One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Akainu ignored him and turned to walk downstairs.

"Let's go to Impel Down."

"How heartless Uncle Sakazuki! I'm going to a dark and hopeless deep-sea prison. The days ahead are going to be terrible."

Rorschach sighed, slowly stood up, jumped off the spire, and chased after Akainu. Behind him, he whispered, "Uncle Sakazuki, do you think the strange landscape on Enies Lobby was caused by the Holy Mother's fire strike?"

Akainu did not turn around, but he answered Rorschach's question.

His voice was deep and powerful, “Vegapunk’s Mother’s Flame was only developed a few years ago.”

Akainu uttered this seemingly random sentence, but Rorschach's pupils contracted upon hearing it.

Rorschach understood the hidden meaning in Akainu's words.

The Flame of Our Lady was only discovered a few years ago, while Enies Lobby has stood here for hundreds of years.

But the bottomless abyss here, like a sinkhole, looks like the kind of effect that could only be created by a super-powerful energy weapon like the Virgin Mary's Flame.

Therefore, the world government truly holds a trump card that can overturn the table.

It might just be the legendary Uranus.

A dozen minutes later, under Akainu's decisive leadership, all the marines on the five warships responsible for escorting Rorschach, as well as several CP0 agents, boarded the warships docked at the shore again, started the steam engines, and prepared to set off for their destination, Impel Down.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Rorschach will spend the next year there.

As the marines poured out of the island and boarded the warships one after another, and as Luo Xia stood out conspicuously in the crowd, reporters immediately appeared on the dozen or so ships that had been waiting for several days off the island. They shouted and asked about Luo Xia's verdict while snapping photos.

Upon seeing Rorschach appear and board the warship under CP0 escort, Vivi, Iceberg, and the others disregarded the danger and quickly maneuvered their ship closer.

Vivi stood at the bow of the boat, raised her right hand, waved it vigorously in Rorschach's direction, and shouted urgently:

"Brother Luo Xia!"

Rorschach sighed, walked to the side of the warship, and looked over.

He saw Hawkins, Soron, Iceberg, Sera, Vivi, and others, all standing on the Carrera Company ship, looking in his direction.

Rorschach waved back.

"I'm so sorry to have taken up so many of your time. Thank you all for coming all this way to see me. I... see you again in a year."

As he spoke, the corners of his mouth turned up, revealing a bright smile.

"A year?"

Hawkins fiddled with the tarot cards in his hand, saying without looking up, "Your chances of dying this year are... zero."

"Hawkins, you're getting more and more of a charlatan," Rorschach chuckled.

"Then let's meet again in a year. I think you'll be a man of your word. In a year, I'll challenge you!" Zoro flicked his fingers, drawing his sword, Autumn Water, halfway from its sheath, radiating a sharp fighting spirit as he stared intently at Rorschach.

"Challenge me? You'd better work twice as hard, Zoro. Before that, defeat Hawkins first."

Rorschach smiled.

Iceberg looked at the shackles on Luo Xia's wrists, sighed inwardly, and still said, "Is there anything wrong with your ship? If there is any damage, have someone bring the ship over, and I'll check and repair it for you."

Rorschach's lips curled into a smile. "Free?"

Iceberg was taken aback, then shook his head and smiled wryly, "Free!"

"Okay! I'll have Luo contact you."

Luo Xia chatted with his friends who came to visit him one by one. The warship beneath his feet did not stop for them and was slowly sailing away from the shore of Enies Lobby, heading into the distance.

Luo Xia looked at Weiwei, who was standing in the crowd biting her lip, and a gentle look appeared in his eyes. He waved and said, "Weiwei! Good luck! See you in a year. I think I will see a graceful desert queen by then."

"Brother Luo Xia! Weiwei... Weiwei will definitely do her best! You also need to take care of yourself, Weiwei will be waiting for you to come out!"

Upon hearing Luo Xia's words, Vivi finally couldn't hold back anymore, and tears welled up in her eyes as she waved her hands vigorously.

Through blurry tears, Luo Xia's figure gradually disappeared from sight.

On the warship, Black Horse looked on with a mocking expression.

"You little rascal, you really have a way with women. Cobra's precious daughter is completely smitten with you, and there's that Rebecca, King Riku's granddaughter, and that Sera, right? Jonathan's granddaughter, and... Waaah, what are you doing, stop it!"

Luo Xia's face turned as black as ink. He could no longer hold back and flung out the sea stone chain in his hand, which strangled the black horse's neck and pulled it over, causing the black horse to roll its eyes back.

"If you keep spouting nonsense, I'll kill you today, Director of the Naval Criminal Investigation Bureau. Whether you serve a year or ten, it's all the same. Mr. Black Horse, I doubt you'd want to be accidentally killed by a blood-soaked naval butcher, would you?"

As he spoke, Luo Xia pulled on his wrist.

"Hey! You disrespectful brat, let me go if you dare, let's fight one-on-one!"

"A one-on-one fight, huh?"

Bang!

"Trying to sneak into my dreams and cause trouble again, huh?"

Bang!

"You're being disrespectful to your elders, aren't you?"

Bang!

Half an hour later, the black horse, covered in bumps and with dark circles under its eyes, raised its hands.

"I surrender, Rorschach, you brat, what did you eat to grow up like this? This strength is almost on par with Sakazuki, ugh... you really went all out."

Two days later.

