The First Patient's Name
"Free?"
Luo flipped the Zero Tag to the back, where there was no medical record number, only a scratch that had been mostly worn away.
The Hooded Man had turned around, his old coat slipping off his shoulders to reveal large seams on his chest.
Lami raised his hand and touched the hem of Luo's clothes.
"Brother, something on him is glowing."
Below the suture, a huge Sun Mark is emerging from deep within the skin.
The light crept out of the wound and reconnected to the Old Circuit inside the High Tower wall.
Power was restored to Seventeen Hospital Beds simultaneously.
Lin Qi's image was still on the wall; he held the Debt Ledger he had taken from the Cellar and looked at it for a long time.
"Your patients glow?"
Luo ignored him.
"Name."
The Hooded Man pressed his hand to his chest.
This body has used three names.
I'm asking about the present.
"Not now."
"Patients must have names."
"Doctors said the same thing eight hundred years ago."
Wa Tie'er held onto the IV Stand; the wheels got stuck in the cracks between the floor tiles, and he had to pull it out twice.
"Luo, look into the Inner Compartment of the Zero Tag."
The Kikoku, half-drawn from its sheath.
The metal sign was pried open by the tip of the knife, and a thin, stiffly rolled-up sheet fell out from the Inner Compartment.
Lami bent down to pick it up, and the oxygen supply tube caught on the wheelchair armrest as he moved.
Luo picked up the thin slice first.
The text on it has long since faded, and only the heading of the medical record is still legible.
[Zero Observation Bed]
[The First Patient]
[Joy Boy]
No one responded on the platform.
The sea breeze blew in through the broken wall, causing the thin sheets to stick to the back of Luo's hand.
Lin Qi leaned closer to the image.
I've seen that name before.
Where?
"In the Old System Records, every time the Void Century are mentioned, there's an empty space that can't be deleted."
Lami looked at the Hooded Man.
"Are you Joy Boy?"
"This body is..."
"What's the meaning?"
The person who stayed behind to hand over the shift only retained a portion of their memories.
Dragon leaned back in his wheelchair, blood seeping again from the spot on his chest where the stone fragment had been removed.
"Biological Backup."
Joy Boy turned to look at him.
"The Navigation Beacon on your chest was also cut off from here."
Dragon glanced down at the bloodstains on his clothes.
"Garp took me from God Valley to send it away?"
All he knew was that there was a child there.
"The female navy officer knows."
"She knows a little more."
Luo stuffed the medical record sheet back into the sign.
"Let's talk about the medicine first."
Joy Boy took the remaining two Stabilizers from the Medical Kit.
"Doctor Trafalgar left behind twelve vials; nine were used sixteen years ago, and I just gave you one."
Who gets the other two?
"One for Wa Tie'er, one for me."
Wa Tie'er reached out to take it.
Luo moved the medicine away.
"Give me the recipe first."
Your father didn't leave behind the complete recipe.
"Then don't use it."
"Luo, I know what's inside."
You used to say you had a life-saving stone in your chest.
Wa Tie'er withdrew his hand.
I'm not lying to you this time.
"You said the same thing last time."
Lami looked up at Joy Boy.
"One of the twelve medicines is missing."
Joy Boy closed the Medical Kit.
"It's been taken."
"Who?"
"Imu."
A muffled thud came from the top of the High Tower.
The image of the Tavern on the wall flickered a few times, and the Debt Ledger slipped from Lin Qi's hand to the ground.
The chef shouted from behind, "The wine rack has fallen over!"
"Hold onto the wine rack, don't hold me."
Lin Qi picked up the Den Den Mushi.
"Luo, you have sixteen more things on your heads."
Luo looked up.
The clouds above the Holy Land have parted.
Sixteen Rings hung in the sky, their interiors glowing with white light, and their edges were expanding outwards.
Vegapunk's voice squeezed into the Public Line.
"Everyone leave the High Tower. The Mother Flame has been connected to the Uranus and has locked onto the God Valley Medical Center!"
The Sengoku asked, "What is the range?"
"In the first round, we'll only target the High Towers. Once the route is complete, it can find the East Blue Tavern and the White Swallow along the Old Medical Network!"
Lin Qi looked at the stone door to the Cellar.
"So, if I hit you, the fire will eventually reach me?"
You finally understood!
"Can you close the door?"
"No, the three access permissions have already been merged. Forcibly cutting them off will shut down Lami's hospital bed!"
Luo threw the Zero Tag to Wa Tie'er.
"Bring Lami into the tower."
Lami grabbed the wheelchair brakes.
"I'm not going in."
"Obedient."
"They can get hit inside too."
"At least the wall is thick."
"Brother, what are you going to do staying outside?"
"Block it."
Joy Boy pointed to the highest circle.
"The first charge of the Mother Flame takes seventeen seconds."
Luo looked at him.
