After everything settled back down, Jovian held Sadi in his arms, and everything suddenly seemed dull and tasteless.
"Next, a riot that will sweep through all of Impel Down is going to happen. Countless pirates will escape."
Jovian told Sadi what was about to happen.
"What?!"
"Then I have to hurry and inform Warden Magellan!"
Sadi's expression changed when she heard that, and she tried to break free from Jovian's arms.
"There's no need at all…"
Jovian stopped Sadi from moving, his expression carrying a hint of indifference.
"Why?!"
Sadi looked at Jovian in confusion.
"If we don't go now, then when countless pirates escape from Impel Down, the whole world will fall into chaos…"
"Mr. Jovian, do you really want to see that kind of chaos? I was wrong about you…"
Sadi spoke in an incomparably aggrieved tone. She had thought she already understood Jovian well enough, but now it seemed she had still been too naive.
"No. I'm merely pushing an era forward…"
"A new age is about to begin. Monsters on the sea are emerging one after another, while Impel Down is still immersed in the glory of having gone unbreached for eight hundred years. How can that be acceptable?"
"There must be a great warning, one that wakes Impel Down and Magellan from the glory of the past!"
"From now on, this place will become the safest, most unbreakable giant fortress in the world!"
"And as for every monster who escapes from Impel Down, I'll personally send every last one of them back."
Jovian gently stroked Sadi's hair and softly comforted her.
"As expected of Mr. Jovian. You had already calculated that far ahead!"
"That's true. Impel Down is too comfortable now. It has completely lost the tension it had in the past. We must wake up."
After Sadi listened to Jovian's words, she believed him.
"So relax, Sadi. Everything is part of my plan."
As Jovian spoke, he gently patted Sadi's pert backside, then stood and walked toward the sixth underground level.
"Watch my magnificent performance at the Summit War from Impel Down!"
After Jovian finished speaking, he left Sadi with an incomparably dashing view of his back.
"Of course."
Hearts appeared in Sadi's eyes as she said farewell to Jovian. If not for the fact that her duty was to guard Impel Down, she would have wanted to follow Jovian to the Summit War and watch properly.
"Goodbye, Sadi. Don't miss me too much…"
After Jovian finished speaking, he left Sadi with an incomparably dashing view of his back.
On the other side, Hancock, who had visited Ace and subtly passed along the message that someone was coming to save him, also came up on the elevator. Along with her was Impel Down's warden, Magellan.
"?!"
The instant Hancock saw Jovian, her gaze trembled slightly. She quickly walked up to Jovian and sniffed lightly a few times.
"There's another woman's scent?!"
Hancock looked at Jovian with a somewhat sharp gaze.
"It must be your imagination!"
"What kind of beautiful flower could possibly bloom in such a dark place?"
"Hahahaha…"
Jovian gently stroked his cheek and laughed loudly.
"I'll trust you for now…"
Hancock did not pursue the matter further and decided to believe Jovian for the moment.
"Let's go. To Marine Headquarters, Marineford! It's time to take part in the greatest war in the world!"
Jovian stroked his chin, seeming to treat the soon-to-erupt ultimate battle between the legendary great pirate, one of the current Four Emperors of the sea, the man known as the strongest man in the world, Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, and Marine Headquarters as his own performance show.
"Then let's go."
Hancock sighed and gently touched Jovian's shoulder.
"This man…"
Magellan, the man who came up with Hancock and was known as the strongest man in Impel Down, frowned as he looked at Jovian. His Observation Haki told him the man before him was unfathomable.
"Report, Warden Magellan! Something terrible has happened…"
Just as the group was chatting, several jailers found Magellan, hurried to him, and whispered into his ear.
"Hm?!"
"What…"
When Magellan heard them, his pupils suddenly trembled. His gaze swept across Hancock and Jovian before he finally shook his head. The two of them had been under surveillance the entire time. It was impossible for them to have done such a thing. In other words, the riot upstairs had been caused entirely by Straw Hat alone.
"Excuse me. I have other matters to deal with…"
Magellan's expression carried a bit of helplessness as he bid farewell to Jovian and Hancock.
"Looks like things have started upstairs…"
Jovian smiled as he watched Magellan leave.
"Please follow me this way, both of you. I'll escort you out of here…"
After Magellan left, Domino took on the role of guide for Jovian and Hancock, leading the way for them.
"Hahaha…"
"It seems Warden Magellan has urgent business."
"Then he should go handle it."
Jovian smiled indifferently and followed Domino toward the upper levels.
