Chapter title page: Chapter 545, "Out into the Sunlight." The cover illustration begins Robin's short focused serial: "Robin's 'You Do Terrible Things,'" volume 1, "Adventure in a Country of Slave Labor." Nico Robin, wearing prisoner number 3926 and shackles, stands in a snowy labor camp while armed guards and workers move behind her. The image is a side-story title card and not part of the Impel Down escape, but it introduces Robin's post-separation situation before the chapter returns to Luffy.
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Narration explains that after escaping the hellish battlefield of Level 4, Luffy runs through Level 3, Starvation Hell, accompanied by the New Kama troops and the newly escaped prisoners. Magellan pursues them, shouting, "You won't escape!" and one prisoner yells, "Forward!!! Keep pressing forward!!!" The narration adds that Captain Buggy has escaped and is now at Level 1 heading for the front entrance with escaping prisoners, while Magellan's poison has sealed off Level 2. Luffy charges ahead through the chaos as someone says he is taking them out one by one.
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Ivankov lies behind on Level 3, thinking, "Ivankov, I'll never forgive you...!!!" as Sadi-chan's earlier cries of "Hiiha~!!" and "Kyaaaa!" echo from her defeat. Iva yells at the fugitives, "Get going!!! How long are you going to just lay there!?" The four revived Demon Beast Guards race upward, and narration says they are taking the lift to Level 1. The page shows the pursuit splintering: Magellan is still below with Ivankov, while the awakened guards are being sent ahead to cut off Buggy's group.
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Narration says the unprecedented incident continues to escalate beneath the water's surface. Head Guard Shiryu has betrayed the prison and cut off all communications to the outside world, so nobody outside knows what is happening inside. The scene cuts to ships surrounding Impel Down as prisoners reason that marine battleships and prison ships are outside; if they can take one, they can make it to Ace's execution at Marineford. A clock ticks as narration warns, "Four hours to go..." and "Ace's execution approaches."
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On Level 3, the fugitives reach the stairs to Level 2 and shout that Magellan is right behind them. They hurry upward, but the last prisoners suddenly realize only one man is still behind them. Magellan emerges from the poison and fallen bodies and asks, "Who can still stand!!!" The remaining men scream as he stands alone in the corridor, drenched in poison and blocking the route from below.
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Ivankov calls out, "Inazuma!!!" and Inazuma answers, "Understood..." He uses "Large Shears" to cut through the stairway itself, the blades going "Chokn!!" as he slices the stone. The severed stairs begin to slide away while Magellan watches from below. Inazuma's action is not an attack on Magellan but a structural trap, buying the escapees time by removing the path upward.
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On Level 2, Demon Beast Hell, the fugitives cry, "Inazuma!?" and ask why he cut the stairs while Iva is still down there. Inazuma tells them, "Just keep moving!!" and, with a worried look, says, "Please, be safe!!" The sliced stairs twist into a massive barricade between Magellan and the upper floors. Magellan stares at the wall of stone and asks Ivankov, "What exactly... are you planning?" Iva smiles and answers, "If you don't know..."
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Ivankov completes the thought by calling Magellan "a complete idiot!!!" and kicks at him through the poison. Magellan says Iva is trying to buy time, but that Iva cannot buy enough time for the others to escape. Ivankov answers with confidence, "Buy time? Nnfufu, you're assuming you can beat me." Iva then declares, "I'll show you the ultimate Kamabakka Headquarters New Kama Kenpo!!!" The page sets up Ivankov's direct duel with Magellan as the rest of the escapees push on.
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On Level 2 from Luffy's side, Luffy carries Buggy and notices a Manticora, while a prisoner shouts that Iva and Inazuma stopped on the floor below. Someone suggests going back because they may be fighting the poison guy, but another prisoner says not to joke around and insists they must press forward, believing in the miracle worker's strength. Luffy says he understands and is worried, but keeps going. Crocodile and Jimbei notice something wrong: no one is in the cells, and the doors are all open.
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Back on Level 3, Ivankov faces Magellan and screams as poison splashes over Iva's face. Iva cries, "My face!!! My face is melting!!!" and Magellan says, "Your face isn't melting!? You got one!!" Ivankov snaps, "Not!!! That's just my makeup!!!" and prepares to finish things with "New Kama Kempo Aesthetic Technique 44," while Magellan tells Iva to stop wasting his time. The confrontation is dangerous but still filtered through Ivankov's absurd theatrical confidence.
