Home / Starting in One Piece with Vector Manipulation / Chapter 290: Vegapunk’s Plan (Part 2)

Continue on Novkyn

Starting in One Piece with Vector Manipulation

Chapter 290: Vegapunk’s Plan (Part 2) · Oct 12, 2026

Prev Chapter Novel Info Next Chapter

Chapter List (340)

Page number / 7

251 Chapter 251: Plasma 2026-10-12
252 Chapter 252: Jozu Appears 2026-10-12
253 Chapter 253: The Tacit Rule 2026-10-12
254 Chapter 254: The Prey Retargeted 2026-10-12
255 Chapter 255: The Hidden Plan 2026-10-12
256 Chapter 256: Doflamingo’s Lie 2026-10-12
257 Chapter 257: Choice 2026-10-12
258 Chapter 258: The One Who Appears 2026-10-12
259 Chapter 259: New News 2026-10-12
260 Chapter 260: Existing Problems 2026-10-12
261 Chapter 261: Bad News 2026-10-12
262 Chapter 262: A New Emotion 2026-10-12
263 Chapter 263: The Problem 2026-10-12
264 Chapter 264: The Concept of Presence 2026-10-12
265 Chapter 265: Axel Beneath the Mundane 2026-10-12
266 Chapter 266: Ongoing Treatment 2026-10-12
267 Chapter 267: Suggestions 2026-10-12
268 Chapter 268: Hesitant Zephyr 2026-10-12
269 Chapter 269: The Explanation for the Clothes 2026-10-12
270 Chapter 270: The Method 2026-10-12
271 Chapter 271: The Candidate 2026-10-12
272 Chapter 272: Conversation 2026-10-12
273 Chapter 273: Arrival on the Sea 2026-10-12
274 Chapter 274: The Reason 2026-10-12
275 Chapter 275: Instructions 2026-10-12
276 Chapter 276: Realization 2026-10-12
277 Chapter 277: Smile Town 2026-10-12
278 Chapter 278: Not Smiling Is Also a Crime 2026-10-12
279 Chapter 279: Emporio Ivankov 2026-10-12
280 Chapter 280: Becoming the Focus 2026-10-12
281 Chapter 281: Infiltrating the Holy Land 2026-10-12
282 Chapter 282: The Chessboard 2026-10-12
283 Chapter 283: Making a Fool of Himself 2026-10-12
284 Chapter 284: The Suicide Incident 2026-10-12
285 Chapter 285: The Ongoing Conference 2026-10-12
286 Chapter 286: Planning 2026-10-12
287 Chapter 287: Ivankov’s Escape 2026-10-12
288 Chapter 288: The Wager 2026-10-12
289 Chapter 289: Vegapunk’s Plan (Part 1) 2026-10-12
290 Chapter 290: Vegapunk’s Plan (Part 2) 2026-10-12
291 Chapter 291: Whiskey Peak 2026-10-12
292 Chapter 292: The Youth 2026-10-12
293 Chapter 293: Vivi’s Decision 2026-10-12
294 Chapter 294: Refusal 2026-10-12
295 Chapter 295: Collision of Rules 2026-10-12
296 Chapter 296: A Gentleman’s Explanation 2026-10-12
297 Chapter 297: The Advancing Group 2026-10-12
298 Chapter 298: Kneel Down 2026-10-12
299 Chapter 299: Crocodile’s Decision 2026-10-12
300 Chapter 300: Crisis and Preliminary Plans 2026-10-12

Chapter 290: Chapter 290: Vegapunk’s Plan (Part 2)

Chapter 290: Vegapunk’s Plan (Part 2)

Seeing that Vegapunk had stopped talking, Sentomaru assumed those were all his conditions.

”Then I’ll go report it.”

”Wait. There’s one more thing.”

Sentomaru’s expression immediately turned impatient.

”Can’t you just say everything at once?”

He sighed.

”Fine. What is it?”

”That child you brought here before.”

Vegapunk smiled.

”The boy named Axel.”

”Axel?”

Sentomaru’s face darkened at once.

He still remembered the injuries that child had given him.

