"Are you the Thunder Swordsman of the Navy, Vivian?"
"Hiss~~ What's up? Huh!" Vivian bared his teeth and turned to look at Jinbe.
Jinbe: "…"
Seeing Vivian's puzzled expression, as if he had been stopped by a passerby, Jinbe was a bit dumbfounded.
Wait, I'm also a prisoner in the sixth level of the prison. Aren't you planning to take me back?
He thought to himself.
But instead, he said, "I heard that during the battle at the top, you single-handedly stopped the Whitebeard Pirates' Phoenix, Marco."
"So what? Do you want to avenge Ace?" Vivian raised an eyebrow.
Hearing this, Jinbe clenched his fists but then sighed and said, "I want to go to Ace's grave and lay a bouquet of flowers. After that, I will return to this sixth level of the underwater prison and continue serving my sentence."
Vivian: ???
Seeing Jinbe's sincere expression, Vivian began to doubt his ears.
"Are you saying that after you leave here, you'll come back on your own?"
"That's right." Jinbe nodded, "Since I was sent here for disobeying the World Government's orders, I should accept this punishment."
The relationship between the Fish-Man race and humans had only slightly improved after he became a Shichibukai. He didn't want his escape to worsen the situation.
This was his entire thought at the moment.
Hearing this, Vivian scratched the back of his head and said, "Suit yourself. If you can escape, whether you come back or not is up to you."
"Won't you stop me?" Jinbe asked.
"Stop you?"
Vivian pointed to the blood on his body, "Can't you see I'm seriously injured right now?"
With that, he ignored the stunned Zoro and Jinbe and dashed towards the stairs.
…
One minute later.
In the stairway between the sixth and fifth levels of the underwater prison.
Vivian stood on the steps, facing an ordinary-looking wall. He drew his sword, Blood Demon, and slashed forward.
Zzzzz—!
In an instant, lightning flashed, and the surrounding walls shattered, revealing an entrance.
Before Vivian could enter, a figure with a purple afro, a huge face, and bizarre makeup and attire appeared at the entrance.
Vivian took a closer look and realized it was none other than the Revolutionary Army's officer, known as the Okama King, Emporio Ivankov.
As Vivian scrutinized Ivankov, Ivankov was also examining Vivian.
Ivankov had been napping in the Okama Paradise but was awakened by the loud noise from downstairs. Worried, Ivankov ran to the passage by the wall to listen carefully.
First, Buggy led over fifty prisoners past, followed by a group of jailers. After a while, Ivankov thought it was just a prison break and that no one would find their way here. But then, the wall at the entrance was completely destroyed.
Seeing the young man in a jailer's uniform standing outside, Ivankov's heart grew heavy.
"I can't let him leave here alive!"
Just as this thought emerged, the jailer suddenly asked, "Are you the Okama King, Ivankov? If you want to escape from Impel Down, you better hurry. If you delay any longer, you won't have the chance."
Ivankov: ???
What does this mean?
Is this little prison guard joking with me?
"Who are you?"
"I'm Vivian, the warden of the sixth level of the prison."
Vivian grinned wickedly and said, "Of course, if you don't want to leave, that's fine too."
With that, without waiting for Ivankov's reaction, he used the Navy's "Soru" technique and instantly disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Ivankov: (⊙?⊙)?
About ten seconds later.
"Oh no!"
"What is it, Lord Ivankov?!"
"That kid will expose our location!"
"What should we do?" The anxious okama who had come running asked.
Ivankov was silent for a moment.
After a while.
"Go, call all the sisters inside, and let's fight our way out of here!"
"Fight our way out?"
Is Lord Ivankov finally going to lead us in a prison break?
"Sisters, come out and line up, get ready to fight!"
"Yes!"
…
Impel Down, Level 4, the Blazing Hell.
Having learned that there was a prison break on the sixth level, Magellan woke up from his bed, first rushing to his luxurious toilet. After a very satisfying bowel movement and a sitz bath, he put on his warden's uniform and went to the stairway, waiting for the prisoners to arrive.
"Where's Vivian?" Magellan asked the guards.
"Reporting, Warden. According to the surveillance, Deputy Warden Vivian was seriously injured by a prisoner named Buggy and should still be on the sixth level."
"Buggy?"
Magellan began to recall the prisoners on the sixth level, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't remember who Buggy was. He looked at the guard again and asked, "Who is Buggy? A big pirate from the New World who arrived recently?"
"No."
The guard shook his head, "He was captured in Loguetown in the East Blue. His bounty was only 15 million Berries. He's been in the prison for almost two years, always held on the first level, the Crimson Hell."
"15 million Berries?" Magellan frowned upon hearing this.
A pirate with a bounty of 15 million Berries, from the East Blue, could seriously injure Vivian?
Is this a joke?
"Yes. But we just received news that this prisoner named Buggy was apparently a crew member on the Pirate King Roger's ship," the guard continued.
"On Roger's ship?" Magellan's eyes widened upon hearing this.
Just as they finished speaking.
"Charge!"
"Break out of Impel Down!"
With loud and imposing shouts, Buggy appeared at the stairway on the fourth level. Surrounded by a group of prisoner followers, he approached Magellan with his head held high and a smug look on his face.