## One Piece Chapter 684, pages 12-13: Stop It, Vegapunk - Chapter: 684 - Pages: 12-13 - Characters: Caesar Clown, Vegapunk ### Summary Page 12: Caesar revels in the scale of his staged massacre. He says, "WHO COULD POSSIBLY SURVIVE AFTER THAT!!? WITH ALL THE GATES CLOSED, THAT ROOM WILL BE A GIANT GAS CHAMBER!!" He intends to turn the mass death into a sales pitch: "AND I CAN SEND IMAGES OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT ROOM TO ALL THE SHADOW BROKERS IN THE NEW WORLD!! I WILL DISPLAY MY TRUE POWER TO THE UNDERWORLD!!" His subordinates shiver at the thought, saying, "IF I MAY... IT'S JUST... MASTER CAESAR... THAT TERRIFYING POISON GAS. DID YOU CREATE IT, MASTER...!?" and another notes, "IT'S JUST THAT IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE VEGAPUNK'S POISON GAS FROM THE INCIDENT FOUR YEARS AGO AND, TO BE QUITE HONEST, WE REALLY DON'T LIKE IT...!!" Caesar snaps the answer as an ideological confession: "THIS IS A BATTLE IN THE NAME OF SCIENTIFIC VENGEANCE, MY DEAR MEN...!!" Page 13: Caesar's resentment toward Vegapunk spills out in full. He recalls, "ON THAT DAY...!! I TRIED TO STOP HIM...!! THAT MAD SCIENTIST, VEGAPUNK!! 'IF THIS WEAPON WERE TO GO OFF, WHAT WOULD BECOME OF ALL THE PEOPLE ON THIS ISLAND!!?' 'STOP IT, VEGAPUNK!!' BUT THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ALL THE SAME." Caesar says the consequences were unjustly turned against him: "AND THAT BASTARD HAS CONTINUED TO REIGN AS THE TOP OF THE MARINES' SCIENCE DIVISION!! AS IF HE WERE THE WORLD'S GREATEST SCIENTIST... I CAN NEVER FORGIVE THAT!!" He asks, "IS IT REALLY ALRIGHT FOR SUCH A MAN TO CONTINUE TO BE PRAISED AS SUCH, EVEN AFTER CRUELLY HURTING YOU GUYS!!?" Then he claims the opposite title for himself: "A SCIENTIST FAR GREATER THAN HIM IS RIGHT HERE!! IT IS I WHO AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST!! AND THAT'S WHY I HAVE TO PROVE MYSELF, AND WHY I'VE CREATED SUCH A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ALTHOUGH I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO!!"