No Handover for Bed Seventeen

"They're telling us about bed number seventeen."

Luo listened to the tapping sounds coming from the communicator.

After three strikes, there are two strikes, then four strikes, and finally seventeen strikes.

Each time, they came from a different cabin location.

Vegapunk marked the sound source on the ship's diagram.

"Not the same cabin."

"There are sixteen devices."

"There's one more place."

Bed number seventeen.

Luo looked at Lami.

She had opened her eyes, and the white Button was beside her.

"They want me to go back."

"You can't move," Chopper said.

"I can hear."

Listening to it can be tiring.

"Then you listen for me."

Chopper did not refute.

Luo turned to Miiru.

"Send over the cabin layout of the White Swallow."

Miiru spread the blueprints out on the deck.

"This is the ward area, this is the medicine compartment, this is the sailors' rest area, and the children were all on the lower level."

Where is the shift handover record?

"They should be in the ship's medical room."

"Should?"

"The ship's medical room has been sealed off."

Who sealed it?

"I."

"Why?"

Miiru looked at mark seventeen on the drawing.

"I hadn't finished recording when the last child died."

Who is the child?

"Not number seventeen."

Who is that?

"A child without a name."

Lami tried to sit up, supporting himself on the edge of the bed.

Chopper pressed down on her shoulder.

"You lie down first."

I want to hear it.

You heard me.

I want to know his name.

"No name," Miiru said.

Lami shook his head.

"People need names."

He has no family.

"Then let's take one."

Who will take it?

"I."

She looked at Luo.

"Brother, do you remember the person in the hospital room who always knocked four times?"

"Remember."

"Xiaosi is not his name."

"You get it for him."

Lami thought about it for a long time.

"Call Echo."

Bepo asked in a low voice, "Why?"

"Because he knocked for a long time, but no one answered."

Luo closed his eyes, then opened them again.

Write it down.

Lin Qi's page entered his name into a temporary file.

[Add Identity, Echo]

[Identity based on Lami's own naming convention]

The Throne did not intervene.

Miiru looked up at the screen.

"Is this acceptable?"

"Now you can," Luo said.

Why didn't it work back then?

Nobody asked back then.

The knocking in the cabin stopped.

A moment later, a metallic scraping sound came from deep within the White Swallow.

Miiru's expression changed.

"Someone has entered the ship's medical room."

Are there still people on board?

"I have no idea."

"You waited on the ship for sixteen years, didn't you know?"

"I only stayed in the ward area; I didn't go anywhere else."

Drake looked at the Fake Marine.

Who else can get on the ship?

The Fake Marine took a step back.

"I don't have permission."

"Does anyone have it?"

"The trading party."

Doflamingo?

"Or the government."

In the external view, a thin line hangs down from the top of the mine tunnel, the end of the line wraps around the mast of the White Swallow, and slowly probes into the window crack of the ship's medical room.

Luo said, "Someone is controlling it remotely."

Drake was already walking towards the diving chamber door.

Luo raised his hand to stop him.

"I'll go."

You must stay and watch over Lami.

"Go ahead, who's watching those lines outside?"

"I'll go."

Drake grabbed his wrist.

You can only hold the ROOM steady with one hand right now.

"Enough."

"You said that just now too."

"Then you guard the ship for me."

You don't believe me?

Your shoulder is still bleeding.

Drake glanced at the bandage.

"It's stopped."

Chopper didn't even look up.

"No."

Drake looked down; the edges of the bandages were already seeping red.

"Look."

"I saw it."

"So I'll go."

Luo released his grip.

Ten minutes.

"If it's been more than ten minutes, switch me back."

I'll switch you back immediately.

Drake entered the isolation chamber.

Bepo asked, "Captain, what about you?"

"Stay here."

"Didn't you want to go into the ship's medical room?"

"Connect the communications."

Luo placed a ROOM marker next to the screen.

The White Swallow's medical room then appeared before everyone.

The door was locked with an iron chain, and a moldy duty sign hung on the wall.

There were only two names on the sign.

Doctor Trafalgar.

Doctor Trafalgar's wife.

The third spot is empty.

There are fresh scratches on the door lock.

