Chapter 76 (2/2)

While Crocodile went looking for his clothes in the nearby storage room Azul went down the isle to check out the rest of the prison cells. In the end he chose to not take anybody else with him.

Azul had formulated the idea that Crocodile could be used to occupy everything below admiral level, taking some burden away from Azul who knew that he needed at least one more pair of arms that could fight at that level. He had played with the thought of freeing some others but that would result in more trouble than it was worth in his opinion. Furthermore, besides Crocodile, he knew nobody on this level that was sitting behind bars.

Thus with Crocodile in tow Azul returned to the group that had prepared the elevator to go back up and so with Azul lifting Robin into his arms under Crocodiles widening eyes at the womans face, the group stepped onto the elevator, travelling upwards into the waiting chaos that had gripped the upper floors by now.

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Grandline, Paradise, Impel Down

While Kizaru and the fleet had spotted Impel Down in the distance the wardens of the prison had engaged in a fierce battle against the towering numbers of escaped prisoners.

To this scene the fleet of marine battlesh.i.p.s arrived, waiting for the admirals orders on how to proceed.

Kizaru meanwhile was humming to himself. He had decided to keep out of the battle for the moment as his involvement would speed up the subjugation but also endanger the prison from getting blown to bits in the process which he simply could not risk without reason of total escalation.

Thus he ordered his marines to join the guards in melee combat and support from the sh.i.p.s with normal guns to lighten the crowd of escaped convicts.

Halting his advance as well was the missing leader that had broken into Impel Down, making Kizaru warry of a possible ambush for his troups further down in the prison should they be able to push the prisoners back.

'Should everything go to shit I can simply order a bustercall on Impel Down. Sengoku said it would be the absolute emergency solution but he isn't here right now so who cares what he says...' Kizaru mused while jokingly playing around with the golden transpondersnail in his hands...