Departing Soon

At the mouth of Blue Station, Robin arrives and Corgi, savoring the surrender of the woman he chased for so long, tells her to board ahead of the rest. Watching from afar, Sanji observes that she carries herself like a captive even though slipping away would be effortless, which means she is either pursuing something or holding to a reason for staying. His train of thought snaps when CP9 turns up carrying Usopp and Franky, and he reflects that the sniper, for all his vow to quit causing them grief, plainly still is. Inside the Galley-La building, a roused Chopper is overjoyed to learn Robin never betrayed them, amazing the crowd as he switches forms, until Iceburg breaks in to explain that the agents are almost certainly making for Blue Station to catch the final railway, the lone safe route with Aqua Laguna nearly upon them.

Iceburg warns that only half an hour remains before the train pulls out, and that it cannot be held back. Nami chooses to make for the station on her own while Chopper hunts down the absent Luffy and Zoro.

A newly awakened Paulie stuns his fellow shipwrights with a demand that they help the crew, explaining that the Straw Hats were framed and that they pulled him and Iceburg clear of the real assassins despite carrying the blame. To shield the Galley-La name, he claims the two agents went back to the islands where they were born and are unlikely to ever show up again, and when the others balk, he barks at them to remember the company's reputation before they agree to take his word; he then sets off to lead Nami to the station, telling Iceburg he did not want them feeling what he once felt. Chopper and a host of shipwrights tear through the city searching for the four missing crewmen. With twenty minutes left, Paulie guides Nami along a shortcut while Robin sits lost in thought aboard one car and Usopp and Franky, bound, are tossed into another. Sanji catches word the train will leave earlier than planned and slips inside.

As CP9 starts to ease up at the thought of the mission ending, Iceburg, seated with Tyrannosaurus, frets over whether Franky is still all right while the search for Luffy and Zoro drags on. Realizing the others cannot reach the station in time, Sanji boards, and the two stragglers stay stuck somewhere in lower Water 7, Luffy wedged between two buildings and Zoro caught in a chimney. The chapter establishes that Robin, Franky, and Usopp ride the Enies Lobby-bound train leaving in thirty minutes, that Nami tells Chopper of Robin's true aims, and that Paulie clears the crew while lying to the shipwrights about the two agents. Its cover continues the Goldenweek side story, with a surviving Miss Goldenweek still living on Little Garden and even receiving News Coo service. The chapter is part of the Water 7 Arc.