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Chapter 530's Events:
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"..!! It's a steel net...!!" Luffy tried to bite the net to break free but felt its toughness.
"Damn it!!! It's got Kairouseki in it too..." Buggy couldn't help but curse his bad luck at this moment.
"There's some horrible torture waiting for us to try to escape!" "We're done for it!" Meanwhile, Mister 3 was anxious about his fate after being captured again.
{The intruder Strawhat Luffy and the other two have been captured.}
{Put the Kairouseki handcuffs on them!!}
{... Roger.}
Luffy and the others noticed they were already surrounded, but Buggy hesitated to surrender: "Is that all we are!?"
"Shit! Open this net!!"
On the contrary, Mister 3 fully surrendered to his fate: "Give it up, Buggy..!! We're already caught... the guards… and the Blugori are here!!"
"Damn it!! Damn it!!" Luffy, however, didn't know how to give up and continued trying to tear the steel net with his teeth.
"Hm? Who're you!?" Suddenly, a very short guy with a trident caught his attention.
"I am... Saldeath!!" the guy answered calmly.
"Really..? You don't look like a monkey..." Luffy seemed genuinely surprised.
"No!! You misunderstood!! I am Saldeath!!"
"Really…?"
"No!!"
"Accept your fate!! Resistance is futile!"
"In this isolated sea floor prison, there was never anywhere to escape to."
"Just be glad that I was the one to catch you."
[Head Guard Saldeath (Blugori Commander)]
The short young man wore a hat with the symbol of skull, representing a Blugori mask. The hat also had devil horn-like protrusions, and he had bat-like wings. Both the horns and wings were clearly fake to make the guards look like devils in hell.
"After all, the four beast guards are lurking below this floor..."
"That's true... I'd hate to run into them, or the chief warden..." Both Buggy and Mister 3 thought with evident fear on their faces.
At this moment, Sphinx, trapped in the net as well, woke up and began to rage.
"Ah, Head Guard!!" "The Sphinx woke up!!!"
"This is bad…!! He might break the net!"
"We can't let those three escape... especially not Strawhat Luffy!!!"
Unfortunately, exactly what they feared happened as Sphinx's rage tore the trap apart, allowing Luffy and the others to escape.
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Impel Down:
"Tsk, this is bad... It's really hard to catch the protagonist even when he's in your hands!" Saint Warcury sarcastically commented on Luffy's escape from the net.
"This boy named Saldeath, who works as the Blugori unit commander, is interesting. He must be very young to be live now, isn't he?"
Hearing Saint Warcury's inquiry, Magellan, Shiryu, and Hannyabal all nodded quickly.
"That's true, Saint Warcury. He's very young..."
"Maybe only 15 or 16 years old..." Hannyabal said.
"To be a unit commander at such a young age means he's very talented, isn't it? Perhaps more talented than the three of you combined."
The expressions on Magellan, Shiryu, and Hannyabal's faces froze after hearing their Boss's mockery, but they dared not challenge him.
"Zehahaha~"
"What a wonderful feeling to have high authority. No one will dare to respond even if you mock them..." Teach felt a strong longing for authority at this moment. He wanted to have the same authority as the Gorosei or even more!
"If you want that, you can become stronger and naturally acquire it," Saint Warcury turned to look at Teach. From this look and the words, it seemed that the deal between them was much deeper than just releasing him from prison in exchange for a service or something specific.
"Zehahaha~ If it's as you told me, then I must not disappoint your expectations, especially the expectations of that person above you."
"Hmph, it's better for you not to..." Saint Warcury growled and then pulled out a purple-colored devil fruit.
"This...!!!!" When Teach saw it, he almost lost balance from the shock.
Then Saint Warcury smoothly threw it towards Teach, who didn't hesitate to catch it.
"... From now on, Marshal D. Teach will be the new Chief Warden for Impel Down and the three of you will be his assistants."
"... This is the significant change that would happen in this prison."
"As for other changes, we'll see about them after the arc is over."
Hearing that shocked both Magellan and Hannyabal. As for Shiryu, he seemed indifferent, but internally, he was on the verge of exploding with anger and hatred.
But they dared not challenge the Gorosei's authority, who was the Warrior God of Justice, responsible for everything related to the court and the prison's military forces.
If he said that Marshal D. Teach would become the new Chief Warden, then it meant it happened, and there was no room for change.
Who would have expected that a mere apprentice on Whitebeard's ship would have the opportunity to become the highest commander of Impel Down after being just a lowly prisoner?
Hannyabal was about to die of envy as he thought about it!
As for Teach, he didn't care about the position at that moment. The purple devil fruit had completely captured his attention. Obtaining this fruit was the reason he boarded Whitebeard's ship in the first place.
His background was something he alone knew, and he wasn't eager to reveal it before obtaining this devil fruit!
Even he was confident that One Piece manga wouldn't quickly reveal his background! Not until he became a powerful force in the sea and succeeded in executing his evil plans, became a formidable enemy to the Strawhat Luffy.
As he saw it now, he hadn't become that person yet. So, he wasn't afraid that the One Piece manga would interfere with all his plans. He still hoped to obtain the Dark Fruit somehow and continue to climb the path of power.
But what he didn't take into account was that the World Government would present him with this fruit on a silver platter! Just like that!
"You're not joking with me... right? This is the Dark Fruit...?" Teach asked hesitantly. Since he was forcefully fed the 'Trash' devil fruit, he had only one chance left to eat the devil fruit he wanted!
If it turned out that this wasn't the Dark Fruit, everything for him would end before it even began! And this was extremely terrifying for him, even when he knew it was indeed the real Devil Fruit from the appearance and color he saw in the Devil Fruits book...
But he didn't dare to eat it without confirmation!
"We don't joke with our allies..."
When the Gorosei said that, Teach almost vomited from the intense feeling of disgust. If it weren't for the One Piece manga in this world, he would have truly believed him.
"It's the real Dark Fruit. We've been secretly looking for it since we knew from the manga that you were searching for it. All this for you to join our ranks, or else we won't spare any effort to obtain it, despite its strong power. It remains just a Devil Fruit after all."
"Most of the strongest Devil Fruits are already in our hands."
"Just eat it, and instantly become the infamous, notorious figure in the manga, Teach... The World Government needs you on our side."
This time, Teach didn't hesitate to eat the Devil Fruit.
After that, a loud, sinister laugh was heard from Impel Down...
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Ohara:
"Hm?"
In Rob's eyes, an unprecedented anomaly occurred in the threads of fate at this moment. In the far west, somewhere in the Grand Line, something had definitely happened.
'A significant change in the plot has occurred... I wonder what it is.' Rob felt interested to know what had happened.
'Well, I'll find out later anyway. Such a huge change cannot escape my sight after all.'
Rob smiled as he stroked his silver-haired wife. Olvia didn't notice the strange gleam in her husband's eyes because she was immersed in pure bliss, like a cat being petted on its belly.
"This boy named Saldeath looks very young... Does the World Government also employ children?"
"Oh, they are scum, training children in the flower of their age to become assassins or official employees. This young boy is no different." Rob answered calmly.
"Haha! Luffy is really lucky; they can't easily catch him." laughed Olvia.
"That's true, keep reading. The upcoming events are more thrilling."
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Chapter 637: Mister 2 Appears!
Chapter 638: Ace discovers Luffy's arrival!
Chapter 639: Mister 2, Bon Clay's Joins!
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