"My next target is Impel Down."
When Yas's casual words, which seemed to announce that he would tear down the world's order and rebuild it from scratch, reached the ears of Garp, Sengoku, and the newly arrived Sakazuki and the others, the entire G-1 harbor fell into a deathly silence even more terrifying than when Divine Punishment had descended!
Impel Down?! The world's greatest prison?! That undersea fortress that held countless legendary criminals, renowned for its impregnable walls and its record of never falling?!
What was he planning?!
"Yas! Have you gone mad?!" Garp was the first to recover from that boundless shock! He let out an earth-shaking roar and charged straight up to Yas, his bloodshot eyes fixed on him, filled with unprecedented terror and fury! "That's not a pirate fleet! That's Impel Down! It's a World Government facility! Do you have any idea what you're saying?!"
"Of course I do." Yas gave Garp an indifferent glance, as though looking at a dull-witted mortal incapable of understanding his grand vision. "Precisely because it holds the largest, most concentrated collection of 'trash' in this world, it's the place most worth 'cleaning up.' Isn't it?"
"You-!!" Garp nearly choked on Yas's matter-of-fact "twisted logic." He felt his fists clench, in the very literal sense of wanting to punch this bastard's head apart!
"Yas! Abandon that dangerous idea immediately!" Sengoku's equally shocked and furious roar came through the Den Den Mushi. "Attacking Impel Down is tantamount to declaring war on the World Government! That is absolutely forbidden!"
"Enough! Yas!" Sakazuki finally found his voice as well, forcing a trace of a powerful man's ferocity onto his deathly pale face. "Even as an Admiral, you have no authority to attack a facility allied with the Navy! That would be trampling on 'justice'!"
Yet,