God Valley's Medical Records

The stairs are very narrow.

The wheelchair's two wheels got stuck on the edge of the step, so Drake had to lift the front, while Luo held onto the back brace, causing Lami's oxygen supply tube to straighten.

Chopper yelled into the communicator, "Don't pull the plug!"

"I see it," Luo said.

Is there airflow below you?

"Have."

"Smell?"

"The smell of medicine."

Sweet or bitter?

Luo lowered his head and sniffed.

"Bitter."

"That's not an ordinary medicine. Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth first."

"The cloth can't stop the low-temperature agent," Vegapunk said. "Have Law cover the stairs with ROOM and check the gas flow."

"It's already been laid."

"There are three pipelines below: one for oxygen, one for medication, and one connected to the heartbeat source."

Where is the source of the heartbeat?

"Under your feet."

Luo lifted his foot and stepped onto the step.

Each stone slab contained a thin copper tube, the tube walls of which gently warmed with each heartbeat.

Lami listened for a while.

"Not here."

"What?"

"My heartbeat isn't in my feet."

"Did you hear that?" Drake asked.

"Every time it finishes making a sound, the water on the left side moves."

Luo opened the ROOM to the left, and the water pipes behind the stone wall came into view.

There was a horizontal passage in the wall, the water only up to ankle level, the surface rising and falling with the breathing of something.

How did you know?

Lami pressed his ear against the armrest of his wheelchair.

"It used to be like this in the ward too; when the children woke up, they would bang on the walls, and the water pipes would make noise."

"Can you hear me?"

I've been listening to it for sixteen years.

Drake didn't ask any more questions.

After descending the last step, a stone chamber appears ahead.

In the center of the stone chamber stood an old hospital bed, on which lay a man.

He was covered with a white sheet, and his face was covered by an iron breathing mask, with only his open eyes showing.

He looked at Lami first, then at Luo.

You look like your mother.

Luo did not respond.

The man chuckled and tugged on the tube attached to his chest, causing the bottle beside him to sway.

"The last time she came to see me, she also brought a medical record."

"Are you Wa Tie'er?"

"That's what your mother calls me."

"Garp said you are my father's brother."

"Garp has a good memory."

Where is my father?

"Dead."

"I know."

"Then why are you asking him?"

I want to hear what you have to say.

The man did not answer immediately.

The only sound in the stone chamber was the dripping of water, falling into the iron basin at the foot of the bed, each drop slower than the last.

He died in the God Valley.

"With Garp?"

"Garp did not enter the Royal Palace."

Doflamingo said, "My parents went to God Valley."

"Two out of three things he said were lies."

Which statement is true?

"They've been there."

Luo walked to the bedside.

"Why?"

Wa Tie'er looked at Lami.

"To find a doctor."

"You?"

"Another."

"Who?"

"The person who treated the World Government."

Luo placed the nautical chart he had obtained from the ship's medical room beside his bed.

What does the "last shift handover" scene on this diagram mean?

When Wa Tie'er saw the map, he reached for it. The skin on the back of his hand was so thin it shone, and his fingers stopped when they touched the edge of the paper.

Who gave it to you?

My parents.

They were still looking for their way before they died.

Where to go?

"God Valley."

"The God Valley has disappeared."

The island has disappeared, but the road remains.

Where is the road?

"In your sister's medical records."

Lami looked up.

"My medical records?"

"Before you were six years old."

"I don't remember."

"You don't need to remember, the records will."

Luo handed over the medical records.

Wa Tie'er turned to the first page, his gaze falling on a string of numbers.

This is not your medical record.

The system says yes.

"The system has grouped you all into one table."

"You know about the Throne?"

I've seen its predecessor.

"What is it?"

"God Valley's Handover System."

Vegapunk immediately asked into the communicator, "Who set it up?"

Wa Tie'er turned to look at the copper pipes on the stone wall.

"Patient."

"Patient-based system?"

"The living establish the rules; the sick can only memorize them."

Why did records become Throne?

"Because all those who established the rules are dead."

Luo asked, "Did my parents modify it?"

"They want to make changes."

Why did it fail?

"They only took Lami."

Lami whispered, "There are other children."

"You took away the names of seventeen people."

"Only I am alive."

So they wrote you as the last doctor.

Luo looked at his wrist.

[The Third Doctor]

The words were still visible above his skin, flashing with his pulse.

"I will not take over this system."

"You've taken over."

"I haven't confirmed it."

Your sister confirmed it for you.

Luo looked at Lami.

She was also looking at that line of text.

When did I confirm it?

"You said you wanted to see me," Wa Tie'er said.

"This counts?"

"If a patient is willing to see a doctor, the doctor has a responsibility to listen to their entire story."

What happened after you heard that?

"Deciding who to save."

Luo crumpled the nautical chart into a ball.

"I won't make that choice."

