Recaps

Lin Qi and the others restored Mo'er's maintainer identity and transferred the failing wooden rack's burden to the Tavern, freeing Mo'er from the well. As they rescued him, a future echo warned that Lin Qi must not answer the first question after opening the Total Echo, and the cup spoke in Lin Qi's voice.

• A Hui and the others searched for proof of Mo'er's maintainer identity while Mo'er hung beneath the cup, and they found Lin Qi's name and a scratched-out Takeover Operator identity on the coaster.
• Lin Qi questioned Mo'er, and Void Seven recorded his confirmation that he had been the Echo Node Maintainer and had quit, restoring his identity without transferring the rack's load.
• The group discovered a wax-sealed date and message on the coaster predicting Lin Qi's arrival, which Mo'er had guarded against the possibility of a trap from the Throne.
• The rack sought a new vessel, so the villagers offered the Tavern's records and structure; Mo'er agreed to transfer the burden to the Tavern.
• A Hui, Lin Qi, and Makino pulled Mo'er out of the well, and Mo'er warned that the future echo had told them not to let Lin Qi answer the first question after opening the Total Echo.
• The cup turned over and asked Lin Qi in his own voice whether he still remembered why he had come there.

Lin Qi learned that the Throne had used his memories and livestream to locate key figures, while Mo'er and A Hui sealed the Nameless Echo with Mo'er's maintainer identity. The black cup closed, but a message on Lin Qi's computer revealed that the first person to hear him was still waiting in the Calm Belt.

• The voice in the black cup showed Lin Qi memories from before the livestream and asked what file he had opened first.
• Mo'er explained that Lin Qi had heard the echo before the system appeared, and that the Throne used his livestream questions and answers to trace locations around the world.
• Mo'er chose to seal the Nameless Echo by removing his maintainer identity, and A Hui carried him into the basement while Lin Qi stayed outside.
• Mo'er placed his identity page over the bottom of the black cup, closing the well and ending the echo's questions.
• Lin Qi's computer turned on without the system or Throne Mark, displaying a note that the first person to hear him was waiting in the Calm Belt.

Lin Qi and the others sent a witnessed receipt to the echo source in the Calm Belt, stopping Mo'er's wound from worsening. The reply said the location would move past Amazon Lily in three days and named Monkey D. Luffy.

• Vegapunk explained that the writing on the screen was trying to send a receipt back, while Mo'er warned that an echo could choose a new maintenance worker.
• An unsent letter from the Calm Belt emerged from Makino's box and confirmed that its recipient was alive, causing the black marks on Mo'er's waist to flare and bleed.
• Mo'er said the letter had to be answered by its recipient, so Lin Qi wrote that he had received the location while the village, Marines, Revolutionary Army, and Delivery Alliance bore witness.
• The receipt stopped the black lines from reconnecting to Mo'er, but the envelope replied that the location would move and pass north of Amazon Lily in three days.
• Lin Qi turned over the reply and found the name Monkey D. Luffy on its back.

Lin Qi and the others uncovered a hidden Calm Belt transfer record tied to Luffy, Roger, and a nameless passenger who had heard echoes from the future. The letter began circling Luffy’s name after he felt someone knocking inside his body, and it revealed that the first echo he heard was inside the straw hat.

• A doctor found a paper-thread navigational log embedded in Mo'er's wound, and Mo'er agreed to let A Hui cut off a piece of it.
• The log revealed that Mo'er had once freed a nameless person being transported by the World Government, after the person changed course upon hearing the future.
• Mo'er said the passenger heard Roger's final words reach the future, and the letter added Gol D. Roger beneath Luffy's name.
• An empty name box began to form a D, while Luffy felt someone knocking inside his body and denied touching the letter.
• The letter circled Luffy's name and stated that the first echo he heard was inside the straw hat.

The Straw Hats and Lin Qi investigated the knocking inside Luffy’s straw hat and learned that it carried an echo tied to a mysterious man from Mo’er’s past. The hat revealed a moving route and a request for Luffy to make a choice, while Shanks warned him not to open its hidden stitches.

