Arc 9The Echo Cup Rescue
Lin Qi and the witnesses uncovered the East Blue attendants hidden in tax ledgers and cup-voice systems, then traced the cries to an Echo Cup beneath Makino’s Tavern. The arc ended with A Hui freed, Mo’er’s trapped words released across the world, and their long-awaited reunion beginning.
- Lin Qi and the five seats protected the former attendants’ names and rescued Naji from the Old Holy Land medical cabinet, exposing Number Three and a second list of attendants scattered across the world.
- Nami and the witnesses investigated Cocoyasi and Loguetown, where they found children hidden in tax records, a floating crate, and an Empty Household storage room controlled by East Tax Nine.
- The group uncovered the General Cup Rack beneath Loguetown and found that East Tax Eight had hidden an unnumbered child at its center, who eventually expressed fear and asked that East Tax Nine stay away.
- The witnesses protected the child’s voice and mapped Cup Shadows leading from Loguetown to Foosha Village, where Makino and Lin Qi found a person trapped behind the Tavern basement door.
- Lin Qi and the others learned that the trapped person was A Hui, that Mo’er had hidden his voice in an Inverted Cup below the Tavern, and that the Monkey Family’s witness mark could not authorize a takeover.
- Lin Qi and the witnesses arranged receiving stations for 1,762 trapped voices, and Mo’er revealed that A Hui would serve as the final receiving point when the Inverted Cup opened.
- Makino, the Old Carpenter, and Vegapunk freed A Hui’s locks, and Lin Qi opened the Inverted Cup, releasing Mo’er’s trapped words across the world.
- A Hui descended the stairs as Mo’er apologized for keeping him there, and A Hui received the apology as the echo lines came loose.