"Sherwin-dear~ You’re back, ow~"
When Sherwin and the others returned to Elegia fully loaded with spoils, Shermie ow transford into lightning and lunged into his arms at the first instance, then vigorously rubbed her little head against his cheek to act spoiled.
"Alright, alright~ Didn’t we see each other every day?"
Sherwin stroked Shermie ow back, comforting her softly.
Although they had been staying on Egghead Island for the past few days, they would be pulled into the Sing-Sing Fruit world through Uta singing every day to et with the other Felynes. Though the ti wasn’t long, there was still enough ti to give every single Felyne a good petting.
In fact, Sherwin had once envisioned connecting Uta Sing-Sing Fruit world to Vegapunk brain—which was Punk Records.
Because the main reason Uta couldn’t stably maintain the Sing-Sing Fruit world was that her ntal strength, or rather the activity level of her brain, couldn’t keep up.
On the other hand, Vegapunk, who had eaten the Brain-Brain Fruit, had a brain that was constantly growing larger every mont, and the Sing-Sing Fruit world also happened to be capable of fulfilling Vegapunk vision of a "brain network".
Furthermore, with Uta participation, the monopolization of "network" privileges wouldn’t happen, and the danger level would be greatly reduced.
It could be said that the abilities of the Sing-Sing Fruit and the Brain-Brain Fruit, as well as the respective visions of Uta and Vegapunk, were a match made in heaven that complented each other perfectly.
But in the end, Sherwin still didn’t ntion this matter to Vegapunk. Because among his clones, there was still the unstable factor of the "Desire" clone, York.
Even if he wanted to bring Vegapunk and Uta together to build a "taverse", that would have to wait until after the World Governnt was overthrown.
"How can that be the sa, ow~ The Sherwin-dear in the Sing-Sing Fruit world isn’t real~"
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Shermie ow, whose clinginess was not inferior to Klee ow, placed her two little paws on Sherwin collarbone, craning her neck to lick his cheek with all her might.
After finally waiting for this clingy little fellow to finish acting spoiled, the other Felynes who had stayed behind in Elegia, Robin, Uta, and the people of the Red Hair Pirates all rushed over together in a massive crowd.
After greeting them one by one, Baby-5 imdiately handed over all the newspapers that Sherwin had missed during this period.
Opening the latest issue, the headline news was that the Navy convoy escorting the scientists had been attacked by pirates again, and they had driven them back once more...
Well, this situation had long been within his and Vegapunk expectations.
If you can’t capture Vegapunk, it only normal to settle for the next best thing and grab a few mbers of the Science Squad.
In reality, those convoys transporting the scientists were all smoke screens they had already been sent back to Egghead Island via the Navy replicated Valstrax. Otherwise, Sherwin and the others wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to leave.
Now it seed the Navy intended to use this thod to tie down the pirate attention, and incidentally, set traps to further weaken the pirate forces.
Sherwin flipped back a few more issues and found that the content was mostly the sa, until he flipped to the issue covering the Battle of Egghead Island...
Regarding the existence of the Five Elders, neither the official newspapers nor the World Economic Journal made any reports whatsoever. Sherwin didn’t believe Morgans was completely oblivious to this, so it could only an he had been "PR’d" by the World Governnt.
After all, no matter how gutsy that guy Morgans was, he wouldn’t dare provoke the highest authority of the World Governnt giving in was perfectly normal.
Besides, there were so many witnesses at the ti, so forcing the newspapers not to report it was just the World Governnt burying its head in the sand. Sherwin estimated that the intelligence brokers in the underworld had already spread the news about the Five Elders everywhere.
Emmmm... Should he have Huai, through her alter ego in the underworld, leak the existence of Imu as well?
Sherwin, who not long ago thought it best not to provoke the World Governnt any further, was now restlessly pondering the idea...
Anyway, the one provoking the World Governnt isn’t , the Hunter. Furthermore, if the speculation about the Five Elder immortality being related to Imu is leaked together, it might even get those pirates to help test the waters.
But doing this also carried risks. Heaven knew if Imu would have so violent reaction after being provoked. It didn’t matter how many pirates died, but if Imu decided to "shut mouths" by erasing entire islands, just like how Lulusia Kingdom was treated in the manga, that was definitely not sothing Sherwin wanted to see...
Given the cold-blooded personality Imu displayed in the manga, this possibility was actually very high.
However, if that spaceship suspected to be "Uranus" could only be powered by the Mother Fla provided by Vegapunk, Sherwin wouldn’t be worried.
Because after Klee ow swallowed and spat it out a few tis, she was already fully capable of controlling this fla. As long as Imu dared to send it out, Sherwin could pack it up and take it away in a matter of minutes.
The only worry was that the thing might still have a backup power source.
After all, the World Governnt had held that weapon for centuries before Vegapunk, so it was impossible for it to have just been sitting around collecting dust the entire ti, right?
Just as Sherwin was hesitating over whether to gamble on it, he suddenly caught sight of a minor news story related to the Battle of Egghead—
[The Whitebeard Pirates and the Revolutionary Army Suspected to Have Contact]
Below this headline was a photo of Ace and Sabo hugging each other with joyful expressions.
So, Sabo and the Revolutionary Army were also on the island at that ti?
Sherwin scratched his head. He hadn’t completely told Ace and Luffy about Sabo situation at the beginning, not only because it was hard to explain, but also because he actually entertained the thought of using this information to trade with Whitebeard or the Revolutionary Army for so benefits.
But after getting closer to both sides later on, Sherwin abandoned that idea. He had even thought about finding an opportunity to ntion it to Ace or Kuma at so point.
As it turned out, as ti passed and things piled up, he completely forgot about it...
He hadn’t expected that they would actually reunite because of the Egghead incident.
Well, looking at it this way, Whitebeard joining the battle later on was probably more or less related to Sabo.
However, with the Revolutionary Army being exposed at Egghead, the World Governnt and the affiliated nations, who had previously sowhat overlooked them, would likely beco vigilant again. It was hard to say just how many affiliated nations they had actually infiltrated.
Sherwin suddenly felt that it was ti for him to have a proper talk with Dragon.
At the very least, he could first tell him the information about Imu and "Uranus" to see what his thoughts were.
Although the Revolutionary Army led by Dragon had acted rather abstractly before, that was more a matter of vision.
The fact that Dragon could develop the Revolutionary Army to the extent shown in the manga right under the nose of the World Governnt was actually already very impressive.
Weatheria, the Revolutionary Army, and a not-so-urgent Sleeping Old Town—the originally leisurely days were suddenly about to beco busy.
As Sherwin lanted, he picked up the latest batch of bounty posters issued by the Navy...
Unsurprisingly, the bounties for the mbers of the Beasts, BIG MOM, and Whitebeard Pirates had all increased. The bounties of the three captains had even broken through five billion all together, pulling a considerable distance away from Sherwin and Shanks, who "did not appear on Egghead Island."
In addition, Sabo and a group of other Revolutionary Army mbers were also given bounties no lower than those of the "Lead Perforrs" and "Sweet Commanders."
But none of these were the most important.
Because, at the very bottom of this large stack of bounty posters, a bounty poster that was completely insignificant compared to the previous ones appeared in Sherwin vision—
"Straw Hat" Luffy, bounty 3 million, Dead or Alive.
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