The Promise Still Stands

"Withdraw the cleanup order."

Magellan took the old file from the Jailer and checked it page by page.

Impel Down never received Yorki, and the prison has no record of his incarceration.

The Throne has not been cancelled.

[Prolonged isolation can be credited against prison sentences]

[Refusal to work during quarantine will not be counted towards the deduction]

Yorki tapped the metal plate beneath him.

"I clean and drain water from forty-eight rooms every day. Does that count as manual labor?"

"Have you been maintaining that place?"

Vegapunk accessed the equipment inside the wall.

Forty-nine drainage pipes share a single manual pump, with the pump handle located Yorki. The equipment has no automatic operation records, and every drainage operation over the past fifty years has been done manually.

Chopper slammed his hand on the table.

How did his body hold up?

"If you can't hold on, take a day off. If the water reaches your waist, then keep going."

Mira, pressed against the wall, asked, "Did you sing all night yesterday because the drain pump broke?"

"Um."

Why didn't you tell me?

What's the point of telling you? Are you going to cry through the wall?

Mira kicked the wall.

He replied from behind the wall as well.

Lin Qi dragged the work record next to the cleanup sheet.

"Indefinite detention, forced maintenance of end-of-life facilities, inadequate medical supplies—what sentence does Yorki still owe?"

Akainu flipped to a bounty record from fifty years ago.

"Yorki's crimes back then included flying a pirate flag, attacking merchant ships, and resisting arrest."

Brook asked, "Which merchant ship was attacked?"

The report only mentioned the medical transport ship.

Yorki answered from behind the wall.

"The ship was throwing people into the sea; we pulled seventeen out and also stole the medicine kits."

What about the people who were thrown down?

"A slave, bearing the mark of Celestial Dragons."

Boa Hancock looked up from the Kuja Line.

Where is the record?

"Of course it was written as cargo damage."

Dragon has already found the shipping manifest for the same voyage.

The ship was registered with 120 boxes of special cargo, but 17 boxes were missing upon arrival, and a note next to it stated that the Rumbar Pirates had stolen the supplies.

"People were described as boxes, and saving people was described as robbery."

Yorki chuckled.

"The usual rule."

Akainu forwarded the report to the Navy for review.

"This charge lacks proof of legitimate goods and will not be used as a basis for enforcement at this time."

Luffy shouted through the Den Den Mushi, "There's no basis for it, what's the point of locking it up?"

Magellan returned the cleanup order to the old facilities management page.

"Impel Down refuses to comply."

[The former witness project directly under the jurisdiction of the Isolation Station on Enies Lobby]

"Enies Lobby is gone."

[Administrative control automatically reverts to the World Government]

Dragon asked, "Whom does the World Government plan to send for incineration?"

The page will no longer respond.

Nami amplified Yorki's oxygen supply level.

"They don't need to send anyone; just shutting down one more pump will suffice."

The number is dropping.

Chopper urged Magellan on.

"Haven't you found the entrance yet?"

"The storage room on the north side of the sixth floor has been dismantled, and there are indeed abandoned tracks behind it, but the tracks are only wide enough to transport food carts."

Buggy slammed his fist on the table.

I told you so!

"The spoon you hid has been found too."

"That's a collectible."

Magellan ignored him and ordered the Jailers to push the old food cart to the tracks.

The car was so narrow that only one person could sit crouched down in it; the front was covered in rust, and a layer of debris would fall off with every turn of the axle.

Mira looked at the delivery port in her room.

Can it get here to me?

"We need to send an empty train to confirm the route first."

"Too late."

Behind the wall, Yorki pulled the drain pump a few more times.

His breathing couldn't keep up with his movements; after pulling once, he would have to wait a long time before he could pull again.

Brook set up the violin.

"Captain, follow my rhythm."

What are you planning to do now?

"You used to say that music saved energy when we were rowing."

"That was just to trick you into rowing a few more miles."

The music entered the pipes.

There is no complete piece, only four separate beats.

Yorki only pulled the pump handle on the fourth beat, and each time the water pressure caused the pump to return halfway.

