After a while, Mr. 1 finally found the key beneath the rubble, and Lucci hurried to unlock his handcuffs.
Buggy caught up a little later. Lucci was busy rescuing people, but he had not released the prisoners indiscriminately. He still had his principles.
Buggy had no such qualms. Without hesitation, he freed every prisoner on the Fourth Level.
The prisoners went wild, shouting and cheering without pause. Buggy gathered them together and looked down at them. "Tell me, who saved you? Who gave you another chance at freedom? And who set your journey sailing again?"
"Buggy! Buggy! Captain Buggy!"
Over a hundred prisoners crowded around Buggy and cheered in grateful unison. Their voices shook the air and echoed for a long time.
Buggy's grin grew even wider. "Yahaha... Excellent! That's exactly right! Now I need your strength. Pull yourselves together and raise some glorious hell. Don't any of you make me look bad or lose your nerve."
"Yes, Captain Buggy!"
It was as though Buggy had brainwashed them. At his urging, they stopped thinking for themselves and obeyed his every word. Their fervor was almost unbelievable.
No one was more shocked to see the Fourth Level prisoners freed than Magellan. He and his guards bore the brunt of it as the prisoners charged about like ravenous wolves. The pressure on Ye Chen eased at once.
Ye Chen finally managed to knock War Wolf down. Rescuing the others came first, especially now that Blackbeard had arrived at Impel Down. He hurried to the Fifth Level with his companions.
The Fourth Level, the Fifth Level, the Sixth Level—in less than half an hour, Ye Chen had rescued everyone he had come for. On the Sixth Level, he did not lose his head and release the legendary monsters imprisoned there. Even Buggy trembled