The Captain's Illness Isn't Contagious

When was it confirmed?

Chopper asked Magellan to move the ship's medical kit to a bright spot.

The latch was broken, and inside there were only a few empty medicine bottles and a quarantine report folded in the Inner Compartment.

The edges of the paper were damp, but the date was still legible.

Three months after Yorki was placed in Isolation Station, the Quarantine Doctor completed the retest.

[Etiology: Chronic lung damage caused by Parasitic Spores in the Calm Belt]

[Transmission method: via specific parasites only]

[No risk of transmission between people]

[It is recommended to lift the quarantine for all personnel]

The report ended without a signature, but instead contained an additional sealing order.

[Target aware of special transport route, remain in custody]

Brook asked, "They'll find out in three months?"

Yorki removed his hand from the pump handle.

"It seems so."

"You haven't received the report?"

"I have a physical exam every year, and all they tell me is that my illness isn't cured yet."

Chopper entered the medicine bottle number into the medical database.

"The wrong medicine was delivered too; it only reduces coughing, it doesn't cure the Parasitic Spores."

At least I can sleep.

You could have been cured.

What's the point of saying this now?

"Of course it works."

Chopper flipped through the pages too quickly, and one of the pages fell off the edge of the table. He had to bend down twice to catch it.

"I need to know how many years this has been delayed, whether my lungs can recover, and whether the parasites have left any other problems."

Yorki leaned back against the wall.

Are all doctors this controlling?

"Right."

Crocus chimed in.

"Right."

Yorki recognized his voice.

"Who are you?"

"My friend was the former doctor of the Rumbar Pirates. My name is Crocus."

"That guy who always claims to be the best doctor in the world?"

He's right.

Of the forty-eight squares in the wall, one square was knocked on six times in a row.

Yorki raised his foot and touched the wall.

"Did you hear that? Your friend is still bragging about himself."

Brook read the quarantine report from beginning to end.

"If the quarantine ends in three months, will you be able to catch up with us?"

"Based on the flight path, we should be able to meet them before Fish-Man Island."

"Then we might not enter the Florian Triangle."

"They might also die somewhere together."

You'll always have a chance.

Yorki did not respond.

Mira took the ship's doctor's kit out of the dining car and found a stack of unmailed letters at the bottom.

Every single one of them had the same address.

[Grand Line Entrance, Twin Capes, Recipient: Laboon]

The first letter was only two pages long.

By the tenth letter, Yorki had learned to write very small words, trying to cram as many sentences as possible onto the limited paper.

The last letter was sent forty-two years ago.

[He's still sick; tell Laboon to wait another year.]

Brook read through the letters one by one.

These were not sent either.

Yorki said from behind the wall, "Let's keep it as scrap paper."

"You write it every year."

"I stopped writing later."

"Because you don't want to go back?"

"Because they sent over the death record of the Rumbar Pirates."

Brook turned to the last letter; there was half a sentence on the back of the page.

[If there are still people alive on board]

The space behind it is empty.

Yorki said, "I don't know who to make Laboon wait for."

"Waiting for you."

"I promised to bring everyone back when I left, but in the end I'm the only one left. What does that mean?"

"So you're planning to let it wait until you die behind the wall?"

"Skull."

"I am here."

"Shut up."

Laboon's call came again from Twin Capes. Yorki, holding onto the pump handle, didn't urge Brook to leave again.

However, the Throne began to withdraw quarantine reports.

[Medical documents are internal materials of the Isolation Station]

Robin presses the page.

"The report is directly related to the legality of Yorki's long-term detention and should be included as evidence."

[Public disclosure will reveal special transport routes in the Calm Belt]

Boa Hancock looked at the flight path number on the report.

"This shipping route passes through the northern part of Amazon Lily. Kuja has spotted Flagless Ships multiple times over the past fifty years. So-called special transport—were they transporting slaves?"

Long retrieved old nautical charts preserved by the Revolutionary Army.

Three of the stops were later converted into the Heavenly Tribute Transfer Station.

Akainu copied the report into the Navy Archives.

"The document is under review; the original must not be destroyed."

The Throne Page began to flicker.

The delivery track in Mira's room suddenly reversed, and the ship's medical kit was dragged into the vehicle by a force.

Mira hugged the box and was pulled forward half a step.

"It wants to take the letter."

"Let go."

