker effects compared to the ones we first seized from the Whitebeard Pirates!" Sengoku also frowned.
"This Pryce, using the same formula, can still create items with different effects!"
"What a scary kid!" Garp said somewhat helplessly.
"No way around it, the last time we clashed, Whitebeard injuries seemed to have healed quite a bit!"
"Just the two of us would have a hard time dealing with him!" Sengoku shrugged.
"His sixteen division commanders, and countless captains from subordinate pirate crews!"
"Every single one of them is a powerhouse!"
"Moreover, the World Government is currently preoccupied dealing with the Revolutionary Army, so they definitely won't allocate too many troops for us to handle Whitebeard!"
Sengoku stood up, grabbed a piece of Garp high-grade senbei, and tossed it into his mouth, savoring it with narrowed eyes.
"Eat your own!" Garp snatched the high-grade senbei back, acting like a child guarding his food.
"I wonder what kind of reason would allow us to fully engage in war with the Whitebeard Pirates?"
"That way, we'd have a chance to take Pryce!"
Sengoku walked to the window with his hands behind his back and looked outside.
At that moment, the Den Den Mushi on the desk rang.
Sengoku walked over and picked up the call.
"Oh! The Senzu Bean warehouse!"
"What's going on?"
Sengoku frowned as he listened to the report from the other end of the Den Den Mushi.
"Report, Fleet Admiral! Just now, a Celestial Dragon came and took all the Senzu Beans from the warehouse!" The warehouse manager quickly explained.
"What?!"
"Say that again?"
"All of them were taken??"
Sengoku stood up abruptly, his brow furrowed.
"Yes, Fleet Admiral. After all, it's a Celestial Dragon. We didn't dare to stop them!"
"One of the managers tried to say something, but he was immediately beaten severely by the Celestial Dragon bodyguard!" The manager spoke with lingering fear.
"Bastards!" Sengoku cursed angrily.
"Never mind, get that manager to the hospital immediately!"
"I'll go to Mary Geoise and get to the bottom of this!" With that, Sengoku hung up the phone.
"Those Celestial Dragons are causing trouble again?" Garp looked at Sengoku and asked.
"Yes, I'm heading to Mary Geoise now!"
"Those Senzu Beans are extremely precious. They must not become the private property of those Celestial Dragons!"
With that, Sengoku left the office with his belongings and headed to Mary Geoise.
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Mary Geoise.
Saint Roswald returned to his residence with a group of slaves and several large boxes of Senzu Beans.
"Father, what is this?"
A female Celestial Dragon wearing a bubble helmet walked over.
"My dear daughter, these are some good things I've brought for you!"
Saint Roswald grinned widely at the female Celestial Dragon.
This female Celestial Dragon was Saint Roswald daughter, Shalria.
"What good things, Father?"
Shalria kicked a slave who was crawling on his knees beside her and asked curiously.
"This thing is called a Senzu Bean. Let me show you how to use it!" Saint Roswald revealed a cruel smile.
He then pulled out a pistol from his pocket and fired a shot directly into the abdomen of a human slave who was carrying him.
"Ah!"
The slave who was hit let out a scream, and a large amount of blood gushed out.
At this moment, Saint Roswald felt it wasn't enough, so he stomped on the slave wound several times. In an instant, the slave nearly passed out from the pain.
Seeing the slave in such a miserable state, Shalria showed no emotional reaction whatsoever. Instead, she stepped back.
"Father, what are you doing?"
"You almost splattered this bunch of filthy commoners' blood all over me!"
"Disgusting!" Shalria said with a look of disdain.
This is the Celestial Dragon!
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