The Child Dragon Took Away

Do you dare to write it?

Saint Garling held the tattered page between his fingers; the edges of the paper still had charred holes.

Garp flipped to the point where the log was missing a page.

"Come closer, I'm too old to see clearly."

"Are you trying to stall for time?"

If you're afraid I'll see it, then don't take it out.

Saint Garling moved the tattered page in front of the camera, and the Public Trial System immediately began to identify it.

[Missing page in God Valley Navy Duty Log]

[Original document authenticity verification in progress]

Sengoku walked over to Garp and began to decipher the characters line by line.

"This is your handwriting."

"The first half of the page is..."

What about the second half of the page?

"It has been corrected."

Saint Garling asked, "Which part has been changed?"

Garp pointed to the screen.

"On the last line, I only took one child with me, but you wrote two."

The contents of the tattered page were enlarged.

[Monkey D. Garp takes two unregistered children away without authorization]

[One of them was handed over to the Trafalgar Family]

[The other person is missing]

The sound of chair legs being moved could be heard in the command room.

I reread the Sengoku period.

"You only saved one person back then?"

"When I found him, he was hiding under the body, clutching half a medical record in his hand."

Who is the second child?

Ask the person holding the torn page.

Saint Garling turned the paper over.

A palm print is left on the back, with the old royal family's registration number written next to it.

"Garp, you handed Dragon over to Doctor Trafalgar and fabricated the whereabouts of a child. Are these two things enough to prove that your testimony is inadmissible?"

Garp didn't respond.

"You know that child's name is Dragon?"

His identity has been revealed at the public trial.

"Wrong."

Garp flipped back to the first few pages of the log.

"I didn't name him back then, and Doctor Trafalgar just called him patient. The registration form says number seventeen. How do you know he was later called Dragon?"

Saint Garling's hand left the paper.

A prompt appeared on the Public Trial Scales.

[Witness raises related questions]

[Please have the holder of the fragment explain the source of the information.]

I have no obligation to answer the criminal's questions.

"You have."

Lin Qi's voice came through the public trial line.

Saint Garling turned his head to the side.

"Tavern owner, you have no right to interrupt."

"The public trial was held in my shop."

That only proves that you illegally possessed the Throne.

"You can pay me back now, we'll settle it when it's my turn to be tried."

Lin Qi opened the defendant's response page.

"You have forty-two minutes left. Either answer Garp, or this piece of paper is not evidence."

[Inquiry Established]

[The holder of the fragment must respond within thirty seconds]

Saint Garling put the tattered page back into his sleeve.

"The name 'Dragon' comes from the transfer application submitted by Doctor Trafalgar."

Luo stared intently at the public trial footage.

Inside the White Swallow ward, Dragon leaned against the headboard, a temporary tissue left by Luo still attached to his chest.

"I haven't seen that application."

Lami clutched the old Button in his hand.

"Mr. Long's name wasn't on the application that Xiong brought."

Vegapunk pulled up photos from thirteen years ago.

The receipt section on the paper reads "Bear," while the patient section only lists "Number Seventeen."

"Saint Garling lied just now; the document he saw is not the same one that Xiong got."

Saint Garling ignored him.

Before the countdown reaches zero, the Public Trial System automatically searches for the source of the missing pages.

[The Archives of the Holy Knights thirty-eight years ago.]

[Three documents attached]

The first document is an arrest warrant for Garp.

The second document was Doctor Trafalgar's execution order.

The third document only shows the cover.

[Royal Bloodline Transfer Record]

Dragon raised his hand and moved the monitoring cable on his chest aside.

Luo pressed down on his wrist.

"Stop pulling it out."

"I need to see that piece of paper clearly."

"You can watch it while lying down."

"Doctor Trafalgar saved more than just me back then."

Wa Tie'er coughed a few times from the bed next to his.

"There is no second child."

You know?

"I changed your dressing and revised your medical records. You were the only living person admitted to the ward that day."

Lami asked, "Then why did you write two?"

"Because someone needs another destination."

The Public Trial System deciphered the third document.

The list contained no names, only two numbers.

Number 17 has been stamped with a transfer seal, and its destination is the Garp warship.

Another number was obscured by ink, and the destination was marked as the God Valley Underground Medical Area.

Vegapunk restored the ink stains layer by layer.

The covered serial number gradually became visible.

[Zero]

Wa Tie'er sat up, supporting himself on the edge of the bed.

"Turn it off."

Luo looked at him.

Have you seen Zero?

Close the page!

"Why?"

That record shouldn't have been kept until now.

The Medical Department's fleet struck the ice again, causing the entire White Swallow to list to starboard, and medicine bottles on the shelves rolled to the ground.

Lami supported the wheelchair.

"Uncle, who is Zero?"

Wa Tie'er pulled the blanket off his legs.

"Dragon, didn't you want to know why Garp sent you away?"

"Explain."

"Because the Holy Knights aren't after you at all; they're looking for what you took out of the country."

Dragon looked down at his chest.

"Stone flakes?"

The stone slab was merely a door lock.