"Then you'll just watch the system choose for you."

It has already been chosen once.

That's why it's your turn.

Luo walked to the wall, and the ROOM spread along the copper pipes, revealing the iron door at the other end of the stone chamber.

Behind the door lies a larger space.

There are seventeen hospital beds inside.

Blank medical records were placed on the sixteen beds.

On the seventeenth bed lay a person in a white coat, whose chest remained still.

Lami looked at the bed.

"Who is he?"

"The last doctor on duty," Wa Tie'er said.

Is he dead?

"Dead."

You said the patients here will survive.

I didn't say he was a patient.

Luo pushed Lami closer to the iron gate.

A system notification appeared on the door.

Please confirm the death of patient number seventeen.

[God Valley route will be available upon confirmation]

[Close all emergency exits upon refusal]

Drake looked at Luo.

"It's this again."

"It wants me to confirm."

You won't confirm it.

I will not confirm the death of someone I have never met.

Lami pointed to the body inside the door.

"Brother, he has something in his hand."

Luo opened the room, and the papers in the corpse's hand were replaced in front of him.

It was a very thin boat ticket.

There is no destination on the front, and only one line of text on the back.

The ticket holder must die before the shift ends.

Vegapunk said, "This isn't a ticket; it's a transfer of identity document."

Whose identity?

"Doctor."

Wa Tie'er propped himself up on the edge of the bed, heavy breathing coming from under his breathing mask.

"Bring it here."

Luo did not move.

"You know him?"

"This is my father's handwriting."

Luo placed the ticket in his hand.

Wa Tie'er stared at it for a long time, pressing his finger down on the line of text.

"Your father did not die in the God Valley."

Luo looked up.

You just said he's dead.

He died later.

"Where?"

"Flevance."

You're saying he lived in God Valley?

He handed me the boat ticket and told me to go first.

"Why?"

Wa Tie'er removed the breathing mask, an alarm immediately sounded from the tubes in his chest.

Lami raised his hand to cover his ears.

Luo said, "Take it back."

"Your father stayed in the God Valley to save a child."

"Who?"

"A child without a name."

"Same as me?"

"Different from you."

What's different?

Wa Tie'er looked at Ro.

"He has the blood of a king in him."

A heavy thud came from outside the stone chamber.

The Medical Department has already breached the first layer of the White Swallow's hull.

Aokiji's voice came through the communicator. "Law, they've boarded the ship."

How long can it hold out?

"Ask this now?"

"I need time."

"Then hurry up."

After Aokiji finished speaking, the communication was cut off.

The countdown on the Throne Page reappears.

[Due to emergency exit closing: 30 seconds]

Please confirm the death of patient number seventeen.

Luo stared at the corpse inside the door.

The corpse's fingers twitched under the sheets.

Lami saw it first.

He's not dead.

Luo immediately opened the room.

The scene behind the door was cut to the view in front of them: a black Den Den Mushi was buried under the skin of the corpse's chest, and the Den Den Mushi's eyes were open, counting the heartbeats for that person.

One time.

Two times.

Three times.

Wa Tie'er grabbed Ro's wrist.

Don't let him wake up.

"Why?"

"He's awake, God Valley will be found."

Why did my father save him?

"Because he thought that when the child grows up, he will forget who he is."

Luo looked at the nameless medical record.

The name field on the medical record is gradually appearing.

[Monkey D. Dragon]

Luo's hand froze in mid-air.

Wa Tie'er closed his eyes.

Now you know why your father wouldn't let him wake up.

The countdown resets to zero.

The Throne Page displays a final notification.

[Please select the third doctor]

[Death confirmed, route initiated]

[Refuse confirmation, awaken the patient]

Lami grasped Luo's hand.

"Elder brother."

"Um."

"My dad saved him."

"I know."

"Then let him wake up."

Gunshots rang out from outside the door.

Luo looked up at the tightly closed iron gate.

"If he wakes up, everyone will come looking for him."

Lami said, "He can decide for himself whether or not to leave."

Luo looked at his sister's pale face and pressed the second option.

[Refuse confirmation, awaken the patient]

The lights on Seventeen Hospital Beds turned on simultaneously.

The Den Den Mushi that called itself Garp in the ship's medical room suddenly changed to someone else's voice.

"Rosinante's son, you've finally opened the door."

The three black submarines on the sea surface simultaneously stopped towing.

Doflamingo stopped laughing.

"The dragon has awakened."

On the Throne Page, new questions arise.

[Question: Thirty-eight years ago, who was the person who truly disappeared from God Valley?]

[A, Monkey D. Garp]

[B, Trafalgar D. Wa Tie'er]

[C, Monkey D. Dragon]

[D, King of God Valley]

All screens light up simultaneously.

White Swallow's Extra! Aokiji saw the title.

He looked up towards the direction of the Holy Land.

"Now, nobody can leave."