Who Entrusted the Door to the Monkey Family

"Takes over by the Monkey Family?"

Garp cracked the edge of the secondary screen, and by the time Sengoku reached out to stop him, it was too late; a corner of the wooden frame fell off and smashed onto the conference table.

Lin Qi didn't look at the Marine Headquarters; he squatted in front of the basement door, his gaze fixed on the hand peeking out from the crack in the door.

"Don't ask about the family yet; the people inside haven't come out."

Lumi pushed the Protection List into the Sky Screen.

"I have only submitted the evidence; no one can use this action to question my identity."

Long stared at the inscription on the Iron Plate. The wind blew the map in front of him aside, but he reached out and pressed it back down.

The Monkey Family never took over the Underground Node of Foosha Village.

Garp turned to look at him.

Are you sure?

"I grew up here, and after I left, I investigated the World Government's covert operations in the East Blue, but this Tavern has no record of them."

Garp pushed the fallen wooden frame aside.

"I often return to Foosha Village, but I've never seen this before."

The voice came from behind the Black Gate, emanating from a corner of the darkened Sky Screen.

"The responsibility of trusteeship has been continuously fulfilled by the Monkey Family. Now, Garp and Dragon are required to jointly confirm the takeover."

Luffy squeezed to the very front in the secondary screen showing the Straw Hat Pirates.

"Don't want."

Usopp pulled on his vest.

It didn't ask you.

"Grandpa doesn't want it, the dragon doesn't want it, and neither do I want it."

Luffy stared at the crack in the basement door, his hand gripping his Straw Hat.

"The people inside decide who gets to drive; they didn't mention the Monkey Family."

Garp opened his mouth, but the words he was about to say didn't come out; he just raised his hand and pressed it to his forehead.

"That brat is right this time."

The dragon looked at the Iron Plate.

"The inscription only proves that someone left this arrangement, not that the Monkey Family accepted it."

Robin turned the Iron Plate to the back, where there were several scratches under the rust.

"The words 'acting in trust' were engraved later; there were originally other characters below them."

The Old Carpenter brought his face close to the secondary screen.

"Can you remove the rust?"

Vegapunk immediately shook his head.

"The Iron Plate is still connected to the target inside the door; removing the rust may trigger old commands."

The hand inside the door withdrew slightly, its fingertips tracing patterns on the water's surface.

[No scratching]

Makino moved the oil lamp further away to prevent the heat from hitting the Iron Plate.

"Okay, I won't scrape it."

Lin Qi also stepped back a little.

"Would you like to leave the Iron Plate outside? If you leave it there, tap it once; if you want to take it back, tap it twice."

There was a sound from behind the door.

"Then leave it here, we won't move it."

Garp stared at the crack in the door, his fist loosening and then clenching again.

Ask him if he has seen this old man.

Lin Qi looked up at the naval auxiliary screen.

"You can't ask now."

"I'm not trying to claim it."

"The more eager you are to dismiss or confirm something, the easier it is for the Throne to write his reaction as a family testimony."

Garp removed his hand from the edge of the table, pulled out a chair and sat down, the chair legs dragging on the floor with a thud.

"Then we will wait."

As Makino flipped through the Tavern's Handoff Records over the years, a faded Receipt fell out from the edge of the earliest page when she reached the first one.

"This Tavern had been transferred once before I took it over, for a symbolic price, with the village Village Chief listed as the guarantor."

The village chief of Windmill Village walked from the back of the crowd to the front of the secondary screen. His hat was not on properly, so he raised his hand to adjust it, but the brim slipped back down.

"Those were the formalities the old owner completed before he left; he said he didn't want the Tavern to be empty."

There's also a handprint next to the guarantee column.

"Garp pressed it."

The naval conference room fell silent again.

Garp raised his hand to slam it on the table, then stopped before his hand landed, finally picking up only the broken wooden frame.

"I've stamped many transfer documents in the village; who can remember every single one?"

Sengoku brought the Receipt image to his eyes.

"The Throne used your guarantee record to register the Tavern as a node managed by the Monkey Family."

Long asked the Village Chief, "Where did the old shop owner go?"

The Village Chief took off his hat and rubbed his fingers along the brim.

He said he was going south to visit relatives, and then I heard nothing from him. I thought he had died at sea.

