One Piece: Starting by Signing In with Naruto Character Cards

After getting familiar with the system, Qin Chuan finally stood up again to take a look at his surroundings.

He found himself locked in a cell, three sides made of solid iron walls, with the fourth side secured by iron bars.

Even here in the uppermost level of Crimson Hell, the air was thick with the pungent stench of blood.

Just moments ago, Qin Chuan had already recalled from this body's memories that he was about to face a deadly battle for survival.

This was because, ever since Roger's execution, the entire world of pirates had gone completely insane because of that one sentence Roger spoke before his death.

As a result, more and more pirates flooded into the seas!

Naturally, this led to the number of prisoners in Impel Down steadily increasing.

Due to Impel Down's special geographic location, there was only this one prison in the world—it wasn't possible to expand it. As a result, the cells quickly became overcrowded.

While Magellan and the other senior prison officers were troubled by the issue, Sadie, the chief guard of Impel Down who loved listening to others' screams for fun, proposed a brutal plan—let the prisoners kill each other.

According to her plan, prisoners on each level would regularly engage in deathmatches. Everyone's names would be replaced with numbers, and each day two numbers would be randomly selected to fight to the death.

Only by killing your opponent could you claim victory in these matches.

But that wasn't the end of it. If you wanted to survive in this place, you had to keep fighting endlessly.

In other words, even if you killed your opponent today, the guards might still draw your number again tomorrow for another battle.

The purpose of this system, in theory, was to drastically reduce the number of prisoners. After a meeting among the prison leadership, Magellan ultimately agreed to Sadie's proposal.

After all, most of the prisoners locked up here were utterly wicked, so he didn't have much sympathy for their lives.

However, he still imposed one rule—under no circumstances were the prisoners of Level Six to be drawn into these death matches!

It was obvious that even Magellan was wary of the monsters locked up on Level Six.

Impel Down itself had a total of six levels.

Level Six was the most terrifying one—Infinite Hell.

Infinite Hell housed some of the most notorious criminals, people either sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

The criminals held here were so dangerous and evil that they had been erased from history. The ones imprisoned on this level were near-legendary figures, destined for execution or eternal confinement. Their heinous crimes were so appalling that the World Government actively covered them up, and even the newspapers avoided reporting on them.

Historically, the infamous "Golden Lion" Shiki had successfully escaped from Level Six.

And later, in the One Piece story, many of the monstrous members of Blackbeard's crew were also imprisoned here!

Additionally, the former head jailer of Impel Down, Shiryu of the Rain, was also locked away in a cell on Level Six.

So naturally, Magellan didn't dare release these vicious criminals to fight in deathmatches!

Once Magellan gave the nod, Sadie and the other guards of Impel Down immediately started organizing these so-called deadly tournaments.

Today, Qin Chuan—prisoner No. 55—had the misfortune of being selected by the guards.

To make the fights more entertaining, the guards would always serve the two chosen prisoners a full meal before the battle, ensuring they could perform at their best during the fight!

Looking at the so-called "last meal" on the ground, Qin Chuan sneered, "I'd rather starve to death than eat this garbage!"

After about ten minutes, the guard from before came back to Qin Chuan's cell again.

"Hey, you done eating yet? You've got half an hour—hurry up!"

"Almost finished!" Qin Chuan replied immediately after swallowing a chunk of meat.

...

Half an hour passed quickly, and Qin Chuan had finally eaten his fill.

After all, how could you expect to fight on an empty stomach?

As the time ran out, two guards came over, opened his cell door, and dragged Qin Chuan out, shackled with both handcuffs and leg irons.

As Qin Chuan walked on the narrow, cold stone floor, the friction between his leg irons and the ground produced crisp, echoing clinks.

The sound was unnervingly eerie if one listened closely.

Along both sides of this passageway were countless prison cells. At that moment, prisoners were crowding up to their iron bars, all gloating as they watched today's "lucky contestant."

"Whoa! Bro, you're dead for sure this time! Your opponent is Number 38—he's already got a record of five consecutive kills!" someone suddenly poked his head out from a nearby cell, speaking excitedly.

"Shut it! If you keep yapping, you'll go fight in his place!" the guard barked harshly at the loud prisoner.

After being warned, the prisoner quickly quieted down, but the way he looked at Qin Chuan was as if he were already staring at a corpse.

Clearly, in everyone's eyes, Qin Chuan was as good as dead.

Moments later, Qin Chuan was finally brought to a large, circular arena that had been temporarily constructed at the center of the first level of the prison.

Around the arena, numerous guards were already standing—today's spectators for the life-or-death match.

And in the prominent positions overlooking the arena stood several special figures.

One of them was a short, stout man with a two-heads-high body, wielding a trident, with two horns on his hat. He was staring intently at Qin Chuan.

At a glance, Qin Chuan recognized him—it was Saldeath, the Head Jailer of Impel Down.

Saldeath was also the commander of the Blugori, the blue gorilla-like beasts that served as enforcers on Level One, Crimson Hell.

Additionally, a figure was already standing on the arena platform.

Although wearing a standard prison uniform, the man's burly physique and the deep, hideous scar running across his face made him look terrifying.

The moment this man laid eyes on Qin Chuan, his gaze was filled with murderous intent!

"No wonder he's managed to kill five people in a row—this guy's bloodlust is insane!" Qin Chuan muttered under his breath.

"Get up there!" the guard behind him gave Qin Chuan a shove toward the arena.