## One Piece Chapter 685, pages 9-10: Mine Name Is Momonosuke, That It Is! - Chapter: 685 - Pages: 9-10 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Momonosuke, Vegapunk, Caesar Clown's Subordinates, Caesar Clown, Caesar Clown's Children ### Summary Page 9: The guards discover what caused the change. One says, "Take a look. It was definitely here. The 'artificial devil fruit' that Vegapunk made. I heard it was a failure, but..." Momonosuke, now in dragon form, panics and flees while the flashback explains the origin of his transformation: he ate Vegapunk's artificial Devil Fruit. Back in the present, Momonosuke summarizes, "In short, I truly am human." Luffy finally understands the mechanism and says, "Ah, so it was a Devil Fruit...!! You must be an eel man." He tells him, "So just go ahead and turn back into a human." Momonosuke cannot do it on command. Luffy admits, "Well, I'm no zoan, so I don't know... But man, is it a long way up to the top. I can't even see the hole I fell through." The page connects several plot pieces at once: Vegapunk's failed artificial fruit, Momonosuke's dragon body, and the practical problem that Luffy and Momonosuke are still trapped far below the exit. Page 10: Momonosuke says that he wants to escape for the children's sake: "I also wish to escape. So that I may tell the children!! I changed to overhear something from that Caesar fellow...!!" Luffy listens as Momonosuke reveals what he heard. The children may think Caesar is a doctor, but Momonosuke says, "in truth he is a scoundrel who intends to see them all dead." The memory shows Caesar laughing over his experiment: "Shurorororo...!! We've got another bunch of good, obedient brats this time." He boasts, "And the gigantification of the others is proceeding nicely..." but then explains the lethal truth: "But in this experiment, there's a limit to how much of the drugs I can administer. Their bodies won't be able to take it." Caesar dismisses the deaths as acceptable losses: "It's the very nature of experiments to have a few unavoidable victims...!! I expect that in five years from now not one will be left alive!! Shurororo! I'll have to get a new bunch." The page turns Caesar's kindness into a mask. The children are not patients to him; they are disposable test subjects.