Impel Down: What Happened to the Prisoners? / Impel Down: Shadow Clone Number Three Reporting In

"But something big happened this time. Lin Mo was captured, and he's going to be executed."

After Sandersonia said that, Hancock's hands paused around her knife and fork.

"What? Lin Mo was captured?" Hancock looked at Sandersonia with a slight frown.

Sandersonia nodded. "Yes. He'll be publicly executed at Marineford in a week. According to the Marines, powerful people are very likely to interfere and try to rescue him, so they need to summon the Shichibukai as a precaution."

"Powerful people? Who?"

"They didn't say... Sister, are you going? If we leave now, we should reach Marineford in exactly seven days."

The mention of Lin Mo made Hancock's heart ache, especially when she remembered the disdain he had shown her back then.

But Lin Mo had saved everyone on Amazon Lily. Without him, she might have become a plaything of the Celestial Dragons again...

In the past, she wouldn't have bothered responding to any summons. She almost always refused.

This time, however, she hesitated.

"Sister?" Sandersonia asked worriedly. "Lin Mo did save all of us. What should we do now? Should we go to Marineford? If we go, should we help the Marines stop the people trying to rescue him, or help rescue him ourselves? But if the Government sees us helping Lin Mo and decides we're his allies, Amazon Lily will be in danger again. Our island has remained safe all this time because you're a Shichibukai. If they strip you of that status, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"I know!" Hancock said impatiently. "Let me think about it."

Alabasta.

After receiving a call from Marine Headquarters, Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai, refused the summons on the grounds that Alabasta was too far from Marineford for him to arrive in time.

Likewise, aboard a large ship somewhere.

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