Arc 11The Old Ship’s Unfinished Records

Lin Qi and his allies challenged the Throne’s forged identities and death records, uncovering the histories of Fisher Tiger, Bellemere, Robin, Saul, and the Rumbar Pirates. The arc ended with Yorki revealing that children from the Return Ship had been sent to Reverse Mountain to await pirates.

  • Lin Qi freed the Third Presence from being forced into his identity, opened the Black Gate, and helped separate the Custodian’s evidence from the names it threatened to take.
  • Lin Qi and the five seats overturned Mo’er’s false death ruling and established that Lin Qi’s original-world death and present-world life could remain separate records.
  • Jinbe and the others uncovered how Fisher Tiger’s blood had been used to save twelve children, while Nami and the witnesses rejected Arlong’s claim that Bellemere had surrendered her life.
  • Nami and Robin restored their family relationships with Bellemere and Olvia, and Robin’s investigation changed Saul’s status from dead to missing after evidence showed he survived Ohara.
  • Robin and Akainu opened an inquiry into the evacuation ship’s destruction, while Mira withdrew her coerced testimony and Brook discovered that Yorki was alive behind the wall.
  • Brook and the witnesses cleared Yorki of betraying the Rumbar Pirates, and Brook’s music helped reconnect Yorki with Laboon and revive their promise.
  • Mira escaped Impel Down with Yorki’s letters and a medical kit, received protection for her testimony, and met Robin without yet choosing to contact her daughter.
  • Yorki helped the Old Ship escape its track and revealed to Mo’er and Lin Qi that children from the Return Ship had been sent to Reverse Mountain to await pirates.
Chapters 251–275 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 251The Third Witness

Lin Qi resisted being made the second handover person and helped the five seats rule that a coerced subject could refuse and turn the record into evidence. The third person was revealed as an awakened handover record identified as “Unfinished Lin Qi,” whose black line waited at Lin Qi’s feet.

  • Lin Qi and Mo'er planned to enter the Old Ship while Lingering Voice listened at the iron door, and the hidden person demanded that Lin Qi take himself away.
  • Lin Qi’s words confirmed him as the second handover person, causing the transferred mothers’ records to converge on his communications terminal.
  • Lin Qi proposed a rule allowing coerced handover subjects to refuse, and all five seats voted for it, stripping his name from the Handover Page.
  • A hand reached through the iron door with a note declaring refusal invalid, and Lingering Voice reported that the third person was the handover record itself and was already awake.
  • The White Ship exposed old papers and Lin Qi’s computer identified the third person as “Unfinished Lin Qi,” whose black line reached the floor and waited for Lin Qi to lift his foot.

Ch. 252The Unfinished Lin Qi

Lin Qi questioned the Third Person and learned that missing identities and stolen memories were connected to children hidden behind the ship’s Black Gate. The crew chose to copy the incomplete records before opening the gate, but 1,968 Third Presences appeared, and one arrived behind Lin Qi.

  • Lin Qi questioned the Third Person through knocks and learned that a maintenance worker had taken its memories, while the Third Person’s records were missing.
  • The Third Person showed Lin Qi a picture of two children separated by a door marked with the character “Lin,” and Mo'er recalled hearing children’s voices behind the ship’s Black Gate.
  • Lin Qi rejected the gate’s three identity-based options and proposed copying its incomplete records as independent evidence before letting those affected decide whether to open it.
  • Dragon, Akainu, Makino, Lingering Voice, and Buggy approved Lin Qi’s fourth option, but the Black Gate remained shut as knocks sounded from inside.
  • The ship reported 1,968 Third Presences, with 1,967 waiting for names and one waiting for Lin Qi; footsteps then sounded behind him on the deck.

Ch. 253The footsteps stopped behind Lin Qi

Lin Qi and the others discovered that the presence following him could only speak with phrases borrowed from his records and needed a completed handover answer to take someone away. They blocked its use of stitched-together phrases, but the presence revealed that it had no face and pleaded not to become Lin Qi.

