Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.