I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

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Vegapunk's ethereal form vanished completely from the spot.

Time has flowed backward once again.

...............

Sig pushed open the door to the Glam Labs and then quickly and quietly closed it again.

Before him stood a brightly lit but empty laboratory.

Then, drawn by the smell of alcohol, Sieg discovered a bottle of alcohol that wasn't completely sealed in front of the lab table.

"What kind of laboratory would use alcohol for research? Shouldn't Vegapunk be researching the blueprints of life?"

Sieg initially found it somewhat amusing, but after examining it more closely, his expression gradually changed.

He took one of the bottles in his hand, unscrewed the cork, and sniffed it carefully a few times.

This bottle of wine... seems to be exactly the same as the Sword Wine that Rum the Pandaren Brewmaster gave him in his inventory?

Sig was surprised. He immediately opened his inventory, wanting to take out a bottle of sword wine for comparison.

But as soon as he opened his inventory, he immediately noticed something was wrong.

"My inventory has been moved again? What happened?"

"Could this be the work of shadow clones?"

Sieg frowned and rummaged through his inventory. Then he found a note in a prominent place in his inventory.

The note was covered with dense handwriting, all in his own handwriting.

Sieg unfolded the note and began to read it curiously:

"I am Sig. As you read this, Vegapunk activated the power of the Time Reversal Fruit again, performing a time reversal operation."

"Let's call this operation time reversal for now."

"That's right, Vegapunk is a user of the Time Reversal Fruit, but that's not the point."

Sieg narrowed his eyes and continued reading:

"Since you were able to see this note, then my guess is correct."

"The inventory ability is key to defeating Vegapunk; it's an ability that transcends external time."

"Imagine your inventory as a microcosm without a concept of time, where nothing inside decays or spoils as time passes outside..."

"That's why I'm able to bring things from the present to the past when I travel through time."

"In the end, Vegapunk's time reversal and the time travel ability of the 'Original Hero' both lead to the same result: both abilities can allow people to travel back to the past."

"Then perhaps the inventory can also take things back to the past."

"This is a guess I made at this moment when time was frozen. Since you can see this, it means my guess is correct."

"Next, I will tell you about everything Vegapunk did and said when I encountered him in this time loop."

"My past self! This is my last legacy! Please accept it!"

Sieg was immediately overwhelmed by the amount of information on the note. It took him a while to calm down and continue reading.

Following a dialogue transcript is Sig's speculation about Vegapunk's words and actions before the last time time reversed.

"Vegapunk's behavior is unusual."

“Our conversation lasted only two or three minutes, but in those two or three minutes, he checked his watch twice: once when he entered the room and once when he activated his Devil Fruit ability to leave.”

"In addition, the gunshot wound on his forehead indicates that I had a conflict with him during a time when time was reversed."

"He must be hiding something from me, and he has already successfully triggered time reversal at least twice!"

Chapter 726 Pure Love God of War Vegapunk

Looking at the message Sig left behind on the note before time reversed, Sig felt not only astonished but also a sense of powerlessness.

The ability to infinitely reload saves, or rather, to reverse time an infinite number of times, is indeed a power that evokes a sense of despair.

To draw a parallel with the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, which has the overpowered ability to make wives forget their husbands and children forget their mothers... the Time Reversal Fruit, on the other hand, conceals the entire world's secrets, allowing time to reverse countless times while the whole world remains oblivious.

Moreover... if what Vegapunk said is true, and he really does come from the future 500 years in the future, then Sigurd's advantages will all disappear.

One of the biggest advantages of being a time traveler is the foresight regarding the plot.

This is precisely what allowed Sigurd, starting with his headshot of Shanks, to reveal part of the truth despite constantly spouting outrageous lies, thanks to his prophetic abilities. This made his outrageous lies appear as half-true, half-false, and difficult to distinguish.

So Sieg made his way to Water Seven, where his lies were finally exposed when faced with questions from the fifty-six kings.

The advantages of prior knowledge and information asymmetry are obviously extremely helpful.

But against Vegapunk, Sieg has lost this advantage.

What Sigmund knows is only the plot development over the next thirty or forty years, while what Vegapunk knows is the next 500 years!

