Kuja Island, Amazon Lily.
Boa Hancock stared at the newspaper, her fingers clenched so tightly they turned white.
Marigold and Sandersonia stood beside her, worried.
"Sister..."
"Prepare a ship," Boa Hancock suddenly said coldly.
Marigold and Sandersonia looked at her in confusion.
"I said, prepare a ship."
After Boa Hancock spoke coldly, she threw down the newspaper in her hand and walked out of the castle keep.
"We're going to Marine Headquarters to rescue Luo Chen."
Marigold and Sandersonia's faces filled with terror, and they hurriedly tried to dissuade her.
"You can't go, sister!"
"Forcibly breaking into Marine Headquarters... even a Warlord will be attacked!"
Boa Hancock stopped and looked back at her two sisters. "Are my words no longer effective?"
Marigold and Sandersonia's words caught in their throats, their expressions troubled.
'Really go to Marine Headquarters?'
If the Kuja Pirates burst in to save Luo Chen, they would definitely be completely wiped out.
And they still wouldn't be able to save him.
Suddenly, a short old woman burst in from the door, holding a staff, and said angrily:
"Snake Princess, you're going to act recklessly again! Wasn't hiring an assassin to kill a Celestial Dragon enough? Now you want to force your way into Marine Headquarters?!"
"The entire Isle of Women will be destroyed by you, do you know that?!"
Boa Hancock smiled coldly. Her devastatingly beautiful face mesmerized the women present, their cheeks flushing.
She pointed at the short old woman and tilted her head back. "So what? Even if the Isle of Women is destroyed, no one will blame me. Because... I am simply too beautiful."
The short old woman's eyes turned into pink hearts, and she nodded repeatedly. "Yes, yes, you're right."
Marigold and Sandersonia let out low squeals, looking at their sister with infatuation.
Suddenly, the short old woman came to her senses, her mind clearing. She said angrily, "Snake Princess, stop! You're not allowed to go! A man! When did you become so concerned?!"
Boa Hancock lifted her up directly and smiled, "Granny Nyon, I am the Empress of Amazon Lily. I don't need you to tell me what to do.
As for Luo Chen, he is my friend. No one can stop me from saving him."
With a forceful toss, Hancock threw Granny Nyon, who smashed through the castle keep's glass and flew into the distance.
"Damn Snake Princess! Even if you go, you won't make it in time! Luo Chen is about to be imprisoned in Impel Down!"
Granny Nyon's angry voice came from the distant sky.
Boa Hancock's footsteps faltered. She said, "It's true, I won't make it in time."
Marigold and Sandersonia's expressions brightened.
"Then we'll just go to Impel Down to save him," Boa Hancock muttered to herself, then looked at her two sisters.
"Prepare a ship immediately. We'll break into the prison and save him."
Her sisters' expressions froze, but in the end, they could only comply.
...
In the first half of the Grand Line, on a certain stretch of sea.
Luo Chen's clone sat in the cabin of the Going Merry, drinking tea.
Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper circled him curiously, observing.
"Is it really a clone?"
"I can't see any difference from the real body."
"The clone hasn't dissipated even though it's so far from Luo Chen. So weird."
The two humans and one reindeer, like curious babies, discussed Luo Chen's clone.
They had all seen the news of Luo Chen's capture this morning.
However, since Nami had told them in advance, and Luo Chen's clone was safe and sound, no one was overly worried.
At this moment, it was more about confusion.
Luo Chen's clone smiled. "Where are you guys heading next?"
Luffy thought for a moment and said, "I think it's some bubble island."
Usopp shook his head. "Not bubbles, it's the Sabaody Archipelago. The bubbles are a special feature formed by the breathing of the Yarukiman Mangrove roots on the island."
Luffy slapped his head in sudden understanding.
Luo Chen's clone's eyes showed he was in thought. 'Sabaody Archipelago.'
'On the way, they should mistakenly enter Moria's Thriller Bark first, right?'
'If we really go in, I'll take out that invisible man first,' Luo Chen's clone mused.
In the pirate world, there were two people he wanted to get rid of.
One was the invisible man with Moria, and the other was Momonosuke.
'But I have to hide my face. I can't be exposed before my main body finishes his business,' Luo Chen's clone thought.
Just then, Zoro walked in from outside the cabin and asked:
"Luo Chen, what should we do with the two captured World Government agents?"
"Keep them locked up for now. Don't let them escape," Luo Chen's clone said.
When they fled, he had forgotten to throw Kalifa and Kaku off the ship.
This clone of his had already appeared before those two, so he couldn't let them go for the time being.
Otherwise, if the Marines learned that he still had a clone roaming free outside, they would inevitably become suspicious of the main body's situation.
"Let's find an island to dock at. I'm going to give the Going Merry a major overhaul!" From the lower cabin, a tall man wearing an open floral shirt and speedo-style swim trunks came up.
Franky, a resident of Water 7, was a cyborg and a master shipwright.
In the original story, he was the shipwright for the Straw Hat Pirates.
Two days ago, when the Straw Hat crew was leaving Water 7, they happened to encounter him at sea.
At the time, Franky and his crew wanted to dismantle the Going Merry, a pirate ship.
Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji fought with the Franky Family, and that's how they met.
Luffy subsequently recruited Franky as their shipwright.
Luo Chen was a little curious when he heard the Going Merry was getting a major overhaul.
Due to his interference, the Straw Hat crew hadn't gone to Skypiea, so the Going Merry hadn't fallen from ten thousand meters as it did in the original story.
It was still able to sail.
Since Franky said it was a major overhaul, the ship's main body should still be the Going Merry.
'Will he combine the Going Merry with the future Thousand Sunny?'
Luo Chen guessed.
After all, the design concept for the Thousand Sunny also came from Franky and his senior, Iceburg.
Luo Chen sized up Franky.
He remembered that Franky had the blueprints for the ancient weapon Pluton hidden on his body.
The Enies Lobby events hadn't happened, which meant the Pluton blueprints hadn't been burned and were still with Franky.
'I don't need it for now anyway.'
Luo Chen continued to drink his tea.
...
Marine Headquarters, at the shore of Marineford.
Numerous Marines were lined up on both sides, standing ramrod straight, staring intently at the warship.
In the center of the formation stood Fleet Admiral Sengoku.
Hero Garp.
Great Staff Officer Tsuru.
All three had arrived at the port, their gazes also fixed on the warship.
Soon, a figure walked down the long ramp extending from the warship's deck to the ground.
The man was very young, looking to be only eighteen or nineteen. He was handsome, with a tall, straight posture.
His black trench coat was somewhat damaged and stained with mud.
He wore Sea-Prism Stone handcuffs on both wrists.
His ankles were also shackled with Sea-Prism Stone.
The young man slowly walked down the ramp, his expression calm, composedly scanning the numerous Marines.
His gaze finally landed on Sengoku, Garp, and Tsuru at the very front.
He smiled faintly, as if he weren't a prisoner, but a tourist visiting Marineford.
The two Marine Admirals, Aokiji and Kizaru, followed closely behind the young man.
After them came Vice Admiral Momonga and several hundred Marines.
Fleet Admiral Sengoku took a deep breath, his eyes behind his round glasses fixed on Luo Chen.
"We've finally caught you."
Hearing this, the corners of Luo Chen's mouth turned up, and he smiled. "From East Blue to the Grand Line, from Marine Captain to Marine Admiral... it really has been a long time."
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