Sailing at Sea: The Breath of the Day at the Start

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The splattered blood was stopped by an invisible force as it approached Ron; a mere foot away, yet it felt like an insurmountable distance.

The criminals in the opposite cell witnessed this scene and were horrified, their faces turning pale and their bodies trembling.

"The smell of blood... Who has been killed?"

"What happened?"

The criminal's death thoroughly alarmed the endless hell of the sixth dark level.

The monitoring Den Den Mushi on this floor immediately triggered an alarm in the control room.

Magellan immediately realized what was happening.

"What happened on the sixth floor?!"

When he tried to check the Den Den Mushi (a type of security device), he found the screen was blank and he couldn't see what was happening there at all.

At this point, the sixth level is the Infinite Hell.

Ron, who had used his eye technique to destroy the surveillance Den Den Mushi, strolled leisurely through the darkness.

Wherever he went.

Inside the cages on both sides, the most heinous criminals screamed in agony as they were crushed and mashed into bloody pulp by the immense and astonishing pressure.

The entire sixth floor was filled with a strong smell of blood.

Ace and Jinbe stared in the direction from which the smell of blood was coming, cold sweat dripping down their foreheads.

"What exactly happened?"

They could sense a terrifying aura gradually approaching.

Wherever it went, the most vicious criminals died screaming in agony.

It was as if a grim reaper, who held the power of death, was reaping the lives of sinners.

soon.

The entire sixth floor fell silent.

It was dead silent.

Only the overwhelming stench of blood remained, continuing to spread.

Footsteps gradually approached Ace and Jinbe. Before their trembling eyes, a tall, immaculate figure emerged from the darkness, walked to the front of the deepest cell, and appeared before them.

The man looked at Ace, who was chained to a cage with seastone, and laughed:

"Yo, Ace."

Ace stared at Ron standing in front of him, his eyes widening as if he had seen a ghost.

"Ron?!"

Jinbe was also taken aback, staring in shock at Ron standing outside Ace's cage.

Is this the traveler Ron?!

"Why are you here?!"

Ace couldn't help but ask Ron.

"Don't worry about it, I just came to see you."

Ron smiled at him and said, "You haven't lost much weight. Looks like you've been doing well lately."

"Has old man Garp been here?"

Ace nodded, his expression somewhat complicated.

"Is that so... Did he tell you about the current situation outside?"

Ace nodded, then suddenly realized what he was doing and quickly said to Ron:

"By the way, now that you're here, hurry up and help me open the cell and these damned sea stone shackles. I need to get out of here and go back to stop my father and the others!"

Jinbe's eyes lit up as he looked at Ron hopefully and said, "If we can rescue Brother Ace now, we might still be able to stop this war."

"Stop this war?"

Ron smiled upon hearing this, "I didn't come here to stop this war."

Ace and Jinbe were taken aback by what they heard.

"What did you say?"

Ron gazed at Ace and Jinbe with his eerie blue eyes and said calmly, "This war is necessary for me, so I will not stop it. Ace, I will save you, but not now."

Ace stared blankly at Ron in front of him.

“I’ve come here for you.” Ron looked at Jinbe and smiled. “Knight of the Sea, Jinbe, right? As one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, you are a formidable force. I hope you will join my side.”

Jinbe frowned, looking at him with a puzzled expression:

"What do you mean?"

Ace couldn't help but ask him, "Ron, what exactly are you trying to do?"

Ron gripped the steel cell door that held Jinbe and Ace in place with both hands, and with a simple pull, he ripped it open completely and stepped inside.

"I'll tell you the specifics later at Marineford. People are here now."

His Observation Haki had already detected that Magellan and the others had arrived at the sixth level.

In front of Ace.

Ron reached out and grabbed Jinbe, who was bound, and smiled at him, saying:

Goodbye Marineford.

Immediately, a dazzling light flashed in Ron's azure eyes, and the space around the two of them distorted and disappeared.

Ace was left standing there dumbfounded, completely bewildered.

203, the so-called companions

Jinbe disappeared, and the rest of the criminals all died tragically.

Magellan sealed off the entire Impel Down, but still couldn't find a single clue, or even know who was behind it.

Ace remained silent in the face of their questions.

The events at Impel Down, once reported, also shocked the Navy's top brass.

"It could have been done by a user of a space-time Devil Fruit."

Lieutenant General Tsuru made a preliminary deduction.

But why did that person take away the insignificant Knight of the Sea Jinbe, but not the key figure at the center of this incident, Portgas D. Ace? That is somewhat puzzling.

"Whatever that person's intentions, we can't leave Ace alone in Impel Down any longer, Garp. You will stay in Impel Down and guard Ace until the day of his execution."

Sengoku said to Garp.

Garp did not refuse and went to Impel Down that very day.

Shiryu of the Rain led him to Ace's cell and then left.

In the desolate and deathly silent endless hell, only a grandfather and grandson remained, separated by an iron prison door.

"I never expected someone would break into this place."

Garp, draped in a cloak of justice, sat cross-legged in front of the cell, holding a bottle of liquor, and poured himself a bowl of wine.

"Many of the formidable and troublesome guys here were captured by me: the tyrannical king Abalo Pizarro, San Juan Wolf, Barrorick Redfield, Bacchus Chote, and that Bondi Wald. These guys were all near-legendary figures who were famous in their time. I never expected that they would all be wiped out in a single day..."

"Who on earth has such ability? I really can't imagine."

Garp downed the wine in his bowl in one gulp, looked at Ace and smiled, "Ace, you should know who did it, right? Tell your grandpa."

"Okay."

Ace grinned at him and said, "I'll tell you if you let me go from here."

The smile on Garp's face disappeared, and he lowered his head, his expression somewhat heavy.

"This is something I, as a veteran of the Navy, cannot do."

"Is it……"

Ace closed his eyes, a smile playing on his lips: "Then tell me about Luffy's recent situation. You didn't finish telling me last time."

"Haha, that's no problem."

…………

One day before Ace's public execution.

Zone 13, Sabaody Archipelago.

It was evening, in Xiaqi's tavern.

Sabo, Luffy, and a group of others stared intently at the Den Den Mushi on the counter.

After Sabo contacted Ron last time, they agreed to contact each other again on this day.