One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Oh!"

Rorschach's body was thrown off the ground as if hit by a mountain, flying dozens of meters backward from the cell door in front of Barrett, before being stopped by Magellan's outstretched hand catching his back.

In the other cell, Barrett's tall body was completely engulfed by terrifying lightning.

Thick bolts of lightning crisscrossed his body, electrifying his golden hair so that each strand stood on end, resembling clusters of sword orchids reaching for the sky.

The prison uniform on his upper body was torn to shreds by lightning, revealing large areas of burn scars.

Barrett was bathed in the raging lightning, his skin charred black by the electricity.

But a wild and unrestrained smile appeared on his face.

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

"That felt great! That felt great!"

"Are you alright, Rorschach?"

Magellan looked at Rorschach with concern.

"I'm fine, Uncle Magellan."

Luo Xia shrank in size, frowning as he looked at the demonic figure bathed in lightning.

Douglas Barrett, the man who claims to have inherited Roger's power.

He possessed terrifying combat power comparable to Rayleigh, the Dark Lord, even in his teens.

After Roger's death, Barrett, having lost his purpose, went berserk at sea and was eventually captured by the Buster Call, a joint effort by Sengoku and Garp, and imprisoned in Impel Down!

Even with sea stone handcuffs, he is still an extremely dangerous man.

The true monsters of the Infinite Hell!

Beside Barrett, in the cell to the left, was a huge block of ice connected by a series of metal pipes.

Inside the ice, a bearded man was fast asleep with his eyes closed.

In the corner of the cell on the right, sat an elderly man with silver hair dressed in prison clothes.

Despite the fierce clash between Barrett and Rorschach, the silver-haired old man did not open his eyes and remained seated like a statue, completely still.

The violent shockwave from the collision didn't even flutter the hem of his clothes.

"Uncle Magellan, they should be killed. Keeping them alive is too dangerous."

Rorschach bent down and picked up Lark, taking a deep look at the three cells at the end of the corridor.

"Any one of those three who runs away would pose a hundred times greater threat to the world than Basquejote, Abaropizaro, or Katrin Deppon!"

"What if another prison break like the Golden Lion's happens..."

Magellan picked up Law and sighed.

"Bondewald's Multiply Fruit is too terrifying, possessing the power to destroy the world. We absolutely cannot kill him easily until the Navy develops the technology to remove the fruit's power."

"The same applies to Douglas Barrett's Fusion Fruit."

"As for Red Earl, I don't know what the World Government is thinking. Do they want to win over Lone Red?"

As he spoke, Magellan clenched his fist, his expression turning serious.

"However, with me here to guard this place, I will absolutely not allow a prison break like the Golden Lion's to happen again!"

"These criminals will only be able to escape Impel Down by stepping over my dead body!"

Chapter 177 The Vanished Giant

"Hey, what are you daydreaming about?"

In Magellan's scorching office, looking at Rorschach who had been sitting there like a stone statue for ages, Luo, leaning back on the sofa, finally couldn't help but speak.

Ever since he came back from his trip to Infinite Hell, this kid has been sitting there in a daze.

He didn't even drink the delicious pufferfish soup that Magellan had sent him.

Luo Xia lowered his head, examining his slender hands, his voice somewhat low, "I'm thinking about how far I am from becoming a general. My current strength is still too weak."

Luo: "..."

A big question mark appeared on Luo's forehead.

It's hard.

His fist hardened.

Are you serious?

"Of course I'm serious."

Rorschach turned his head to the side. "You've seen the situation in Infinite Hell. Although there are a lot of trash in there, the vast majority of the prisoners are exceptionally fierce."

"Even more monsters exist, such as Douglas Barrett, Wald, and the Red Earl."

"With my meager strength, I can't even get close to the devil's offspring. They can kill me from a distance with their domineering aura while I'm locked in a cell."

Luo stared intently at Luo Xia's facial expression, confirming that he was indeed not in Versailles. His lips moved slightly, as if constipated, and he uttered a few words stiffly.

