I've heard about that one, everyone keeps describing it that way.

[Ikki doesn't deny it may be Hell on Earth, he hasn't seen it so he's no one to judge. Though in his opinion Hell is far worse, after all Impel Down is a prison, not everyone ends there even if it's questionable if all the ones who end there deserve it or not. But Hell, the one he knows, has everyone and anyone ending there regardless of what they have done in live.]

I think the one forgetting something is you. Or you are just not realizing how frustrating and vexing it must be for people who want to control everything to the smallest detail have people wanting to just have freedom to do whatever they want. The torture is probably their way to release that childish frustration, because otherwise having you all be killed on the spot rather than bother with creating a prison would be more efficient in making others give up on wishing for freedom.

[It's lovely to see what a low opinion Ikki has on the World Government of Marco's world, specially since his bff is a freaking Marine. One would think that Ikki would look at it more positively, really.]

You're a pirate, does it matter to you if it's terrible or not?

[A heartbeat.]

I would say it's normal. Even I would hope for that if Esmeralda or Kenuma and the others came here and left.

[Something in his tone says that he won't say that out loud ever again.]