Enies Lobby was an island directly under the World Government, where the World Government's supreme court had been established.
Because it symbolized the World Government's absolute justice, there had never been a not-guilty verdict there in eight hundred years.
Guilty criminals were generally tried in lower courts.
But once they were sent to Enies Lobby, the fate awaiting them was Impel Down, the world's greatest prison.
Caesar Clown had destroyed a research island directly under the World Government, so he was currently imprisoned in Enies Lobby's prison.
Enies Lobby never put criminals on trial.
The main reason Caesar Clown was still being held there now
was that he possessed an intellect and scientific research ability far beyond ordinary people.
After all, being the world's second greatest scientist was no laughing matter.
Thus, the World Government's upper ranks had been fiercely debating how to deal with Caesar Clown.
Some senior officials believed that someone as dangerous as Caesar Clown should be locked away forever at the bottom of Impel Down.
Others felt that simply imprisoning him would be far too wasteful.
They believed Caesar Clown should continue serving the World Government and develop large-scale weapons of destruction.
It was precisely because both sides kept arguing that Caesar Clown had not yet been sent to Impel Down.
But according to Roy's reliable intelligence source, Spandam,
Caesar Clown, the man who had caused the World Government its greatest losses that year,
had already received a finalized sentence to be sent to Impel Down.
Although Caesar Clown was an outstanding scientist, the World Government had never lacked people like him.
For the World Government, sometimes a single Vegapunk was enough to crush everything.
And because Caesar Clown was an evil scientist with immense ambition and too much instability, the World Government had ultimately decided to throw him into Impel Down.
After all, even if the World Government wanted to use someone who had already caused an explosion, they could not fully trust him.
The restricted area at Punk Hazard was known throughout the entire World Government for its formidable defenses.
Yet Caesar Clown had actually managed to blow the place up with a cannon.
So for someone so extremely unstable, putting him somewhere even more secure was the better choice.
"You bastards, let me go! I'm a great scientist! You shouldn't be treating me like this! I want to speak with the Five Elders! I'm stronger than Vegapunk!"
Enies Lobby, the harbor before the Gate of Justice.
Dressed in prison garb, Caesar Clown struggled desperately to break free of his restraints.
"Caesar Clown, behave yourself! This isn't your laboratory. This is Enies Lobby. This is the gate to hell!"
Bang!
A club infused with Seastone was thrust directly into Caesar Clown's abdomen.
Then the Marine's club swung so quickly it left afterimages as it rained down upon Caesar Clown.
The intense pain instantly reduced the Logia Devil Fruit user to a curled-up shrimp on the ground.
"Stop struggling, you pieces of trash. Accept your fate obediently!
If anyone causes trouble again, I'm afraid you won't even live to reach Impel Down."
He drew the pistol from his waist, aimed it at another pirate who was struggling particularly fiercely, and fired a shot.
The crack of the flintlock rang out across the harbor.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!"
The criminal who had been so arrogant moments ago now had a shoulder pierced clean through by a bullet.
He holstered his pistol again and surveyed the surroundings while holding the Seastone-infused club.
The Marine who had just disciplined Caesar Clown was broad-faced and vicious-looking as he roared at the prisoners being escorted.
In his eyes, these people all deserved to die, so he almost never showed mercy when he struck.
In any case, they were nothing more than disposable fuel to keep Impel Down running.
From the moment they arrived at Enies Lobby, they had already lost every human right.
He looked at the evil scientist curled on the ground like a shrimp.
Then he glanced around at the prisoners with unwilling looks on their faces.
"Sure enough, only violence can make scum like you behave."
He watched with satisfaction as the criminals boarded the warship in orderly fashion.
The vicious-looking Marine watched as the last criminal stepped onto the deck of the Marine warship.
Whoosh!
The warship's sailing horn sounded.
The warship laden with prisoners slowly departed from the harbor.
Just as the vicious-looking Marine commander was leading his subordinates back,
no one on Enies Lobby noticed that the vast white clouds which had hovered above the island days ago were now slowly drifting into the distance.
"Shurororororo! That damned idiot hit way too hard. It hurts like hell!"
Inside the warship transporting prisoners, unlike the other inmates who were crammed more than ten to a cell, Caesar Clown enjoyed a quiet private cell all to himself.
"There were so many ways to pass the tool to me, so why did he have to beat me up? And he hit so hard, too.
Damn it. Once I escape, I'll make Doflamingo give me an explanation."
Rubbing his bruised purple arm,
Caesar Clown nervously scanned his surroundings.
After confirming that no one was nearby and that there was only a surveillance Den Den Mushi,
Caesar Clown pretended to scratch his hair. But when he lowered his hand, a tiny piece of wire lay in his palm.
Yes, that wire was the jailbreak tool secretly passed to him by the Marine who had beaten him earlier.
The main reason that Marine had done so was that his superior was actually Doflamingo's undercover agent.
Ever since Caesar Clown had gone from Punk Hazard to Enies Lobby, the main reason he had remained so well-behaved
was that he trusted Doflamingo to bring him something useful.
After all, no one could ignore the benefits brought by Artificial Devil Fruits.
Although Caesar Clown was arrogant, he was clearly no fool.
Anyone knew the consequences of blowing up a research institute, yet Caesar Clown had still done it.
That clearly did not fit his character of bullying the weak, fearing the strong, and clinging to life.
So the reason was simple: when Caesar Clown blew up the restricted area, he had already obtained his own trump card.
The Shichibukai, who formed a triangle with the Marines and the Yonko, were the people Caesar Clown had prepared to rely on.
In any case, Caesar Clown had grown tired of remaining within the Marine system.
In his view, only ambitious tyrants like Doflamingo or the Yonko could elevate his title as the supreme authority on weapons of mass destruction to unprecedented heights.
He wanted to prove to the entire world that he was the world's greatest scientist.
And the environment in the World Government's research institute clearly did not suit his dreams.
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