How did you know?
I saw it once before I died.
"Can it stop it?"
"We couldn't stop it back then."
Luffy's shout echoed from the sea.
"Luo!"
An arm stretched from the Port all the way up the High Tower. Luffy used the force of the contraction to fly over, breaking the edge of the platform when he landed.
The gravel fell over the railing, and it took a long time for the Echo to be heard.
What's that in the sky?
"Don't touch it."
"It's going to attack here?"
So you shouldn't stand here either.
"That won't do."
Luffy looked up, and his White Hair began to float.
A heartbeat emanated from his body.
Thump.
The Sun Mark on Joy Boy's chest lit up once more.
Thump.
The lights on the Seventeen Hospital Beds turned on one by one.
Luffy touched his chest.
"That sound is back."
Joy Boy took a step forward.
The body, left behind eight hundred years ago, is no longer able to stand steadily; its right leg drags across the ground, and the sole of its shoe is covered in Life-Sustaining Fluid.
"Nika."
Luffy looked at him.
Do you know me?
"I admit I was wrong."
Joy Boy raised his hand and touched the brim of his Straw Hat from a few steps away.
The person wearing the hat arrived a little later than me this time.
Luffy held down the Straw Hat.
Who exactly are you?
"Patient."
"Can Luo cure you?"
He treated his sister first.
Luo had already unfolded the ROOM, and the blue space extended outwards along the top of the tower, but was pushed back before it touched the ring in the sky.
Vegapunk shouted, "Don't use the Surgical Space to touch the Mother Flame! It will use your abilities to lock onto the heart!"
"Then give me the internal structure of the Uranus."
"I've never seen the actual product!"
"Guess."
"You want me to guess at a time like this?"
You've been guessing quite a bit lately.
Lami pulled an Old Map out of the Medical Record Box.
"Brother, there are sixteen Power Supply Pipes here."
Joy Boy looked over.
The picture depicts the God Valley eight hundred years ago, and there are sixteen rings directly above the island.
A handwritten note was left in the corner of the drawing.
The First Attacks will leave a way out.
After reading it, Wa Tie'er shook his head.
It doesn't specify which one.
Luo put the picture on the wall.
"Of the sixteen pipelines, only fifteen connect to the circular ring."
"And the last one?"
"Connect to underground."
Joy Boy pointed to Luffy's feet.
"Here."
Luffy crouched down and tapped the ground.
"The bottom is empty."
"It's the tympanic cavity."
The light overhead was so bright that it was impossible to open one's eyes.
Joy Boy knelt on the ground and pressed his hands into the grooves corresponding to the Sun Mark.
The Old Circuit inside the High Tower was then reconnected.
"Let him keep laughing."
Luo asked, "Who?"
"The person wearing Straw Hat."
Luffy flashed his teeth.
"So?"
"Not the face."
Joy Boy coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with black particles.
"Make your heart laugh."
Drumbeats sounded again from Luffy's chest.
The ground response was also given.
The High Tower walls pushed open section by section, revealing the enormous tympanic chamber hidden inside to the light once more.
The first ray of white light fell.
"Luffy!"
Before Law could finish his warning, Luffy's body had already transformed into a giant.
He grabbed both sides of the High Tower with his hands, pulling the entire ground upwards.
The white light fell on the rubber-like top of the tower, pressing it down tens of meters.
Luffy gritted his teeth, his arm gleaming in the light.
"Go back here!"
It bounced back from the ground.
The light veered off the High Tower, crossed the outer harbor of Mary Geoise, and fell into the distant sea.
A bottomless hole was dug into the seawater.
The surrounding sea has not yet been filled in, Sixteen Rings have already completed their second recharge.
Luffy returned to his original size, leaving two long tracks on the ground with his feet.
As Shanks' ship entered the outer harbor, he looked up and immediately grabbed Den Den Mushi.
"All ships should disperse and not remain on the same route."
Garp rushed to the ruins of the Throne room.
"Straw Hat Boy, can we do it again?"
Luffy braced himself against his knees.
"Able."
Luo grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him back inside the High Tower.
"Take your time to catch your breath."
"There's no time."
"I know."
Joy Boy remained kneeling before the tympanic cavity, half of the Sun Mark on his chest now darkened.
He looked at the sixteen beams of light that descended simultaneously.
The first warning is issued.
Lin Qi asked from the other end of the Tavern, "And the second course?"
"Clear."
Sixteen beams of white light covered the sky Holy Land site.
They stopped targeting one spot.
High Tower.
White Swallow.
Revolutionary Army Fleet.
The navy refused orders.
The fleet of Four Emperors ships in the outer harbor.
Two thousand nautical miles away, the East Blue Tavern has already been located.
A new red notification appeared on the system page.
[Second round of attacks by the Mother Flame has been confirmed]
[Witness cleansing begins]