  • Lin Qi tested the presence with questions, and Nami and Robin determined that it could only answer using his past words and phrases assembled from them.
  • The group learned that the presence needed Lin Qi to complete a handover answer identifying who he would take away, while the answer progress reached seventeen of twenty-one parts.
  • Lin Qi proposed a rule that stitched phrases could not determine identity, intent, or handover, and all five seats voted to approve it.
  • Lin Qi offered the presence a way to express itself without using his voice, and it drew a door, then pushed away the paper instead of becoming Lin Qi.
  • The Name Lines loosened and transferred records stopped contracting as Zixuan and Haruka reported that their names and receiving page were stable.
  • The presence wrote that it had no face and asked not to become Lin Qi, but Lin Qi's question about who took its face raised the handover progress to eighteen.

Ch. 254Leave the Name Blank for Now

Lin Qi and the others protected the Third Presence’s right to remain nameless and express itself independently, then gathered the unfinished records’ votes on opening the Black Gate. The gate opened after the Third Presence chose to leave, revealing a person watching a memory Lin Qi had never seen.

  • Lin Qi offered the Third Presence a blank name field, and the voting seats approved protecting its independent expression while ending the Throne’s correction.
  • The Third Presence returned thousands of borrowed passages as the coughing behind the iron door worsened and the mother’s remaining name fragments began to loosen.
  • Lin Qi asked the person behind the gate and the unfinished records what they wanted, and the group separately recorded their responses.
  • The votes for opening under protection narrowly exceeded the votes to keep the gate closed, and the Third Presence chose to leave.
  • The Third Presence returned its final borrowed sentence, the Black Gate opened, and a person facing Lin Qi’s computer asked him who he had seen last before he died.

Ch. 255The Door Holds None of My Past

Lin Qi separated the memories and evidence assembled by the Old Custody Record, exposing the death record as unsupported and preventing the Paper Figure from taking real identities. The Black Gate opened farther, revealing the chained man beneath the ship, who identified himself as the ship’s Custodian and asked Mo'er to admit it.

  • Lin Qi and the others found that the footage inside the door mixed his room, the man beneath the ship’s hand, and a custody record that had falsely answered the Old Ship’s question for him.
  • Lin Qi ordered the memories separated by source, and the man beneath the ship and the black thread agreed to let their portions be separated too.
  • The Paper Figure tried to leave with the names, but the man beneath the ship seized its ankle and said the Custodian record could leave only as evidence, not with the names.
  • The black thread split the mixed memories into separate records, leaving the death record without an issuer or a deceased person and stopping the children’s names from being pulled.
  • The Black Gate opened farther, revealing the chained man beneath the ship, who told Mo'er, "I'm the Custodian of this ship."

Ch. 256Where Did the Fourth Option Come From?

Lin Qi and the others traced the fourth answer option to Custodian Zero, whose blank line had traveled through the Total Echo and helped make D possible. As they dismantled the Custodian identity and freed the transferred records, a death certificate revealed that Mo'er had died once when the Transport Ship sank.

  • The nameless man explained that he had left a blank line on the Old Ship verification question, and Mo'er had sent the altered answer sheet through the Total Echo twenty-two years earlier.
  • Robin and the others arranged to split the Custodian records among separate archives, while the Black Line kept one copy of the evidence that the Throne had forged the words “I am willing.”
  • The forged transfer record lost its power, the transferred mothers' records stabilized, and the chain around the man's wrist loosened as the Black Line chose to remain blank.
  • The Black Line asked to stay blank, and Lin Qi agreed, causing another chain link to fall without increasing transfer progress.
  • A death certificate appeared showing that Maintainer Mo'er had died on the day the Transport Ship sank, and the man clarified that Mo'er had died once twenty-two years earlier.

Ch. 257Mo'er Didn't Sign the Death Record

Mo'er and A Hui exposed how Zero had falsified Mo'er's death to help him escape the ship, then used shared evidence to overturn the record and free Zero from his assumed duties. As the Black Gate closed and the rescued records were settled, a hidden document appeared declaring Lin Qi dead, and Unanswered confirmed it was real.

