"These things about what happened at the time, just keep them in your own heart and be clear about it," Saint Saturn nodded with satisfaction. Although Rosse was a bit of a late bloomer, for an ancient family like theirs, it was never too late to awaken.
Although he didn't make it too clear, he believed Rosse could understand.
The true gods had all died 1500 years ago.
The authorities of the gods had been scattered, and even the sun god of the Fourth World was just a fake sun god who had eaten a demon.
Something like that, calling it a god, was merely borrowing the remnants of ancient legacy.
If not for the ancestor of the family back then...
Thinking of this, Saint Saturn timely stopped his imagination.
The past was already past, what mattered most was the future.
Now that Rosse could withstand the side effects of that fruit, maybe in the future he could bring Jagarcia to the supreme position.
"Let's talk about another matter," Saint Saturn looked at Rosse, speaking one word at a time, "Just as you guessed, a group of unrelated people appeared in Ohara."
"All went?", Rosse smiled.
This was something he had mentioned to Saint Saturn earlier, something he had warned him about in advance.
From his standpoint, whether Revolutionary Army, Vegapunk, or the Giants, it would be best if they were all wiped out.
"The Giants went first, seemingly to collect Saul's corpse, but actually scheming for Ohara's texts," Saint Saturn snorted lightly.
"Then are you prepared?", Rosse smiled.
"The matter of the Giants is naturally handled by the God's Knights, why should we interfere?", Saint Saturn said blandly.
'What a hypocritical old man...'
Rosse sneered in his heart. He didn't believe for a second that Saint Saturn wasn't prepared.
At the time, even though Sakazuki's destruction of the island seemed overwhelming, Ohara's texts had long been hidden by the historians, some buried underground, others thrown into the lake.
You had to know, Ohara didn't just have historical texts.
A lot of ancient technology, even enough to inspire Vegapunk.
Vegapunk was known as a scientific genius a hundred years ahead of the world, which proved the value of those texts.
After knowing this information, if Saint Saturn still didn't take precautions, then Rosse would really have to consider laying low.
If teammates are too dumb, then he could only wait until he became invincible before emerging.
"The Giants' matter can be left to the God's Knights, but you're the God of Scientific Defense, you still have to manage the scientific department's affairs, right?", Rosse replied with a completely indifferent face. The Giants' stronghold was deep in the New World, and he wouldn't be interacting with them anytime soon.
By the time he was invincible, whatever trump cards the Giants had would mean nothing.
If those trump cards were really that strong, with the Giants' hot-blooded nature, they would've already attacked Mary Geoise. No way would they be hiding in their little territory.
Right now, the most crucial was still Vegapunk. With the known fact that he was absolutely uncontrollable, Rosse didn't want to clean up his mess for Saint Saturn in the future.
"Rosse, you're too extreme," Saint Saturn said calmly, "Everyone has different value. Even if his value in researching war weapons is gone, he can still shine in other areas."
"You can understand the process of his research?", Rosse retorted.
Does he not know what kind of people the Celestial Dragons are? Every single one of them is a functional illiterate.
Still talking about science, barely any can understand a chemical equation.
"I can't understand it, but that doesn't stop me from seeing the value of the results," Saint Saturn said.
"Then are you sure he won't secretly do research? If he really develops something and it gets out, what good does it do us?", Rosse asked again.
For unstable factors like this, he always believed in the principle that eliminating is better than using.
Vegapunk wasn't like Robin or Olvia.
Even if he also understood ancient language, Robin and Olvia couldn't possibly touch the real history.
Even if they did, publicizing it didn't do him much harm.
To reach the top of the world, it still boiled down to military power.
But Vegapunk was different. He was someone who could mass-produce B-class androids, and reportedly even create A-class clones.
Rosse himself wasn't afraid, but he didn't want a broken world.
B-class and A-class powerhouses could be instantly killed by admiral-level fighters, but if released in the Four Blues and the first half of the Grand Line, it would be a massacre.
In this underdeveloped world of technology, no one could stop Vegapunk from spreading information. If the Revolutionary Army got hold of the tech to mass-produce B-class androids, it would be a disaster for the World Government.
Even if they wiped out the Revolutionary Army, there were always people with ambition in the world. Just being known by them would be trouble.
Even if producing B-class androids had a high cost, downgrading to C-class would definitely be a lot cheaper.
If the World Government could mass-produce B-class androids, other forces could mass-produce C-class ones.
If the enemy used such androids for guerrilla warfare, the government would have no way to respond.
In the end, it would only be using technology to defeat technology.
But then came another problem, why would the World Government believe Vegapunk wouldn't install backdoors in the androids or clones?
Even if he did install backdoors, with the scientific trash of the World Government, would they even be able to notice?
"What you said makes sense, but a brain-brain fruit-compatible ability user is hard to come by. It's a bit of a pity," Saint Saturn sighed lightly.
"There's no need to pity it. If an ability user dies, the fruit will be reborn. Just find someone more suitable," Rosse said.
He knew that since Saint Saturn said this, it meant he had been persuaded.
Vegapunk was valuable, but to the World Government, not that important, even dispensable.
Only when facing equal opponents would there be an arms race and a need to strengthen one's power as much as possible.
But currently, the World Government was the sole dominant force, with only a few scattered strong individuals among other factions. If the World Government really wanted to take action, one squad of Admirals could sweep the entire sea.
In contrast, other forces needed Vegapunk more than they did.
If those other forces had Vegapunk, they might be able to challenge the World Government just relying on support from the New World.
"What a pity, but he only has himself to blame for going to Ohara," Saint Saturn shook his head, reaching a consensus with Rosse.
He originally planned to keep Vegapunk to develop civilian technology, and quickly establish transportation across the Red Line and between islands.
But now, what Rosse said made sense too. There was no need to take the risk of causing unrest for something unimportant.
With just a few words between them, they decided the life or death of one of the world's top scientists.
As for Dragon, who had also appeared in Ohara, Rosse didn't even mention him.
At this time, Dragon hadn't yet founded the Revolutionary Army, and the World Government didn't care at all about his childish games.
If Rosse brought up Dragon's threat now, Saint Saturn not only wouldn't believe him, he'd think Rosse was making a fuss and had no Celestial Dragon-level perspective.
With his current strength, he was probably about even with Dragon, and there was no way he'd take this matter upon himself.
Anyway, Dragon wouldn't cause trouble in Jaygar. The more chaotic the world, the better it would be for Jaygar's development.
"Well then, that leaves just the final matter."
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