Yorki called to her from behind the wall.

"Don't let up."

Save yourself first.

Buggy spotted the train door and, from the Impel Down side, sent a severed hand into the abandoned tracks.

The hand crawls along the floor of the food cart, grabs the reversing gear, and slips a coin into the gap.

The track made a series of impacts and then came to a stop.

When Buggy pulled his hand back, the coin was already worn flat.

"See that? Now that's what you call a prison break expert."

Magellan asked, "Where did that coin come from?"

"I found it under the table in your cafeteria."

"Impel Down currency is prohibited from circulation."

Is now the time to ask that?

Nami asked Mira to put the letter in the food cart first.

"The empty truck has arrived. You'll come along the next time it's being transported back to Impel Down."

Mira looked at the left wall.

What should Yorki do?

"You leave first, then we'll determine his entrance."

"No."

Yorki knocked on the wall three times.

"Captain's order."

"It's none of your business."

"Then I'll beg you as an old man, okay?"

Mira held the wooden sign without moving.

Robin checks the track's load-bearing capacity.

"The dining car can only carry one adult, and with the ship's medical kit, it's already close to its limit."

"Letters can be kept separate."

"The track has only one stable round trip remaining; it's uncertain whether it can operate again next time."

Mira pushed the ship's medical kit back into the car.

"Then send the letter."

Yorki yelled from behind the wall, "Is your brain clogged with plaster?"

"After I retract my false testimony, the Throne will be cut off from rations, and I may not survive even if I leave here."

Chopper interrupted.

"Your rescue and witness status have been separated; the hospital ship will pick you up."

"But Yorki is still behind the wall."

He will save them too.

"You haven't found the door yet."

Lin Qi looked at Mira.

"Are you worried that once the dining car leaves, we'll only focus on other things?"

Mira gripped the edge of the wooden sign.

"They said before that if I cooperated just once, they would send me back to Four Seasons Island."

"This time, it's your decision. No one can go to the food cart for you."

"If I leave, will the people inside the wall be expelled?"

"Won't."

What guarantees do you have?

Lin Qi separated Yorki's Medical Protection Page from the Forty-Eight-Cell Record Page.

The Navy receives quarantine evidence, the Revolutionary Army receives unmailed letters, the Civilian Witness Seat preserve Yorki's survival record, Pirate Seat preserve the voice of the Rumbar Pirates.

Someone took over each line.

"The cleanup process must restart, at least simultaneously bypassing Four-Party Records."

Mira looked at the confirmation slips and finally put the wooden plaque inside her clothes.

"I have one more condition."

"You say."

"Let me retract that testimony first, then they can't use food to force me to change my story after I get out."

Robin then proceeded to deny all 417 of her statements.

Mira stood in front of the survey form and wrote down new instructions word by word.

I did not see Nicole Robin board the evacuation ship.

[Testimony given at age eight, provided by Enies Lobby]

I read aloud out of fear of being sent back to the Water Storage Barrel.

There were no scholars on board.

The first false testimony began to leave Robin's file.

The Throne issued a warning.

[Witness Status Revoked]

Mira placed the identification plaque on the table.

"Withdraw."

[Cessation of Existing Supply]

"I've had enough of your porridge."

With the false testimony removed from the military necessity report, another reason for the shelling of the Ohara refugee ship has been removed.

Mira climbed into the dining car and held the ship's medical kit on her lap.

Just before the car door closed, Yorki called out to her from behind the wall.

"After you go out, look after the sea for me."

"See for yourself."

I'm afraid it won't be enough time.

"Then I'll owe you for now."

The food cart slid into the darkness.

Halfway through the journey, Mira heard singing coming from under the car.

This time, with the metal plate in between, my position was lower and closer than the left wall.

She tapped under the car.

"Yorki?"

The people below did not respond, but continued singing Binks' Sake.

Vegapunk recalculated the distance between the track and the room.

"The singing did not come from Yorki's isolation room."

"What's the meaning?"

"The forty-eight squares behind Mira's left wall are at the old underwater station; Yorki's location is even deeper."

The orbital path extends downwards, ending at the base of Impel Down and connecting to an Old Ship anchored to the seabed.

The Stern markings gradually became clearer.

[Rumbar Pirates' Plague Ship]

The place where Yorki was imprisoned for fifty years was the very ship he sailed when he left his companions.