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Chapter's Events:
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"Hey!!! Guard!!!"
Ace couldn't contain his anxiety anymore.
He shouted at the guards outside his cell, grabbing their attention.
"Tell me the truth… Haa… What the hell is going on upstairs…!!? Haa…"
The guards remained silent, then one of them spoke indifferently:
"Nothing…"
"Nothing at all."
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In fact, Luffy was engaged in an uneven battle, heading towards inevitable defeat.
Magellan had complete control over him, making him unable to see or hear well, gradually losing most of his senses due to Magellan's poison.
"Haa… Haa…"
Despite that, Luffy continued to throw kicks and punches without despair.
"What fearsome determination..."
Magellan couldn't hide his admiration.
Yet, no matter how hard Luffy tried, all his attacks missed Magellan, who stood still, not moving an inch.
"How pathetic…"
"Hot…!! Haa… Haa!!! Hot!!!"
Magellan's poison seemed like a burning hell to Luffy.
"You haven't had enough…!?"
Magellan's Hydra poison dragon appeared again, completely ending Luffy.
At this moment, Magellan stood, gazing at Luffy's body covered in sticky poison.
"This is your sentence… intruder: For 24 hours… you will suffer… and then… You will truly fall into hell."
After saying that, Magellan turned and left:
"With that level of exposure… there is no way you can be cured…!!"
"Ace…!!!"
Despite losing consciousness and being immersed in poison, Luffy kept muttering Ace's name.
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Sorbat Kingdom:
"Luffy..."
Garp clenched his teeth in sorrow as he witnessed the scene on the manga's page.
"This… Luffy has lost."
Dragon sighed, and no one noticed his tightened fist.
The sky changed as if a storm was brewing, the sunny weather turning into an imminent storm.
People in the kingdom sought refuge in art store or rushed home to escape the impending storm.
"..."
Kuma looked at Dragon, realizing that Dragon was furious.
This anger hadn't occurred even during the incident at Sabaody Archipelago when the Shichibukai; Bartholomew Kuma made Luffy sink into despair.
But this time, Dragon was truly angry, seeing his son in this state.
"That bastard Magellan… Doesn't he fear me? The Marine's hero?"
"He wants to kill my grandson…"
"Does he know that if he truly does it, I'll bury him along with Impel Down!?"
The same sentiment applied to Garp. Luffy, yet unborn, had become Garp's most precious possession.
His love and care for his grandson surpassed even the original Garp in the manga!
"Magellan is truly terrifying… Luffy never suffered like this even in our battle in Alabasta..." Crocodile sighed, feeling the threat of Magellan's power.
"This is what it means to be the Chief Warden behind Impel Down… But since I'm here either, I might meet Luffy..."
"I may be the one who will cure him of the poison as well," Ivankov said calmly, appreciating Luffy greatly.
He didn't want the boy's journey to end here.
He wanted to see the joyful adventures of the boy with his friends more and more.
Ivankov appreciated those who sought true freedom.
The boy who repeated the phrase 'I will be the Pirate King' on every occasion was the most freedom-seeking person Ivankov had ever seen.
He wasn't a slave like him in the past, but he truly understood the meaning of freedom.
Perhaps he embodied 'freedom' itself!
"Why are you crying, Bonney…?"
At this moment, Kuma gently patted Bonney's head, who was crying.
"Luffy… He's suffering…"
Little Bonney was extremely saddened after witnessing this bloody scene.
She didn't know that the outside world could be this terrifying.
Kuma smiled gently before saying, "Don't worry, Luffy will be saved by a real loyal friend."
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Marigoa:
"Maybe we rushed it?"
Saint Warcury's forehead trembled as he saw how Magellan crushed Luffy.
Even Luffy's thick plot armor couldn't save him this time.
"What a terrifying power… Luffy couldn't fight at all."
Saint Mars couldn't hide his admiration for Magellan's strength.
"Magellan must be frustrated because we replaced him in this way, but it's not too late to mend his heart."
"We have to contact him and promise him a position similar to Teach's in prison."
Saint Venus quickly suggested a solution.
"What about creating a new rank? Maybe a prison guardian? It's no different from the prison chief warden in status and power..."
Saint Saturn calmly proposed.
Saint Ju Peter smiled before nodding, "I agree with this idea."
After the five elders agreed to soothe their concerns, they were ready to contact Magellan.
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Meanwhile, in Impel Down, Magellan was sweating profusely.
"I brought the protagonist to this state… I'm dead…"
"Will he seek revenge in the future!?"
"All the Shonen protagonists I know are first-rate Avengers…"
Magellan was truly tense… Even he didn't expect his counterpart to deal with Garp's grandson with such cruelty!
He was the most aware of his poisonous power.
Such a quantity of poison meant death in the most painful way.
"No doubt that Luffy is suffering greatly now… Ah, what have you done, my counterpart... Why didn't you show a little mercy… This is bad… He still keeps repeating Ace's name even in this situation…"
Magellan felt regret without a doubt.
At this moment, his personal Den Den Mushi rang continuously.
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In Baratie's restaurant, silence dominated this usually lively place.
At the celebrities' table, the kid Bentham was still crying, feeling that his Okama counterpart did the worst thing possible by fleeing and leaving Luffy behind.
Rouge was crying like a child too. Roger's attempts to comfort her were in vain.
The reason was that even in moments of death, Luffy only repeated Ace's name.
This unconditional love from Luffy for her son made her consider Luffy her son as well.
"Luffy… My son…" And now, her second son was suffering from severe poisoning.
"Sigh, don't worry, Luffy will come back stronger as you've known him."
Only when Rob spoke did Rouge and Bentham stop crying.
For Olvia, she had great trust in Luffy. She was also affected by his sacrifice, but not as much as Rouge.
"This child… Do I have the right to consider him my son?" Roger asked.
"Ask Dragon…" Rob said with a sarcastic smile.
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Chapter 650: Level 5: Freezing Hell!
Chapter 651: Bon Clay's Impersonation Deceives the Readers!
Chapter 652: The Okama's Loyalty - Because We're Friends!
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