Jie Jian's Redemption!
Night fell, and Master Jie, who had been busy all day, finally brought his day to an end.
As the saying went, the finest rest often came in the simplest form: sleep.
Back in his cell, Jie Jian flopped down, ready to fall asleep immediately.
But just before he drifted off, he forcibly stopped himself.
Damn it, I almost fell asleep. Jie Jian took several deep breaths to clear his head.
He had woken up too abruptly during the day and had never had the chance to inspect his cell properly.
Now that night had fallen, his beloved guards and fellow prisoners were all asleep. It was the perfect time to inspect the cell!
Jie Jian slowly surveyed the entire cell, sighing inwardly.
He had walked on thin ice all his life and obeyed the law for most of it.
Yet here, at the very end, he had come to the One Piece World and landed himself in prison!
Jie Jian started with the area beneath him, using the dim yellow light filtering through the bars to inspect the cell inch by inch.
The floor was paved with solid bluestone slabs, moisture seeping from the cracks. It was cold and slippery underfoot.
The thick dark-green moss along the wall looked like it had been there for years.
The stone walls were rough, marked by several deep gouges. Who knew which prisoner had clawed them out in a fit of madness?
Could there have been an Andy here before?
Jie Jian reached out and knocked on the wall. Judging by the sound reverberating through his knuckles, it had to be quite thick.
Trying to dig through it by hand? At least there had to be something to dig with!
Jie Jian had no desire to spend over twenty years digging an