Vegapunk looked at the drainage data.

"Valid, continue."

Mira sat down by the wall and started tapping the wooden sign as well.

"I'll count them for you."

"Don't bang it."

"I've listened to your singing for so many years, how could I be confused?"

You sang the wrong lyrics yesterday.

"That's because you taught it wrong."

Yorki used this rhythm to lower the water level below the goalposts.

The oxygen supply was still decreasing, and the sounds from the forty-eight grids were gradually weakening.

Brook did not stop playing the piano.

"Captain, Laboon is still at Twin Capes."

There was a gap on the pump handle side.

"Alive?"

"Alive."

How old are you?

It's gotten much bigger than before.

Did it collide with the Red Line?

Brook did not answer immediately.

Crocus's communication was connected at this time.

An old man stood in front of the Twin Cape Lighthouse, the seawater churning behind him.

"It crashed."

Yorki yelled, "How did you take care of it?"

Crocus turned the Den Den Mushi away, revealing the crisscrossing old scars on Laboon's head.

"After you left, it waited for several years, and then, upon hearing rumors that the Rumbar Pirates had fled the Grand Line, it began banging its head against mountains."

Who sent it?

"Newspaper."

Robin found an old newspaper from fifty years ago.

[The Rumbar Pirates experiencing a disease outbreak]

[Captain Yorki disappeared after abandoning the mainship]

[The remaining crew appears to have escaped the Grand Line]

Yorki, Joki didn't pull the pump handle for a long time.

Brook's piano playing also faded away.

"Captain, we didn't escape."

"I know."

"Laboon doesn't know."

Crocus asked, "Should we make it listen?"

Yorki immediately refused.

"Don't let it hear me say this."

It's waiting for your message; it won't care if you cough.

"Let's talk about it when we get back."

Brook asked, "How much longer do we have to make it wait?"

"Skull, why are you talking so much today?"

"Because I also made it wait fifty years."

The transport tracks began to turn, and the empty food trucks from Impel Down disappeared into the darkness.

Every time the wheel moved a short distance, the light in Mira's room would dim briefly.

The Throne also delivered a new conclusion at the same time.

The deadline for the agreement Rumbar Pirates and Laboon cannot be confirmed.

[The key member responsible for fulfilling the agreement has died]

[Agreement expired]

Luffy slammed his fist onto the ship's deck.

"Who said it's invalid?"

"Mr. Luffy."

"Brook is alive, the captain is alive, and Laboon is waiting. Why should this be invalid?"

Lin Qi scrolled back to the fourth line of the page.

"This question doesn't need to be asked of the whole world, only the three parties involved in the agreement."

The Throne is not open to the public.

Animals are not eligible for confirmation by agreement.

Chopper jumps to the Den Den Mushi.

"Laboon understands human speech and can make choices."

[Unable to write]

"Silent expression counts too."

The rules established in the previous chapters were brought up, and the Throne Page briefly froze.

Lin Qi wrote down the fourth item.

[D. As long as the parties involved in the agreement are still willing to fulfill their obligations, neither time nor death can invalidate the agreement.]

Brook pressed the button first.

Yorki didn't have any buttons available, so Mira stuck her wooden sign on the wall for him to tap to confirm.

The last ticket was sent to Twin Capes.

Crocus held the Den Den Mushi towards the sea.

"Laboon, listen up."

He finished reading the options.

The sea surface sank for a few seconds.

The next moment, the enormous black shadow left the Red Line, turned around, and swam towards the lighthouse where the Den Den Mushi was located.

Laboon did not crash into the mountain again.

It raised its head and let out a long cry that echoed throughout Twin Capes.

The drainage pump at Yorki's feet moved slightly.

The elderly man held onto the pump handle.

"It remembers."

A second whale cry echoed through the live stream, and the forty-eight frames inside the wall responded in unison.

The food cart arrived at Mira's room at that moment.

The car door opened, revealing a ship's medical kit from fifty years ago.

A note on the box lid read "Newly Delivered".

Yorki's illness has long been confirmed to be non-contagious.