Chapter 313: The Prison Mine

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Chapter 313: The Prison Mine

Sometime later, Vivi, Zoro, and Luffy arrived in front of a strange facility. It was completely made of rock and had many towers where some nasty purple smoke was coming out. The entrance was closed by a strong metal door.

"Is this where they are?" Zoro asked to make sure.

"Indeed…I can feel Robin and Usopp. They are definitely in there." Vivi told him.

"I hope they are fine." Luffy dismounted his lizard and glanced at Zoro with a frown.

"We could have made it sooner if you weren't so insistent on arriving by foot."

"I don't like those lizards!. They keep trying to bite me." Zoro told him.

"Is not that bad, this one bit me three times on the way here. It just tickles a bit, shishishi." Luffy tried to pet his lizard and was bitten again.

"Ouch!"

"Captain…Zoro is not as resistant to poisons and venoms as yourself." Vivi reminded him.

"I'm resistant to what?" Luffy didn't seem to be aware of this.

"You seemed to have gained some immunity after surviving Caesar's poison…you haven't forgotten that, right?" Vivi asked.

"Ah yes…I think Chopper mentioned something about that." Luffy did indeed forget completely about that.

"Never mind that. We are here now… let's go inside." Zoro huffed.

"What is this place?...that smoke up there looks very unpleasant." Luffy glanced at the towers.

"Looks like some sort of factory. There are a lot of people in there." Vivi commented to them.

The metal door opened as they approached. A small group of armed men came out and looked at them with angry expressions.

"Stop right there!. The mine is off-limits!."

One of the men pointed his sword at them.

"Identify yourselves!" Another one shouted.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy!" 

Her Captain was quick to comply with the order.

"Monkey D. Luffy? he said?" They seemed a bit worried after hearing that name. 

"That can't be true, right?" Another one asked.

"It looks like they have heard of you, Captain," Zoro said. 

"There is no way they are the real ones…"

"Yeah, that guy is supposed to be worth over a billion…can you believe it?"

They looked at Luffy and chuckled.

"Haha!, no way!."

Vivi didn't really care that they had been taken for impostors. So she tried to at least be civil with the situation.

"Hello!, we are not here to cause trouble…we are just looking for some of our friends," Vivi told them.

"Your friends are here?... Wait, can it be them?!. Those last arrivals from this morning?" One of the guards turned to his companions.

"The weird guy with the big nose? That one kept saying that the was the Captain thought…"

"That's definitely Usopp!" Lurry said.

"Right, and that woman looked very dangerous…" Another one of the men said.

"Definitely Robin." Zoro nodded.

"Those are the people we are looking for…where are they?" Vivi asked. She already knew their general location but would be easy if these men collaborated.

Instead of that, the group of ten armed men pointed their weapons at them.

"You think we are just going to tell you that? Those two are our prisoners and soon…so will you!"

"Prisoners?" Luffy looked confused.

"I don't think this is a factory…" Zoro said.

"A factory?. Ha!, you lot just walked into Wano's famous prison mine. Anyone who goes in here…never leaves!" 

"Get them!" 

The men charged at them with their weapons out.

"Zoro, do you mind?" Luffy requested.

The swordsman moved his eyes forward. Vivi was standing in front of them and she remained there when they went to attack.

During the month they spent training together, he has grown more accustomed to her way of fighting.

She was standing in a relaxing pose, with her arms crossed. Something that made her attackers grow in confidence.

But Zoro knew better…because of the way her abilities work, her body posture is completely irrelevant. Vivi can use any part of her body to start an attack or modify her body in any way she pleases.

"There is no need for that…" Was Zoro answer to his Captain.

"They are already…"

The skin on Vivi's forehead started to ripple like it was a pool of water. From there, a small projectile made of compressed water came out faster than a bullet and impacted the head of the closest attacker with perfect accuracy.

The man grunted and fell backward with a small bullet hole in his skull.

She was then surrounded by four more men, who immediately suffered the same fate as their partner.

Bullets came out of Vivi's arms and shoulders, killing the four men.

From the remaining five, four of them decided to attack her from a distance and pulled rifles from their backs.

"Bam Bam Bam Bam!"

A torrent of metal pellets impacted her body and sank into its surface.

"What is that?!"

"What is she made of?"

Vivi lifted a finger. A small string of water came out of it and started to move in a circle…the speed started to increase to the point that it was starting to make a terrifying sound as the moving water created friction with the air.

"W-Wait!, let's talk about this!" One of the men started to plead.

"Okay…answer then. Where are our friends?" Vivi asked.

The armed men looked at each other with worry.

"W-we…em…we have them locked in a cell."

"Did you harm them?" Vivi asked.

The string of water grew in size and increased its speed.

"No!"

"Just a few scratches on the big nose one. Nothing serious!"

"The woman was not harmed at all! It didn't seem like she wanted to fight."

"Fine, take us to them," Vivi ordered the men.

"Yes, right away!"

"Quick, open the door, you idiot!"

The group of fire remaining men got to work.

"They should have done that from the beginning." Zoro took a sip of his sake.

"Oi Vivi." Luffy pointed at the water string that was spinning over her finger.

"What does that do?" 

"Ah…this?" Vivi flicked her hand and the water ring went flying towards a giant rock in the vicinity.

At impact, it made a deafening noise, and then…the ring that only had the diameter of a basketball expanded outward and completely cut the gigantic rock.

"Wow, thats so cool!" Luffy looked impressed by the display.

The guards, however, looked absolutely terrified. 

"That could have been us…" One of them muttered.

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