The Cup Voice behind the door suddenly became chaotic, and the outstretched hand reappeared, its five fingers groping on the floor as if trying to grasp something.

Makino placed the Receipt not far from the crack in the door.

"Do you recognize this palm print?"

His finger avoided Garp's mark and stopped next to the old shop owner's signature.

Only a blurry first character remains of the signature.

[Mo]

The pages of Void Seven's body flipped simultaneously, and several sealed records fell from his shoulder, only to be caught by the Golden Light.

"Among the old field operations of the Void King Order Archive repository, there is an Echo Node Maintainer, codenamed 'Menwai Mo'."

Naji looked up into the room through the door.

He will leave the food at the door.

Luo Ya asked, "Have you seen it before?"

"The man in the Cold Room once said that Menwai Mo report weeping to the Throne; he only reports that the equipment is broken."

The voice from behind the Black Gate interrupted Naji.

"The testimony of the Defector Maintainer is invalid; his transfer of nodes shall be inherited by the guarantor."

Akainu stamped the Navy seal on the Detention Order.

"If they can't catch the person first, they shift the blame to the person who pressed their fingerprint on their hand. The World Government's procedures have deteriorated to this extent."

Sengoku looked at Garp.

"Did you see the old shop owner back then? Was there anything unusual?"

Garp leaned back in his chair, slowly piecing the wooden frame back together in his hands.

He invited me for drinks, but the wine was diluted with too much water. I scolded him for being stingy, and he said he needed to save money to raise a child who couldn't be born into the world.

Lin Qi turned to look through the crack in the door.

Are you that child?

There was no Cup Voice emptied inside the door, but the water receded along the bottom of the wooden plank.

Lumi immediately spoke up.

The issue has crossed the line.

Lin Qi raised his hand and tapped his forehead.

"I was too hasty."

He didn't ask any further questions, but simply pushed the oil lamp closer to the side of the door, letting the light stop outside the threshold.

You don't need to answer the question just now, and you don't need to prove your relationship with the former shop owner.

After a while, the hand reached out again, pushed the Receipt back to Makino's feet, and then wrote a line of crooked words with water.

He told me not to wait.

The wooden frame in Garp's hand broke again, and he bent down to pick up the pieces that had fallen onto his lap.

The former shop owner said something strange to me before he left.

The dragon didn't urge him on; it just watched him.

He said, "If one day you hear the Cup Voice being knocked down underground, don't look for the navy; first ask the people inside if they're willing to come out."

Makino placed the key next to the lamp.

He's already said he wants to go outside.

Garp shut his mouth, and when he spoke again, he did not Monkey Family.

"Then do as he says."

Vegapunk disassembled the door lock structure into three layers: the innermost Human Lock had been released, the second layer of Echo Iron Plate was still connected to the Terminal, and the outer wooden door was controlled by the Tavern key.

"People can come out, but the Terminal will lose its Echo Anchor, Sky Screen may continue to go out."

Lin Qi stood up and unplugged the computer power cord.

"That machine shouldn't have been tied to anyone in the first place."

The voice from behind the Black Gate spoke again, "Once the Terminal is shut down, all Protection List will lose the Sky Screen maintenance."

Lumi flipped through the list, looking at the names of Luo Ya, Naji, and others one by one.

"You're forcing Lin Qi to trade their lives for the people inside."

The waterline of the Central Rescued Target suddenly covered the bottom of the cup, the words that were originally written on the outside were washed away, and new words appeared intermittently.

[I can answer]

Mia shook her head after reading it.

"He wants to take over the Echo Anchor at Foosha Village."

Nami held the Clima-Tact horizontally in front of the image of the Sealed Storage Warehouse.

I won't answer anyone.

The central goals will continue to be written.

[I'm in the cup]

The shell of the Chao Bei clanged rapidly, and the Ju Bei slapped its rim forcefully.

Mia didn't translate; the children, separated by the Sky Screen, simultaneously expressed their refusal.

Lin Qi plugged the computer back in, but the screen didn't light up. However, a small piece of rust on the Iron Plate in the basement peeled off on its own, revealing the original text covered by the words "under temporary care".

[Witnessed by the Monkey Family, no takeover permitted.]