"Get to work, work, work!"
"Work makes you happy, got it?"
"Who are you putting on this miserable act for? Lord Queen said everyone has to smile. All of you, laugh happily, damn it!"
Smack! Smack! Smack!
Those were the sounds of whips striking flesh, tearing skin and splitting it open.
"There are only two kinds of people imprisoned in the Prisoner Mine. One is the poor who can't afford to pay, and the other is those who oppose Orochi's rule!" Kawamatsu said, clenching his fists and brimming with anger.
"So that means it wouldn't be a problem to release everyone here?" Longinus asked.
"Vice Admiral, rest assured. I guarantee that true villains would never be imprisoned here." Kawamatsu laughed at himself. "After all, villains are usually very rich."
"So how are we getting in? Sneaking in secretly, or infiltrating openly?" the little girl asked eagerly.
"Princess Hiyori, what do you mean by infiltrating openly?" Kawamatsu asked in confusion.
"Just beat up everyone who discovers us!" Hiyori answered matter-of-factly, waving her little fists.
"..." Kawamatsu fell silent for a moment, inwardly sighing with relief that he had never let the princess learn ninja arts.
"Udon is guarded by one of Kaido's Calamities, Queen the Plague, but he doesn't seem to be in the mine right now," Gion said in a lowered voice.
"He may still be pursuing that assassin."
Longinus said, "Then we'll act directly. After rescuing the prisoners, we'll flee to the Konomi Region as quickly as possible and see if we can gather some of the Kōzuki Clan's former retainers and leave Wano Country together."
"Yes!"
"You can work twenty-four hours a day. How could you be unhappy when you're so fulfilled? Laugh for me..."
"Why are there people like you who don't love working..."
Thud! Thud!
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