Lami Woke Nine Times
She was ten years old then.
Luo moved the refusal record next to the Medical Kit, and the paper stuck to the frosty side of the kit, quickly getting wet.
Chopper rechecked his age.
"Her physical development stopped between the ages of six and seven, but her consciousness was recorded for four years."
Does she know how much time has passed?
"I don't know. The observation room has no windows, and there's no date on it."
When she woke up for the fourth time, who asked her if she wanted her medication?
Vegapunk retrieved the duty roster from that time.
There was no doctor in the record, only a Return Voyage Project observer.
Luo requested that the dialogue be played.
It started with a series of intermittent coughs.
The girl asked, "Has my brother arrived?"
The observer replied, "Your recipient has been here."
"Is that your brother?"
He left a message for you.
Rosinante's message was played out.
Upon hearing that her brother hadn't abandoned her, the girl paused for a long time before asking, "Did he find the medicine?"
The recipient delivered a box.
"Can my brother use it too?"
"Who?"
"Luo."
"The medication belongs to Bed Seventeen."
"Then I won't use it."
"Refusing medication will hasten death."
"For my brother."
Your brother isn't here.
"Then you can send it over."
"No address."
"He would go to see a doctor. He wore a spotted hat, always had a fierce look on his face, and didn't like to eat after he got sick."
The observer repeated it once.
"The medication cannot be transferred."
The girl didn't say anything more.
The cough lasted for more than half an hour.
At the end of the record, the observer returned the medication to the warehouse, stating the reason for the return as the patient's voluntary refusal.
Chopper crossed out that reason.
"She's only ten years old, and the information is incomplete, so this cannot be considered an autonomous medical decision."
Luo asked, "Where did the medicine go afterward?"
"Rosinante applied again."
"Did he know Lami refused?"
"An explanation is attached to the receipt."
New images unfolded from the mailbox.
Standing behind the Church on the Minion Island, Rosinante read the reply slip three times before folding it up.
Luo, who was lying on the bench beside me, had a fever.
"Corazon, what are you peeking at again?"
"Shut up, the patient should be getting some sleep."
"You're the patient."
"I'm not sick."
You have a nosebleed.
Rosinante raised his hand to wipe his face, and sure enough, there was blood on his glove.
Young Luo chuckled a few times on the bench, but then started coughing halfway through his laughter.
He walked over and draped his coat over Luo.
"Go to sleep, I'm going to mail a letter."
To whom is it written?
"The person in debt."
"You'll still pay off your debts?"
"Stop talking nonsense."
Luo, who was recording the events, rolled over.
"If you run away, I'll tell Doflamingo your secret."
I'll be back in half an hour.
"Twenty minutes."
"Okay, twenty minutes."
Rosinante left the Church and went into the old communications room at the back.
He sent a new application to the Transfer Station.
[Medication for Bed Seventeen must not be cancelled]
[The patient is too young; the refusal is invalid]
[The recipient requests continued treatment]
The Transfer Station returned the application.
[Insufficient funds]
Rosinante submitted his naval account and undercover allowance together.
The balance is still not enough.
He submitted another mortgage.
[Research permission for the Calm-Calm Fruit ability]
Sengoku closed his eyes and after a while asked, "Has it been approved?"
Vegapunk flipped to the Science Unit's Receipt records.
"Approved."
"Therefore, the Navy later possessed samples of the Silent Capability."
"The initial sample came from this mortgage."
Drake touched the coat he had been keeping safe.
"He traded his abilities for Lami's medication."
"Only three months' worth."
Chopper checks the subsequent records.
Three months later, he lost contact, and the payments stopped again.
Rosinante died on the Minion Island.
The Transfer Station waited seven days before stopping the medication for Bed Seventeen.
The fifth awakening occurred in the second month after the medication was discontinued.
The girl was unable to sit up and her speech was intermittent.
Where is the person who delivered the medicine?
The observer told her that the recipient had gone missing.
Did he go to see my brother?
"Recipient's death status pending confirmation."
What does death mean?
"I won't be coming back."
The girl remained silent for a long time.
"What about your brother?"
No record.
"Is he dead too?"
No record.
"Without a record, we cannot say he is dead."
Chopper turned to look at Law.
Luo remained standing in the same spot, while Kikoku leaned against his leg, not picking it up.
Lami repeated it in the record.
"My brother will come back."
The observer did not argue with her and began collecting blood.
The girl asked, "Is the rest of you still here?"
Who are they?
The person under the bed.
They are dead.
"I can hear you."
That's the sound of the equipment running.
"Luo Yi knocks three times a day, Emma knocks twice, and the person inside sings."
The observer stopped drawing blood.
When did you start hearing it?
"After waking up."
What did they say to you?
"He asked me if there was still any white snow outside."
How did you answer?
"I've never seen the outside world."
Following this conversation, the observer requested that Lami be moved to a deeper isolation chamber.
The application stated that Patient No. 17 experienced cognitive problems due to interference from the death sample.
Chopper immediately rejected that conclusion.
"She has no cognitive problems; sound can travel through the pipes even at low temperatures."
Vegapunk inspected the old structure of sixteen sets of equipment.
"Each set of equipment has a knock tester to record the reactions before death, and the recordings will be replayed periodically after the machine is shut down."
So she really did hear it.
"Right."
Upon waking for the sixth time, Lami began to respond to the knocking sounds.
Luo Yi hits three times.
She answered three times.
Emma twice.
She replied twice.
By the sixteenth set of equipment, there was no fixed number of uses.
Lami then knocked seventeen times.
The observer asked her why.
There are seventeen of us.
Sixteen people have been confirmed dead.
"I haven't confirmed it yet."
"You're responsible for confirming your own identity?"
"I'm not sure."
The seventh time he awoke, the observer had been changed.
The new person asked her to put her fingerprint on the death certificate.
Lami hid his hands under the covers.
"My brother didn't come."
He's not coming.
"Then let's wait."
How long will it take?
"Wait until he finds the medicine."
Upon waking for the eighth time, she could no longer recognize the observer, but she still remembered Luo's hat.
The ninth attempt lasted only thirty-seven seconds.
As soon as the device detected that she had opened her eyes, someone asked, "Would you like to end the observation period?"
The girl took several breaths before she could catch her breath.
Has Luo arrived?
"No."
"That's not the end."
The recording stops here.
Chopper checks the last date he woke up on the Medical Kit.
Three days ago.
The Fake Marine looked up when he heard this.
"Impossible, there was no awakening report in the log when we received the box."
When will you take over?
"Yesterday."
Who put her on the transport ship?
"People from the third medical warehouse in North Blue."
"List."
"No one was seen; the box has already been placed at the dock."
Luo walked up to him.
"Lami woke up three days ago, and the next day you received the transfer order. Do you still think the two things are unrelated?"
The Fake Marine looked at the Throne Page.
"She may have said something she shouldn't have when she woke up."
What do you mean by "shouldn't have said"?
"Subjects are not allowed to remember information about the researchers."
Vegapunk retrieved the complete audio track from the ninth awakening.
The recording did not stop after 37 seconds.
The sound of fingernails hitting the metal inner wall could be heard coming from inside the box.
One time.
Another one.
It's very slow.
When Chopper counted to seven, he heard the girl say a name.
"Caesar."