One Piece: Starting with God Valley, intercepting the Dark-Dark Fruit

Shiryu finally understood the difference in strength. He trembled as he raised his head and met Giger's eyes.

Within those black hole-like eyes, streaks of red lightning flashed. Shiryu felt a terrifying sense of oppression bearing down on him, and he couldn't even feel a trace of resentment; all he felt was fear.

He wasn't the only one who felt the oppressive feeling. Apart from the people brought by Giger, everyone from the prison trembled. This feeling was all too familiar to some people who had been to the lowest levels of prison. This was the pressure of the strongest!

Giger casually tossed Shiryu aside and said indifferently,

"Just keep walking."

Magellan didn't dare say anything more, and had two men help Shiryu up as they continued walking down to the lower levels.

Along the way, the screams of the prisoners were incessant, but Gigg strolled leisurely through layer after layer until he reached the bottommost level, the infinite hell.

Compared to the previous five floors, this place is particularly quiet, and has the fewest prisoners.

The arrival of Giger and his group actually made the place a bit more lively, and Giger also saw an acquaintance, the Red Earl whom he had personally captured.

The Red Earl was bound by chains of extremely pure Seastone. Although he was not a Devil Fruit user, Seastone was harder than steel, and with so many chains binding him, even the Red Earl would have a hard time escaping.

In addition, the special food prepared by the prison for prisoners in the Infinite Hell made the Red Earl look extremely listless.

When Gigg arrived outside the cell where the Red Earl was imprisoned, he suddenly looked up, a look of surprise on his face, and said,

"It's you?"

Giger smiled slightly and said,

"It's good to see you again, Redfield."

The Red Earl struggled slightly, the chains binding him clicking. He scoffed and said...

"What, did you come here to see me make a fool of myself?"

Jiger chuckled and said,

"I'm not that bored."

As he spoke, Giger stepped aside and pointed to Garp, who had been silent all along. Garp had already changed into his prison uniform.

Count Red paused for a moment, then frowned and said hesitantly,

"Garp?"

Garp raised his head, glanced indifferently at the Red Earl, and then turned his head away again.

Magellan coughed lightly twice, stepped forward, and said...

"Lesfield, from now on this place will be under the care of Chief Warden Cap... You'd better behave yourself!"

Upon hearing this, Earl Red was immediately dumbfounded. Not only him, but the other prisoners in the cell who heard this also blinked twice. Several prisoners wearing sea stone shackles struggled to climb to the cell door and peeked out with difficulty.

When they saw Garp in his prison uniform, they suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Isn't this Vice Admiral Garp? How did he end up in prison?"

"Hey Garp! You look so tired after just a few days?"

"You've really gone to a lot of trouble! After catching them, you still have to come and watch over them. It's a complete service!"

"Tsk tsk, the warden! What a high-ranking official! Hahaha!"

They were all arrested by Garp, so they naturally hated him to the core. Now that Garp has obviously done something wrong and been demoted to prison, they will definitely seize the opportunity to mock him.

Garp remained unmoved by the group's mockery, his expression appearing numb.

The Red Earl was rather kind; he didn't laugh, but simply tilted his head with a look of interest on his face.

Swish!

A black knife flew out from the back of Giger's right hand, splitting into several more black knives that shot towards the cells from which the sounds had come.

When all the black knives merged into one and were stored in the back of Giger's hand, the laughter was replaced by screams.

Magellan and the prison staff were shocked. They turned around and saw that all the prisoners from before had broken arms and legs and were writhing in pools of blood, screaming in agony.

Even more terrifying is that these prisoners, who were originally in their prime, have turned into old men with white hair!

Shiryu, who was being held up, was dumbfounded. A deep sense of fear welled up from the bottom of his heart. He stiffly turned his neck to look at Giger and saw a knife-shaped tattoo on the back of Giger's right hand that was flashing with an eerie red light.

The Muramasa sword has long been integrated with Giger, and can also use the power of the Vampire Fruit.

