The uproar over Garp's death had yet to die down when news that Dragon, former leader of the Revolutionary Army, had escaped from Impel Down seized the public's attention.
Twenty years after the Golden Lion, a second prisoner had finally escaped from Impel Down—the supposedly impregnable hell feared by countless pirates and criminals!
And unlike the Golden Lion, who had cut off his own feet, Dragon had emerged unscathed. He had defeated the warden, Magellan the "Poison Man," head-on and taken with him a large group of Level 6 prisoners whose records the government had erased and whom it considered the worst of the worst.
Among them were madmen who likewise hated the government and wanted to tear everything down.
The news stunned the world.
The Dragon of old would never have sunk this low!
As Dragon himself had said, he was no longer the leader of the Revolutionary Army. He was a Revenge Wraith from hell.
Marineford, Marine Headquarters.
"What the hell happened?!"
"My deepest apologies, Fleet Admiral Akainu!"
On the other end of the Den Den Mushi, Magellan answered through gritted teeth. "At some point, the prisoners hollowed out a refuge between Impel Down's Level 5 and Level 6. Given the special nature of Level 6, we couldn't station large numbers of guards there to inspect it every day. They exploited that gap."
New Okama Paradise, also known as Level 5.5.
It was a place of unknown origin that prisoners had claimed for themselves.
In fact, most prisoners had no idea Level 5.5 even existed. They only knew the legend of the wraiths that had long circulated through Impel Down: anyone who wandered into their territory would be swallowed whole.
After the "Okama King" Emporio Ivankov was imprisoned, he transformed it into New Okama Paradise, a safe haven