Franky Can't Plead Guilty for His Master
"Pass it to me."
Franky looked up at the execution order.
Iceburg placed the file on the table.
"Read the rest first."
[After the charges were transferred, Tom was allowed to leave.]
[Flam takes over as chief shipbuilding offender and serves the remainder of his sentence]
"Perfect."
"Just right what?"
"I'll go in, Master will come out."
Iceburg switched the communication screen to his own view.
"If you dare agree, I'll lock you in the cabin of the Thousand Sunny first."
"Can you lock it up?"
"Nami can be kept in there."
Nami caught it cleanly.
"It can be kept in place."
Luffy also slapped the table.
"I won't agree."
"This is none of your business."
"You are my shipwright."
"So what?"
So there is a connection.
Franky looked at the Shipyard plan.
"The old man has been imprisoned inside for twenty-two years. If we wait another two and a half days, the Shipyard might collapse."
"If you move in, the Shipyard won't collapse?"
The system will let him go.
Robin asked, "It said it gave him permission to leave, but it didn't say it would take him out of the water."
The text on the execution order moved down to reveal an additional explanation.
[Released individuals assume the risk of leaving themselves]
"You saw it?"
The Iceburg tapped on the table.
"It only wants to lure you in, then let your master die at the exit."
Franky turned around and went to look at the refit plans for the Thousand Sunny.
"Then lift the entire Shipyard."
Jinbe asked, "How do we hang him?"
"The railway serves as the fulcrum, the Sea Train pulls up the upper level, and the Thousand Sunny supports the bottom from below."
We haven't arrived yet.
"Let the ships from Water 7 go first."
Iceburg said, "Ordinary ships can't get into the big hole on Enies Lobby."
"Kokoro flew the Puffing Tom; the train could carry equipment over."
"The equipment can go underwater, but people can't."
Yorki pulled the rescue blanket up to his waist.
"I'll go."
Magellan turned the Den Den Mushi).
The medical team is waiting for you.
"I can swim."
"You just left a ship that had been locked up for fifty years."
"So I know what those people in jail are waiting for."
Franky refused even faster.
"Don't make things worse."
"Your master told you not to come back, did you listen?"
"No."
"Then why should I listen to the doctor?"
The two looked at each other for a moment across the wire.
Chopper squeezed to the front of the screen.
"No one is allowed to go. Mr. Yorki needs treatment, and Franky can't leave the ship either. Let's check on Mr. Tom's condition first."
There were no images or videos inside the Shipyard.
Chopper could only ask the simplest questions based on the dosage of the medication.
"Mr. Tom, can you stand up? If you can, knock once; if not, knock twice."
Two times.
Can you breathe on your own?
One time.
Are you wearing any chains?
One time.
"Are the iron chains connecting to the Shipyard?"
One time.
Vegapunk marked several possible fixing points on the structural diagram.
"If the identification lock is connected to the Shipyard, forcibly lifting it will injure him."
Chopper continued asking.
"Are you wearing the chains?"
Two times.
"On your feet?"
Two times.
"Waist?"
One time.
Franky's mechanical arm pressed into the edge of the table.
Tom was tall and imposing; if the chains around his waist were attached to the most powerful part of the Fish-Man, they would likely be used to prevent him from crashing into the Shipyard.
Can it be disassembled?
The Shipyard did not respond.
"Master, can we take it apart?"
The knocking didn't produce any response.
Unanswered, they extended the Black Line into the enforcement order and discovered a page of labor records hidden under the transfer clause.
After Tom was taken to the Shipyard, he built thirty-two judicial ships, repaired the underwater support structure of the Gate of Justice, and designed a diving track for transporting secret prisoners.
After each task is completed, the system will ask him if he pleads guilty.
Each item was marked "Rejected".
In the twenty-second year, the "refusal" column was removed.
From then on, Tom could only leave his answers by tapping.
Lin Qi asked, "Is the iron chain around his waist a piece of work equipment?"
Zero the old-style pipework structure.
"It's more like the power cable in a shipyard; when it moves, the tools in the Shipyard can work."
What will happen after it's removed?
"The water gate will stop, and the undercurrent beneath Enies Lobby will flood the Shipyard."
Franky flipped to the water flow diagram of the large hole on Enies Lobby.
"I see."
Even the Iceburg understood.
"They're using their master as a driving force."
"For twenty-two years, all the secret ships entering and leaving Enies Lobby relied on him to turn the water gates."
Akainu retrieved information about the Navy's secret voyages of recent years.
The number of records far exceeds the number of publicly available archives.
These include the transfer of Ohara survivors, the transport of Shichibukai experimental samples, and the previously discovered mother ship and Return Voyage Project.
Every ship leaving the underground Shipyard passes through the water gate maintained by Tom.
The Throne immediately updated the charges.
Tom was involved in 327 illegal transportation operations.
Franky punched through the table.
He's locked up there!
The power provider should bear the responsibility for transportation.
Iceburg set aside the old grounds for Tom's trial when he built the Oro Jackson.
"It's the same old routine: whoever uses the ship is responsible for it."
"This time, he didn't even build the ship."
Robin added.
"He was only forced to maintain the water gate during his punishment."
"Don't say you were forced."
Franky looked up.
"Get the records clear."
He moved closer to the microphone.
"Master, do you know what those ships were carrying?"
One time.
Iceburg asked, "Did you try to stop it?"
One time.
Has it ever been successful?
Three knocks came from the Shipyard.
Three times.
Akainu searches for the ships intercepted by the underground water gate.
Twenty years ago, a judicial ship carrying experimental children ran aground due to a malfunction in its water gates, and seven children were rescued by the ocean currents and washed ashore on a nearby island.
Thirteen years ago, a ship carrying out the destruction of archives took on water in the Shipyard, and a large number of documents were sent to the Water 7 scrap yard.
Three days ago, Tom closed the water gate for the last time, intercepting a medicine transport ship that was preparing to enter the Calm Belt.
Chopper asked, "What's on that ship?"
The Navy's inventory list reads "common medicines."
Vegapunk opened the hidden page and saw a biological hibernation agent.
The delivery address was precisely along the route that the Blank mothership had previously taken.
Without knowing the full picture, Tom had already blocked three shipments using the water gate he could control.
Lin Qi submitted a new option.
Those forced to act as power providers for facilities are not charged with transportation offenses.
Their actions in actively preventing illegal transportation should be recorded separately.
The Navy Seat passed first.
The positions of the Revolutionary Army and Civilian Witness Seat were subsequently confirmed.
Buggy saw the Pirate Seat land on his head again and raised his hand to press the seal.
"I hate it when people borrow a boat to do bad things, and then the shipbuilder has to pay the bill in the end."
After all the seats were passed, Tom's identity lock on his waist loosened one layer.
The water flow in the large hole on Enies Lobby changes accordingly.
Outside the Shipyard's iron gate, bubbles that had been hidden for twenty-two years rose with the current to the surface of the sea.
Each bubble contained a small segment of a tap that Tom had sent out.
The Iceburg allow the Sea Train to receive the icebergs one by one along the tracks.
The first paragraph describes the water level in the Water 7.
The second section records the location of the damaged water gate.
Only two names were recorded in the third paragraph.
Iceburg.
Flam.
The last bubble rose from underwater and struck the wheels of the Puffing Tom.
That was a record from Tom's first day in the Shipyard.
Don't make those two boys confess.