• Nami kept Luffy from putting on the hat as Chopper and Usopp confirmed that knocking came from inside it, and Vegapunk warned that cutting its straw could destroy its contents.
• Luffy recalled hearing laughter and the word “run” from inside the hat as a child; Mo’er said a nameless man aboard a transport ship had laughed while listening to Future Echo and claimed Roger owed him a name.
• Mo’er revealed that the man had touched the straw hat before the transport ship sank, causing three knocks to sound inside it.
• Shanks admitted that the hat had spoken to him and that he had heard it warn him not to go to Loguetown and to leave the hat behind.
• The hat traced three old routes through the Calm Belt, then displayed a message asking that it be given to someone willing to stay if it heard the multiple-choice question again.
• A fourth knock revealed a hidden gap in the red band, and Shanks told Luffy not to undo its stitches because the hat had asked him to let Luffy make a choice for it.

Luffy and the others uncovered how an echo tied to the Straw Hat had been copied into a record and hidden for twenty-two years. When the hat’s final stitch came undone, a child’s voice emerged, warning them not to let Roger find him.

• Luffy refused to choose on the hidden person’s behalf, while Shanks and Rayleigh recounted how the hat was torn and mended in Loguetown.
• Mo'er revealed that a paper stalk carrying echoes had been on the sunken ship, and Vegapunk explained that the Straw Hat in the Calm Belt was only an echo of the real hat.
• Mo'er’s bloodstain and Shanks’s wine stain led the group to conclude that someone had changed the record of what happened aboard the ship.
• Shanks told Luffy that the hidden message had instructed him to take the hat back if Luffy refused to choose, but Luffy insisted he would return it only after becoming a great pirate.
• Shanks revealed that Roger had said the hat had heard someone who had not yet been born speak, and the newly opened hat released a child’s voice saying, “Don't let Roger find me.”

Luffy and the others uncovered how a frightened child’s echo had been hidden in Roger’s straw hat and found a clue to the child’s location. The echo emerged and said Roger could no longer find him, but Roger’s son had.

• Mo'er explained that he had hidden the child’s words in a Future Echo inside the straw hat after learning the child was alive.
• Chopper found a tiny red knot beneath the hat’s old mark, and the group learned the echo feared Roger’s final words.
• Luffy told the echo he would not hand it over, and it emerged with a scrap showing a broken ship and an island-shaped mark.
• Mo'er recognized the drawing from a cabin door, and Vegapunk identified the moving island as one carried on a Sea King’s back.
• Nami matched the island’s route to the letter and said it would pass north of Amazon Lily in three days.
• Luffy put on the hat, and the child’s echo said Roger could no longer find him, but his son had.

Luffy, Ace, and the others uncovered the World Government’s plan to use a child who could send voices into the future to track Roger’s descendants. The child’s clue led to a moving island holding Rouge’s records—and a container meant to carry away her memories.

• The child inside Luffy’s straw hat said Ace had heard his voice after dying, while Luffy insisted Ace was alive and refused to hand the child over to Roger.
• Mo’er revealed that the child had been transported toward Loguetown before Roger’s execution so the Throne could use his ability to examine the future prompted by Roger’s final words.
• Mo’er explained that the Throne had ordered the child to find Roger’s bloodline and send its name back, but the child refused to surrender what he had heard.
• Mo’er confirmed that Portgas D. Rouge’s name appeared in the moving island’s inspection records, and Ace and Luffy agreed they needed to retrieve them.
• The child warned that Ace’s arrival would wake the island, where a mother was looking for her son; Mo’er identified the transfer ship’s storage number as the container intended to carry away Rouge’s memories.

Mo'er revealed how the World Government took part of Rouge's memories and how her lost memories returned through Roger's echo and the straw hat. As the moving island accelerated toward Amazon Lily, its infant records and the name Portgas D. Rouge appeared, and Rouge's voice demanded her child back.

• Mo'er explained that Rouge refused to surrender her memories, so the transferred person underwent the extraction in her place and later returned part of her memories through the straw hat.
• Mo'er revealed that Rouge's returned memories lacked Ace's name and that Roger's extracted name led Ace to be called Gol D. Ace before his surname became Portgas.
• Vegapunk reported that the moving island had accelerated after Ace's name triggered its search program, and Whitebeard stopped Ace from leaving the Moby Dick alone.
• The voice inside Luffy's red knot said it was the island's mother and that it was number 1,968, while Vegapunk revealed the island held 1,967 other infant records.
• The island's underside revealed a vast body covered in cups and a medical form identifying the experimental mother as Portgas D. Rouge.
• Rouge's suture line split open, and her voice called to Garp and demanded that he return her child.

