Cutty Flam

Residents scatter, convinced Tom has gone berserk, while the shipwright understands the World Government has framed him and that his end has come. Certain the boy must resent him for what those ships were forced to do, Tom strikes Spandam, and marines open fire. The pellets prove to be tranquilizers; he drops to his knees yet stays conscious. As the crowd brands him violent, Cutty Flam shouts back at them only to be cut off when Tom confesses to that day's attack himself, stunning everyone, the boy most of all. He then asks the judge for a favor, which Spandam tries and fails to suppress.

Tom requests that if finishing the railway can erase one crime, it wipe away this day's events rather than his older offenses. Reminded that the slate would revert to twelve years earlier, he answers simply that lending his strength to Gol D. Roger remains a point of pride. The crowd hurls insults he no longer cares to hear. He urges the distraught Cutty Flam not to punish himself, explaining that the trouble flows from his old ties to Roger and not from the blueprints, and that, having revived the island as he always dreamed, he collapses.

While Spandam demands every prisoner be seized, the judge rules that Tom alone will be taken, charged with constructing Roger's ship, and Spandam agrees since Tom is all he wants. The workers weep, Kokoro explaining that their leader is beyond saving and that no one has ever come back from the judgment island of Enies Lobby. When Spandam keeps taunting Tom, Cutty Flam can bear no more and shatters his face with a gun before turning, berserk, on the marines cleared to shoot. The railway then pulls out of Water 7 with Spandam aboard, vowing to come back later and seize the boy who slipped the marines. Word arrives that Cutty Flam now stands on the tracks bearing a weapon, with Yokozuna watching from a boat beside the rails.

Ordered to run him down, Cutty Flam fires cannons at the Puffing Tom without slowing it, then casts the weapon aside and resolves to halt the train by his own strength, recalling how Tom once welcomed a thrown-away castaway without a second's hesitation. Tears in his eyes, he braces as the train reaches him, swearing that never again will he craft vessels capable of wounding the people dear to him, though he still hopes to keep learning from Tom; the train flings him skyward at full force as he clings to his dream of one day crafting a ship able to sail to the world's edge. The cover is a color spread placing the crew in modern clothes on a long couch beside a giraffe horrified by Nami's Giraffe Fur book. The chapter establishes that Tom got Iceburg's and Franky's charges dropped, that the Sea Train struck Franky as he attempted to halt it, that Yokozuna's later habit of charging the train mirrors what he saw, and that Franky dreams of building a ship that can reach the end of the world. It is part of the Water 7 Arc.