## One Piece Chapter 536: Level 5, Freezing Hell - Chapter: 536 - Pages: 0-18 - Characters: Franky, alpaca, Bentham/Mr. 2 Bon Clay, Impel Down doctors, Luffy, Magellan, Marines, Emporio Ivankov, Impel Down guards, Level 5 prisoners, vanished prisoners, wolf squad, Basilisk, Sphinx, Portgas D. Ace ### Summary Page 0: Chapter title page: Chapter 536: "Level 5, Freezing Hell." The cover illustration is a standalone scene with Franky showing off an Alpaca Tank design beside an alpaca and a large tank-like machine with an animal head, cannon parts and mechanical legs. The page functions as the chapter opener and title card rather than the Impel Down narrative itself. It introduces the chapter name before the story returns to Luffy's poisoning and the attempt to find a miracle in the frozen prison below. Page 1: In Impel Down's medical wing, Bon Clay explodes at the doctors: "What did you say!? No... what!? Stop joking around!!!" The doctors explain that nobody who has fought Magellan and been dosed with that much poison has ever survived. They say one poison is bad enough, but there is no way to create a single antidote for multiple types of poison, and any attempt to cure Luffy would only hasten his death. Bon Clay refuses to accept it, demanding, "This is no joke!!! Do something!! We need to hand Strawhat Luffy over to the Marines alive!!" Page 2: The doctors insist there is no way to save Strawhat and that fighting Magellan and surviving would take a miracle. Bon Clay freezes at the word "miracle" and remembers a person in Impel Down: "The 'Miracle Worker,' the Okama King Iva...!!!" He explains that people doctors had given up on, even countries on the verge of ruin, were saved by Iva, the strongest star of the okama world. Bon Clay says their only hope is to find Emporio Ivankov, while others ask who he is. Page 3: At the Level 4 employees' stairway, Bon Clay asks whether the stairs lead to Level 5, and a guard confirms that those prisoners have been sentenced to freeze. Bon Clay says they have no choice and tells Straw-chan to wait. Reading the Level 5 prisoner list, he notices something strange: "Emporio Ivankov" has a line through the name. The staff wonder whether Iva was released or executed, but Bon Clay knows Iva as history's strongest Okama King and begins chasing the only lead he has. Page 4: Bon Clay questions the guards about Ivankov. One guard says Iva was there long ago, and another mentions an incident from several years earlier. A guard explains that from time to time prisoners simply disappear from Impel Down without a trace, even in front of other prisoners, as if taken by demons. These unnatural disappearances were greatly feared, as though the missing prisoners had been pulled to the gates of hell, and people said they had been "demoined away." Bon Clay realizes Ivankov may have vanished through this mystery rather than by normal execution or release. Page 5: Bon Clay and the guards arrive at Level 5, but the cold hits them immediately. Prisoners complain, "So cold!!! The door's not even open yet!!" and the guards say they are already wearing thick coats. Bon Clay is ordered to enter the Freezing Hell unarmed and unclothed, because that is his chance to prove his conviction as the vice warden. They laugh that it would be laughable for the prisoners to wear coats and warn that Den Den Mushis do not work in the cold. Bon Clay charges in despite the conditions. Page 6: Level 5's cold is shown as a brutal open wasteland of ice, snow, stone and wolf howls. Prisoners cry, "Uwooh, it's so cold!!" and "It hurts!! It's so cold it hurts!" Bon Clay counts the beasts and asks whether they are the wolf squad. A guard explains that if the wolves were released on Level 2 they would devour the Basilisk, the Sphinx and the other beasts because they are extremely aggressive. Bon Clay refuses to slow down, shouting, "Well then, let's put our hearts into it!! Let's save Straw-chan!!!" Page 7: In the Freezing Floor Central Tower Cells, Luffy lies poisoned in the snow while prisoners watch from nearby cells. Someone asks if they are in charge of seeing him off, and another says, "Looks like we got a good one here." Luffy coughs and pants, barely alive, while the huge frozen cell block and jagged ice cliffs surround him. The page emphasizes that Level 5 adds freezing cold, isolation and predatory inmates on top of Magellan's poison. Luffy is not merely jailed; he has been discarded into an execution ground. Page 8: Luffy groans, "It hurts...!!!" and struggles in the snow with poison still covering his body. A prisoner tells him it is pointless: there is no way he will live after taking that much poison, and his eyes are already done. Another says it is like an ant in a storm, blown away and unable to do anything. Luffy still cries, "No!!! I won't die!!!" while the prisoners tell him to be quiet and accept death. Even with his body failing, Luffy's refusal remains the only thing keeping him moving. Page 9: Luf...