"Cheers!"
On the sixth level, in the Infinite cafeteria.
Over a hundred pirates, led by Buggy, sat around the table, raising their glasses, each with a smile of pure happiness on their faces.
How many years had it been?
Locked away in the dark Impel Down, some had even contemplated suicide, but they never imagined they could one day have a party in this wretched place.
"This food… is really delicious…"
"Yeah, every time I smell this aroma, I can't help but drool."
Watching the food slowly boil in the pot, the prisoners couldn't help but sigh.
"If we really escape, what if we can't eat this kind of food again?" one prisoner couldn't help but say.
Hearing this, Buggy immediately turned his head and glared at him.
"Idiot, if you're outside, you can eat whatever you want! In prison, you have to fight dozens or hundreds of battles to get tickets for hot pot. Which one is better, can't you tell?"
Buggy angrily lowered his voice and roared.
However, a few prisoners who were staring at the food in the pot, upon hearing Buggy's words, instinctively replied, "Is there anything tastier than hot pot?"
Buggy: (╬￣皿￣)
Five minutes later.
"Let's eat!"
With plates of beef, lamb, and fish slices on the table, everyone eagerly reached out with their chopsticks, following the method Vivian taught them, and started dipping the food into the pot.
Instantly, the sounds of chewing and moaning filled the entire dining hall.
About an hour and a half later, everyone had filled their stomachs, and Buggy raised his glass again, signaling the start of the drinking session.
At this moment, it was already three in the morning.
"Is it really okay to let them indulge like this?"
Hearing about the hot pot, Saldeath, who had come to help with the night watch, asked in confusion, "If they keep drinking until morning and Warden Magellan finds out…"
"Don't worry, they'll act by four at the latest."
Vivian said, roughly estimating the time, and looked at Saldeath. "Later, you and Domino will lead all the guards to seal off the sixth level exit. Leave the rest to Zoro and me."
"Can you really handle it? Should we call Uncle Issho for help?" Saldeath asked worriedly.
Not to mention the prisoners on the sixth level, most of whom were notorious pirates with bounties over a hundred million, but Zoro…
That green-haired guy, isn't he a prisoner too?
If these guys really plan to escape as Vivian guessed, why would Zoro help Vivian catch them? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to escape with them?
"No need. Uncle Issho is old and needs more rest," Vivian said with a smile.
Seeing Vivian's calm expression, Saldeath's previously anxious heart immediately settled down.
They all knew that Vivian never did anything he wasn't confident about.
"It's time to teach these guys a lesson."
…
Four in the morning.
The entire sixth level, except for the cafeteria, was eerily quiet.
Over a hundred prisoners lay sprawled on the ground, the pungent smell of alcohol filling every corner.
After a while, seeing no guards coming to clean up, a few prisoners suddenly opened their eyes and got up. "Boss Buggy?"
Hearing this, Buggy also sat up, looked around, and lowered his voice. "Is everything ready?"
"Yes, we're just waiting for your signal," the prisoners nodded.
"Good…"
Buggy clenched his fist.
As soon as he finished speaking.
Boom—!
Flames instantly engulfed the entire cafeteria.
As the prisoners screamed and rushed out the door, the "cell dormitory" behind the school building also erupted into chaos.
"Someone's escaping!"
A guard responsible for watching the door shouted in alarm.
The next second, the tightly closed cell door was somehow opened, and a large number of pirates with Seastone handcuffs rushed out, subduing several guards in the hallway in the blink of an eye.
"Finally… our turn?"
It had been over twenty years since the legendary Golden Lion escaped from Impel Down.
In those twenty years, many had tried to escape, but only Shiryu of the Rain, with the help of the Warlord Blackbeard, had barely managed to slip out.
Even so, Blackbeard paid a heavy price, almost losing his life.
"This prison break, if it fails, there might not be another chance."
The speaker was Catarina Devon, a female prisoner who had been brutally whipped by Domino in her cell.
"Why?" someone asked.
"Because if you fail to escape, you are very likely to be executed."
She had seen it with her own eyes: a pirate on the sixth level killed a guard, tried to escape with the keys, but was publicly executed by then Deputy Warden Shiryu of the Rain.
First, his limbs were slowly cut off, then his head was chopped off and hung at the cell door as a warning.
That scene, though years had passed, was still vivid in her mind.
She had thought that as a pirate, she had seen all the bloodshed in the world, but Shiryu's cruelty still surprised her.
Would that guy named Vivian be as ruthless as Shiryu?
Despite spending over a year with him on the sixth level, Devon still felt she couldn't see through that man…
"What are you afraid of? Now all the pirates on the sixth level are released, plus those from other levels doing 'hard labor' here. Are we really afraid of a little chief warden?"
As long as they quickly dealt with Vivian without alerting Magellan or that blind old man, escaping from Impel Down would be easy, right?
"Hurry, find the keys to unlock the Seastone handcuffs."
With that, the prisoners immediately searched the fallen guards. Moments later, someone came over with six keys, saying, "I think these are all of them."
"Only six?"
"Yeah, they only have the keys for the sixth level handcuffs."
"That's enough." A voice suddenly came from the shadows.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged man with a cigar in his mouth, a long horizontal scar on his face, and a golden hook for a left hand.
"Crocodile?"
"The former Warlord of the Sea…"
The prisoners squinted their eyes.
Six pirates with bounties over a billion, plus a former Warlord of the Sea…
Vivian, a little chief warden, probably wasn't qualified to handle this, right?
They thought to themselves.