Chapter Summaries

Garp refused to let the Throne turn his witness mark into control of the Tavern, while the village testified about Mo'er and Makino carefully opened the outer lock. The person behind the door revealed a hidden level beneath the Tavern and said Mo'er was below.

• Garp rejected the Throne's demand to confirm the old agreement, and Sengoku, Akainu, and Dragon argued that his witness mark could not authorize a takeover.
• The village's records and testimony identified Mo'er as the former Tavern proprietor and supported his role as a maintainer despite the Throne calling him a defector.
• Makino offered the person behind the door the outer-lock key, waited for permission, and opened the lock only after the person agreed.
• As the Protection List's Golden Light faded, the Navy, Revolutionary Army, Red Hair Pirates, Delivery Alliance, and village preserved its names in their own records.
• The person behind the door passed Lin Qi an Iron Plate showing another level under the Tavern and wrote that Mo'er was below.

Lin Qi and the villagers uncovered Mo'er's hidden Inverted Cup, which held the East Blue's unreported cries for help, and learned that the Throne was trying to retrieve it. As the coaster containing the hidden names caught fire, an elderly voice called A Hui away from the door he had guarded for years.

• Robin and Naji determined that Mo'er had hidden his voice in an Inverted Cup below the Tavern, while A Hui stayed behind to keep the Throne from hearing it.
• The Throne began retrieving the Inverted Cup, and Lumi listed Mo'er as a living person pending confirmation of his condition.
• Lin Qi and the villagers supported the Tavern table without touching the iron box, exposing a line of Cup Shadows that connected the hidden cries for help across the East Blue.
• East Tax Nine explained that Mo'er had concealed the cries in the Inverted Cup, and Lin Qi realized the livestream had exposed the Total Echo to the world.
• The coaster bearing Mo'er's name and the other hidden names caught fire, and an elderly voice called A Hui to stop guarding the door and come out.

Lin Qi and the others extinguished the black fire by proving the iron box had only been an unrecorded table support, but Mo'er remained trapped beneath the Inverted Cup while A Hui guarded the door. As they began removing A Hui’s Human Locks, the coaster revealed that only the Gatekeeper or the maintainer could leave when the Inverted Cup was opened.

• Lin Qi used the Tavern’s repair ledger and the villagers’ testimony to challenge the Throne’s claim of control over the iron box, causing the black fire to retreat.
• A Hui argued with Mo'er about leaving the door and learned that Mo'er wanted him to survive, while Mo'er explained that turning over the Inverted Cup would scatter the Total Echo.
• Lin Qi agreed to take A Hui below and carry the Tavern’s copy of the names, and A Hui offered his left wrist for the first Human Lock to be removed.
• Makino pried open A Hui’s left wrist lock as Akainu, Dragon, and Robin recorded the act, and the names on the coaster parted to reveal a hidden sentence.
• The coaster declared that when the Inverted Cup was opened, only the Gatekeeper or the maintainer could leave.

Lin Qi and the others organized a worldwide network of receiving points to release the 1,762 voices trapped in the Total Echo and rescue the missing. After the Sky Screen went dark, Mo'er revealed that A Hui was the final receiving point, and that A Hui would receive him.

• A Hui confronted Mo'er about making him Gatekeeper and keeping him waiting, and Mo'er admitted he had wanted to escape too.
• Lin Qi and Vegapunk worked out that replacing the Inverted Cup's living maintainer required returning the trapped echoes through the Terminal, while Nami, Robin, and the others mapped the rescue effort across the seas.
• Akainu, Dragon, Buggy, Shanks, and civilians established receiving stations and protections for the victims, as A Hui learned Mo'er had tapped four times each day and rescued children answered with the same rhythm.
• The groups counted 1,762 trapped voices and found that they still needed more than four hundred receiving points.
• Lin Qi rejected the Black Gate's warnings and allowed the Sky Screen to go dark after its authority was revoked.
• Mo'er activated the Inverted Cup and revealed that A Hui was the final receiving point, where he would receive Mo'er.

A Hui freed himself from the basement door and heard the words Mo'er had been trying to send him for years. When the Inverted Cup opened, Mo'er apologized, and A Hui received his echo as voices from across the world poured out.

• A Hui agreed to remove the locks, and Makino, Old Carpenter, and Vegapunk freed his wrists and ankles while he supported the door with a wire around his waist.
• Old Carpenter released the voice lock behind A Hui's neck, returning years of Mo'er's trapped words and daily taps to him.
• The six locks came free and the basement door swung open, revealing the narrow stairs and plank where A Hui had been confined.
• Lin Qi placed the coaster face down in the iron box and opened the Inverted Cup, sending voices across the world and filling the Tavern's blank drink menu with messages.
• A Hui went down the stairs as Mo'er confessed there had been no escape beyond the door and apologized; A Hui received the apology when the echo lines came loose.

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.