Impel Down, also known as Impel Down, existed to prevent Devil Fruits that posed a greater threat from returning to the seas.
It also served to severely deter those pirates.
Not afraid of death?
Fine. Then spend the next few decades of your life in a pitch-black dungeon and truly experience what loneliness and despair meant.
Compared to those two, the other punishments, whether freezing or burning, were secondary.
True powerhouses did not fear such things at all. Only a dungeon without sunlight could make them feel profound despair.
Back to the present.
"Hmph!"
Golden Lion snorted. "So what if you've joined forces? If I want to leave, none of you can stop me!"
If anyone else had said those words, they might have sounded arrogant. But the speaker was Golden Lion, and he truly had the qualifications to be arrogant.
In the original story, he had stormed Marine Headquarters Marineford alone and fought one against two, battling Sengoku and Garp for three days and three nights. He refused to retreat even in a death match and was ultimately captured only after exhausting his strength.
Note that the key was that he had refused to retreat. Otherwise, if Golden Lion wanted to leave, even Sengoku and Garp could not stop him after his Float-Float Fruit awakening.
"Can't stop you? Try it!"
Sengoku shouted. The air beneath his feet let out a mournful cry as the Great Buddha rose into the sky and slammed down a palm, unleashing a golden shockwave.
Before Sengoku in his Great Buddha form, Golden Lion looked exceptionally small.
"Lion's Might: Sea Roll!!"
Golden Lion roared. His long golden hair danced wildly behind him, like an enraged lion.
The Float-Float Fruit's power activated, and the seawater below surged into the sky, crashing toward Sengoku.
"Boom!"
Sengoku scattered