Sengoku Resigns! A Turbulent Navy!

After the war ended, the most pressing matter was not rewarding merits, but cleaning up the aftermath.

The urgent priority was how to deal with the pirates.

The number of pirates captured this time exceeded ten thousand, an all-time record!

How to handle so many pirates naturally became the top priority. If they handled it poorly, the whole world would laugh at the Navy.

Thus, Enies Lobby, part of the Great Vortex Iron Triangle, operated around the clock under the Five Elders' supervision, holding continuous trials and sorting the pirates one by one.

Those who were utterly vicious—kill them!

There was no shortage of pirates who strutted about simply because they had some skill. The judges found these neither-here-nor-there fools irritating to look at, so they killed them all.

Those with even a little fame—imprison them!

After Ron's stint as acting warden, Impel Down had now become a "devil's nest." Sending these people in to suffer was still somewhat intimidating.

But the judges had overlooked one point: although Impel Down appeared to have six entire levels, there were not actually that many cells used to imprison inmates.

So, within a few days, Magellan came running over to complain bitterly. He said Impel Down was already packed to capacity: either send fewer people there, or allocate more funds for expansion.

No one knew whether Magellan's fear of too many prisoners causing trouble was mixed with political considerations, but the problem was real. After deliberation, the Enies Lobby judges swiftly adjusted their approach and divided even famous pirates into different ranks.

High-class citizens... no, pirates, were qualified to suffer in Impel Down, playing a daily game of survival against all odds.

Mid-tier pirates were sent to "black pits" to mine coal. Places like Flevance, Law's hometown, were plentiful across the seas, and