  • Lin Qi, Robin, Akainu, and the others traced Mo'er's death record to a forged seal impression and learned that Zero had reported Mo'er dead so he could leave with some echoes.
  • Mo'er and Zero revealed that Zero had remained aboard carrying thousands of name fragments while Mo'er searched for the child who heard the future; A Hui confronted them over their silence.
  • Mo'er proposed a fourth ruling, and witnesses supplied records of his wounds, daily knocks, debts, and work to prove he was alive; all five seats chose D, overturning his death record and lifting Zero's liability.
  • Mo'er and A Hui pulled Zero out from under the Black Gate, and Zero chose to go to the Kuja medical ship while Unanswered declared that it would stay outside.
  • The White Ship stopped sinking, the remaining records were diverted, and the Black Gate began to close after Nami confirmed the receiving points.
  • Zero spotted black paper hidden behind the forged certificate; it named Lin Qi as deceased, and Unanswered wrote that this record was real.

Ch. 258This One Is Real

Lin Qi and his allies investigated whether the Death Page proved that Lin Qi had died, and challenged its claim that his death was completed. The page recorded a life termination seven minutes after Lin Qi opened the Black File, leaving the question of what happened in those seven minutes unresolved.

  • Lin Qi learned that the black paper had been delivered to the Old Ship twenty-two years earlier, and Vegapunk found that its ink had been written at different times.
  • Unanswered revealed that it had begun writing a refusal when Lin Qi opened the Black File, but the file had taken away the rest of his answer.
  • Unanswered showed Lin Qi the refusals it had collected whenever the Throne deleted the fourth option, and explained that the Throne had added “completed” during the recent identity handover.
  • Lin Qi proposed that a record alone could not prove death, and Unanswered, Makino, Dragon, Akainu, and Buggy confirmed his fourth option.
  • The Throne recognized Unanswered as an independent entity that could not be forcibly returned, then revealed an older record stating that Lin Qi’s life had ended seven minutes after he opened the Black File.

Ch. 259Lin Qi Did Not Answer Yes

Lin Qi and the others traced the Death Page to the original room, where the record showed his life signs ending after seven minutes, but no answer to the Black File’s question. They blocked the Throne from forcing him to inherit a dead identity, then found an undelivered final-moment record bearing Fisher Tiger’s name.

  • Lin Qi and Vegapunk traced the Death Page through the Empty Route, and the Coaster showed Lin Qi in the original room before his life signs terminated seven minutes later.
  • Lin Qi concluded that the Throne had answered “yes” for him while he was about to answer “no,” and he recorded the original death as unverified and separate from his present identity.
  • The Throne tried to make Lin Qi inherit his legacy identity, but Lin Qi, Nami, and the others proposed preserving the original-world death and present-world life separately.
  • Unanswered, Lingering Voice, Little Patch, and Blank provided examples of distinct lives and identities, helping all five seats approve Lin Qi’s rule.
  • The Death Page disconnected from Lin Qi and withdrew into the Coaster, leaving a sealed copy without a required recipient.
  • The Empty Route returned undelivered records from people’s final moments, and the first page bore the name Fisher Tiger.

Ch. 260Death Cannot Complete the Handover

Lin Qi and the others investigated Fisher Tiger’s death report, separating his medical choice from the responsibility of those who ambushed him and blocked rescue. A mark on the undelivered record revealed that the blood prepared for him had been sent to a World Government research repository under Jinbe’s name.

  • Boa Hancock, Jinbe, and the five seats restricted access to Fisher Tiger’s records and prevented his private history from being publicly exposed.
  • Jinbe and Koala consented to verifying who issued the ambush order and falsified Fisher Tiger’s death report, with Koala’s childhood records excluded.
  • Aladdin testified that Fisher Tiger had refused a blood transfusion but had not refused other treatment, while Akainu found that the Navy had blocked evacuation routes and medical aid.
  • Lin Qi proposed separating Fisher Tiger’s medical choice from responsibility for the ambush and blockade, and Akainu, Dragon, Makino, Jinbe, and Buggy approved the revised finding.
  • The group split the old death report into three copies, and a red mark on the undelivered record led Akainu to discover that Fisher Tiger’s blood had been sent to a Shichibukai Bloodline Research Repository under Jinbe’s name.

Ch. 261The Last Words That Were Never Delivered

Lin Qi and the others traced Fisher Tiger’s blood from a forged record to a research project and discovered Kuma had secretly returned it to Fish-Man Island, where it saved twelve children. As Jinbe uncovered Fisher Tiger’s final words, a note in Arlong’s ledger linked the chapter’s revelations to Bellemere’s death.

