Chapter 74

Sure enough, it was the right call to come along with Garp this time!

"Sign in."

65, Sign in at Impel Down (2/8, please subscribe!)

【Sign-in complete. Sign-in reward obtained: Qi and Blood +10.】

Luo En felt the heat flow within his body and the tearing sensation in his muscles, and glanced at the senzu bean's attributes.

"No matter the injury, it fully restores you to peak condition—as expected of a senzu bean from Dragon Ball!"

"Just Enies Lobby alone let me sign in twice."

"There's still the great undersea prison Impel Down. I wonder what rewards signing in there will give."

Luo En's heart was full of anticipation.

In any case, this trip was a huge win!

In front of Impel Down's gates.

When Garp's warship arrived, the prison warden Magellan, accompanied by vice warden Hannibal, had already been waiting for some time.

"Vice Admiral Garp."

Magellan—a tall man with horns, two black wings on his back, and the appearance of a devil, who wielded the powers of the Paramecia-class Venom-Venom Fruit—earnestly saluted Garp.

Hannibal beside him stood ramrod straight, raised his hand in salute to Garp, and said in a trembling voice, "G-G-G-Garp Vice Admiral! I'm the newly appointed vice warden Hannibal. Becoming the prison warden is my greatest lifelong wish!"

"Ah! I got so worked up I accidentally said it out loud again!"

"Hahaha, don't worry about it."

Garp gave him a smile, then looked at Magellan and said, "I'll leave this guy to you."

Magellan nodded, then turned to look at Hannibal beside him: "Hannibal, take some men and deliver the tyrannical king Avalo Pizarro to the Infinite Hell on the sixth level."

"Un-understood!"

Hannibal, intending to redeem himself, immediately called over the nearby jailer beasts and took custody of the caged Avalo Pizarro from the Marines.

Magellan's expression suddenly turned a little strange. He pressed a hand to his stomach and said to Garp and the others, "Vice Admiral Garp, my apologies, but I have some matters to attend to, so I'll head back first."

"Mm, go on ahead."

Garp, wearing his dog-head hood, nodded.

Magellan immediately turned and sprinted into Impel Down.

"Pfft pfft."

Hannibal, who was directing the jailer beasts, snickered, "That guy Magellan's definitely off to the toilet with diarrhea again. Pfft pfft."

"The Venom-Venom Fruit really is a tough one to bear."

Garp remarked with feeling. He was well aware of Magellan's situation—though the fruit's power was formidable, its side effects were severe too. Affected by the poisonous gas, Magellan spent over ten hours a day suffering from diarrhea.

"Well, this guy's already been handed off. There's nothing else for us here, let's head back."

Garp turned and said.

And with that turn, he suddenly realized Luo En beside him was gone.

Garp looked around.

At once he spotted that small figure already walking through Impel Down's gates.

"Huh? When did—?!"

And the moment Luo En entered Impel Down, the system's prompt immediately sounded in his ear.

【Beep. Detected host's location—Impel Down. Sign-in available. Sign in?】

"Sign in."

【Sign-in complete. Sign-in reward obtained: Qi and Blood +10.

Sign-in reward obtained: Observation Haki level increased!

Current Observation Haki: lv2.】

Swish!

A hand pierced through the air, grabbing toward Luo En.

Luo En, whose Observation Haki had just been strengthened, immediately tried to dodge the moment he sensed that sudden attack.

But the instant he had the thought of evading, that hand's speed abruptly increased.

"What!"

Luo En was startled.

The next second, that large hand seized him by the back of his collar and lifted his entire body straight up.

"I told you not to run off all over the place."

Garp, wearing his dog-head hood, held Luo En up and bellowed at him, "Still trying to dodge? You're still nowhere near good enough, kid."

Luo En ground his teeth in fury.

That detestable old man.

Setting everything else aside, his strength really was terrifying…

He had activated the Transparent World, able to 'see' and 'hear' the Qi and Blood within Garp's body flowing like a great river, and his bones tempered like the finest steel through countless refinings, his muscles incomparably tough. Compared to this old man, the Lucci he'd seen on Enies Lobby was a world apart!

It was hard to imagine how long and how grueling the training required for a human body to reach such a state…

Garp's Armament Haki was absolutely top-tier in the world of One Piece—arguably without equal.

His Observation Haki had certainly reached a level far beyond Luo En's.

Even though Luo En had simultaneously activated the Transparent World and Observation Haki just now, perceiving the attack and its trajectory, he simply couldn't dodge it…

Only now did Luo En truly see how vast the gap between him and this old man was.

Back in Windmill Village, the fact that he'd been able to land a hit on this old man was really just Garp letting him off easy…

Having clearly seen the gap in strength between them now, Luo En, a wise man who knew when to bend, chose not to settle the score with the old man Karp right now. Instead, he silently noted this debt in his heart — there was no rush to get even later.

Gazing at the black-haired little boy whose face was full of innocence, being dragged by the collar past the crowd by Karp, looking just like a little kitten that had failed to steal a bite and been caught instead.

Hannibal couldn't help but snicker.

"Pfft!"

Immediately, a sharp, oppressive gaze landed on him.

Hannibal inexplicably felt a chill down his back and turned his head to look.

He saw the black-haired boy being carried by Vice Admiral Karp staring coldly at him, his eyes beneath the fine, wispy bangs razor-sharp.

Being pinned by his gaze.

Hannibal inexplicably felt a chill all over his body, and a bead of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead.

Only after Karp carried Luo En back to the warship did Hannibal feel that suffocating pressure vanish.

Only then did he finally let out a breath of relief, deeply shaken by the after-fear.

"That little brat, just what is he…"

……

The warship returned to Marineford from Impel Down, which was located in the Calm Belt.

After dropping Luo En off at Marineford.

Karp set off on another mission.

Luo En resumed his usual peaceful life at Marineford, occasionally taking a warship out for a trip.

Tina also returned to Marineford half a month later; she had been promoted from Junior Lieutenant to Lieutenant.

The first thing she did after returning was to find Luo En and Momousa.

To go shopping with them.

…………

66. The three-year deadline has arrived — the time to make a decision (3/8, please subscribe!!)

Very soon.

Over two years passed.

Luo En was fourteen.

He had been at Marineford for three years now, and the day to end his status as a Marine trainee and make a clear decision was almost here.

On this day.

Lieutenant Tina — draped in a Justice coat, wearing a suit, tall and shapely, with long, slender, straight legs — arrived before Luo En's door and reached out to knock.