"…"
Hancock said nothing, her expression unchanged. She knew Luffy had begun taking action. However, she felt Luffy was somewhat overestimating himself. After all, Magellan was an opponent even she did not dare underestimate. How could a mere Supernova dare confront such a monster?
Without another word, Hancock and Jovian left Impel Down just like that. They boarded a Marine warship and headed toward Marine Headquarters.
Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
The face of the World Government. The symbol of justice.
The place where the Fleet Admiral and Marine admirals worked. An absolute fortress that no pirate could help but fear.
When Hancock and Jovian arrived, a Marine vice admiral was already waiting in front of the warship.
As a Warlord of the Sea, Hancock was worthy of having a vice admiral sent to guide her. In truth, the main reason was that if the Marines did not dispatch someone at least at the level of vice admiral, they would have no way of suppressing these villains of the sea.
"Warlord of the Sea, Pirate Empress Boa Hancock?"
The one receiving Hancock was Vice Admiral Yamakaji, who had a cigar clenched in his mouth.
"That is me."
Hancock casually brushed back her beautiful hair and arrogantly raised her chin.
"Good. As long as that's confirmed…"
Vice Admiral Yamakaji nodded, then noticed Jovian standing beside Hancock.
"What an unexpected person to find at Marine Headquarters."
Yamakaji was first stunned when he saw Jovian, then he smiled.
"What? Am I not welcome?"
Jovian looked at Yamakaji and asked.
"Not at all…"
"With someone like you helping us, we couldn't welcome you enough."
Yamakaji was a good-natured man in the end. He smiled lightly and did not offend Jovian in the slightest.
"What a nice guy…"
Jovian looked Yamakaji up and down, then smiled.
"That is simply my way of dealing with people."
Yamakaji smiled. Beneath that good-natured smile was an incomparably firm face.
"Follow me. The other Warlords are already here."
Yamakaji brought Jovian and the others to the Warlords' gathering hall.
When Hancock walked into the gathering hall…
Gecko Moria, "Heavenly Yaksha" Donquixote Doflamingo, "Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma, and the "World's Greatest Swordsman," Dracule Mihawk, were already seated beside the table, eating a feast.
Mihawk was the same as ever, lying beside the dining table as if no one else existed.
Kuma silently flipped through the book in his hands.
Moria, whose forehead was wrapped in bandages, looked at the newcomers outside the door with a resentful expression.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
"Pirate Empress Boa Hancock, and…"
"Fuffuffuffu. How surprising. I didn't expect the man who caused such a huge commotion on the Sabaody Archipelago before suddenly disappearing to actually come here together with the Pirate Empress. Interesting. Too interesting…"
Doflamingo, who had not yet entered prison and become the king of newspaper reading, was currently bearing the responsibilities of the king of commentary and the king of riddles across the four seas. The moment he noticed Jovian, he suddenly laughed loudly.
"Hey, Kuma, you can hear me, right?"
"The man you sent flying has come looking for you. Looks like you're in trouble…"
Doflamingo looked at Kuma, who was reading beside him, and laughed loudly.
"?!"
Kuma naturally noticed Jovian. After exchanging a glance with him, he lowered his head and continued with his own business.
"How boring…"
Doflamingo's expression fell as he looked at Kuma lowering his head. He seemed to find it somewhat dull. After all, the confrontation he had imagined did not happen, and that made him feel very bored.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
"So, with First Son of the Sea Jinbe imprisoned, that idiot Crocodile stripped of his title, and the newly appointed Warlord, Blackbeard, missing, the new Warlords of the Sea are made up of me, Kuma, Moria, Hancock, Mihawk, and Jovian, the man who wiped out the Supernovas on the Sabaody Archipelago and was rated the world's number one pirate hunter by the World Economy News Paper?"
"Interesting. Too interesting…"
"Aren't we the strongest lineup in history right now? What do you think, Mihawk?"
Doflamingo laughed loudly and looked at Mihawk beside him.
"…"
Mihawk still had his eyes tightly closed, as if he could not be bothered to pay attention to Doflamingo.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
"Forget it…"
Doflamingo did not care that he received no response, because Mihawk had never responded to him anyway.
"I'm not a Warlord…"
Jovian casually sat in one of the Warlord seats, picked up a large chicken leg from the table in front of him, and began eating in big bites while speaking with displeasure.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
Doflamingo only smiled and said nothing.
"Hey, Jovian, want to work with me?"
"If you and I join forces, becoming a new Emperor of the Sea wouldn't be impossible, right?"
Doflamingo tried to recruit Jovian. In his original plan, he had intended to cooperate with Crocodile. Unfortunately, Crocodile had been taken down, so naturally, he needed a new partner.