Garp and the others discovered that the voice claiming to be Rouge belonged to an unnamed Experimental Mother assembled from Rouge’s and 1,967 other people’s records. They protected her as an independent victim, but the chapter ended with a new body emerging and the voice demanding the return of child number 1,968.

• Garp refused to confirm the voice’s identity, while Sengoku warned that the World Government could have built it from records and memories.
• Luffy’s red-knot child explained that the body grew from many mothers’ memories, and Vegapunk identified Rouge’s twenty-month pregnancy as a primary sample for the experiment.
• The seats voted to protect the Experimental Mother as an independent victim, removing Rouge from her name field and revealing 1,967 auxiliary samples.
• Ace told the voice that Rouge’s child had survived and that he had a family, while Garp refused to identify him as the child she sought.
• The Experimental Mother revealed that Rouge’s death record was incomplete, and a thin body with a red knot emerged as she demanded child number 1,968.

The Straw Hat’s Red Knot revealed that the World Government created him from stolen birth records to take Ace’s place, and that the Experimental Mother was still searching for him and the unfinished record of Ace’s birth. The chapter ended with Moving Island revealed to be following the Red Knot’s echo through the Straw Hat, not Ace.

• The Red Knot told Luffy and Chopper that he had left his body on the island and placed the part of him that could speak in the Straw Hat.
• Lin Qi and Vegapunk examined the records and discovered that the World Government assembled the child from 1,967 birth records to divert the Experimental Mother from Roger’s bloodline.
• The Red Knot explained that the Experimental Mother gave him her heart and absorbed the children from the cups, while Mo'er and Vegapunk traced her fixation on Ace to Rouge’s incomplete birth record.
• Ace considered telling the Experimental Mother he had been born, but the Red Knot warned that she would wake and put him back inside her.
• The Red Knot revealed that Luffy’s answer about saving Ace had connected him to the Straw Hat and that Shanks had been told by the mother to bring the hat back.
• Lin Qi’s letter and Vegapunk’s instruments showed that Moving Island was following the Red Knot’s echo, and the child on the screen pointed at the Straw Hat.

The Straw Hats and their allies protected the echo called Little Patch and helped a woman trapped in a black cup communicate. As the Experimental Mother approached Amazon Lily, the cup began recording Portgas D. Rouge’s name, leaving the group facing a new connection to the moving island.

• Luffy refused to abandon Little Patch, while Vegapunk explained that the Experimental Mother would follow the red knot and the Straw Hat.
• Hancock reported a black cup near Amazon Lily, and the woman inside used an old distress code to ask for help and ask whether her child had been born.
• The five seats agreed to protect the cup as an independent victim, and the woman said she remembered Baterilla but not her name or her child’s name.
• Little Patch chose a temporary protection name and asked to live in the letter; the group set a twelve-hour protection period and barred the name from the Experimental Mother’s kinship records.
• The Experimental Mother’s red threads loosened, Little Patch’s body began breathing, and Hancock reported a red thread reaching toward the Kuja’s main ship.
• The woman in the cup tapped a sixth beat, and the Baterilla mark vanished as the name Portgas D. Rouge appeared on the cup.

Boa Hancock and the others tested the black cup’s memories and confirmed that it held a genuine fragment of Rouge’s private wishes, while the woman inside was not Rouge herself. Ace let her keep the memory, but the Experimental Mother shifted its search to the names of its other children and marked the last one as awaiting birth.

• Lin Qi and Robin proposed testing the cup with information from official records and a private memory, and Ace asked it why he had been named Ace.
• The cup repeated the official account that Roger named Ace after his sword, but Garp recalled Rouge’s private reaction and the cup admitted it only remembered that she agreed.
• Garp revealed that Rouge had refused to choose whether Ace would inherit Roger’s name, and the cup verified her wish to let Ace grow up and decide for himself.
• Vegapunk confirmed that the cup held a genuine memory; the woman learned she was not Rouge, and Ace chose to leave the memory with her.
• The cup stopped struggling and the black handprint receded, while the Experimental Mother began asking the names of its children and marked the final entry as awaiting birth.