Not only that, he can also use the power of the Time Reversal Fruit to repeatedly reverse time without Sigur's knowledge, getting closer to his goal step by step!

"He's a truly formidable opponent. To this day, I still can't figure out what his motives are..."

Sieg sighed slightly and continued reading.

"The power of the Time Reversal Fruit existed before... but that's something worth utilizing," the note read.

By this point, the handwriting on the note was no longer as hasty and hurried as before, showing that the writer's mood had gradually calmed down and become more determined.

Now that I know the secret of time reversal, the initiative has returned to my hands.

"Because over-reliance on Devil Fruit abilities is Vegapunk's greatest weakness!"

"If time could be reversed, all mistakes could be made up for, and all choices could be made again, then mistakes and regrets would no longer be so profound."

"Anyway, if you say the wrong thing or make the wrong choice, you can make up for it with your Devil Fruit ability. For example, in visual novels where you can save and reload infinitely, many players will follow their true desires and choose some strange dialogue options to see the girl's reaction ----- anyway, if you say the wrong thing and get killed, just reload the save."

"As long as you have the ability to reload save files, even if you become a corrupted woodcutter a hundred times, you can still become a pure love god of war."

"No matter what secrets he reveals that he shouldn't have, or what absurd things he does, whether he runs naked a hundred times or dances on a grave, time can be reversed to return to a state where nothing ever happened."

“In a time loop that can repeat infinitely, Vegapunk’s mental defenses are at their most relaxed.”

"And that is my advantage."

"I still can't guess exactly what Vegapunk's goal is, but I can roughly guess that he wants to gain some benefit from me. Constantly reversing time is just to make choices that maximize his benefits, just like a perfectionist GALGAME player who always tries to go through all the choices."

"Next, it's the actor's turn."

"Let time reversal become our advantage. Continue to play the role of someone who knows nothing about time reversal, and subtly use time reversal to test Vegapunk's guard in his relaxed state of mind through repeated time loops!"

"This is my strategy!"

"Vegapunk, your cheat ability is powerful, but he's mine now!"

Seeing this, Sieg couldn't help but feel moved.

"As expected of me! When I get serious, I'm actually quite reliable!"

"To come up with these things, I must have thought about them for a very, very long time before the last time time reversed, when my inventory paused time, right?"

Despite his thoughts, Sieg also had some ideas that were different from his former self before the flow of time.

The note describes the inventory as a microcosm without a concept of time, thus enabling the bringing of things from the "future" back to the "past."

But in Sieg's current view, this is not accurate.

"The inventory should have an independent time system, independent of the outside world, and unaffected by forward or reverse time travel."

"Therefore, when traveling through time with Vegapunk, you can avoid time reversal by putting items in your inventory."

"When I was with Amatsuki, 12 years had passed, Dracula, the shadow clone who was not affected by the time travel, could still open his inventory and send the items from 'Dracula's present' to my inventory in 'the future 12 years later'."

Therefore, without Vegapunk or Tengetsu using the Time-Time Fruit or the Time-Reversal Fruit, Sigurd's inventory would simply have an ordinary time-stopping effect.

Next, Sieg read the note carefully several times to make sure he hadn't missed anything before closing the inventory.

Time begins to flow again.

From this moment on.

A battle between a movie star and a cheat code that can endlessly rewind time, resulting in a reversal of fortune!

Sieg twisted the cork of the shuriken sake bottle, letting the liquid spill out and transform into a sword light in the air. With a hiss, it pierced through the air and left a sword mark on the wall.

Then, Vegapunk's voice rang out from behind.

"Wang Xige, you've finally arrived."

"I have been waiting for you."

Vegapunk said this.

Sig turned around, still with that same indifferent expression, and met Vegapunk's gaze.

At this moment, Vegapunk had a band-aid on his forehead, covering the previous gunshot wound, and he looked normal.

No... there is still something unusual.

He saw Vegapunk lower his head and glance at his watch again.

It's 10 o'clock sharp, and a new cycle of time has begun.

What follows is a completely repetitive dialogue.

Both Vegapunk and Sigurd patiently repeated their previous conversation.

But the situation has quietly changed.