Even now, although the wounds had healed, they occasionally throbbed with phantom pain.

That battle had been the first time Sentomaru had ever felt himself standing at the edge of death.

”What do you want with that brat?”

”He would be useful, of course.”

Vegapunk had prepared the explanation long ago.

”I already have a general direction for the Science Unit.”

”However, combat machines created according to my current design may lack flexibility.”

Vegapunk raised a finger.

”So what if we incorporate that child’s ability into them?”

”His control could potentially improve their mobility and precision.”

”If it succeeds, both their movement speed and fine control could reach an entirely different level.”

Sentomaru fell into thought.

He had personally fought Axel, so he understood how troublesome the boy’s strange control over force could be.

At times, an attack clearly seemed to come from one direction, only for the actual force to shift elsewhere.

Axel’s speed was equally unpredictable.

His movements could change without warning, making him extremely difficult to defend against.

If that kind of control could really be incorporated into a combat machine, the result would be troublesome for almost any opponent.

Then Sentomaru frowned.

”Hold on.”

He looked suspiciously at Vegapunk.

”How do you know what his ability does?”

Sentomaru himself had only understood Axel’s power through direct combat.

So how had Vegapunk learned so much?

Vegapunk grinned.

”Did you know Devil Fruits aren’t limited to humans?”

”Animals can eat them.”

”Even weapons can be given Devil Fruit powers.”

He spread his hands.

”For someone like me, figuring out an ability isn’t particularly difficult.”

”After you brought that child here, I examined his body.”

”Tch.”

Sentomaru clicked his tongue.

”You said you were only going to examine him.”

”In the end, you went and researched him on your own.”

His expression became annoyed.

”If Vice Admiral Momousagi finds out I brought that brat here and let you use him like a guinea pig, I’ll probably get dragged into the trouble too.”

Sentomaru paused, then gave a reluctant grin.

”Still, bringing him back might not be a bad idea.”

”My world’s strongest defense could use another test against him.”

Vegapunk looked amused.

”Unfortunately, I can’t make that decision.”

Sentomaru continued.

”I’ll report your request, but whether they agree has nothing to do with me.”

”That’s fine.”

Vegapunk appeared completely unconcerned.

”You only need to report it.”

He understood exactly how important the Science Unit was to the World Government.

As long as no one discovered that Axel’s ability was not actually a Devil Fruit, asking the World Government to bring him in would not be especially difficult.

Sentomaru looked at him with irritation.

”That baseless confidence of yours really gets on my nerves.”

Vegapunk laughed.

”That criticism should be directed at yourself.”

”I still have no idea where you found the confidence to call your defense the strongest in the world.”

”In my opinion, I can think of plenty of ways to break it.”

”If that is enough to qualify as the world’s strongest defense, then the title is rather cheap.”

Sentomaru’s eye twitched.

”I’m different from you,” Vegapunk continued.

”My confidence always has a basis.”

”Once I reach a conclusion, I’ve never been wrong.”

”Tch.”

Sentomaru snorted.

”What do you know?”

”This is my future world’s strongest defense.”

With that, he turned and walked out of the laboratory.

After the door closed, Vegapunk quietly added,

”Except this time.”

Axel’s actions had deviated from his calculations.

That surprised Vegapunk.

And it made the boy even more interesting.

Previously, after discovering that he could not penetrate Axel’s strange defensive mechanism in a short period of time, Vegapunk had devised another approach.

Instead of attacking the defense directly, he targeted the brain responsible for creating it.

He transmitted electromagnetic waves into Axel’s brain.

More precisely, he inserted information through those waves, stimulating Axel’s brain and accelerating its evolution and internal division.

The purpose was to worsen weaknesses that already existed within it.

Axel’s current condition had largely been caused by that intervention.

If his brain had been left to develop naturally, it would never have deteriorated so abruptly.

The changes would have occurred gradually.

Several years, perhaps even more than a decade, might have passed before something resembling a dissociative identity disorder emerged.

Such disorders did not normally appear overnight.

They were usually the result of long-term psychological pressure, trauma, or severe emotional conflict.