What's behind the door?

Wa Tie'er did not answer; he dragged the IV Stand toward the main screen of the White Swallow.

Luo stood in front of them.

Where are you going?

"Connect my line to the public trial."

"Make things clear first."

"A little later, Saint Garling will speak for me."

"Then let him speak."

"He said it, and everyone who hears Zero's name will be targeted for elimination."

Lin Qi asked through the Tavern's communication channels, "Isn't it already like that?"

Wa Tie'er looked at the images coming from the East Blue.

Why do you think they blew up the Tavern?

"Because of the Cellar."

"Zero is being held in the Cellar."

No one in the Tavern responded.

The helper peeked out and looked at the staircase leading to the underground.

"Boss, is the person who was talking inside still there?"

Lin Qi picked up the lantern.

"Hello, First Patient?"

There was no response from behind the Black Stone Slab.

The chef, carrying the wine bottle, retreated to the doorway.

"Go in and take a look."

Why me?

"The shop is yours."

"Your wages are still yours."

"I don't want it anymore."

"Dream on, it's already in the account."

Saint Garling submitted another document to the public trial.

"Wa Tie'er, how long are you going to keep this a secret?"

A basement hospital room appears in the scene.

Seventeen small beds surrounded a life support capsule in the center, inside which lay a child whose face was obscured.

The hatch sign reads "Zero".

[The first patient in the World Government Royal Family Medical Plan]

[Status: Awaiting Bloodline Recovery]

Dragon leaned against the wall and stood up.

I've seen this room before.

Wa Tie'er turned and stared at him.

"When?"

"Before Garp took me away."

You weren't awake yet.

"Someone carried me in here. She told me to remember the seventeen beds and that she would come back to pick up another child later."

Garp gripped the journal cover tightly.

Who held you?

Dragon looked at him.

"A navy."

"Name."

She told me not to ask.

Garp flipped through the logbook and pulled out a duty roster from Inner Compartment.

On the night of the God Valley incident, four Navy personnel entered the underground medical area.

The names of three people have been crossed out, and only their codes remain in the last column.

[Temporary member of the Navy Medical Team: Dragon]

Sengoku reached out and took the list.

"Dragon?"

Garp did not respond.

The Public Trial System, however, automatically associated the code name with Dragon's information.

[Code name inheritance relationship has been confirmed]

[Monkey D. Dragon's name comes from a naval medic who went missing thirty-eight years ago.]

Dragon looked at the words and released his hand from the monitoring line.

She left her name to me.

Saint Garling closed the file.

She also took Zero Patient's heartbeat records from God Valley and gave them to the Trafalgars, asking them to use their own child to take over the tracking of Zero.

Robert Kikoku.

Say it again.

"Why can Lami hear Dragon's heartbeat? Haven't you ever thought about that?"

The old Button rattled in Lami's hand.

One time.

Seven seconds later, there was another one.

The same knocking echoed from the Black Stone Slabs of the Tavern's Cellar.

Lin Qi carried the lantern down the last step.

In the darkness, the person who claimed to be the First Patient was nowhere to be seen.

An extra door appeared behind the wall.

Seventeen names are engraved on the door.

There's another line of text that just appeared at the very bottom.

Zero Patient has left the Throne.

At the same time, an alarm sounded in the lower deck of the White Swallow.

Drake rushed into the ward.

"Someone blew open the bottom of the ship from the outside and they're already inside!"

Dragon pulled the last monitoring line.

Luo didn't stop him this time; he just tossed him a vial of medicine.

"If you can't hold on, then fight."

"Leave it to Lami."

She has a doctor.

The hatch was flung open by the impact, and the black-clad assassins waded through the floodwaters into the ward.

Dragon took a step forward.

The seawater that had flooded the cabin stopped at his feet.

The next second, the water flow reversed, crashing into the cracked steel plate along with more than ten assassins.

The leader grabbed the doorframe and tried to raise his weapon.

Dragon raised his hand and shook it.

The airflow outside the ship rushed through the gap and dragged the man out of the White Swallow.

All that remained at the broken point was churning seawater.

Lami handed over the medicine tube.

"Mr. Long, you should still use it."

"I don't need it."

"The doctor's word is final."

Luo took the medicine and inserted it into Dragon's arm.

Answer her now.

Dragon glanced at Lami.

"Need."

Wa Tie'er, supporting himself on the screen.

"Zero leaves the Throne, the underground routes will shift again. We need to find him in front of the World Government."

Dragon turned to the camera lens of a global trial.

"All units of the Revolutionary Army, halt your retreat! All fleets, turn towards the Red Line!"

"Are you going to risk the lives of tens of thousands of people on a road that doesn't even exist?" asked the Saint Garling.

The road has appeared.

Dragon took out the half of the stone fragment that had been replaced from his chest and pasted it onto the sea chart that Luo had unfolded.

The missing lines hidden in the map light up one by one, passing through the East Blue and the North Blue, and finally merging into the Red Line.

The coordinates of God Valley do not fall in any sea area.

It is located directly below the Holy Land Mary Geoise.