"Reporting to Admiral Akainu! The Gates of Justice in Impel Down have been authorized to open. Request immediate passage!"

A marine stood on the watchtower and shouted.

"Pass immediately!" Akainu said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Five warships filed in, passing through a tiny gap in the massive Gate of Justice, and entered the Calm Belt waters where Impel Down was located.

Upon arriving here, people with exceptional eyesight and wide-ranging Observation Haki, like Rorschach and Akainu, could already see the black fortress rising above the sea at the edge of their line of sight.

At the sea entrance to Impel Down, Warden Magellan and Deputy Warden Hannibal, along with a large number of Impel Down guards, awaited the arrival of their warships.

Rorschach, standing on the bow of the warship, suddenly trembled and looked up at the approaching Impel Down port.

There, at the very front of Magellan and his group, a pretty young girl with tears still wet on her cheeks was craning her neck and looking in their direction.

Upon seeing Luo Xia appear at the bow of the warship, Yun Que's worries that had accumulated in her heart over the past few days vanished instantly, and a wronged smile appeared on her pale face.

Before the warships even docked, she moved swiftly, transforming into a white cloud and flying away.

"Brother Luo Xia!"

"lark!"

Rorschach opened his wide arms and embraced the girl who rushed towards him, completely ignoring Akainu's dark face behind him. Right in front of the deep-sea prison, he and Hibari hugged tightly.

On September 15th, 1518 of the Sea Calendar, Vice Admiral Rorschach of Bluescale was imprisoned in the sixth level of Impel Down, Infinite Hell, for seriously undermining the Shichibukai system and disobeying the World Government's orders.

The sentence is one year.

Chapter 569 Like Returning Home

Before night fell in the Calm Belt, the five warships that were responsible for escorting Rorschach to Impel Down gradually disappeared into the distance amidst the roar of their steam engines.

Luo Xia stood quietly at the port, watching the graceful figure gradually disappear into the distance until the warship vanished through the open Gates of Justice, before turning his gaze away with a sense of loss.

Rorschach hadn't expected that Lark would arrive at Impel Down ahead of him and be waiting for him.

That chubby Sentomaru is really unreliable. His mouth is as loose as a CP9 owl's, and he actually let Hibari know about his mess, which scared the girl so much that she cried in his arms for a full half hour. This made Luo Xia fully experience the invisible resentment from an old father behind him.

Not only that, the little girl stubbornly wanted to stay and spend time in Impel Down with him.

Luo Xia clearly felt that the air temperature on the warship suddenly increased by more than ten degrees the moment Yun Que said those words, which frightened him so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.

After much comforting and persuasion, Lark reluctantly gave up the idea of ​​staying with him and returned to the New World with her father to continue receiving treatment from Vegapunk on Egg Point Island before returning to G5.

"Rorschach, are you a little nervous? You're about to spend a year in Impel Down, this dark and gloomy deep-sea prison."

Magellan's voice came from behind, dispelling the slight melancholy in Rorschach's heart.

He smiled slightly and turned to look at Magellan, Hannibal, Sadie Jr., Domino, and the others.

"Uncle Magellan is joking. Impel Down is just like Marineford to me. Now that I'm back here, I feel more relaxed than ever before. I don't feel a single psychological burden at all. It's like coming home. Everyone here is so nice. I love it here."

"Hahaha, well said! Impel Down is your home. Alright, stop standing there like an idiot, come inside with us. A grand welcome banquet has been prepared, and Ronz and the others are here too. We're going to have a good chat tonight, and drink until we drop. Don't worry, you'll only feel more free here than you do outside."

Magellan burst into laughter upon hearing this, his old face appearing quite ferocious, but in Rorschach's eyes, it was incredibly endearing.

Hannibal, with a smug grin, came over, holding a seastone key, and was about to unlock the seastone shackles on Rorschach's wrists.

"Lieutenant General Rorschach, let me help you unlock these Seastone handcuffs."

Rorschach hesitated for a moment, then turned to Magellan, "Wouldn't this be inappropriate, Uncle Magellan? I am, after all, a prisoner."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Magellan slapped him hard on the shoulder with his large hand. The force was so great that it almost cracked the wooden plank beneath his feet, but Rorschach remained completely unmoved.

"What prisoner? We're not blind. Do you think we don't know whether you've committed a crime or not? Humph! Even if you have, I'm in charge here in Impel Down. If anything happens because of this, I'll take full responsibility."

Seeing Magellan's anger, Rorschach knew he couldn't say anything more and could only shake his head and smile bitterly as Hannibal unlocked the seastone shackles on his hands and took them away.

Without the Seastone suppressing the Devil Fruit's energy, Rorschach immediately felt a surge of powerful energy within him.

The feeling of being filled with the power of lightning, permeating every cell of your body, always makes you want to vent it all out.

"Ok?"

As Luo Xia sensed the intensity of the electric current within his body, a slight thought suddenly struck him.

He could clearly sense the intensity of the lightning accumulated within his body. In the short few days since leaving the new world, it had increased by several million volts and was slowly approaching a lightning intensity of nine hundred million volts.

Their physical strength also increased significantly.

This gave Rorschach a pleasant surprise.

During his previous months at G5, no matter how much he honed his skills, his progress was still somewhat unsatisfactory.

It took him three or four months to go from a current intensity of 600 million volts to 800 million volts, and the time required for each subsequent increase was longer.

This troubled him somewhat.