Bingo

Back at Galley-La headquarters, Franky is being dragged away by CP9. Usopp cries out in panic, "AH...!!" and someone shouts, "AH---!!! THEY'VE BEATEN HIM...!" Franky, beaten and bound, is still conscious enough to react, "...!!! OW...!!!" CP9 explains the situation with cold practicality: "SO BASICALLY, YOU'VE QUIT BEING A STRAW-HAT... BUT HAVEN'T QUIT BEING A PIRATE." The conclusion is simple: "WELL TAKE YOU WITH US ANYHOW." Usopp is no longer a Straw Hat in name, but CP9 still treats him as a pirate connected to the crew. The page shows how little their categories care about personal conflict: whether Usopp has left the crew or not, he remains useful leverage in the same operation that has taken Franky.

CP9 begins moving out. Kalifa asks about the ship, and the answer is clean and final: "YES, KARIFA. AND THIS SHIP HASN'T BEEN TAKEN CARE OF YET..." Usopp struggles against the capture and shouts, "HEY!!! ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!?" When one of the agents snaps a line and prepares to move, Usopp cries, "HEY YOU...!!! DON'T YOU TOUCH THAT!!!" and then panics harder: "WAIT!!! DON'T YOU DARE!!! HEY!!!" The agents dismiss his plea. One says, "IF I MAY HAVE BEEN A DISGUISE, BUT WE WERE RESPECTABLE SHIPWRIGHTS." Another cuts off the argument: "SO WHAT, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE! IT'S NOT YOUR SHIP!!!" Usopp protests, "I CAN... LET THE WATER OUT WITH THIS," but he is told, "YOU SHOULD LISTEN WHEN YOU'RE TOLD SOMETHING IS OF NO USE." The Going Merry is treated as trash, and Usopp is forced to watch.

The Going Merry is pushed out into the rising water while Usopp screams, "STOP!!!!" The battered ship slides away from the headquarters, and the wind and sea take it from the place where it had been left behind. Usopp's mouth opens in horror, the ship's sheep figurehead stares ahead, and the hull disappears into the violent current. Then the page shifts to a wider view of the city and the waterway, where a small but impossible movement begins: Merry drifts through Water Seven on its own. The action is wordless except for Usopp's cry, but the meaning is enormous. The ship that should have been useless and abandoned is now moving toward the people who still need it.

The Going Merry rides through the flooded city, pushed by the water and wind as if answering the disaster itself. Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Chopper, Paulie, Iceburg, and the workers stare in shock. Someone calls out the ship's name: "MERRY~~~!!!" The impossible sight cuts through the chaos: Merry has reached them at Galley-La headquarters just when the fire, the flood, and CP9's escape have left everyone scattered. The page keeps the moment almost silent, letting the image carry the shock. This is not just a ship drifting by chance; it is the emotional return of a companion the Straw Hats had already been forced to abandon.

At Galley-La Company headquarters, the workers celebrate that Iceburg survived. "ICE-BURG-SAN'S AWAKE!!!" someone shouts, and the crowd erupts: "WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'RE OK!!!" and "THAT'S GOOD!!!" Iceburg lies injured but conscious. When the girl is mentioned, someone asks, "HEY, THE GIRL WOKE UP!" and another voice asks, "WH... WHAT DO WE DO? DO YOU WANT TO MAKE HER TELL US WHERE STRAWHAT IS!?" Iceburg stops that suspicion and says, "IT WAS BECAUSE OF THAT REINDEER." He corrects the crowd's fear: "BUT IT'S THE STRAWHATS' PET..." The page reorients the people around the Straw Hats. The supposed enemies have just saved Iceburg, and Chopper's rescue forces the Galley-La workers to reconsider what they think they know.

Iceburg begins moving despite his injuries, and someone warns, "AH!! ...HEY, ICEBURG-SAN!! DON'T MOVE YET...!!" The Straw Hats and workers gather around him in stunned silence. Iceburg asks the others, "...WOULD YOU GUYS PLEASE LEAVE FOR A WHILE?" Then he looks to Nami and says, "I'D LIKE TO TALK TO HER ... ALONE ..." Nami is uncertain: ".....?" The crowd wonders, "I WONDER WHAT'S UP?" and someone answers, "DUNNO." When they are alone, Iceburg begins with an apology: "FIRST... NMA... I'M SORRY ... I ACCUSED YOU OF A HORRIBLE CRIME." He promises, "I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT SOMEHOW, LATER..." The conversation shifts from public rescue to the hidden truth behind Robin's disappearance.

