Mira Goes Out First
The dining car is stuck in the middle of the abandoned tracks.
Mira, clutching the ship's medical kit, rested her knees against the train door, as the music drifted gently up the tracks.
I'm not leaving.
Nami immediately asked, "What happened to the car?"
There's something blocking the way.
Magellan ordered his men to inspect one end of Impel Down.
"The traction rope is not broken; the resistance is coming from below the track."
Vegapunk enlarged the structure of the Old Ship.
The diseased ship was anchored to the seabed by iron chains. Its mast had long since broken, and the top of the cabin was pressing against the abandoned rails. Over the past fifty years, the ocean currents have pushed the ship's hull, and the remaining mast wood has gradually squeezed into the rails.
"The food cart can't get through unless the Old Ship is lowered half a meter."
How should I put it?
Cut one of the securing cables.
Magellan refused.
"Beneath the Old Ship lies the underwater foundation of Impel Down; losing its balance could damage the outer walls."
Buggy pointed to the blueprints.
"Cut the second one from the left, and the bow of the boat will veer outwards."
"In accordance with?"
"I've been watching over ships for decades."
"You even frequently wreck your own boat."
"That's because his crew has poor boat-handling skills."
Yorki's song has stopped.
"Cut the third rail on the starboard side."
Vegapunk asked, "Can you see the anchoring cable?"
"This boat is mine; I know how it was tied up back then."
Six more were installed on the seabed.
"Later, the six chains were made of thicker chains; the original ones were made of hemp rope, which was then cut."
Magellan ordered the Jailers to send the cutting tools into the Maintenance Well.
The well opening could only accommodate half a body, and seawater kept pouring in through the cracks. The Jailer in charge of operating the well would retreat as soon as he probed down.
"The water pressure is too high; we can't see the rope."
Jinbe connected to the communication.
"Send the underwater Den Den Mushi in, and I'll determine the direction of the ocean current."
"You are in the Kuja Sea."
"You can hear the sound of the ocean current."
The Den Den Mushi (a type of Den Den Mushi) was attached to the end of a long pole and extended into the Maintenance Well.
After the chaotic sound of water was heard, Jinbe had the pole turned to the right twice.
"There's rope friction there, and the location is three feet lower than the well opening."
Buggy's severed hand crawled back into the track and climbed down the long pole.
Magellan asked, "Can your hands withstand the pressure of seawater?"
"No, so hurry up."
Buggy's arms began to tremble as soon as his hands touched the water.
He gritted his teeth and handed the knife to the rope.
Is this the one?
Yorki listened to the sound of the knife hilt striking the chain.
"Make a fist to the left, and cut only when you find something soft."
"I can't see."
"I was the one who tied up the ship back then."
"If you remember correctly, my hand is gone."
"Then I'll compensate you with a piece of wood."
The knife finally struck the old hemp rope.
Fifty years of seawater had rotted the rope core, and after the third cut, the rope broke on its own.
A heavy thud came from the seabed.
The Old Ship slid half a meter outward, and the alarm at the Impel Down immediately sounded.
The food cart moved forward a short distance, then stopped.
Mira gripped the handrail inside the car.
How much more is needed?
Magellan looked at the traction scale.
"Twelve meters."
Yorki pulled a mechanism inside the ship again.
The anchor chains of the Old Ship on the seabed began to tighten, and the bow turned in the current to make more room for the tracks.
Chopper heard him cough repeatedly.
"Stop pulling, you'll pass out."
She's still on track.
Does anyone know how to operate this?
"This lousy ship obeys my orders."
Brook picked up the bow.
"Captain, four beats per minute."
"Skeleton, is this all the trick you know?"
"It was useful before, and it's useful now."
The music once again reached the seabed.
Yorki stepped on the anchor winch and, using the momentum of the ship's recoil, slowly tightened the chain.
The food truck continued its journey.
Mira, pressed against the bottom of the car, asked, "Can you hear me?"
Yorki knocked.
"Where do you want to go after you get out?"
"I have no idea."
"Let's look at the sea first."
"And you?"
"Sleep for a few days first."
"Then?"
"Let's go find a whale."
As the food cart passed the narrowest point, its towing speed began to increase.
Mira felt her way to the Old Ship's emblem on the ship's doctor's kit in the darkness.
"Yorki."
"What's wrong now?"
"I will take those letters with me."
"Don't read it."
I won't read it.
Don't read the first letter either.
"Knew."
Burn the last one.
"You burn it yourself."
Yorki cursed "stubborn," his voice fading into the distance from the dining car.
The iron gate at one end of the Impel Down opened, and the dining car veered off the abandoned tracks, tumbling halfway through the old storage room before coming to a stop.
Magellan reached out to block the car, and the doctor next to him immediately opened the car door.
When Mira was helped out, she lost her footing.
Having been confined in her room for twenty-two years, this was the first time she had seen so many people, and she shrank back into the food cart.
Chopper provides guidance via Den Den Mushi).
"Don't touch her yet. Turn off the light halfway to leave her a way out."
Magellan ordered all the Jailers to retreat.
"This is the old storage room on the sixth floor of Impel Down. I am Warden Magellan."
Mira held onto the car door.
Will you lock me up again?
"Your witness project has nothing to do with Impel Down."
"But this is a prison."
You have no prior criminal record.
They gave me six different surnames.
"A surname is not a crime."
Mira stared at the doorway for a long time before finally putting one foot on the ground.
The medical staff placed the blanket two steps away but did not drape it over her.
She went over and picked up the blanket herself, wrapped it up, and still didn't loosen her grip on the ship's medical kit.
Robin asked through the screen, "Would you like to go to the medical room first?"
"Are you Nico Robin?"
"Yes."
I've said it 417 times: I've never seen you.
"I saw it."
Do you believe it?
"Letter."
Mira bent down to straighten the edges of the blanket.
"Sorry."
"You shouldn't have to bear that testimony at eight years old."
"But I read it."
"You withdrew it too."
Mira handed the ship's medical kit to the doctor.
"Don't open these letters yet, the recipients are still here."
Magellan personally signed the temporary medical protection order.
[Mira, identity to be Zixuan]
[Status: Rescued]
[Any withdrawal of testimony must not affect their food and treatment.]
After confirming the landing, the old adoption records from Four Seasons Island were also retrieved.
The merchant couple who sheltered Mira for three days have passed away, but their daughter still lives on the island and sends a missing person letter to Enies Lobby every year.
All twenty-two letters were marked as having addresses that did not exist.
Mira did not immediately choose to contact them.
"Please save this for me; I want to look at it when I can walk again."
Robin agreed.
As soon as the rescue team landed, a soft sound came from inside the ship's medical kit.
A metal plate that was clipped to the bottom of the bottle slid out.
The front shows Yorki's quarantine results, and the back has another line of text engraved on it.
[They must not be released after quarantine.]
[Reason: Yorki saw the children on the Return Ship]
Upon hearing the words "Return Ship," Mo'er gripped the back of his chair.
That's not an ordinary quarantine ship.
Lin Qi asked, "What is Return Ship?"
Zero connects from the medical line.
"The Transport Ship that carried me twenty-two years ago also bore this name."
"Yorki saw the same type of ship fifty years ago?"
That air route has always existed.
Yorki tapped three times inside the Old Ship at the bottom of the sea to indicate that he was still listening.
"The ship I saw had no cargo and no crew list."
What's on the ship?
"A dozen or so children."
Where were they sent?
"Reverse Mountain."
Yorki paused for a moment before finishing the second half of his sentence.
"They were trained to wait for the pirates to fulfill their promises; whoever returned would be the one to Receipt."