February 17, 1514.
Magellan secretly returned to Impel Down.
Because the missing prisoner did not appear at sea, it was assumed that he had died somewhere and he was not severely punished.
However, Magellan still suspected that Shiryu was testing his knife on prisoners again, which was why he returned three days earlier than he had notified him, in order to find Shiryu's weakness!
Sure enough, as soon as Magellan returned, he discovered that Shiryu, who was supposed to be off duty today, had disappeared again...
Magellan quickly took the elevator down four floors...
Hannibal was startled. He was enjoying himself in the chief's office on the fourth floor when Magellan suddenly pushed the door open and burst in. He exclaimed, "Chief? What brings you back today?" Then he added, "I was just wiping your chair..."
"Where Shiryu?" Magellan asked, ignoring Hannibal.
"Shiryu guarding the fifth floor..."
"Then hurry up and lead the way!" Magellan said hastily, afraid of missing any leverage over Shiryu.
Hannibal accompanied Magellan into the elevator, preparing to continue to the fifth floor.
Magellan then asked with some doubt, "How did you know Shiryu on the fifth floor?" Normally, Shiryu to kill people, he would hide well and not let Hannibal know his whereabouts.
"Previously, Shiryu, the guard, took the individual prison keys from the prisoners on the fifth floor..."
Magellan's eyes widened in disbelief, his expression saying, "You actually dared to give this to me?"
"No, Chief, Shiryu has changed quite a bit recently..." Hannibal said hesitantly.
Magellan couldn't wait any longer; as soon as the elevator Door Opening, he rushed out, and then he saw...
In the snow and ice, Shiryu was cracking his whip, lashing a group of prisoners who were running laps in the snow.
"Get your act together! From now on, I'll personally supervise your morning and evening exercises every day! The last 100 to finish running will have to hand in 100 copies of the 'Advance into the Impel Down' regulations the next day... copied right from the snow! Those covered up don't count!"
Shiryu was energetically training the prisoners...
Although there were indeed continuous wails of pain, this scene was completely different from what Magellan had imagined!
Shiryu then glanced at Magellan: "Oh, isn't this our Chief Magellan? He's certainly been very responsible, returning so quickly, hehe."
Sig could naturally see that Magellan was intentionally trying to use him... or rather, to exploit Shiryu's weakness.
Unfortunately, he will never have another chance.
"Shiryu, the guard... what are you doing?" Magellan asked in a muffled voice.
"It's 'Shiryu Chief Warden.' Can't Warden Magellan recognize him? I'm supervising the prisoners' morning exercises." Shiryu still had a cigar in his mouth, the smoke almost blowing into Magellan's face.
"Running exercises? When Impel Down having running exercises?" That was clearly not what Magellan wanted to ask.
"So I think Impel Down prison is far too lax. Since Warden Magellan took office, the number of people 'repenting' each year has probably decreased even more, right? Heh, I think the staff's inflexibility and perfunctory work are also contributing factors. As the Chief Warden, I should take more initiative."
Shiryu practically accused Magellan of being a useless figurehead, which made Magellan's forehead crease with a tic-tac-toe expression.
The so-called "repentance" refers to the willingness to align oneself with the World Government.
After repenting, their original identity will be erased, and they will be assigned to a secret department.
For example, in the original work, Jango, the vice- Captain of the Black Cat Pirates, was exceptionally recruited into the Marine Headquarters because of his special skill in hypnosis.
As for how to distinguish whether someone is truly "repentant"?
The World Government and navy naturally have their own solutions...
The number of prisoners who repent each year has become one of Impel Down's performance indicators. However, Impel Down obviously doesn't have any KPI assessment system, because prisoners on Level 4 and above rarely "repent." Ultimately, Impel Down's duty is to keep these prisoners locked up; anything else is just a bonus.
Shiryu is now stubbornly resisting, as if Magellan isn't trying hard enough.
"What exactly do you want to do?" Magellan didn't believe Shiryu's nonsense and assumed he was just looking for another opportunity to kill someone.
"As the Chief Warden, I must fulfill Chief Warden responsibilities. I will push for prison reform in the future," Shiryu said confidently.
"I disagree!" Magellan said directly.
"Oh? A guy who works only four hours a day has no right to disagree." Shiryu, as usual, was equally rude to Magellan.
"You..." Magellan was about to say something, but then his stomach growled.
Then his face immediately turned purple!
This isn't from hunger, it's from "eating something that upset their stomach."
Magellan is Paramecia Devil Fruit user with the Venom- Devil Fruit ability. As Venom person, he is often poisoned by himself—because Venom person needs to constantly ingest toxins, especially different kinds of toxins, to strengthen himself. In addition, the toxins he produces are constantly mutating, so he cannot completely avoid poison.
It won't kill you, but it will give you an upset stomach!
This meant that Magellan had to spend ten hours a day in the toilet, and after deducting time for sleeping and eating, he could only work for a maximum of four hours, and even those were fragmented four hours.
Sig suspected that a significant portion of his Life Return had been channeled into his anus, otherwise he certainly wouldn't have been able to endure it.
This "habit" naturally greatly limited Magellan's "authority"...
"Go to the latrine, Sprayer!" Shiryu said mockingly.
Magellan was furious, but he could only turn and leave—he was indeed about to lose his temper!
Shiryu turned around and yelled at a group of running prisoners, "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen Warden Magellan take a dump? Keep running, you bastards!"
The prisoners were either shackled with heavy chains or Seastone Handcuffs, and they were all starving, causing most of their bodily functions to be dormant. Even though they were all quite strong outside, they were now walking with difficulty.
Each level of Impel Down was the size of a small island, so Shiryu certainly couldn't make them run around the entire fourth level. Instead, he made them run in batches and in different areas.
And not all prisoners receive this treatment...
Sig didn't want to bother with the small fry in the first three layers. Starting from the fourth layer, Sig had already screened them. In the previous month, Sig had even used Dream Infiltration -entering to "mentally guide" them, so he could naturally distinguish which ones were the real tough nuts to crack.
Especially those with Conqueror's Haki, Sig avoids provoking them openly to prevent them from causing trouble; he can't very well just kill them all.
Too many deaths are not in the interests of Chief Warden Shiryu, and besides, although these prisoners are vicious, they are still enemies of the World Government. Sig wants to see them fight each other like dogs in the future...
There weren't many tough guys on the fourth level who could skip the morning exercises, but there were a few more on the fifth level, and on the sixth level... Sig didn't touch half of them, picking on the easy ones.
During the day, the warden supervises their morning exercises in shifts, and at night he enters their dreams to provide "psychological counseling." Chief Warden days are very fulfilling!