Impel Down, once one of the World Government's three great institutions alongside Navy Headquarters and Enies Lobby.
Of course, hardly anyone used that description anymore.
After all, Navy Headquarters had been completely destroyed, and the Navy's upper ranks had been branded traitors. They had since set up a new organization and become enemies of the World Government.
Yet Impel Down still stood here. Within this windless Calm Belt, this prison that could never fall continued to hold its ground.
At this moment, an unusual and interesting turn of events was unfolding within the world's greatest torture chamber.
"Thank the Government, thank the Five Elders, and thank Lord Im for their boundless mercy, you scum."
At the very bottom of the great prison lay Level 6, a place outsiders did not even know existed—the sixth level of Impel Down, known as Eternal Hell.
This prison, where the most heinous criminals were held and whose very existence had therefore been erased by the World Government, was brightly lit at this moment.
Several CP0 agents in white robes and masks stood in the center of the prison, with their leader loudly addressing the prisoners.
Before them stood a motley group of people, all dressed in prison uniforms. There was no doubt that they were the inmates held in this prison.
These were people so vicious that even their existence had been erased by the Government, yet brilliant smiles now adorned their faces.
Because they had been released, freed by the agents sent by the World Government.
"Your crimes have been pardoned. In exchange, however, you will fight for the Government in the coming war."
"Hahaha! Then that makes us Shichibukai too, doesn't it?"
A woman whose shapely figure could not be concealed even by her prison uniform, though her face was exceptionally ugly,