I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"Then I'll lay my cards on the table."

"That's right, I am the user of the Time-Time Fruit, born 800 years ago."

Chapter 727 Time Loop

"That's right, I am the user of the Time-Time Fruit, born 800 years ago."

Sieg's words brought a rare sense of joy to Vegapunk's heart.

He was even a little moved to tears.

How many times has this happened!

There must have been four or five times in total that time went backwards, right?

He finally heard Sigurd admit to his Devil Fruit ability and also reveal an important piece of information.

This can be considered the first major breakthrough since the beginning of the time loop!

He saw a complex expression on Sieg's face, a mixture of reminiscence, dazedness, and melancholy, as he slowly began to speak:

"Eight hundred years ago, twenty kings united to attack a vast kingdom, and a massive war swept the world, bringing it to the brink of destruction..."

"And that's when I obtained the Time Fruit. Counting the years, it's been 800 years..."

As Sieg spoke, he seemed lost in his past memories.

These words are, of course, nonsense.

Although it is a lie, and involves the "blank 100 years," it is not entirely unfounded.

800 years ago was the time when the World Government was established, and the twenty kings refer to the ancestors of the twenty Celestial Dragon families, which is true.

Seeing the expectant look in Vegapunk's eyes, Sieg stopped talking at this point.

"It's your turn," Sieg said calmly.

Since we are going to be open and honest, it can't be just one person speaking unilaterally.

"I traveled through 800 years just to escape the chaos of that war."

"And you? Vegapunk, the user of the Time-Reversal Fruit?"

Vegapunk nodded, composed himself, and spoke up as well:

"I used the power of the Time Reversal Fruit to travel to this era, and my situation is actually similar to yours."

"In the future, 500 years from now, a massive war will also take place that will sweep across the world."

"Our world is on the brink of destruction," Vegapunk said solemnly.

"In order to restore history and save the world, I became a user of the Time Reversal Fruit. Through multiple time travels, I selected a suitable point in time to bring future technology to the present, in an attempt to change the course of future wars."

Vegapunk stopped abruptly, clearly waiting for Sieg to continue.

Sig stared blankly at Vegapunk, who looked very serious and sincere.

"Is this a lie? Saving the world? Such a noble and righteous goal?"

This surprised Sieg a little.

“Wang Xige, we are all the same kind of people, all of us came here to escape the war. Now that we have met in the same era, it is our good fortune and the world’s good fortune!” Vegapunk continued.

This gave Sieg a bit of a headache.

He could only make up a few words about what happened 800 years ago; if he said more, he might give himself away.

It's important to understand that history from 800 years ago is a taboo subject that no one knows in this era, but it may not be so in the future.

Perhaps decades later, after Robin arrives at Laugh Tale, he will rebuild Ohara and make all the knowledge public?

However, Sieg is not without options.

He snorted coldly:

Are you mimicking my speech?

"What world-destroying war? Did you make that up after I told you?"

Vegapunk's smile froze instantly.

He couldn't understand why Sieg suddenly changed his expression.

Before he could finish his thought, Sieg's expression changed, and he shouted sharply:

"No! You're hiding something from me, aren't you?"

Suddenly, a pistol appeared in Sieg's hand and was once again aimed at his forehead.

boom!

Vegapunk froze in shock and fell backward to the ground.

Before falling into a coma, his last action was to try to look at his watch.

The time is still 10:03.

call....

After Vegapunk fell, Sieg immediately bent down and glanced at Vegapunk's watch.

"10:03? Is that some special time?"

Sig immediately opened his inventory and stopped the flow of time.

He then wrote down the details of his conversation with Vegapunk on the note.

Following the dialogue is Sieg's own analysis within this time loop.

"The second time loop."

"Vegapunk has a band-aid on his forehead, obviously to cover up a gunshot wound."

"In addition, during this time loop, a total of three minutes passed, and Vegapunk still checked his watch twice: once when he first entered the room, and once when he had just collapsed."

"It can be concluded that Vegapunk's action of checking his watch was not a coincidence."

"Based on the performance of the Time-Time Fruit ability of Toki, I guess... Vegapunk's ability is the same as Toki's, unable to travel to a precise point in time, so he needs to repeatedly check his watch to determine the time."

"Furthermore, when faced with a difficult question, shooting Vegapunk in the head to end the conversation is a good method."

Having written this far, Sieg closed his inventory, allowing time to resume its flow.

Then he heard a commotion outside the door.

A hand cannon appeared in Sieg's hand. He kicked open the door and fired the cannon.

The research institute was once again engulfed in flames.

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

"Dr. Vegapunk, you're awake?"

Vegapunk sat up abruptly from his hospital bed, touching the wound on his forehead, still shaken.

"Why? Why is this happening?"

"Where did I just slip up, allowing Wang Xige to guess that I was hiding something?"

Vegapunk pondered for a long time and came up with several different guesses.

Immediately afterwards, he activated the power of the Time Reversal Fruit once more to make up for the mistake he had just made...

However, things are not that simple.

No matter what he says, no matter how many times time loops, Sig can always suddenly pull out a gun without Vegapunk noticing.

This seemed to be an unsolvable vicious cycle, and no matter how hard Vegapunk tried, he couldn't get out of the three-minute deadlock.

Either be shot unconscious by Sig, or experience time reversal in front of Sig.

No matter what Vegapunk did, he could not achieve the result he wanted.

"Why, why, why............"

"Why do I get the feeling that this user of the Time-Time Fruit is being unreasonable?"

"We could have sat down and discussed cooperation, so why did it turn out like this?"

Vegapunk lay on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Chapter 728 The End of the Cycle

The laboratory was empty and brightly lit.

Sieg pushed the door open again and quickly closed it again.

Then, his attention was drawn to the bottles of wine on the table.

"This wine..."

Sieg opened his inventory to check the bottle of wine, but suddenly found several densely written notes in his inventory.

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

"......"

"The second time loop."

"...At the end of the second time loop, I tried to end the conversation by shooting Vegapunk."

"Afterwards, I set fire to the research institute and took away some of the researchers and data, trying to give Rocks an explanation."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the unconscious Vegapunk will be rescued by the Navy and join them, thus returning history to its proper course... This was my original goal."

"But since you can see this far, it means my attempt has clearly failed."

"Vegapunk, who is in the Navy, still managed to reverse time, which means that either he doesn't want to join the World Government, or he hasn't yet achieved something from me."

"In short, the initiative in the time loop is in Vegapunk's hands; there's no escaping it, only a matter of responding to each move..."

Upon seeing this, Sieg felt a chill run down his spine, in addition to his astonishment.

His original goal was to put history back on track, that is, to have Vegapunk join the Navy while taking away some data or researchers to report to Rocks.