None of those conditions properly applied to Axel.

Vegapunk had accelerated the process.

After triggering the instability, he deliberately left Axel a clue.

Assassinating the Celestial Dragons would supposedly help him find the answer he was searching for.

The clue itself was false.

Vegapunk knew someone with Axel’s intellect would eventually recognize that.

But the deception was never the important part.

The purpose was to plant a seed.

A suggestion.

A direction.

Once that seed existed inside Axel’s mind, Vegapunk expected one of the boy’s emerging personalities to eventually choose the path of assassinating Celestial Dragons.

At that point, Axel would inevitably place himself against the World Government.

Whether anyone discovered his identity during the assassinations did not matter.

If necessary, Vegapunk himself could expose the truth afterward.

The end result would be the same.

Axel would be forced into a position where only two outcomes remained.

He could join Vegapunk.

Or he could refuse.

Either outcome was acceptable.

If Axel joined him willingly, Vegapunk was confident he could protect him.

If Axel refused and was arrested by the World Government, Vegapunk was equally confident that he could negotiate for custody of the boy.

Everything in the world could be measured through interests.

Killing a Celestial Dragon harmed the interests of the Celestial Dragons.

If Vegapunk offered something more valuable than the punishment demanded for that crime, the World Government would have reason to compromise.

That had been his original plan.

What he had not expected was that Axel would choose the World Conference as the stage for his move and drag the Revolutionary Army into the chaos with him.

The moment Revolutionary Army operatives appeared inside Mary Geoise, Vegapunk’s previous calculations stopped applying.

Whether the Revolutionary Army had actually killed the Celestial Dragons no longer mattered.

The World Government would blame them regardless.

On one side stood a known organization openly seeking to overthrow the World Government.

On the other stood an unidentified assassin.

If the government needed someone to blame, the choice was obvious.

And since the World Government had already been preparing to suppress the Revolutionary Army, the assassinations provided the perfect justification.

There was no longer any reason for them to continue digging for the true culprit.

As far as the public and most of the government were concerned, the culprit had already been found.

Vegapunk stared thoughtfully at the newspaper.

”What a troublesome brat.”

Then his smile slowly returned.

”But was this exactly what you wanted?”

”To force me to come looking for you myself?”

Among the seven Celestial Dragons Axel had killed, the unnatural twisting of their arms had not been random.

Each distortion followed the same waveform pattern as the electromagnetic signal Vegapunk had once transmitted into Axel’s brain.

Hidden within that pattern was a message meant specifically for him.

[I’m looking for you.]

Vegapunk had been searching for Axel.

And Axel, in turn, had been searching for Vegapunk.

But there was another layer to the message.

If Vegapunk wanted the boy, then Axel would give him a reason to actively request his presence.

Rather than merely waiting to be found, Axel had created circumstances that would force Vegapunk to reach out first.

Vegapunk had attempted to manipulate him.

Axel had responded by turning that manipulation back against its creator.

For the first time, Vegapunk’s prediction had failed.

His gaze returned to the rows of glass containers filled with artificial brain specimens.

A trace of disgust crossed his face.

Now that the genuine article was within reach, what use did he have for imitations?

....

https://discord

[If you don’t want to wait for the next update, read 50 Chapters ahead on P@treon.]

[[email protected]/FanficLord03]

Prev Chapter Novel Info Next Chapter

Also worth opening

NBA: Basketball Legend. FanficLord03

Naruto: Orochimaru's Disciple FanficLord03

Apocalypse Descent: Farming with My Harem A Little White Snake

Family Management Game In Immortal Continent darktea

Earth's Greatest Magus Avan

Super Gene Twelve Winged Dark Burning Angel

Genetic Ascension Awespec

Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao Flying Alone

Strongest Hammer God Warmaisach

Endless Evolution: Last Star Arlemit

Villain: Manipulating the Heroines into hating the Protagonist Evil_Villain

Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World Qing Yan Zi

Eternal Thief Wahi

SSS-Class MILFs And Their Yandere Daughters, I Want Them All! AGodAmongMen

The Martial Unity Lord_Streak