Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Straw Hat Pirates and their allies ended the Throne’s false verification of Laboon’s promise and arranged to free Yorki from the Old Ship. As the rescue began, a hidden iron box beneath Yorki’s cabin revealed the children he had failed to save might have been there all along.

• Yorki and Robin’s records showed that Laboon had never accepted a substitute, and the Five-Party Seats approved findings that closed the fifty-year observation project.
• Dragon traced the three children Yorki had rescued, learning that one died while the other two survived and left descendants; Yorki’s records were added to the victims’ Protection Page.
• The allies devised a plan to lift the damaged Old Ship, and Yorki refused to let Brook carry all forty-eight death records, which were transferred to several groups according to the records’ wishes.
• The ship’s doctor’s record chose Yorki and revealed it had traded his liquor for medicine; Mira then learned Yorki had brought her meals through the ship’s hidden delivery mechanism.
• After the third anchor chain was cut, the delivery plank broke and exposed a black iron box beneath Yorki’s cabin, from which the sound of children knocking emerged.

Yorki and the others freed the children’s records from the Return Voyage Project and ended his unlawful fifty-year detention. As the rescue team carried him out, Yorki reunited with Laboon by Den Den Mushi and set off for Twin Cape.

• Yorki answered the iron box’s questions while Lin Qi, Robin, and the others separated the children’s records from the project and gave them temporary identities.
• The children’s voices chose new destinations, and the group exposed the order that had kept Yorki imprisoned without trial or release.
• Akainu and Magellan rejected the detention order, the enforcement channels failed, and the rescue team entered the Old Ship.
• Yorki accepted a stretcher after trying to walk, while Akainu said his remaining charges would be reviewed after treatment.
• The Whitebeard Pirates arranged a medical ship, the Kuja offered an escort, and Yorki agreed to go to Twin Cape.
• Yorki spoke to Laboon, who stopped ramming the Red Line, and the marks on the wall recorded that Yorki was going back that day.

Yorki and Franky uncovered evidence that Tom may have survived his death sentence and been held at a secret shipyard beneath Enies Lobby. They located a hidden stop on the Sea Train route and learned that medicine for Tom had been requested three days earlier.

• Yorki stopped the rescuers from lifting the Old Ship farther, and Franky identified problems with its repairs before admitting that Tom had been his master.
• Franky, Robin, and Iceburg found a copper plate linking Tom's Workers to the Sea Train and learned that records did not confirm Tom's execution or even show him boarding the transport.
• The records showed that Enies Lobby added Tom's death handover ten years after his sentencing and that the World Government had requested medicine for a Fish-Man chief shipwright convict each year.
• Iceburg found an old Sea Train log describing a stop on an abandoned branch line, and a fish scale helped identify the hidden shipyard as a place beneath Enies Lobby marked with Tom's name.
• Akainu confirmed that the most recent request for the medicine had been made three days earlier.

Franky and the others discovered that Tom was being held in a hidden shipyard beneath Enies Lobby and used the Sea Train tracks to make contact with him. Tom responded to Franky and Iceburg, and the group found the sealed entrance, where an execution order threatened to transfer Tom’s charges to Franky if he came to rescue him.

• Franky ordered the Sea Trains stopped while Iceburg, Robin, and Vegapunk uncovered evidence that Tom’s death sentence had never been properly carried out and that he was held in a secret shipyard beneath Enies Lobby.
• Akainu withdrew Marine support for the sentence, Dragon demanded disclosure of the unlawful detention, and Nami explained that the route through Enies Lobby’s waters made a rescue difficult.
• Franky arranged for an empty Sea Train to pass slowly over the shipyard, and Yorki interpreted Tom’s knocks as reports of damage to the structure beneath the tracks.
• Franky and Iceburg sent signals through a pipe, and Tom finally responded after Franky identified himself and told him Water 7 and the Sea Train had survived.
• Tom’s knocking revealed the entrance to the shipyard, where the group found a twenty-two-year-old sealed door and an order to transfer Tom’s charges to Franky if he attempted a rescue.

Franky and his allies tried to free Tom from the underwater shipyard without letting Franky take his place. They exposed how the Navy had forced Tom to power its secret transports, loosened one layer of his identity lock, and recovered messages he had hidden for years.

• Franky proposed replacing Tom, but Iceburg, Nami, and Luffy opposed the plan, so Franky devised a way to lift the shipyard instead.
• Chopper questioned Tom through knocks, and Vegapunk discovered that a chain around Tom’s waist powered the shipyard’s water gate.
• Unanswered found Tom’s labor record, which showed that he had repeatedly refused to plead guilty before the system removed that option.
• Franky, Iceburg, Robin, and Akainu learned that the Navy had used Tom to operate the water gate for secret transports and that Tom had stopped three illegal shipments.
• Lin Qi submitted rules exempting forced facility operators from transport charges and recording their efforts to stop illegal shipments, and all the seats approved them.
• One layer of Tom’s identity lock came loose, and Iceburg collected hidden messages, including Tom’s warning not to let Iceburg or Flam plead guilty.