Iceburg turns the conversation to Nico Robin. Nami reacts, "IT'S ABOUT NICO ROBIN ... DO YOU KNOW SOME-THING?" Iceburg asks, "DID HER ATTITUDE CHANGE ... WHEN YOU CAME TO THIS TOWN?" Nami remembers Robin's sudden disappearance: "YES, VERY SUDDENLY...!! SHE DISAPPEARED WHEN WE GOT HERE... AND THEN THIS MORNING... SHE WAS YOUR ATTEMPTED ASSASSIN. WHEN MY FRIENDS FINALLY FOUND HER... SHE SAID SHE WASN'T COMING BACK." Iceburg asks why they came despite that: "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. SO WE CAME HERE ... TO ASK ROBIN WHY SHE HAD TO LEAVE THE SHIP!!" Nami reveals the heart of it: Robin had "A WISH THAT WON'T BE GRANTED" and said, "TO MAKE MY WISH COME TRUE ... IF I STAY WITH YOU!!!"

Iceburg asks directly, "WHAT'S THE WISH THAT WON'T BE GRANTED IF SHE STAYS WITH US?" Nami can only say, "I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW..." She pieces together the timing: "I THINK IT WAS AROUND THE TIME WHEN YOU FIRST CAME TO THE TOWN... THAT THE GOVERN-MENT'S PLAN STARTED ..." Iceburg listens as the connection becomes clear. The Government found Robin in the bedroom, and the voice from the Den Den Mushi reports, "WE'VE ENCOUNTERED A WOMAN IN THE PLANNING ROOM NEAR TO THE BEDROOM." Someone asks, "THE WORLD ...!?" The page links Robin's disappearance, the CP9 operation, and the Government's hunt for the Pluton blueprints into one chain. Nami is no longer defending Robin from instinct alone; she is beginning to understand the machinery that cornered her.

Nami and Iceburg confront the question that has haunted Water Seven: "DON'T YOU GET IT, NICO ROBIN? THE BLUEPRINT YOU GUYS WERE AFTER ... WAS A FAKE." Robin answers with a deeper refusal: "I WON'T HAND THE BLUEPRINT OVER, EVEN IF IT MEANS MY LIFE!!" She explains that she is not after the weapon itself: "I'M NOT LOOKING FOR THE PONEGLYPH IN ORDER TO RESURRECT THE ANCIENT WEAPON!! I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE HISTORY." She warns, "I HAVE TO STOP YOU IF YOU PLAN TO CONTINUE YOUR SEARCH FOR THE PONEGLYPH... AND LEND YOUR ASSISTANCE TO THE GOVERNMENT!!!" Nami protests, "THERE'S NO USE IN SAYING THAT!" The page defines the conflict: Robin's knowledge is real, but her goal is history, while the World Government treats even that pursuit as a weapon-level threat.

Iceburg remembers challenging Robin on the danger of her knowledge. He says, "A THING THAT CAN HURT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT HAVE EVIL INTEN-TIONS!!! IF YOUR INTEREST IN HISTORY MIGHT DESTROY THE WORLD ... THEN YOU SHOULD DIE RIGHT NOW, NICO ROBIN!!!" Robin's eye narrows as the argument cuts into her past. Iceburg asks, "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT OHARA!!!?" Robin answers from the pain of the only survivors: "YOU STILL WISH TO CHASE THE HISTORY ... AFTER WITNESSING WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 'OHARA DEVILS'..." Iceburg asks, "IF YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH!!!? THEN WHY ARE YOU HELPING THEM... BECAUSE OF THE WORLD GOVERN-MENT!!!!" The scene makes Robin's situation brutal: she is hated for what she knows, hunted for where she came from, and cornered by the very power that destroyed Ohara.

Robin explains the bargain CP9 forced on her. She says she arranged for the assassination blame to fall on the Straw Hats because she wanted her wish granted: "BECAUSE I WANT MY WISH TO BE GRANTED, EVEN IF I HAVE TO THROW EVERYTHING AWAY FOR IT." CP9 gave her two conditions. "FIRST, TO ARRANGE FOR THE ASSASSINA-TION TO BE BLAMED ON THEM... THEN, I AM TO GIVE MYSELF OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT AND OBEY THEM." Nami hears the true threat behind it. CP9 has permission "TO PUT THE 'BUSTER CALL' IN MOTION... AGAINST THE STRAWHATS, BUT ONLY JUST THIS ONCE." Iceburg asks, "BUSTER CALL?" Robin explains, "IT'S AN EMERGENCY ORDER THAT SUMMONS 5 LIEUTENANT GENERALS FROM THE NAVY HEADQUARTERS AND 10 WARSHIPS." Once the target becomes an enemy of a military power, "THERE'S NOTHING MORE YOU CAN DO."

Robin clarifies why the threat is absolute. The Buster Call "USED TO BE THAT ONLY THE 3 GENERALS AND THE TOP ADMIRALS COULD USE IT," but CP9 can do it once "THROUGH GENERAL AOKIJI." She says, "IF I HADN'T AGREED, WE WOULD GET THE BUSTER CALL. WHEN I HEARD AOKIJI'S NAME I GAVE UP." She admits, "THE REASON I WAS ABLE TO RUN FROM ANY SITUATION IN THE LAST 20 YEARS... WAS BECAUSE I HAD NOTHING TO PROTECT. I WAS ABLE TO USE PEOPLE AS SHIELDS." But now the Straw Hats have changed that. Robin says, "BUT RIGHT NOW ... I CAN'T DO THAT...!!!!" The page shows Nami receiving the truth: Robin did not betray them because she stopped caring, but because for the first time she had people she could not sacrifice.