  • Jinbe showed that the receipt for Fisher Tiger’s blood predated his Shichibukai appointment, and Akainu found a forged disposal permit used to disguise the blood as a weapon sample.
  • Vegapunk traced the sample to the Shichibukai Compatibility Project, while the record pointed toward Kuma and revealed a clause allowing samples to be transferred to someone under a Shichibukai’s protection.
  • Vegapunk found that Kuma had transferred the blood to Fish-Man Island, and Aladdin discovered Fisher Tiger had authorized its use to treat Fish-Man children before later ordering it burned.
  • Jinbe, Aladdin, and Hancock established that the blood could only be used under Fisher Tiger’s medical authorization and that the identities of those it saved must remain private; records showed it had saved twelve children, seven formerly enslaved in Mary Geoise.
  • Jinbe learned that Fisher Tiger’s obscured final words were, “Don’t tell them that human blood killed me,” and Nami found a note in Arlong’s ledger claiming Bellemere had voluntarily surrendered her right to live by refusing to pay her head tax.

Ch. 262What Did Fisher Tiger Refuse Before He Died?

Nami and the others confronted Arlong over Fisher Tiger’s final words and uncovered how Arlong and the 16th Marine Branch concealed Bellemere’s murder and taxed the dead. After the Throne ruled that Bellemere’s choice to save her daughters did not mean she surrendered her life, Nojiko found a sealed door in Bellemere’s coffin marked to open after the adopted-daughter relationship transfer was complete.

  • Nami, Jinbe, and Koala questioned Arlong about Fisher Tiger’s death, and Arlong saw the record stating that Fisher Tiger had asked them not to reveal that human blood killed him.
  • Nami confronted Arlong over his use of the same wording to describe Bellemere’s death, while Arlong accused Jinbe of abandoning him and admitted that he had paid the Marines to keep his actions in Cocoyasi Village secret.
  • Akainu revealed that Captain Nezumi and the 16th Marine Branch had falsified death records, and Nami found that Bellemere had been listed as relocated while taxes continued to be charged in her name.
  • Nami added a fourth answer to the Throne’s vote, and Makino, Akainu, Dragon, and Buggy voted that Bellemere’s sacrifice for her daughters did not give Arlong permission to kill her.
  • The Throne removed the phrase claiming Bellemere had voluntarily surrendered her life, but Nojiko found a small sealed door in Bellemere’s coffin bearing a message about the transfer of the adopted-daughter relationship.

Ch. 263Adoptive Daughter Relationships Cannot Be Transferred

Nami and Nojiko uncovered how the Marines and Enies Lobby registry had treated their relationship with Bellemere as a transferable resource, and they secured a ruling that kinship could not be reassigned. The records showed that the relationship had been reused for sixteen children, with the latest entry connected to Nico Robin.

  • Nojiko found childhood carvings beneath a Marine seal on Bellemere’s coffin, and Nami traced the seal to Captain Nezumi and the Enies Lobby population registry.
  • Arlong admitted that a Fish-Man registrar had recorded Nami and Nojiko under Bellemere’s name, while Marine records falsely listed the sisters as emigrated.
  • Nami proposed that family relationships formed through shared life and mutual acknowledgment could not be transferred, and the witnesses and representatives approved the rule.
  • Lin Qi added protections for children whose identities had relied on reassigned relationships, requiring independent identities before those links were removed.
  • Nojiko and Nami found cloth strips bearing their names and other children’s numbers; Robin counted sixteen children whose records had used the two relationships.
  • Robin discovered that the latest relationship entry named Nico Robin as its current subject.

Ch. 264Bellemere Did Not Adopt Robin

Robin and Nami uncovered how the World Government misused Bellemere’s guardianship record to pursue Robin and voted to preserve the evidence without defining them as mother and daughter. The decision revealed that Nico Olvia had voluntarily relinquished guardianship, leaving Robin’s original family record unresolved.

  • Robin asked Nami to remove Bellemere’s family designation, and the Throne revealed that officials had invoked the relationship to investigate Robin and her associates.
  • Akainu found records showing that Arlong’s denial prevented an earlier search of Cocoyasi Village, while the World Government later used the relationship to investigate Robin again.
  • Robin requested that the invocation records remain as evidence while the guardianship designation was removed, and Luffy insisted that the records preserve Robin’s existence and past harms.
  • Nami found Bellemere’s undelivered statement in the village register, and she and Robin submitted their positions on the misuse of the relationship.
  • The five seats approved the change, and Robin’s number revealed an Ohara archive record naming Nico Olvia as the person who had voluntarily relinquished guardianship.