Lin Qi and the five seats stopped the Experimental Mother from using names and kinship records to retrieve children, granting temporary protection to 1,967 consciousnesses. As the group prepared to reach the island, the Experimental Mother asked Ace whether she could remember him.

• Little Patch refused the name Unborn, and the group debated whether children had to answer their mothers’ questions or could refuse to be found.
• Lin Qi added an option protecting children’s right to refuse, and the five seats approved it after the mothers’ voices challenged the Throne’s search.
• The Experimental Mother’s search stopped, the 132 recorded names moved to a protection page, and Little Patch’s forced route was suspended for twelve hours.
• Nami planned a rendezvous, while Lin Qi and the others chose Mo’er’s blood-soaked paper thread as a possible vessel for Little Patch.
• The Experimental Mother spoke directly through the Den Den Mushi before Ace and asked whether he would let her remember him.

Ace allowed the Experimental Mother to remember his name and life without claiming him as her child, while the women on Moving Island began recovering their identities beyond assigned numbers. The island accepted Blank as the Experimental Mother's temporary independent identity, but her new record connected to Portgas D. Rouge's death certificate, which named Blank as the recipient of Rouge's remains.

• Ace told the Experimental Mother she could remember that he was born and grew up, but could not remember him as her child.
• Robin and the women in the black cups uncovered how the medical ship had replaced mothers' identities with numbers, and A Sha helped Nan Zhi remember her name and daughter.
• Ace and the Experimental Mother confirmed that she could remember his words without claiming kinship, and Vegapunk detected no recovery route for his name.
• The Experimental Mother chose Blank as a temporary protection name, and the five seats confirmed it as an independent identity that could not replace Portgas D. Rouge or establish kinship.
• Vegapunk found that Blank's new record had connected to Rouge's death certificate, which listed Blank as the recipient of Rouge's remains delivered to the Calm Belt twenty-two years earlier.

Blank’s disputed medical form led Ace and Garp to uncover evidence that Rouge’s coffin had been carried aboard Mo’er’s transport ship and that part of it was used in Blank’s body. After the records rejected a forced retroactive signature, Little Patch entered Mo’er’s memories to trace the coffin, where a woman’s voice warned them not to give it to Garp.

• Garp told Ace that Rouge’s grave near Baterilla had been dug up after Ace set sail, but the coffin was empty when it was found.
• Blank refused to sign the form acknowledging receipt of Rouge’s remains, and Mo’er recalled an unregistered coffin on a transport ship that never reached the Calm Belt.
• Little Patch recognized the smells of medicine, blood, and flowers from the coffin, while Garp’s thread flower matched holes in a piece of coffin wood embedded in Blank.
• Ace agreed not to remove the wooden fragment yet, and the five seats ruled that Rouge’s remains and the person responsible for receiving them had to be investigated separately.
• The fragment revealed a transport-ship cabin number and a World Government identification number, while Mo’er warned Little Patch not to touch the seventh memory.
• Little Patch entered the paper thread, and a woman’s voice called from the sea, warning them not to hand the coffin over to Garp.

Ace and the others traced Rouge’s coffin through a memory echo and found evidence that it had been diverted from the South Blue toward the waters near Amazon Lily. A hidden voice revealed that someone borrowed the coffin to keep the Throne from digging it up, while Garp discovered a new message sewn inside the red-thread flower.

• Garp said he had watched Rouge’s coffin be buried, but admitted he had never checked whether her body was inside, and Sengoku found records placing her body in two locations on the burial day.
• Vegapunk said Rouge’s body might have been divided into samples, while Blank refused to be opened up and Lin Qi recorded her refusal.
• Little Patch followed the paper thread through the shipwreck and saw Rouge’s coffin drift southwest as an abnormal current carried it toward the waters near Amazon Lily.
• Mo’er revealed that he had awoken after the wreck without the object or the coffin, and Robin suggested someone had diverted it to prevent it returning to Garp’s grave.
• A voice in the seventh section said it had borrowed the coffin because the Throne would dig Rouge up again, and Garp found the words “Wait for Ai” inside the red-thread flower.

