“Stop right there.” Magellan was extremely tense.
Every person imprisoned here was a great pirate.
If Sylvan released all of them, the world would definitely descend into chaos.
“Are you ignoring me?” No one knew where the Golden Lion had pulled a cigar from, but he happily lit it and grinned.
“Magellan, was it?
Come, come.
Let me see what makes you different.” The Golden Lion’s face was full of contempt.
He crooked his finger at Magellan, his expression filled with mockery and disdain.
As for Sylvan, he went to liberate the prisoners of Impel Down.
Doing this was equivalent to completely offending the Marines and the World Government to death.
Most of the prisoners in Impel Down had only been captured after the Marines paid a huge price.
If Sylvan released them all, the World Government would undoubtedly cough up blood from anger.
“Nico Sylvan, hurry and save us!
Only by joining forces can we leave Impel Down.” The prisoners of Impel Down looked at Sylvan with incomparable excitement.
Some of them even cried, as if they had seen a god.
“Of course I’ll save you.
The more chaotic Impel Down becomes, the higher everyone’s chances of escaping.” Sylvan was a man of his word and threw all the keys to the Seastone shackles to the starving pirates.
Every one of them had been imprisoned here for years, and their hatred for the Marines had already sunk deep into their bones.
“Hahaha, freedom!
I’m free!
Once I get out, I’ll definitely screw those Marines to death!
They imprisoned me for so many years and even executed all my companions.
Just wait for my revenge…” Some pirates who broke free from their cages roared loudly, their hatred for the Marines towering to the heavens.
“It’s over…” Seeing one great pirate after another successfully break out, Magellan’s heart sank into ashes.
He gave up on the idea of fighting the Golden Lion and turned to flee as fast as the wind.
“He ran?” The Golden Lion furrowed his brows, then suddenly sneered again and again.
“Trying to go tip off the Marines?
Keh heh, that’s perfect.
Hurry up and call that bastard Sengoku over.
I’ve got a blood debt to settle with him.” Looking around, quite a few pirates had not chosen to escape.
They had been locked up for decades.
Their companions were already dead, so there was no meaning in running away.
It was better to stay behind and cause trouble for the Marines while avenging their comrades.
The reason Magellan fled was not because he feared death.
With all the great pirates of Impel Down breaking out, counting on him alone was obviously impossible.
Fighting the Golden Lion was meaningless as well.
His chances of winning were pitifully low.
Rather than that, it was better to seize the time to inform the Marines.
If they gathered troops to reinforce Impel Down, there was still hope.
“Then I’ll be leaving first.
I hope you won’t get captured again.” Sylvan passed in front of the Golden Lion, but the old man stopped him.
“Sylvan, you really surprised me.” The Golden Lion’s gaze was sharp as a torch.
His whole body radiated the majesty of an emperor.
His eyes were like those of a lion, sacred and untouchable.
Anyone who dared provoke him would be torn apart.
“Just say what you want.
We can at least be considered acquaintances.” Sylvan’s gaze was calm.
Although the Golden Lion’s stare was oppressive, there was no hostility in it.
“Are you interested in conquering the world with me?” After a long silence, the Golden Lion suddenly spoke with excitement.
“Your potential is limitless.
You’re only twelve years old now, yet your strength is definitely no worse than a Marine Vice Admiral’s.
With a bit of tempering, this sea will surely have a place for you in the future.” “Conquering the world?
That really is a grand dream.
But sorry, I’m just a simple man.
I’m not interested in the world.” Sylvan answered calmly, rejecting the Golden Lion’s attempt to recruit him.
The Golden Lion was not angry.
Instead, he said meaningfully, “Sylvan, there are some things you understand even without me saying them.
You and your younger sister, Nico Robin, are both targets coveted by the entire world.
You understand what being able to read the Poneglyphs means, right?
That thing is something even I pursue fanatically.
Back then, the reason I invited Roger to become my right-hand man was because of that thing.
Wouldn’t it be good to find yourself a backer like me?” “That thing?” A sharp gleam flashed through Sylvan’s eyes and disappeared.
Of course he understood what the Golden Lion meant: the Ancient Weapons.
The fundamental reason the World Government wanted to capture Sylvan, Robin, and Olvia alive was actually the Ancient Weapons.
Only those who could read the Poneglyphs could find the whereabouts of the Ancient Weapons.
Every force that understood the Ancient Weapons had designs on Sylvan’s family.
After a long silence, a cold edge flashed in Sylvan’s eyes.
“Golden Lion, Robin and I are innocent.
We siblings haven’t done anything.
What right do they have to hunt us down?
What right do they have to force us to hide like rats?” Sylvan had once been a sickly invalid and could not read the Poneglyphs.
His younger sister Robin had been the same.
Back then, she had still been young.
Although she was interested in history, she could not understand the Poneglyphs at all.
Moreover, because Sylvan knew Ohara would be destroyed, he had taken Robin away from Ohara early and drifted overseas.
They had never truly come into contact with the scholars of Ohara.
But so what?
In the end, they had still been inexplicably hunted by the Marines.
Robin had been lucky.
Sylvan had been directly thrown into Impel Down.
“Of course I know you’re innocent, but this is your fate.” The Golden Lion also sighed with emotion.
Just imagine it.
At barely over ten years old, Sylvan was already being hunted and wanted by the Marines across the entire world.
Robin was even younger, only a few years old, yet she had already been forced to flee across the world with Sylvan.
What kind of life was that?
“That’s why I came to a conclusion.
The ones at fault aren’t us siblings.
It’s this twisted world.” Sylvan passed by the Golden Lion, his steps steady as he walked toward the prison exit.
“Even if I have to live while hiding and running, I will stubbornly survive.
No matter how cruel the future becomes, I will silently bear it all.
I swear… one day, I will step on the heads of the Five Elders and make them regret everything they have done!” Staring at Sylvan’s departing back, for some reason, the Golden Lion seemed to see his former self.
Someone who would absolutely never bow to fate.
“Heh heh, then I can’t die here either.
This kid Sylvan will definitely take mad revenge against the World Government and the Marines in the future.
I want to smile as I watch Sengoku and Garp with faces like they’re constipated…” The Golden Lion laughed boldly, his voice full of wicked amusement.