"Interesting!"
"A coward like you actually dared to step forward in the face of duty. Admirable courage."
"But..."
Roy paused briefly, then burst into laughter. "What does that have to do with me?"
"For a moment there, I almost felt like a villain bullying you."
"But so what?"
"I am evil to begin with, not some good man. Whoever stands in my way dies."
"Still, I'll give you the first move. Come on, try your hardest to kill me!"
Amid wild laughter, Roy spread his hands and unleashed his terrifying presence without restraint.
He vaguely remembered Hannyabal.
In the original story, even when outmatched, he had refused to surrender and had even been prepared to stake his life on holding his opponent back.
Someone like that was indeed brave, a man of substance.
But none of that had anything to do with Roy as he was now.
From the moment he acquired the Ryomen Sukuna template, Roy had stood on the side of evil.
Even characters from the original story would be killed without hesitation.
That Admiral-level presence was far too terrifying.
The jailers present were gripped by fear, and many backed away outright.
This was pure evil!
"Fine! You said it!"
Hannyabal trembled all over, but he still gritted his teeth and charged at Roy with his trident.
Seeing this, Sadi also clenched her teeth, forcing a twisted smile onto her face.
"Hannyabal, you're quite a charming man. If we survive this, I won't mock you anymore."
"Jailer Beasts, follow me and join Hannyabal in battle!"
At her command, she led more than a dozen Jailer Beasts forward, swinging her whip at Roy.
Roy laughed even more wildly at the sight.
"Hahaha, that's it! Come at me together."
"I'll show you what it means to fear the King of Curses!"
By that last sentence, Roy's tone had turned utterly cold.
Without using his slashing Cursed Technique, he charged straight into their ranks with nothing but hand-to-hand combat and Armament Haki.
Facing their combined assault, he activated Observation Haki as well.
He moved as though no one could stand in his way, weaving calmly through blades, axes, and lashes.
The massive axes swung by the Jailer Beasts smashed heavily into the ground, leaving enormous gashes.
Roy's blackened fists were already pounding out like a rainstorm.
One punch per beast, he smashed the nearest Jailer Beasts apart, axes and bodies alike.
The remaining Jailer Beasts fell one after another, going silent before they could even scream.
"Haha, come on! What a satisfying fight! I'm already holding back, so I hope you won't bore me too much!"
Laughing loudly, Roy flashed in front of Hannyabal.
"You bastard..."
Hannyabal's expression changed drastically, and his legs went weak.
But with life and death hanging in the balance, he still summoned every ounce of strength and drove his trident down hard.
Bang! Bang!
Roy chopped down with one palm, shattering the trident on the spot.
The brute force continued unabated, breaking the bones in both of Hannyabal's arms.
"Argh..."
The agonizing pain drew a shrill scream from Hannyabal.
Yet just as Roy prepared to finish him off, Hannyabal suddenly raised his head and, with his last breath of strength, thrust the remaining half of the shaft hard at Roy's cheek.
Roy tilted his head slightly. The shaft grazed his cheekbone, leaving a very shallow bloody mark.
"Heh. Not quite."
With a casual swing from Roy, Hannyabal went flying, slammed heavily onto the ground, and lay motionless.
At that very instant, a whip lashed through the air.
His Observation Haki had already caught its trajectory, and Roy vanished from where he stood.
Sadi's attack missed.
When Roy reappeared, he was already behind Sadi, grabbing her whip-wielding arm.
"So that's what you're into. Too bad you're not my type."
Every hair on Sadi's body stood on end.
The next second, there was a crack!
"Argh..."
Roy tore her whip-wielding arm clean off!
But this woman truly was insane.
After losing her arm, she made no further sound and instead slammed her body into Roy,
trying to knock him back a step and buy even a moment for the jailers behind her.
Her impact made Roy's upper body lean back slightly, and a flicker of surprise finally crossed his eyes.
"Interesting."
Then he threw a punch, sending Sadi's entire body flying into the wall before she slid to the ground.
The bloody sight completely fired up Domino and the other jailers watching from outside.
"This demon has no mercy whatsoever! If we want to live, we can only rely on ourselves! He won't spare a single one of us! Let's join the fight!"
"That's right! We're jailers too. How can we stand by and watch? Blue Gorillas, come fight with me!"