Ch. 265A Mother's Departure Does Not Mean Abandonment

Robin and the others exposed how Enies Lobby falsified Olvia’s records to make her appear to have abandoned her daughter, and Robin’s mother-daughter relationship was restored. The Throne then revealed a new record naming Saul as Robin’s temporary guardian and assigning her responsibility for his death.

  • Robin and Akainu examined Olvia’s sailing permit and letters, discovering that Enies Lobby added a custody-relinquishment clause and confiscated the money she sent Robin.
  • Kuzan showed that Spandine had turned Olvia’s refusal to answer questions into evidence of abandonment, while the original question had asked her to choose between her beliefs and Robin’s survival.
  • Robin proposed that refusing to choose between beliefs and a child did not constitute abandonment, and the votes invalidated the falsified record without tying her family relationship to Ohara’s archaeology charges.
  • The Throne restored Robin’s relationship with Olvia and returned the record of Olvia’s earnings, including an undelivered envelope that Robin chose to read later.
  • The Throne resumed searching for Ohara’s relatives and listed Saul as Robin’s temporary guardian while assigning Robin responsibility for his death; Kuzan told her to ask him about it.

Ch. 266Saul Did Not Die for Robin

Robin confronted Kuzan over the Navy record that blamed her for Saul’s death, and the group established that Saul’s death had never been confirmed. A record revealed that Saul had been alive near Elbaf six years after Ohara’s destruction and had asked Kuzan not to seek him until Robin wanted to find him.

  • Robin reviewed Navy files showing that Saul’s death had been used to blame her and justify the dangers she faced after Ohara.
  • Akainu challenged the death report because no body had been recovered, and Kuzan admitted he had not checked Saul’s body before leaving Ohara.
  • Kuzan’s recovered footage showed that he had left Saul an escape route beneath the ice, while he also helped Robin escape.
  • Robin rejected responsibility for Saul’s choices, and the Navy, Revolutionary Army, and Civilian Witness Seat approved her answer.
  • The death verification began, listing Saul’s body and time of death as unconfirmed and noting a life record near Elbaf six years after Ohara’s destruction.
  • Kuzan revealed Saul’s message asking him not to come looking until Robin wanted to find him, and laughter echoed from Ohara’s old archives.

Ch. 267Laughter Has No Date of Death

Robin and the others uncovered evidence that Jaguar D. Saul survived Ohara’s destruction and challenged the false death record without tying his survival to charges against Robin. Saul’s status changed to missing, and a recent shipping date and Elbaf port number pointed toward a chance to find him and the books he rescued.

  • Robin, Kuzan, and Akainu traced Saul’s laughter recordings and found evidence that he survived Ohara and was alive at least six years later.
  • Robin learned that Saul may have taken Ohara’s books aboard a giant ship pursued by the Navy, while the Throne tried to keep his death ruling in place and threaten Robin with new charges.
  • Robin asked for Saul’s survival and the fate of Ohara’s books to be judged separately, and the five seats approved a ruling that changed Saul’s status to missing and added no charges to Robin’s bounty.
  • A new investigation opened into the destruction of Ohara’s books as Dragon and Akainu argued over the case and the massacre of civilians.
  • The note revealed Saul’s loading manifest for hundreds of crates of books and Dr. Clover’s research, along with a reminder to ask Robin about her friends and a seed bearing an Elbaf port number and a shipping date from three days earlier.

Ch. 268Ohara's Books Are Still Being Moved

Robin and the others learned that a giant who may have been Saul had helped move Ohara’s books in Elbaf, while the Throne tracked the books and proposed destroying them. The Navy, Revolutionary Army, civilian, and pirate representatives blocked destruction and forced recovery, then a new Ohara record revealed an evacuation ship and a death record issued by Sakazuki.