"That's what was left over today," Miiru said.

"You didn't go in?"

"I heard someone inside."

"When?"

Three days ago.

Why didn't you tell us?

"Because I thought they came to see Lami."

"Who?"

"The same person."

Luo looked at the old doctor.

"You've seen it?"

I've only ever seen his shadow.

"What kind?"

He wore a long black coat and walked silently.

"This is not a characteristic."

He will knock on the door.

Miiru said, "Three times."

Lami's fingers peeked out from under the covers.

"Like Dad."

What happened after he knocked on the door?

I asked him who he was, and he said he was there to take over the job.

"You opened the door?"

"No."

What did he do?

He said the doctor could leave first, but the patient could stay.

Luo stared at the door.

How did you answer?

I said, "The doctor can't leave the ward first."

"Then?"

He left.

Are you sure he's gone?

Miiru looked up.

I didn't hear any footsteps.

The iron chain on the door suddenly swayed slightly.

Nobody touched it.

Chopper turned off the two lights next to Lami, leaving only a small lamp beside the bed.

Don't look at the screen for too long.

There are people inside.

"I know."

He will come back.

"We'll deal with it when he gets back."

He will take the Echo with him.

Chopper stopped taking notes.

"Echo already has a name."

"The name will be taken away too."

Luo flipped to the last page of the medical record folder.

"Miiru, what else is in the ship's medical room?"

"A medicine cabinet, an operating table, and an old Den Den Mushi (transparent Den Den Mushi)."

What can Den Den Mushi) do?

"Record the shift handover."

"Open it."

"I don't have the key."

Where is the key?

"In the hands of the third doctor."

Who is the third doctor?

Miiru did not answer.

The old doctor said, "Wolf."

He's dead.

He doesn't have the key.

A soft sound came from the ground on the right side of the screen.

A rusty key fell from the ceiling of the ship's medical room and landed on the operating table.

The Den Den Mushi looked up on its own.

Its eyes opened, and it uttered a strange sound.

"The shift changer has arrived."

Luo reached out and pressed down on the medical record folder on the table.

"Who are you?"

"On-duty doctor."

"Name."

"Medical records were not registered."

"Who told you to hand over the shift?"

"Former doctor."

Who was your ex?

Trafalgar Miiru.

Miiru's expression changed.

I didn't hand over the shift.

[The former doctor has left the position]

[Seventeen patients in total]

[Deaths confirmed, 16 people]

[One surviving patient]

[Please have the new doctor confirm.]

Luo asked, "What will happen after it's confirmed?"

"Take over the patient."

What if you refuse?

"Patient recovery."

Lami propped himself up halfway on the mattress.

"I don't recycle."

Chopper immediately helped her up.

"Lie back down first."

"I can speak."

"Talking doesn't mean you can sit up."

"Then you speak for me."

Chopper pushed the microphone closer.

She refused to be recycled.

The Den Den Mushi remained silent for a moment.

Patients have no right to refuse.

Luo picked up the Kikoku.

"She already refused the deal."

"Trading is different from healthcare."

"Let her decide on the medical treatment."

"Confirmation by a new doctor is required."

"I'm not sure."

"Refusal to confirm is considered abandonment of the patient."

Chopper turned to look at Law.

It's forcing you.

"I know."

Don't answer it.

"I won't answer."

"The ship's medical room will be opened."

"Open."

Chopper was stunned.

Luo stared at the iron gate on the screen.

"Let it open."

The iron chain slipped off section by section.

There was no one inside the door, only an operating table covered with a white sheet.

A wooden box was placed under the white cloth.

There was a line of text written on the wooden box.

[For the last person to return]

Luo zoomed in on the image.

There was also a duty roster next to the wooden box.

The third doctor's name has already been filled in.

[Trafalgar Law]

Lami whispered, "Brother."

"I am here."

They wrote your name down.

I saw it.

Will you stay?

Luo did not answer immediately.

Inside the ship's medical room, the Den Den Mushi spoke again.

"Please have the new doctor begin the shift handover."

A knocking sound came from under the white cloth.

One time.

Two times.

Three times.

Grade 17, second semester.

This time, the final sound came from below the operating table.