One Piece: Reborn as Enel

Chapter 55: Heart to Heart and Impel Down ‘Tour’

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In truth, Luffy had wanted to speak to Enel ever since they had found themselves at the small port on Amazon Lily.

Luffy had only stopped himself when seeing Enel's marine coat, which made him a bit perplexed... Not that he could spell out that specific emotion.

'Didn't think he'd end up as a marine...' If it was any other time, it Luffy would've still approached Enel without any hesitation.

But he was now heading to free his brother from the marines, so that somewhat put a spin on the good old 'invite him in the pirate crew' plan that Luffy had.

Although misadvised, Luffy decided to still try and speak with the long-earlobed fellow that was steering the golden ship he was on.

After all, Luffy wasn't prone to making logical decisions. So he simply waited for Hancock to go to sleep, after which he decided to go out and greet the Rear Admiral.

Enel was not sleeping, merely reading a random newspaper and staring at the clouds around him.

"Oi, Enel!" Luffy shouted as he made his way to the lounging marine.

"Oh, Luffy... I thought you were trying to hide?!" Enel said as he raised an eyebrow at his passenger's appearance.

"Well, hiding is boring! Also, I wanted you to join my crew! Why did you have to go and become a marine!?" Luffy pointed at Enel as if accusing him of doing something wrong.

Enel was rather flabbergasted by that... 'This kid... He's just as unreasonable as his grandfather.'

"I became a marine cuz I wanted to, how about that?" Enel said as he slowly stood up, supporting himself on his walking stick(former staff).

"Well... I'm glad for you. If that's what you wanted to do." Luffy gave Enel an honest smile when speaking this time. Making the Rear admiral fall back on his ass.

'I forgot how this kid handles conversations...'

"I wanted to apologize, actually... You were really polite back on the Sky islands, and we were kinda rude..." Luffy scratched the back of his head, his honest smile not waning for a bit.

Enel just smiled at that. "Don't sweat it. You probably heard about me from the Shandians, right?" The Rear Admiral asked as he crossed his legs and made another chair in front of him for Luffy to sit down on.

"Mhm! Your past is pretty cool! How did you become an archaeologist anyway?!" Luffy sat down and started asking Enel questions with a smile on his face.

"Well, that is a rather nice story in itself! I remember being a young boy at the time... I simply gained this fascination with a large piece of stone that I had found in my backyard.

I ended up staring at it and chiselling it every day for a week, all until I uncovered a small skeleton inside it. It was at that time that I decided to study more about old stuff!"

Luffy and Enel ended up speaking for a few hours, the two of them shared stories as if around a campfire, all until the sun could be seen rising on the horizon.

Luffy's eyes shined as he stared at the sunrise, Enel simply smiled when seeing his reaction, he was already used to the sight, but he would never stop appreciating a good sunrise from above the clouds...

Luffy was entranced for a bit, and Enel just sighed as he remembered just how childish the teen in front of him could be. That wasn't an entirely bad thing though... If anything, the world could use a few more people like Luffy.

In the end, Luffy ended up going back downstairs and trying to sleep a bit more. The rest of the journey to Impel Down was rather uneventful.

Enel himself made no effort to speak much to either Luffy or Hancock in the rest of the journey, he just let the two of them do whatever they wanted.

The Pirate Empress did sometimes walk towards the deck but stopped halfway usually. Enel was a bit confused by that, but he chose not to bother.

In truth, Boa Hancock simply wanted to annoy Enel a bit more, as she found him especially strange.

She also wanted to prove to herself that he was nothing more than just another lustful ape, like all men besides her Luffy were...

She usually lost the spring in her step midway though, as she remembered that they were in midair, in the middle of the Calm Belt. Annoying Enel at that stage was likely not the best idea.

She wasn't worried for herself, she was confident in her ability to turn Enel to stone if something happened. But she was worried for Luffy, so she decided to refrain from annoying the Rear Admiral for now.

Enel ended up killing another Sea King and getting meat from it, as Boa Hancock's 'appetite' seemed to be extremely insatiable.

He continued that way until Impel Down, where he didn't even bother to enter and greet the jailor, and simply waited outside for Hancock to come back.

He wanted to scout out the place at first but didn't really want to get in the way of the Impel Down great prison escape that was about to happen.

At least that was what he had planned to do, but the head warden seemed to have other ideas, as he came to the boat and greet him.

"Rear Admiral Enel! A pleasant surprise to see you here." Magellan seemed to be extremely friendly towards his fellow marine, with no trace of his usual cold and ruthless attitude that he had toward pirates.