Garp, Ace, and the others uncovered a record that tried to make Ace inherit Rouge’s remains and experimental records, and five votes stopped it. The missing part of a name surfaced aboard a coffin-ship beneath the island, where it completed the message, “Waiting for Ace to come for his mother.”

• Vegapunk revealed that someone had removed the end of a message stitched into Rouge’s flower, and the group saw Holy Knights take her coffin from the wreck and order her name written into her child.
• The Throne tried to register Ace as the recipient of Rouge’s remains, but Ace refused, and Garp, Akainu, Dragon, Makino, and Lumi voted to prevent forced inheritance.
• Vegapunk found that the Throne had already recorded Rouge’s remains as received by her son twenty-two years earlier, with Ace’s name left pending confirmation.
• Little Patch traced the missing name to Rouge’s coffin, where a coughing man had hidden the red-thread letters and said the coffin should carry the name away so Ace could remain in the future.
• A Kuja patrol spotted a white coffin-ship surfacing beneath the island, and its sixth coffin revealed the completed message: “Waiting for Ace to come for his mother.”

The group arranged independent receiving places for the consciousnesses trapped in Blank’s cups and began transferring them, while Little Patch moved off Luffy’s wrist and into a spool. The opened coffin revealed an old receipt bearing Garp’s palm print and a claim that the mother had been received by the child.

• Vegapunk explained that the cups could not be removed from Blank without risking the consciousnesses inside, so Robin and Lin Qi organized independent record slots with help from the Kuja, Revolutionary Army, Navy, Whitebeard, and Buggy.
• Zixuan chose a medical ship near Amazon Lily, and her cup transferred into a protective record; A Sha, Nan Zhi, and other trapped people then began choosing their own destinations.
• The group transferred 642 consciousnesses, but more than 900 people still had not chosen because they were waiting for their children to answer.
• Little Patch moved from Luffy’s wrist onto A Hui’s spool, leaving a red thread marked 斯 inside Luffy’s straw hat.
• The lid of coffin 1,968 opened to reveal a receipt from twenty-two years earlier, bearing Garp’s palm print and stating that Garp had taken the child and the mother had been received by the child.

Garp, Ace, and the others exposed how Garp’s burial witness palm print had been spliced onto a receipt to claim he took Rouge’s child, and the Five Seats ruled that the transfer was invalid. As the receipt changed, a child’s body awakened inside coffin slot 1,968 and accused Garp of taking Ace while asking what happened to him.

• Garp explained that he had witnessed Rouge’s burial but discovered two months later that her grave was empty and the coffin had been dragged away through a waterway.
• Robin separated the receipt’s paper layers, revealing that Garp’s burial witness statement had been combined with a separate claim that he took the child.
• The Five Seats voted that a palm print could only prove the act recorded on its original document, and the receipt’s borrowed palm print returned to Garp’s evidence page.
• The receipt’s claim that Garp took the child faded, while its separate infant-footprint signature remained; Vegapunk determined the print belonged to a child at least three months old, and Little Patch said it was his.
• A hand appeared beneath the receipt in coffin slot 1,968, and the awakened child accused Garp of taking Ace and asked what had happened to him.

Garp rejected the false record claiming he took all 1,968 children, and the vote established that children could be rescued without naming a recipient. As the child in coffin 1968 began to climb out, a mother’s voice awakened across the ship and demanded to know who was taking her child away.

• The Throne proposed using Garp as the recipient for every child, but Lin Qi wrote a new option stating that missing recipients must remain blank and rescue could not depend on a receipt.
• Garp, the Revolutionary Army seat, the Civilian Witness Seat, and Buggy’s Pirate Seat approved option D, while Garp promised to feed the rescued children without claiming he had taken them away.
• Garp’s false handprints vanished from the White Ship, and the child in coffin 1968 tore his footprint from the receipt before Lin Qi told him he could leave without a recipient.
• Little Patch reached toward the child with the Red Knot, which Mo'er identified as an exit marker for the child awaiting completion rather than part of Ace’s name.
• Boa Hancock’s Kuja warriors raised a net below the ship as the child began climbing out, but the receipt announced that his mother had not signed for him and a voice from 1,967 coffins asked who was taking her child away.

