I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

There were two fish-men inside, each wrapped in bandages, who were startled by the sound of the door being pushed open.

"Pappas? How is he?"

"Any news? Where did those bastards in the navy take Boss Agai?"

"Is Boss Agai alright?"

The cloaked fishman Pappas removed his cloak and nodded, saying, "It's alright for now. The navy didn't execute Boss Agai directly; they should send him to Impel Down!"

Impel Down?

What place is that?

“An underwater prison,” Pappas replied. “It was built about a year ago and isn’t well-known, but in the past year, several notorious pirates with bounties of over a hundred million have been captured and transported there by the Navy. Boss Agai will definitely be there too!”

"An underwater prison?"

"seabed?"

The two fishmen stared at each other, itching to make a move.

Do you know the exact location?

Pappas: "In the Calm Belt, not far from Marine Headquarters, it's probably very dangerous."

The Calm Belt... Although fish-men can swim freely in the ocean, and underwater prisons are actually advantageous terrain for them, the giant sea kings in the Calm Belt do not recognize them as their own kind.

"Boss Agai was captured by the Navy because of us, we must save him!" a fishman gritted his teeth and said, "You're afraid of dying, but I'm not!"

"Of course we must save them!" Pappas said. "But you are injured and need to recover in a couple of days before going. We need to figure out a way to go! The island is also swarming with the navy searching for us. Do you want Boss Agai's sacrifice to be in vain?!"

"……way?"

"The Calm Belt, damn it... The Navy is relying on its technology to navigate safely in the Calm Belt..."

A fish-man suddenly murmured, "What if we follow behind the navy ships..."

The three fishmen's eyes lit up.

This method is at least a hundred times more feasible than just recklessly swimming across!

Chapter Five: A Dangerous Encounter

A supply ship will arrive in four days.

Following the order, it was the turn of the prison guards on the third floor to carry supplies. Captain Xiao led 17 prison guards, excluding the three on patrol, onto the sea platform.

While waiting for the ship to arrive, Xiao would occasionally glance back at the exit of Impel Down. Sure enough, as he expected, Figo arrived before the supply ship.

"Chief Figo, here to help again?" The jailers on the third floor greeted him warmly.

Figo wasn't just enthusiastic about escorting and detaining prisoners—that would be too conspicuous—he would also do such things whenever he had free time, since it wasn't very tiring anyway.

However, he wasn't there to help this time.

He unbuttoned his shirt, took off his uniform jacket and hung it on the baptismal chamber doorknob, revealing his undershirt and highlighting his well-defined muscles.

“I’m not here to help this time. I’ll have to trouble the brothers to make a couple more trips. It’s a bit too hot in the city. I’d like to take a swim when the supply ship arrives,” Figo said.

This is nothing special.

Impel Down is practically isolated from the world; staying there for too long can drive people crazy. Many people have taken advantage of supply ships to leave Impel Down, go for a swim, and breathe in some fresh air.

No one took Figo's help for granted out of gratitude; the guards responded with understanding and even joked that they wanted to find an opportunity to compete with Figo in swimming.

Xiao stood silently at the edge, unable to get a word in edgewise, and was somewhat unhappy.

The deeper you go into Impel Down, the stronger the prisoners become. In terms of rank, the three squads in the first three floors are equal, but as the squad leader of the third floor, he always felt that he was stronger than Figo and the second squad leader.

He was slightly aloof when facing ordinary marine prison guards. But seeing his own squad's guards so familiar with Figo, the captain of the First Division, left him with a somewhat indescribable feeling.

It wasn't jealousy, just disdain: 'This pretentious guy, he's just after the deputy warden position...how hypocritical.'

"Perhaps Captain Figo wants to do what the warden did and kill a Sea King to make a meal for everyone?" he said with a forced smile.

The sea platform fell silent.

Figo turned his head and looked over, then laughed and said, "I don't have that ability, Commander Xiao."

Xiao chuckled and said, "Ah, that's right. Even if Captain Figo is going to kill something, he'll have to kill a large sea king to give everyone an extra meal. You can eat most of the small ones by yourself. But if you go and hunt a large sea king, you'll have to give them an extra meal!"

It was supposed to be a joke, but Xiao didn't use a joking tone; he spoke with a serious tone, as if he were subtly mocking Figo for being a good-for-nothing.

The unusual atmosphere became very obvious.

Figo paused, his gaze towards Xiao now showing a hint of consideration. He wasn't familiar with Xiao, but they had never clashed either; over the past year, they had barely maintained a nodding acquaintance.