For a time, Roy became everyone's target.
The jailers of Impel Down, who had previously had their differences, were now more united than ever.
Disregarding life and death, they all charged at Roy.
But the more they did so, the more excited Roy became.
"Hahaha, perfect! Watch me kill you all!"
His fists hammered out again, and with every attack, a jailer or a beast fell.
Even though he never used his Cursed Technique, these jailers could not get anywhere near him.
An occasional attack landed on him, but the vast gap in strength meant it could not even scratch his skin.
With every punch and kick, his enemies' terror grew.
A short while later, the entire stairway entrance lay in ruins.
The ground was covered in the mutilated corpses of jailers and beasts, and most of those remaining had passed out.
Even the Jailer Beasts that struck terror into prisoners had been crushed on the spot.
Roy had truly routed every jailer single-handedly.
Now, he gripped Sadi by the throat and lifted her clear off the ground.
"What a thoroughly satisfying battle. You've successfully entertained me."
"Now, how should I punish you?"
Like a demon, Roy looked down at Sadi, who was gravely wounded and dying.
The jailers who had not joined the battle and were still guarding the criminals, and even the prisoners who had been excited before, now trembled uncontrollably with fear.
Roy's attacks had simply been too brutal.
With his bare fists, he had broken his enemies' bones, torn their sinews, and punched through their bodies, one after another.
Even the astonishingly tough Jailer Beasts and Blue Gorillas could not withstand more than a few punches before breaking apart like paper.
What drove them even closer to madness was that they might not have been so frightened if Roy had killed with those strange slashes from before.
After all, death came so quickly that they could not even feel pain.
Yet Roy had deliberately chosen the most brutal method.
Punch by punch, he had beaten people to death.
Some had even died on the spot, unable to let out a single complete scream.
That feeling of being unable to resist, of only being able to watch death approach, was what truly suffocated them.
"Cough... cough... Roy... you're strong. But even if you kill us, you'll never get out of Impel Down."
"Chief Warden Magellan will be here any moment... Just wait for your death!"
Sadi did not beg for mercy.
With the last of her strength, she stared fixedly at Roy, her eyes filled with unwillingness to accept her fate.
It was as though she wanted to carve his appearance into her soul.
But...
Crack!
Her neck was snapped in an instant.
Roy casually tossed the corpse onto the ground without giving it another glance.
"Too bad you won't get to see it."
He raised his gaze and swept it across the scene.
The entire stairway entrance had become a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, a method that suited his title of "Ryomen Roy" perfectly.
The jailer who controlled the Blue Gorillas had also been slain on the spot.
Only two people there were still alive.
Both of Hannyabal's arms were broken, and a massive wound had been torn open across his chest.
Although he still breathed, he was utterly unconscious.
Domino had lost the use of one arm. Lying in a pool of blood, she watched through blurred vision as Roy walked toward Sadi.
She wanted to shout, but only a faint breathy sound escaped her throat.
At last, her consciousness sank into darkness.
He had claimed the MVP of this entire battle.
There had been no doubt whatsoever.
"Now that all the small fry are cleared away..."
Roy raised a hand and wiped away the bloody mark Hannyabal had left on his cheek, about to take his next step.
Suddenly, a terrifying, furious presence swept out from deep within the passage!
"Bastard! You killed nearly a thousand of Impel Down's jailers and Jailer Beasts! You'll pay for their blood with yours!"
"Poison Dragon!"
Before those words had faded, three purple poison dragons came roaring toward Roy, carrying a sky full of venom.
Roy did not dodge.
He had intended to test head-on just how potent the so-called Venom-Venom Fruit's poison could be.
So he let the three poison dragons slam into him.
Hiss!
The venom instantly corroded his flesh, and intense pain and a burning sensation spread throughout his body.
Half his face had almost been eaten away to the bone, while broad areas of his arms and chest had also rotted away.
Yet Roy seemed utterly unconcerned.
Only when his injuries had become extremely severe did he part his lips in a savage grin.
"Hahaha, Magellan, you're finally here."
"How interesting."
"But poisoning me right off the bat-is that your way of saying hello?"
Magellan was just about to roar in anger when his pupils abruptly contracted.
Before his eyes, Roy's horrifically corroded wounds, under the influence of a strange power,
healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, returning to their original state in the blink of an eye.
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