Chapter 227: Sabo! Brothers Reunited!
The scene cuts directly to Impel Down, Level 4, Blazing Hell.
Around him were huge, boiling pools of blood, with endless scarlet bubbles constantly bursting on the surface of the viscous liquid, emitting a hair-raising gurgling sound.
The extreme heat ruthlessly baked the entire prison level, causing the air in mid-air to twist visibly to the naked eye; the whole space was like a colossal furnace burning crazily.
On the wide stone bridge spanning this endless pool of blood, Luffy fell heavily to his knees, unable to support himself.
His small, scarred body was heaving violently, and cold sweat, born of unbearable agony, was breaking out all over him.
Even more shocking was that his hands and legs, once filled with strength, were now largely stained with glaring purple-black poison.
Those deadly toxins were like bloodthirsty insects with a life of their own.
They were crazily eroding his motor nerves through his skin and pores, ruthlessly stripping away the last trace of stamina left in his body.
Facing Magellan, the Warden of Impel Down, whose body flowed with deadly poison, Luffy's melee combat skills—which he had prided himself on in countless death battles—lost all meaning at this moment.
Every punch he landed on Magellan did not result in the enemy falling, but rather equated to accelerating his own death.
Mr. 2 Bon Kurei, hiding in a far corner of the stone bridge, had a face streaming with snot and tears of despair.
As a former prisoner held here, he knew Magellan's terror better than anyone.
The very existence of that man was an unsolvable disaster.
It was an annihilating power capable of destroying the world's greatest underwater prison in an instant.
Watching Luffy fall time and time again, only to grit his teeth and sway back to his feet, Mr. 2 Bon Kurei's psychological defenses completely collapsed.
He desperately slapped the scorching ground, screaming at the top of his lungs toward the stubborn back wearing the Straw Hat ahead:
"Run away! Straw Hat!"
"Give up the resistance and run! I beg you!"
"If you keep fighting like this, you really will be dissolved by that terrifying poison until not even a single bone is left!"
However, Warden Magellan ignored the wailing in the distance.
He was like a terrifying demon god crawling out of Avici Hell, his massive body wrapped in layers of viscous, boiling purple poison.
Magellan looked down at the panting Straw Hat with eyes devoid of any temperature, as if looking at a rotting corpse.
He slowly opened his mouth and ruthlessly pronounced the final death sentence for this intruder:
"This foolish farce ends here."
"As for the so-called Worst Generation twin star, your meaningless pirate career ends right here."
"Straw Hat Luffy, this is Impel Down, a fortress of absolute justice, known as an impregnable wall."
"No one survives my poison."
Before the words had even finished, Magellan did not give Luffy even a single second to catch his breath.
"Venom Dragon!"
The purple poison on his body surged crazily like boiling magma.
In the blink of an eye, three huge Venom Dragons, condensed from high-concentration deadly poison, roared out from the poison swamp behind him.
These three behemoths opened their blood-red maws, capable of devouring everything, and with a pungent, thick acidic odor, flanked from three directions, roaring as they lunged at the battered Luffy in the center.
"Damn it..."
Luffy gritted his teeth so hard that blood seeped from his gums.
He desperately tried to squeeze out the last bit of potential in his body, forcing himself to activate "Gear Second" to dodge this fatal blockade.
But fate seemed incomparably cruel at this moment.
The violent neurotoxin lurking in his body took full and complete effect.
Luffy's pupils shrank, and his legs went limp amidst a violent wave of paralysis.
He could no longer support the weight of his body and slumped heavily onto the scorching stone slab.
Time seemed to slow down at this moment.
Luffy could only desperately widen his eyes, filled with unwillingness, watching the three huge Venom Dragons carrying the shadow of death fall from mid-air, completely engulfing his small body in their shadow.
Bon Clay let out a scream of near despair.
Just at the critical moment when the Venom Dragons' maws were about to close completely!
"Boom — — — —!!!"
The heavy iron door at the end of the corridor, crafted from special alloy, was blown directly into flying metal fragments by an unreasonable, violent force from the outside, accompanied by a deafening, earth-shattering roar.
An afterimage, carrying a violent gust of wind, descended from the sky like a shooting star tearing through the endless night.
The person was in mid-air, hands suddenly bending into the posture of fierce dragon claws.
His sturdy, powerful arms were instantly wrapped in high-level Armament Haki as black as the night.
Facing the roaring Venom Dragons, this figure showed no fear.
With a palm strike from a distance, carrying a destructive momentum, he slammed into the jaw of the Venom Dragon closest to Luffy.
"Dragon Claw!"
"Bang — —!!!"
An internal destructive shockwave, terrifying to the extreme, erupted from the center of that black dragon claw.
This overbearing, peerless power pierced directly through the surface layer of the poison, exploding violently inside the giant dragon's skull!
Only a deafening explosion was heard.
That Venom Dragon's skull, capable of dissolving steel, was actually shattered from the inside by this powerful internal force!
The deadly purple poison rained down in all directions like a torrential downpour.
However, when this lethal poison rain fell toward Luffy, it was completely deflected by an invisible Haki defensive net radiating from the newcomer.
The poison rain turned into sizzling puddles of toxic water on the surrounding stone slabs.
On the battlefield, the pungent smoke and purple toxic mist gradually dissipated in the sharp wind.
A tall, straight back slowly became clear in Luffy's vision.
It was a blond young man wearing wind goggles, a black top hat, and holding a steel pipe tightly in his hand.
He was like a towering mountain that had weathered the vicissitudes of life yet remained unshakable, blocking all danger and death in front of himself in this desperate situation called Blazing Hell.
Luffy, having survived the ordeal, sat blankly on the scorching ground, his chest still heaving violently.
He struggled to lift his face, stained with dust and sweat, and stared fixedly at the back in front of him.
At that moment, Luffy's brain fell into a long, yet brief, blankness.
The sounds of the boiling blood pool around him, Magellan's angry roars, all seemed to be muted instantly.
The outline of that back, that familiar hat...
All of this clearly only existed in the most precious memories deep in his childhood, clearly belonging to that brother who should have died on that cold sea many years ago.
In Luffy's disbelieving gaze.
The blond young man holding the steel pipe slowly turned his head.
The moment that face with the obvious burn scar came into Luffy's view.
Luffy clearly saw that the young man's eyes were already completely red, filled with crystalline tears.
The corners of the young man's mouth were trembling uncontrollably.
But he still tried his best, extended his gloved hand, and gently lifted the black top hat on his head.
Facing Luffy's sluggish gaze, he pulled out a smile filled with endless tenderness and heartache.
The slightly hoarse voice rang softly in the scorching air, but it struck heavily into the depths of Luffy's soul:
"Long time no see, Luffy, my little brother."
A drop of hot tear slid down the scar on his face:
"Sorry... I'm late."
Boom —
That voice, familiar to the depths of his soul.
That gentle smile that would never be mistaken, even across life and death.
In this instant, it completely broke through all of Straw Hat Luffy's psychological defenses.
Whatever Impel Down's Warden, whatever deadly poison, whatever fear of death—at this moment, they were all thrown to the back of his mind.
In those big eyes of Luffy's, which had been gradually unfocused due to the toxin, tears erupted like a bursting dam at this moment.
Bean-sized tears rolled down, snot and tears intertwined, covering that young face without any regard for image.
He struggled to stand up, but could only lean forward weakly.
But even though his throat was already hoarse and torn, he still raised his head, and hysterically shouted the name he thought he would never be able to shout again in this life toward that back that seemed like a god descending from heaven:
"Sabo
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