Karp looked at Gigg in surprise and couldn't help but ask,

"Why......"

Giger didn't turn his head and said calmly,

"These scumbags bothered me, that's all."

After a pause, Giger slowly turned his head, looked directly into Garp's eyes, and said, word by word,

"Stop embarrassing the Navy!"

These words struck Garp like a hammer blow. Shame flashed across his face; he lowered his head, clenched his fists tightly, and after a long pause, finally managed to squeeze out a sentence through gritted teeth.

"I understand!"

Magellan and the others looked at each other, not daring to utter a sound.

Count Red suddenly asked,

"Black Dragon, can you tell me what Garp did wrong?"

It's no wonder he's gossipy; there aren't many things that can pique his interest, though Garp's demotion could be one of them.

Giger glanced at him sideways and said,

"If you want to know, just ask him yourself later. Anyway, he'll be here with you for a long time."

Count Red shook his head, somewhat disappointed, and said,

"Well, it's so boring here. Why don't you stay here a little longer and talk to me?"

Giger crossed his arms and said with a half-smile,

"Redfield, this is the result of your own actions. Now you feel bad?"

"Tch, if I hadn't been out of sorts back then, how could you possibly have caught me? And you said..."

At this point, Count Red suddenly stopped talking. He looked at the crowd around Gigg and fell silent.

Giger smiled slightly, lifted his foot forward, and to the astonishment of Magellan and the others, he walked directly through the prison door and stood in front of the Red Earl.

It wasn't surprising that nature-type beings could pass through the prison gates; what shocked them was that the prison gates of the Infinite Hell were all made of Seastone!

It was common knowledge that Gigg was a Devil Fruit user, so they simply couldn't understand how Gigg, whose entire body was in contact with Seastone, could remain completely unaffected.

Only Garp remained calm. He had personally witnessed Giggs fall into the sea and be perfectly fine, while Garp himself suffered a great loss because of it.

Giggs leaned close to the bewildered Earl Red's ear and whispered...

"Don't worry, I'll give you a chance to fight me. You just stay here for now."

Chapter 148 Roger

Grand Line

Roger looked at the newspaper in his hand, his brow furrowed.

Not far from him, Shanks sat on the deck, looking at the solemn-looking Roger, and said to Bucky beside him,

"Bucky, Captain Roger has been sitting there watching for ages. Looks like something big has happened."

Bucky lay on the deck with his hands behind his head, eyes half-closed, and casually remarked...

"You don't know yet? That Marine Garp who's been chasing us has gotten into trouble. Apparently, he's been demoted to prison. Looks like we won't be seeing him for a while~"

Shanks was startled upon hearing this.

"What?! So sudden?"

Bucky glanced at him and said irritably,

“I already knew about this. You’ve been training with First Mate Rayleigh all this time, so you probably haven’t been reading the newspapers much.”

Shanks nodded. Judging from this, Roger had probably read that newspaper more than once.

He understood why Roger did this, because Roger often mentioned Garp's name in his ear, and each time it was in an appreciative tone.

Roger has said more than once that if he and Garp hadn't belonged to different factions, they would definitely have become best friends.

As Shanks was pondering this, Buggy suddenly sat up from the ground and exclaimed in amazement,

"By the way, Garp was defeated by Black Dragon and taken to Marine Headquarters. Do you remember Black Dragon? He's the one who saved you in Edwin last time!"

"It's him?"

Shanks paused for a moment, then said with an incredulous look,

"He actually defeated Garp?! Doesn't that mean his strength is now comparable to Captain Roger's?"

Shanks naturally had a deep impression of Giger, who had saved his life. He also remembered Giger's young face, which looked about the same age as Barrett.

He originally thought that Barrett, who could fight Rayleigh's vice-captain to a standstill at this age, was already monstrous enough, but he never expected that there would be an even more monstrous Gigg.

It's important to know that Garp was an old acquaintance of Roger's crew, so Shanks certainly knew about his strength.