An Island Falls from the Sky

Hum!

The instant the words fell, Noah's aura snapped into focus. He swung both swords, sending two magnificent arcs of sword energy, brilliant as white silk, sweeping across each other toward Aokiji.

"What the hell? We're inside a prison..."

Watching the terrifying sword energy bear down on him, Aokiji sighed in resignation and pushed his green sleep mask up onto his forehead. "You're going all out already? You really haven't thought about the damage this could cause..."

Complaints aside, he activated his power at once.

Crack!

Crack!

Dozens of thick, sharp ice spears formed before him in an instant. They wheeled through the air, wrapped in bitter cold, and bore down on the sword energy.

Boom!

The crash rang through the entire first underground level of Impel Down. The floor tiles beneath their feet and the walls of the surrounding cells trembled.

By then, it was not just the guards stationed on the first underground level who had noticed the commotion. The prisoners had, too.

They crowded up to the iron bars of their cells, poking their heads out and straining to see.

The open space nearest them had become a frozen expanse. White mist billowed across it, leaving the criminals staring in astonishment.

And when the two fighters crossed paths, their terrifying speed and destructive power sent chills through every prisoner watching.

"Those two... who are they?"

"They look like Marines... My god, there are people this strong in the world?"

The pirates imprisoned on the first underground level, the so-called Red Lotus Hell, mostly had bounties in the tens of millions of Beli. Even the highest was under twenty million.

Many had spent their entire lives in the Four Blues and had seen little of the world. The Marines who had captured and imprisoned them were mostly lieutenant