I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"Based on this history, there are two different possibilities."

"First, you left this era using the power of the Time-Time Fruit, so nothing about you has been passed down to later generations."

"Secondly, like Rocks, you also met a complete death in the end."

These two sentences reveal a great deal of information.

"As the user of the Time Reversal Fruit, I am the only one who can help you. Wang Xige."

Vegapunk said solemnly.

"Oh, really?"

Sieg raised an eyebrow and said:

"So you're from 500 years in the future."

"Isn't this a coincidence? Actually, I'm just like you; I don't belong to this era either."

Vegapunk paused for a moment, then stared intently and listened.

He heard Sieg say this:

"Actually, I'm an alien..."

Vegapunk's eye twitched slightly, and he sighed softly.

“Wang Xige, I’m not joking with you.”

"Our abilities complement each other. So let's be open and honest, without any deception, and cooperate. We can accomplish anything!"

"Oh, really?"

Sieg narrowed his eyes, his expression remaining unchanged, though his voice grew slightly colder.

"Since we're going to be open and honest... why don't you explain first?"

Sig's gaze once again fell on Vegapunk's brow.

"The wound between your eyebrows, was it inflicted by my own hand?"

"Why did I draw my gun and shoot you before you used the power of the Time Reversal Fruit to turn back time?"

Vegapunk's face stiffened, and his heart sank to the bottom.

How should he explain this?

Why? He's looking for the reason too...

Vegapunk still doesn't know why Sieg repeatedly tried to shoot him; he can only conclude that Sieg was very wary.

But you can't use that kind of answer to Sieg!

Vegapunk's face immediately fell.

"Wang Xige is a very wary person. I can't explain this, and I'll find it difficult to gain his trust..."

"This is detrimental to the cooperation we are going to discuss next."

A bitter smile gradually appeared on Vegapunk's face.

He immediately glanced at the watch on his wrist.

The time is exactly 10:03!

This is the time in each time loop when he was "shot" by Sieg!

In the end, at the critical moment of 10:03, did it still fail?

Vegapunk's body blurred once more, becoming semi-transparent, and was about to disappear...

Sig was also surprised.

He had already witnessed Amezuki using the Time-Time Fruit's ability, and had even experienced it himself once. Upon seeing this, he immediately understood that Vegapunk was attempting time travel!

Vegapunk moved too quickly, leaving Sieg little time to react.

In that instant, the only action Sieg could manage was...

He opened his inventory!

Time stood still at this moment.

Sigurd felt a sense of relief. He looked at Vegapunk, whose figure was about to disappear, and began to ponder in this moment when time stopped flowing.

It's practically confirmed that Vegapunk is a user of the Time-Reversal Fruit.

But not everything he says is necessarily true.

Sieg has a very deep personal understanding of this.

A lie that is only partially true is the hardest to detect.

When Siegfried questioned Vegapunk about the gunshot wound between his eyebrows, he was simply trying to force Vegapunk to be honest about it.

"Why is Vegapunk reacting so strongly? Is he hiding something? He must be hiding something."

Sieg's expression also looked a little unpleasant.

This means that... Vegapunk had already initiated a time reversal without Vegapunk's knowledge.

Moreover, on one occasion, he had an argument with Vegapunk and shot him.

"Damn it, this ability is practically a rollback! This is too overpowered, it's practically a protagonist's death rollback cheat."

"Wait... could he actually be the main character? Is the book called 'The Great Scientist of One Piece'?"

During the moment when time stood still, Sieg's mind wandered to a bunch of random thoughts before he gradually calmed down.

This was the first time he had encountered such a formidable opponent since his transmigration.

Vegapunk may not be strong, but this bug-like ability makes him almost invincible. He can keep rewinding time, similar to Toki Amatsuki, making it an almost unsolvable bug-like ability.

Sieg sighed softly.

Although he paused time, he still didn't solve the problem.

The moment time resumes its flow, Vegapunk will time travel once again, and at that time, Higurashi himself will be completely unaware.

Chapter 725 Beyond Time

How can we break the time loop of the Time Reversal Fruit?

Sieg felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

What troubled Sieg even more was that Vegapunk's time travel had clearly occurred more than once, yet he hadn't noticed at all!

Vegapunk is definitely hiding something; his constant time travel must have a purpose!

What does he want to get out of me?

At this moment when time has stopped, Sieg desperately tries to think of a solution.

Faced with an opponent who could infinitely reload saves and constantly reverse time, all his fancy abilities became useless.

Of all of Sigurd's abilities, only two are related to time.

First, the ability gained after KING reaches full compatibility: [The Original Hero].

The original hero did not have the ability to travel through time at will. His time travel ability was based on the power of causality. Although he could achieve a similar effect to Vegapunk in traveling to the past, it had to be based on causal relationships.

This is clearly not a method that can be used to deal with Vegapunk.

Secondly, the inventory provided by the Dragonborn Card allows you to pause time when it is opened.

With pause time, frankly, there's very little you can do.

Obviously, this cannot be used against Vegapunk either.

At this moment when time stood still, Sieg pondered for a very, very long time.

I don't know how much time passed; maybe half an hour, maybe an hour, maybe much longer...

Sieg finally came up with a solution that might be useful.

This method is related to the inventory.

Sieg smiled slightly.

Opening the inventory can stop time from flowing.

This is an ability that can stop time... but is it really that simple?

The inventory is set up like in most games.

Time pauses when you open your inventory.

At the same time, items placed in the inventory, such as meat, are also affected by the time freeze; no matter how much time passes outside, they will not spoil or rot.

Sieg suddenly remembered something and looked into the depths of his inventory.

Similar to Vegapunk's "time reversal," he actually did travel back in time, and more than once.

Deep within his inventory are many of the various items he brought from "the present".

There's the bear paw sparkling wine made by Perona and the Great Bear, and the bounty posters for the fifty-six emperors of later generations...

In this era, Perona hasn't been born yet, and the bounties for the Fifty-Six Emperors have not been released at all...

These things, like Sig, do not belong to Sig's current point in time; they are foreign objects that should not exist, yet they were brought to the "past" through the inventory.

Sig hadn't thought much about it before.

He believed this was the influence of the "original hero".

But now, upon closer reflection... Sig has a guess.

This is just an unverified hypothesis, but it is already the only ability in Sigurd's possession that could potentially rival the Time Reversal Fruit.

Based on this speculation, Sieg had a bold idea.

"Was it Dracula who ultimately gave me inspiration?"

Sig took out paper and pen from his inventory and quickly wrote a lot of words.

He then closed his inventory, allowing time to resume its flow.