What's wrong with this guy? Considering his year-long term was coming to an end and some rumors, Figo gave a light "oh" and said, "You want to be the deputy warden? You think I'm in your way, is that it?"

A remarkably straightforward statement was uttered.

The atmosphere became even more subtle.

The jailers kept their eyes down and their minds at ease.

Impel Down is only so big, so the jailers are the first to know about any disturbances.

With Chief Warden Raul about to leave and Kincho taking over, the position of Deputy Chief Warden will be vacant. If no one is transferred from the Marine Headquarters or the World Government, then one of the three gang leaders will definitely fill the vacancy.

They naturally supported Figo, who fought alongside them every day on the front lines of escorting pirates.

But being of low status, he dared not interrupt, only daring to steal glances at Xiao's expression, hoping to see him make a fool of himself.

Xiao's face was flushed red, and he couldn't hide it.

The competition will begin in three days, and I really didn't intend to hide anything.

But how could Figo dare to be so direct?!

This is an insult to justice! An insult to justice!

Fortunately, the arriving supply ship helped Xiao escape his extremely awkward situation.

He roared, "Prepare to receive the ship!"

He stopped looking at Figo altogether, seemingly trying to make the guards forget what had happened by yelling at them.

Figo ignored him. In a world where strength reigns supreme, who would bother with your sarcastic banter? He simply stripped down to his light clothing and climbed onto the ship's roof.

His goal this time was simple—to test the effects of the Murloc Power he had obtained four days earlier.

After greeting the captain of the supply ship, Figo tiptoed and leaped into the water, making a tiny splash, like a nimble fish disappearing into the water.

He is a very good swimmer.

But this time, as his body was enveloped by the seawater, Figo immediately felt something different. A sense of comfort, almost instinctive, welled up inside him, and as he gently moved his arms, the resistance of the seawater seemed to vanish!

Unable to breathe through his mouth and nose in the seawater, Figo's skin took over the breathing function, absorbing oxygen from the seawater, allowing him to feel almost no shortness of breath or suffocation, as if walking on flat ground!

Figo felt as if he had transformed into a fish, and the sea had become his home!

Is that really the case?

Is the strength of a fish-man roughly equivalent to underwater breathing?

No, perhaps it's more than that.

No wonder it's marked as rare!

In the pirate world where most of the land is the ocean, this ability is incredibly precious!

Figo was pleasantly surprised.

The next moment, Figo suddenly felt an unusual wave of ocean current behind him, as if a rather large fish was crashing into him.

This is also an effect of the fish-man's power, making Figo more sensitive to the fluctuations of the ocean currents.

His body moved faster than his thoughts; Figo swung his hands backward, his body swaying like a nimble swordfish in the sea, creating a distance.

Sure enough, no sooner had he left than a massive body rushed past where he had been standing.

But it wasn't a sea fish.

Figo stared in astonishment at the fish-man with a human torso and a fish head: 'A fathead fish? No, a fellow fish?!'

Then he noticed something else. His eyes darted left and right, and he saw that the other two fishmen and the fishman who had attacked him from behind were sandwiched in a triangle between them. The six fish eyes were flashing with ferocity!

Two minutes ago.

The three mermen who came to rescue Agai clung tightly to the supply ship and followed him outside Impel Down.

Once the supply ship had docked safely, the three fishmen were ready to go, but just as they were about to take action, one of them suddenly jumped off the ship.

After a brief moment of stunned surprise, the fishman closest to Figo immediately attacked him from behind, but unexpectedly...

"They actually managed to dodge it?"

"He's a very perceptive guy..."

"Kill him quickly, and don't make a sound!"

Fish-men can communicate underwater, while humans cannot. As long as Figo doesn't surface to warn them, their actions won't be exposed prematurely!

Figo then roughly understood why they had appeared and couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

If the murloc that attacked him had been twice as fast...

Hmm, and the power doubles as well...

Uh, if I also brought a weapon...

I'm afraid I'm going to get hurt!

Therefore, Figo's gaze toward the three fishmen also turned hostile. He clenched his right fist, and muscles on his arm, like gnarled old tree branches, bulged out!

The three fishmen rushing towards him instantly felt a subtle sense of foreboding. The moment Figo threw his punch, their unease intensified as they felt the surging ocean currents crashing down with overwhelming force!

"what?!"

"Oh no! Run!"

Boom! In the calm, windless zone, waves suddenly surged on the tranquil sea, and the splashing spray soaked Xiao, who was standing by the side of the boat!

The bone-chilling cold gave him a jolt.

"W-What's going on?!"

Underwater, Figo, with three unconscious fishmen whose eyes had rolled back, quickly rose to the surface, his arms wrapped around them.