The Eccentric Dream of a Genius!

Luffy's group keeps grilling Vegapunk over the Iron Giant. As the legend goes, the machine scaled the Red Line and set upon Mary Geoise, only for its power to give out and freeze it before it could do any harm. The dead robot has sat in the scrapyard ever since, its presence unknown to the World Government, which would nonetheless like it destroyed. Overhearing the talk, Shaka chimes in that this giant served as his model for the Vegaforce-01, though he was never able to reproduce its still-unidentified power source.

Out at sea, a World Government vessel ferrying CP0 closes on Egghead. Its captain, the assassin Rob Lucci, insists on dock access, and once refused, has his crew open cannon fire on the Sea Beast Weapons standing guard around the ship. Shaka, in turn, braces to fend off the assassins and bar their way in. Lucci and Kaku try persuading Pythagoras to admit them, but after he turns them down again and again, they switch to brute force. Vegapunk, mourning Bonney's circumstances, asks Luffy to take him off the island. He also voices his goal of rendering energy endless and free across the whole world, which would halt nations from warring over scarce fuel, and he reveals the answer lies in the ancient power that once drove the Iron Giant. Because that power traces back to the Void Century, his investigation marked him as a foe of the World Government, which sent CP0 to kill him. As he speaks, a distant blast signals the forced break-in.

Away from Egghead, Kuma, still bound to Marine command, abruptly turns rogue mid-repair in the Kamabakka Kingdom. Lindbergh, who was patching him up, tries to stop him, but Kuma rips free of his tubes and machinery; though crippled and barely operable, he uses his Devil Fruit to teleport off the island, escaping Dragon and Ivankov. The adaptation adds Luffy thumping the Iron Giant's head to rouse it and then begging Vegapunk to repair it as his own personal robot, prompting a scolding both times.