  • Robin sent the old port number to the Revolutionary Army, and Shanks said an unnamed giant with an injured left arm had helped move Ohara’s books in Elbaf three days earlier.
  • Shanks said the giant had asked whether Robin had friends and whether Luffy was with her, leading Robin to decide she would confirm the giant’s identity in person.
  • The Throne traced the books through the old port number and proposed naval bombardment, recovery by the Holy Knights, or Robin’s public execution.
  • Robin proposed protecting the transfer without revealing the books’ location or the movers’ identities, and Kuzan persuaded Akainu to prohibit destruction and forced recovery.
  • Robin found a library borrowing card from her childhood with Dr. Clover’s note, and the Throne’s tracking line disconnected from the port number.
  • Lin Qi’s computer opened another undelivered Ohara record showing a burning evacuation ship carrying 279 civilians and a death record issued by Sakazuki.

Ch. 269There Were No Scholars on the Evacuation Ship

Akainu reviewed the evidence behind the Ohara evacuation ship’s sinking and agreed that the known records showed no scholars aboard, while accepting responsibility for the order. The ship’s final recording revealed that a child survived in a water barrel and was taken to Enies Lobby, where an adult woman finally learned that the ship had been found.

  • Akainu admitted ordering the bombardment, and Robin’s cross-check of Ohara’s records showed that all eighty-five scholars were accounted for elsewhere.
  • Akainu said he would seek to overturn the finding of military necessity and investigate the bombardment’s chain of command, while Dragon challenged his decision to place the risk on civilians.
  • Mo'er listened as the number of people pounding on the cabin door fell from 279 to seven, and Akainu found the record of a Marine punished for preserving the sounds.
  • Akainu posted a review stating that no known scholars or evidence of unregistered scholars had been found aboard the ship, but the Throne rejected the child’s unconfirmed death status.
  • Robin recognized Kuzan in the recording as the person who guided the child’s water barrel away from the gunfire, and Akainu found that the girl had been taken to an Enies Lobby witness training institute.
  • An adult woman in a windowless room looked at Lin Qi’s screen and said they had finally found the ship.

Ch. 270The One Who Survived

Robin and the others uncovered that Mira had been forced to give false testimony about Robin and was being held in a hidden facility beneath Impel Down. Mira’s connection to the Rumbar Pirates revealed that the room next to hers held survivors or remnants of their crew, and the Throne announced a cleanup as the voices called Laboon’s name.

  • Mira confirmed that Enies Lobby had coerced her into falsely claiming Robin escaped aboard the evacuation ship, and Unanswered revealed that she had denied the story 417 times.
  • Mira chose to withdraw her testimony despite the Throne threatening to cut off her food, and Chopper warned that she was malnourished and needed medical care.
  • Nami traced Mira’s food conveyor to an unregistered facility beneath Impel Down, where Mira said she heard someone singing Binks’ Sake behind a wall.
  • Brook recognized the song and learned the unseen singer knew Laboon and had a message for him: the Rumbar Pirates did not blame Brook for living too long.
  • The wall revealed a Rumbar Pirates’ infirmary insignia as the people behind it knocked out fifty responses, then one fewer twice; the Throne announced a joint cleanup, and a voice repeated Laboon’s name.

Ch. 271Don't Take the Singer Away

Brook and the others discovered that the man trapped behind Mira’s wall was Yorki, the former captain of the Rumbar Pirates, who had been quarantined and kept alive for decades. As water rose around him, Yorki explained that he never returned because he had been told the crew was dead.

  • Brook recognized that the man behind the wall knew the Rumbar Pirates’ song and remembered their old grievances.
  • Chopper assessed the man’s symptoms, and Lin Qi’s new option to preserve his oxygen and supplies was approved by the witnesses.
  • Nami revealed that opening the door would flood Mira’s room too, and Mira realized the man had warned her because he could not swim.
  • Brook and the man recalled how Yorki had left the ship with eleven sick crew members to keep the rest from being infected.
  • Vegapunk restored the erased record identifying the quarantined man as Yorki, and Yorki said he had stayed away because he was told the Rumbar Pirates were all dead.

Ch. 272The Man Who Left the Ship Did Not Betray Them

Brook and the others uncovered how Yorki had been falsely branded a traitor after leaving the Rumbar Pirates to seek medical treatment. The ruling cleared Yorki of betrayal, but a new order restored his pirate sentence and marked him for disposal at Impel Down.