"You knocked Shiryu of the Rain, the warden of Impel Down, unconscious."

"The barrel of beer with a bounty of hundreds of millions of pesos more than a decade ago was turned into charcoal by you."

"The wicked king who ravaged millions of people with cholera, the evil Xuan Yue hunter, has been beaten half to death by you."

"You fucking think you're too weak?"

Luo really wants to hit someone right now.

Rorschach sighed and shook his head, saying:

"Don't be fooled by how easily I killed the big barrel and crippled the evil king and the moon hunter."

"That's because they've been imprisoned in Impel Down for over ten years, their bodies are extremely weak, and they're still wearing seastone handcuffs."

"As for Shiliu, it was because he was too arrogant that he was defeated so quickly."

"Now I understand why Uncle Sakazuki didn't want me to be his adjutant: he genuinely thought I was too weak. Going to the New World would only make me a burden to him."

He suddenly clenched his fist, and silver lightning flashed in his eyes.

"Next time, I won't let myself feel powerless in front of those great pirates!"

"If Barrett could fight Rayleigh to a draw at the age of fifteen, then why can't I?"

"There are still six months until I turn fifteen, so I must train even harder!"

Luo's lips twitched, but then he deflated completely like a punctured balloon, collapsing into the soft sofa.

"Hmm? What's wrong? Luo, why have you suddenly become so downcast?"

Rorschach was stunned.

Luo waved his hand weakly: "It's nothing, I'm just a little tired."

"Oh, then you should get some rest. You were indeed injured today."

Rorschach nodded, stood up, regained his fighting spirit, and walked towards the door.

"I'll go check on Palmer. If he's alright, we'll set off again first thing tomorrow morning for our next destination. Staying in Impel Down won't improve our strength."

Watching Luo Xia push open the door and leave, Luo took off his hat and covered his face with it.

...

...

"Hey? Isn't this Colonel Rorschach? Have you rested well? Are you hungry? Should I have dinner prepared right now?"

As soon as Rorschach stepped out of Magellan's office, he heard Hannibal's smug voice.

Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw Hannibal, with a big belly and a face as smiling as a chrysanthemum, coming up from the alleyway not far away, taking out a folding fan, opening it, and fanning him.

Rorschach glanced at him, puzzled, not understanding why Hannibal was suddenly being so attentive to him.

"No need, no need. We can eat together after Uncle Magellan, Warden Satie, and Warden Domino are all done."

Hannibal rolled his eyes, shaking his large belly up and down. "Is having diarrhea considered being busy? I think Marshal Sengoku should consider replacing him with a new director who can work more than eight hours a day, instead of a director with diarrhea who spends ten hours a day squatting in the toilet."

"Hannibal, you have a really sharp tongue."

Rorschach was speechless.

Hannibal is really stubborn.

How many times has this been poisoned today?

They haven't learned their lesson yet.

Do you really think Magellan doesn't have Observation Haki?

Sure enough, as soon as Hannibal uttered his sarcastic remark, Magellan's roar echoed from the toilet at the end of the corridor.

"Hannibal!"

"Whoa! Run! The chief is furious!"

Hannibal was startled and quickly scrambled out of the alleyway, leaving Rorschach behind.

However, Rorschach knew that Hannibal's sarcastic remark was purely out of sarcasm.

It wasn't really meant to criticize Magellan.

In reality, Hannibal held Magellan in high esteem.

Magellan was like a brother and a father to him.

Of course, wanting to become the director is absolutely true...

The medical laboratory in Impel Down is located to the right of the elevator shaft, more than 300 meters from Magellan's director's office, right next to the food storage room.

After Rorschach inquired with the jailers along the way and learned that the giant Palmer had been in the infirmary because his right hand was seriously injured by Shiryu, he went straight over here.

But when he pushed open the door to the infirmary and went inside, he found that the doctor in the white coat and the hot nurse were both lying on the table, seemingly fast asleep.