Rescue Operation!

The commotion Luffy, Chopper, and the others caused on Hazel Island was not actually that great. In the open territory of Whole Cake Island, incidents like this happened every so often.

Bars and casinos were inherently places where conflicts easily erupted. Even under the rule of the New Marines, that nature had not faded away.

Those who could travel these seas, whether wandering merchants or adventurous travelers, always possessed abilities beyond those of ordinary people.

When such people got drunk and clashed with others, they often had quite an impact on ordinary civilians.

Thus, although the trouble Luffy and the others caused on Hazel Island became known across the entire island by the following day, it was merely a small topic of conversation after meals.

The people of Hazel Island did not have much of an impression of the Straw Hat Pirates either.

They only knew that pirates had secretly landed on Hazel Island the previous night and had then been captured by Admiral Issho, without causing any enormous losses to Whole Cake Island.

After waking up the next day, the islanders continued doing whatever they normally did, utterly unaffected in their daily lives by last night's "small conflict."

"Straw Hat Luffy."

"Come out!"

Inside the prison of the Hazel Island Marine Branch, the crisp clatter of chains striking one another woke the sleeping Straw Hat Luffy.

Slowly opening his eyes, Luffy found the morning sunlight streaming through the prison skylight and falling upon his face. He squinted involuntarily and rose to his feet in a daze.

Luffy had forgotten when exactly he had fallen asleep the previous night. After being brought back to the branch prison by the New Marines, he had been imprisoned separately from Usopp and the others. As an ability user, Luffy was held in a