"Hahaha…"
When Jovian heard that, he laughed loudly.
"If you weren't Doflamingo but Doflamingirl, then maybe you and I could cooperate. Unfortunately, I never cooperate with men!"
Jovian directly rejected Doflamingo's offer.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
"What a shame that I didn't inherit my mother's beauty."
Doflamingo seemed to understand Jovian's joke, and he laughed in an extremely exaggerated way, especially when he heard the "girl" part in Jovian's mouth. Doflamingo instantly knew that Jovian understood his background inside and out. At the same time, Doflamingo became a little more wary of Jovian.
"…"
Once Doflamingo closed his mouth, the entire dining table fell quiet.
"Everyone, it is time to take your positions…"
Just as they were eating and drinking in silence, a Marine rear admiral walked into the room.
"Mr. Jovian, Fleet Admiral Sengoku asks that you stand with the Warlords at the front of Marineford. If you are unwilling, you may also move to the area where the vice admirals…"
The rear admiral looked at Jovian with a somewhat respectful expression. After all, Jovian belonged neither to the Marines nor to the Warlords. At most, he counted as an ally of the Warlords and an ally of the Marines. Most importantly, Jovian's strength was unfathomable, so the rear admiral had to speak with a certain amount of respect.
"No need. Of course I want to stand in the spot closest to the inner bay. That way, I can better see Whitebeard's bearing."
Jovian shook his head and refused the rear admiral's offer to have him go to the area where the vice admirals were stationed. In his view, there was no place more interesting than one where he could directly face Whitebeard, the man who had been invincible on the sea his entire life, and watch his final road to ruin.
"I understand…"
As the rear admiral respectfully lowered his head, the Warlords walked out of the lounge one after another and arrived at the Marine Headquarters plaza, which was filled with Marine soldiers.
When the Warlords arrived, the Marine soldiers all stepped aside, allowing them to walk to their designated positions.
When the Warlords reached their assigned location, the Marine soldiers held their breath and turned their heads to observe these great pirates of the sea, second only to the Four Emperors.
The enormous pressure exuded by the Warlords made countless Marines around them afraid to approach. In the end, this incomparably crowded giant fortress that held a full one hundred thousand people actually opened up an empty space of a full hundred meters for the Warlords.
"Fuffuffuffu…"
Doflamingo stood at the very center of the Warlords, enjoying the treatment of the center position. It seemed that this central spot had not been earned through strength, but through his ability to talk nonsense.
On the other side…
Once the Warlords and all the Marine soldiers had taken their positions, the small doors beside the three golden seats beneath the execution platform were opened, and three men walked toward the seats.
"Look…"
"It's the Marine admirals!"
Following one cry of surprise, Marine soldiers raised their heads one after another. Looking at the Marine admirals, who were usually so rare that even seeing one was difficult, they now had the fortune of seeing all three at once.
The first to arrive was the perverted Admiral Aokiji, Kuzan, whose face looked calm, but who actually had a strange voice and would casually ask pretty ladies if they were free at night.
Next came Akainu, Sakazuki, the man who, if he had not become a Marine, would have turned into a useless middle-aged bum who spent his boring days at the arcade, and who carried out Absolute Justice with the most iron-blooded resolve.
And the last was Kizaru, Borsalino, the laid-back Admiral who looked unreliable at first glance, and in truth was also unreliable. Though he seemed to be a Marine admiral, behind the scenes he also worked part-time as a kindergarten principal and a comedian. A health-conscious Admiral fond of PPAP, he carried out Unclear Justice.
These three were the three excellent students who made former Marine Admiral Zephyr cry, the current three Marine admirals.
"Phew…"
At some unknown point, Jovian had gone along with local custom and taken out a cigar, clenching it between his lips as he puffed on it.
"If I had three students this outstanding, I'd probably cough up blood from anger, wouldn't I?"
Jovian sighed, feeling deeply moved by how outstanding the three Marine admirals were.
He still remembered that when he had first watched the Summit War, he had thought there was a huge gap between the admirals. Aside from Akainu, Sakazuki, the other two seemed very weak. It was not until he learned from Oda's settings that Sakazuki and Borsalino had been neck and neck since their student days, known as the Marines' two great monsters, and then later learned from the post-timeskip story that Sakazuki and Kuzan had fought for ten days and ten nights before Sakazuki barely won, that he finally understood the three admirals were actually about the same in strength.
After understanding this point, when Jovian looked back at the Summit War again, he had only one thought in his heart. Kuzan and Borsalino were really damn good at acting…
What virtue or ability did the Marines possess to receive the help of both at the same time? This was truly a tremendous blessing for the Marines.
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