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Ivankov launches "Mudage Shoriken!!!" with the note that it is a New Kama Kempo technique that mimics a sea urchin attack by plucking out and flicking pieces of stubble as needles. The attack smashes into Magellan, but below, at Level 2 in front of the cut-up stairs, the barricade collapses with a huge crash. Inazuma looks horrified and says, "Iva..." as the debris gives way, suggesting Magellan's poison and force are breaking through the delay much faster than planned.
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Magellan creates a massive "Venom Road" through the wreckage and rides it upward, breaking through the cut stairs. Inazuma says, "No good...?" as Magellan tears through the stone while voices shout, "Keep out!!!" and ask whether there will be more stalling. The barrier meant to protect the escape route is not enough: Magellan's poison path lets him continue the chase almost immediately.
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On Level 1, Buggy's side sees disaster arrive from another direction. A prisoner screams, "They're here!!" as all four Demon Beast Guards charge into the crowd. The prisoners panic that all four guards are here and shout, "This is the end!!!" and "Retreat!!! We can't fight them!!" Some give up on escaping altogether. Mr. 3, still nearby, reacts with a stunned "Buh!!" as the revived beasts threaten to crush Buggy's breakout just before the exit.
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Crocodile suddenly steps forward and defeats the Demon Beast Guards, telling them, "Move it." Buggy yells, "Crocodile!!!" while a prisoner asks, "Nboboby boss!?" Mr. 3 recognizes Crocodile and trembles, asking what a useless piece of trash like him is doing here and whether he was just set free. At the same time, Buggy's prisoners shout, "Captain Buggy, the Demon Beast Guards have been knocked out!!!" They then see Luffy and scream, "Eeeeehhhh!!! Strawhat!!!" Another prisoner recognizes Jimbei as a Shichibukai. Luffy is relieved and says, "Good!! You guys are okay!!"
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Buggy's group panics as prisoners and perverts pour up from Level 2. Buggy shouts, "Perverts!? What's going on!?" and an inmate reports that a bunch of prisoners and perverts are coming up from Level 2. Mr. 3 complains that Buggy and the others abandoned him back there, while Buggy asks what he is doing with Captain Buggy. Guards realize the situation is terrible: the prisoners from Level 4 are coming up too, and the two groups have managed to team up. They ask where the Chief Warden is as the merged escape army gathers on Level 1.
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Magellan's "Hydra!!!" erupts into Level 1, and prisoners scream that he is here too. Luffy and Buggy stare in shock as the venom monster surges through the corridor. Someone asks what happened to Iva and the crab guy, meaning Inazuma. The poison trail on the ground shows that Magellan has blasted through the delays and caught up to everyone near the top. The escape has reached the sunlight in sight, but the warden is still right behind them.
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The escapees are told to hurry to the front entrance on the top floor because there is now more than Magellan to worry about. Outside, someone reports that there are ships, and Magellan orders his men to carry out their orders immediately, clearly planning something with the vessels. As the Hydra attacks, Mr. 3 throws up a "Candle Wall!!!" to block the venom. Luffy tells him to go because it cannot hold for long, but Mr. 3 refuses to remain in Luffy's debt, snapping that Luffy is so optimistic it makes him sick and that if he is not careful, he will start thinking of Luffy as a friend.
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SBS reader request page. A reader says that after seeing Ivankov, they became interested in seeing the gender-swapped Strawhats and asks Oda to draw them seriously. Oda says, "Okay. This is an exception," and sketches female or male versions of the crew with joke lines: Luffy says, "I'm gonna eat a salad, and become the Pirate Queen!!" Zoro says, "Three sword style? No way, I'll chip a tooth." Nami says, "I'm asking you who this ship's navigator is!" Chopper says, "Doctor! Aw! That's me!" Sanji says, "I specialize in sweets." Usopp says, "If we go to that island, I think we'll die." Robin says, "You do some terrible things..." Franky says, "Am I super this week?" and Brook appears as a skull with a question mark.