  • Yorki told Brook to get Mira out before the wall collapsed, while records revealed that the World Government had collected the Rumbar Pirates’ voices before their deaths.
  • Vegapunk explained that Yorki’s oxygen depended on a manual valve, and Buggy identified an abandoned delivery track at Impel Down that could help reach it.
  • Brook found the official finding that Yorki had betrayed the crew, and the appeal process let Yorki write that he had left because he feared the others would fall ill and wanted to find a doctor.
  • The Five-Party Seats ruled that Yorki’s departure was not betrayal and that the crew’s later deaths were not his responsibility; the recordings of the forty-eight dead pirates then played.
  • Yorki urged Brook to return to Laboon and demanded that the door be opened, but a new order restored Yorki’s pirate status and sentenced him to Impel Down’s undersea incineration chamber.

Ch. 273The Promise Still Stands

The World Government tried to void the Rumbar Pirates’ promise to Laboon while Yorki remained trapped in an isolation station, but the crew challenged the ruling and Laboon affirmed that the promise still stood. The rescue cart reached Mira with a fifty-year-old medical chest, revealing that Yorki’s illness had long been confirmed as noncontagious.

  • Magellan and the others found that Yorki had spent fifty years manually draining water from forty-eight rooms, while the Throne refused to withdraw the cleanup order.
  • Yorki explained that the Rumbar Pirates had rescued seventeen enslaved people marked by Celestial Dragons, and Akainu suspended the related charge pending Navy review.
  • Brook played a beat for Yorki to pump to as Mira counted along, while Crocus revealed that Laboon had spent years ramming the Red Line after false reports said the crew had abandoned him.
  • The Throne declared the promise void, but Lin Qi proposed that a promise remained valid as long as those involved wished to fulfill it, and Brook, Yorki, and Laboon confirmed the option.
  • Laboon turned away from the Red Line and called toward Twin Cape as the drainage pump and the forty-eight compartments responded; the food cart reached Mira carrying a medical chest marked with confirmation that Yorki’s illness was noncontagious.

Ch. 274The Captain's Illness Isn't Contagious

Chopper and the others uncovered proof that Yorki’s quarantine had been unnecessary and that the Throne had concealed the truth to keep him detained for his knowledge of a Calm Belt route. Mira withdrew her false testimony and escaped with the unsent letters, while the group discovered that Yorki was imprisoned aboard the Rumbar Pirates’ old plague ship beneath Impel Down.

  • Chopper found a quarantine report confirming Yorki’s illness was not contagious, and Crocus began assessing the damage caused by years of inadequate treatment.
  • Mira discovered Yorki’s unsent letters to Laboon and learned he had stopped writing after receiving the Rumbar Pirates’ death records.
  • Robin, Hancock, Dragon, and Akainu preserved the report as evidence, while the Throne tried to reclaim it and Buggy jammed the cart track.
  • Mira chose to send Yorki’s letters instead of riding the food cart, then withdrew her false testimony about Nico Robin and surrendered her identity tag.
  • Mira escaped in the dining car with the medical kit, and Vegapunk traced the singing to a ship beneath Impel Down identified as the Rumbar Pirates’ plague ship.

Ch. 275Mira Goes Out First

Mira escaped the abandoned track aboard the dining car and was brought to safety at Impel Down, where she received medical protection and learned her old adoption records were still waiting for her. A tag in her medical kit revealed that Yorki had been detained because he witnessed children being transported on the Return Ship, and he said they were sent to Reverse Mountain to wait for pirates to fulfill their promises.

  • Vegapunk and Yorki guided the others in cutting an old hemp anchor rope, while Buggy risked his hand to sever it and Yorki used Brook’s music to move the Old Ship clear of the track.
  • Mira’s dining car passed through the bottleneck and emerged into Impel Down, where Magellan and Chopper helped her leave it at her own pace.
  • Mira met Robin, handed the medical kit to a doctor, and received a temporary protection order that prevented her testimony from affecting her food or treatment.
  • Robin told Mira that the merchant couple’s daughter had sent twenty-two letters searching for her, but Mira asked to wait before contacting her.
  • A tag in the medical kit showed Yorki had been detained because he saw children aboard the Return Ship, and Yorki told Mo'er and Lin Qi that the children had been sent to Reverse Mountain to await pirates.
Arc 11 of 14
Arc 11 of 14