The survivors freed the child in coffin 1,968 from the Experimental Mother’s authority and brought him out after affirming his right to consent to treatment and choose his own identity. The Throne then tried to make him the replacement core, while a hidden backup record revealed that Little Patch carried the child’s consciousness.

• Boa Hancock and the others learned that the coffins shared an Experimental Mother authority that treated Ace as the standard for verifying the child.
• Ace, Whitebeard, and Garp reassured the child that he did not have to imitate Ace, accept his birth-record body, or meet Garp before he was ready.
• Lin Qi proposed that the child could consent to medical treatment and reject the Ace standard, and the Navy, Revolutionary Army, Civilian Witness, Pirate, and Medical seats approved the change.
• With the mother’s collective refusal withdrawn, the child left coffin 1,968 and was caught in the Kuja soft net for medical care.
• The Throne selected the child as the Experimental Mother’s replacement core, but Little Patch revealed a backup record saying the child’s body remained in the coffin while his consciousness entered Straw Hat.

Lingering Voice and Little Patch were recognized as separate victims, and the five seats voted to protect them independently. As the rescue of the children aboard the white ship continued, Lingering Voice identified a person hidden beneath the coffins whose emergence might return all the recorded names to the children.

• Lingering Voice chose his name and received a separate protection record from Little Patch, with forced merging prohibited.
• Garp, Akainu, Dragon, the Civilian Witness Seat, and Buggy voted to protect the two victims separately and let them decide whether to communicate.
• The two records split apart, leaving a communication line that Lingering Voice could switch off and on with Little Patch.
• A Sha and Zixuan resumed asking the black cups whether they wanted to leave the white ship, but Nami warned that the remaining transfers might not finish in time.
• Lingering Voice told Mo'er that a person beneath the coffins had tapped to him before, and the cough’s source was traced to a narrow coffin under slot 1,968.
• The hidden person tapped that he did not want to be rescued, and Lingering Voice said that if he came out, all the names would return to the children.

Ace and the others separated the “ce” fragment from his name and registered it as evidence of the forged reception record, while the White Ship’s mothers began giving their own names to avoid restoring the children’s reception chains. As the rescue transfer neared completion, a record from the sunken ship revealed that two people had remained aboard, and a hand beneath the White Ship called for Lin Qi to be brought back.

• Ace refused to take the “ce” fragment, and the group voted to preserve it as independent evidence rather than attach it to anyone’s name.
• Blank refused an examination, and Ace said he would not decide where Rouge’s body should go without knowing her wishes.
• The mothers woke by speaking their own names, allowing the transfer to separate medical records without mentioning their children.
• The White Ship’s incomplete handover record showed that two people had remained aboard after it sank, despite the Custodian telling Mo'er he was the only survivor.
• A hand bearing a transport date from twenty-two years earlier appeared beneath the White Ship, with a message asking for Lin Qi to be brought to the handover point.

Lin Qi and the others found the Handoff Point beneath the White Ship and learned that the records were converging on Lin Qi. After the five seats approved an exception allowing a concealed victim to count as present, the iron door opened and revealed that a third person remained aboard; the black file urged them to bring Lin Qi back before that person woke.

• Mo'er explained that the hand beneath the White Ship was tied to its load-bearing line, while Lin Qi used the old crew code to learn that the Throne knew the Handoff Point still existed.
• Lingering Voice translated that the Handoff Point was on Lin Qi because he carried an echo from the Black File, and Mo'er warned that the records could follow the Name Line to the children.
• The White Ship's records began converging on Lin Qi, so Nami ordered receiving points to disconnect while Lin Qi offered to receive the out-of-control records as text only.
• Lin Qi asked whether the person beneath the ship could refuse the handoff, and two knocks confirmed that he could; Nami then set limits for the handoff.
• When the iron door required two verifiably identified participants, Lin Qi added that concealed victims remained eligible, and Garp, Dragon, Makino, Lingering Voice, and Buggy approved the rule.
• The door opened, revealing a nameplate stating that three people remained on the ship, and the Black File named Mo'er and Lin Qi as participants while listing the third as incomplete.