Robin gives her wish in full. "...THEN YOUR 'WISH' IS...!!" Iceburg realizes. Robin says, "I HAVE SHIPMATES WHO BELIEVE IN ME... AND WHEN I LOST SAVED ME, HEART... THEY'D THROW AWAY MY LIFE...!!" Her words are damaged by emotion, but the meaning is clear: her companions would risk everything for her. She states it directly: "MY WISH ... IS FOR THE 6 STRAW-HATS, EXCLUD-ING ME, TO GET OFF THIS ISLAND SAFELY." Iceburg asks, "AND THE WORLD WERE TO BE DESTROYED!!? YOU WOULDN'T CARE IF YOU HAD TO RESURRECT THE WEAPON." Robin answers, "I DON'T CARE." The page is harsh because Robin chooses her friends over the world's abstract safety. She is not seeking Pluton, but she is willing to accept any accusation if it keeps the others alive.

Iceburg understands the cruelty of Robin's choice. He says, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!!! I COULDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER." Then he thinks through what she has done: "OF ALL THINGS SHE CHOSE YOU 6... OVER THE LIVES ... OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. FOR US ..." Nami realizes the same truth. Robin chose the Straw Hats and accepted the burden of being hated, hunted, and taken away. Iceburg adds that even when he has the blueprint taken, "I'VE GOT NO RIGHT TO BLAME HER...!!!" because the decision came from the impossible position forced on her. The page reframes Robin's disappearance as an act of protection. She gave herself to CP9 not because she abandoned the crew, but because she decided their lives mattered more than her own freedom or reputation.

Nami breaks down with relief, not betrayal. She collapses and says, "I'M SO GLAD ... SO ROBIN ... DIDN'T BETRAY US .....!!!" Iceburg is startled: "HEY, WHAT'S WRONG!!?" Nami cries in the grass while the realization settles. She thanks him through tears: "THANK YOU, ICE-BURG-SAN!!" and declares, "I HAVE TO TELL EVERY-ONE!!" Iceburg, still wounded, can only watch her go. Nami shouts to the others, "WAIT!! STRAWHAT AND THE OTHERS ARE ALL DONE FOR! WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO AFTER ALL THIS!!?" The page turns information into action. Robin's secret sacrifice is now something the crew must learn, because their next move depends on understanding that she protected them rather than rejected them.

Nami runs back to the others with new certainty. Iceburg asks, "AFTER ALL THIS?" She answers, "YOU MEAN 'FROM NOW ON'!!!" and then declares, "WE'RE GOING TO GET ROBIN BACK!!!" Someone warns that everyone becomes weak when they are undecided, but Nami has already found the decision. She says, "LUFFY'S OK, HE WON'T DIE FROM JUST THAT!" and then, thinking of the crew, "THEIR STRENGTH WILL HAVE NO LIMIT!!! WHEN THEY FIND OUT THAT THEY CAN SAVE HER..." The surrounding workers call for Chopper: "CHOPPER, WAKE UP!! WE HAVE TO LOOK FOR EVERYONE!!!" and "HEY, HEY, SISTER, SISTER, HE'S IN VERY BAD CONDITION!!" but Nami's hope has already reignited. The chapter pivots from despair to rescue.

The news spreads to the scattered Straw Hats. Someone asks, "TELL THEM WHAT HAPPENED." Sanji says, "WHEN YOU MEET UP WITH LUFFY!!" Nami answers from the edge of the battlefield, "I'LL BE DOING SOME-THING ELSE... DON'T WORRY, I WON'T PUSH MYSELF." Chopper remembers something important, and Sanji asks, "WHAT ABOUT YOU, SANJI?" The scene cuts to Sanji standing alone, looking toward the next move. He says, "DOES ROBIN... HATE US NOW..." then corrects the emotional question with his own code: "A WOMAN'S LIES... FORGIVES ..." His meaning is that Robin's lie should be forgiven because it came from pain and protection. Sanji accepts the truth Nami uncovered without needing Robin to explain herself directly.

At Water Seven Blue Station, the flood level has changed the way people board trains. The station sign reads "WATER SEVEN BLUE STATION," and an announcement says, "DUE TO THE RISING WATER LEVEL, PLEASE ENTER THE SHIP FROM ITS SECOND FLOOR." Another notice announces, "LAST TRAIN FOR ENIES LOBBY WILL DEPART AT 11:00 P.M." A cloaked Robin stands among officials and passengers, hidden under a hood and moving toward the train that will carry her away. She watches quietly, then lights a cigarette with a small "PSHHT." At last she says the chapter title aloud: "BINGO ..." Robin has found the exact route she needs to leave Water Seven for Enies Lobby, believing this path will keep the Straw Hats alive.

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