"Cheif Warden Magellan. I wasn't expecting to see you on my short visit here." Enel stepped down from his ship and started speaking with the man, he looked the exact same as in the original, so Enel started wondering if some of the people in that world even had a change of clothes...

"Well, it is my prison! Jajajajaja" Magellan started laughing out loud for a bit, Enel simply sighed as he wondered why people in One Piece had such odd laughter.

"I guess, but I wasn't planning on entering. Boa Hancock seemed adamant about visiting this place before going to Marineford." Enel said as he yawned a bit.

He wasn't going to be selling out Luffy anytime soon. He wanted the straw hat-wearing pirate to appear at Marineford.

"It's a shame that we have to listen to pirates to this extent... I wish the Warlord system simply disappeared at times." Magellan simply shook his head for a bit.

"It is needed currently, they do help deter quite a few pirates from popping up... If it warms your heart in any way, I doubt they will be kept for long after the war." Enel twirled his earlobes a bit as he spoke with confidence.

"And why is that? I didn't hear any news from headquarters regarding that..." Magellan just raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Two warlords have already been outed as scum. Crocodile tried to enslave a kingdom, Doflamingo actually did it. The only reason the Warlords are still on is due to this upcoming war."

Magellan seemed to finally understand Enel's point, and his mood instantly seemed to turn for the better.

"That's amazing! I can't wait to see them rot in my prison... Anyway, do you want a tour of the place?! I can take you down to the lower levels without any issue."

It was clear that Magellan took pride in his Jail, and he wanted to show Enel around to the lowest levels.

Enel looked at his golden boat, sitting on the wooden deck, then looked at the prison entrance.

'Oh hell, who knows how long Hancock will take... I've always wanted to see this place from the inside... It's going to be so much better if I eventually need to break into it myself.'

"Sure! Let's go." The two of them started heading for the first level almost instantly, with Magellan explaining the Prison's defences and alarm systems to Enel.

Magellan hadn't really told Enel, assuming there was no need to. The Rear Admiral had become something akin to a legend among the marines.

The recording of his fight was short-lived, but rumours still spread out among the marines.

A rear admiral strong enough to take out a warlord effortlessly. Someone that had both Akainu, the most ruthless admiral, and Garp, the legendary marine hero, vouch for him.

It was pretty clear that Enel wasn't your usual Marine Recruit from his rank. But it was now also extremely clear that Enel wasn't exactly your usual Rear Admiral either.

Among them, he was now called the 'Unranked Admiral'. No one, not even Akainu, did anything to stop these rumours from spreading or becoming as exaggerated as they had become.

Magellan managed to make it a few steps into the third floor before his stomach started grumbling and he seemed to rush in a general direction at the greatest speed he could muster.

"SORRY! THIS IS URGENT!" Enel just stared at Magellan's retreating back for a few seconds.

In the end, Enel decided to follow Magellan all the way down to the 4th floor, where the Chief Warden's office could be found.

Enel just saw Magellan rush into the bathroom and lock the door instantly.

He stared at the door for a bit as he wondered whether or not to go look for Ivankov...

"I'm really sorry about this, Rear Admiral Enel." A blonde, well-dressed woman was the one to address Enel this time.

It was none other than Domino, the blonde-sunglasses-wearing woman that had been responsible for Hancock's body search... Also, the one that had royally screwed it up.

She was wearing a rather odd one-piece (hehe) uniform, the skirt looked to be barely long enough to cover her ass...

"Magellan appears preoccupied, no need to apologize..." Enel said as he scratched the back of his head with his staff.

The woman had likely seen Enel and Magellan rush towards Magellan's office, only for the Chief Warden to enter the toilet and leave Enel, his guest, unattended.

"Sorry!" Enel heard from the toilet. "Domino! Please show Enel around in my stead!" Magellan's plea was only responded with a nod. Domino huffed once, some steam leaving her nose as she raised her sunglasses with one of her gloved hands.

"Of course Head Warden! I shall take on this task!" Her determination was rather plain to see, but Enel was really not interested...

'I'll take what I can get... She should know just as much about the prison anyway.'

"Sure, let's get going!" Enel turned around and started walking off, Domino following him without any hesitation.

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Hope you liked the chapter!

Also, the MC will befriend Luffy, he has no logical reason not to.

He's not bending over backwards in order to do so (he didn't bother approaching him on the ride over to impel down), but it's happening either way.

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