Quick answer

Chapter 1195 gives one line.

  • Where: in the hidden room behind Elbaf's Owl's Library.
  • What the owl says: long ago, a human woman called Lily — 「リリィ」 — lived on this island.
  • Robin's reaction: she repeats the name, Lily?, and the chapter moves on.

The page does not say "Nefertari."

But 「リリィ」 is spelled exactly as the series spells Nefertari D. Lili, the Arabasta queen whose name Imu reacted to. The connection is obvious, and it is still unconfirmed.

Evidence layers.

  • Chapter 1195 is PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED, read directly on Shonen Jump+.
  • Earlier chapters are CHAPTER-REFERENCED, using points that at least two independent sources agree on.
  • The link between the two Lilys is THEORY until a chapter states it.

What chapter 1195 actually says

(PRIMARY.) The scene is short.

  • Where we are. The caption places us behind the Owl's Library, in its hidden room. Saul asks whether this is really what they need right now.
  • The owl's story. The owl starts lightly: long ago… on this island lived a woman called "Lily" — a human.
  • Robin. She repeats the name.
  • The cut. The chapter cuts to the west village.

Nothing else about her is on the page:

  • no surname;
  • no date;
  • nothing about what she left;
  • no link to Arabasta or to Imu.

A note on early reports. Some English coverage, written from pre-release leaks, says chapter 1195 names "Nefertari Lili" and that she left something behind 800 years ago. That is not what the page says as we read it, and a Japanese reader's review of the released chapter agrees: it has only the name 「リリィ」. Treat "Nefertari" and "800 years" as readers' additions for now.

The setting: the box in the hidden room

(From our read of chapter 1193.) The room has a history.

  • The hidden room. Chapter 1193 opens a hidden room behind the Owl's Library.
  • The box. Inside is a box holding a letter and a tool, handed down through the generations. The instruction to open it traces back to Biblo's grandfather.
  • The timing. Chopper relays that it has to be opened now, during the battle, not after the fighting.

We covered that chapter in the Owl's Library hidden room. 1195 does not show what is in the box. The Lily line comes as the owl begins to explain, and the chapter cuts away.

What the series has shown about Nefertari D. Lili

(CHAPTER-REFERENCED.)

Chapter 1084 — the first time she is named. At Mary Geoise, King Cobra tells the Five Elders what he has found:

  • The founders. Twenty monarchs founded the World Government, but Queen Nefertari Lili of Arabasta did not move to the Holy Land. That is why nineteen weapons, not twenty, stand before the Empty Throne.
  • The records. Her name appears nowhere in the records after the Void Century. Cobra believes she never made it home.
  • The letter. His family has handed down a short letter from her.
  • Imu. Imu takes the Empty Throne and says, 「リリィ…」.

Chapter 1085 — the letter and the "mistake".

  • The mistake. Imu calls something Lili did 800 years ago a mistake — the reason the Poneglyphs ended up scattered for pirates to use — and suspects it was deliberate.
  • The full name. Imu makes Cobra say her name as she signed it: Nefertari D. Lili.
  • The letter. Before he dies, Cobra recites her letter. Its gist: protect the Poneglyphs, and raise the flag of dawn.

Chapter 1179 — still on Imu's mind. As Imu prepares to descend on Elbaf, his memories run through the people who trouble him. Lili's image is among them.

What the series has not shown:

  • why Imu cares about her;
  • any family or personal tie between them;
  • what happened to her after she didn't come home.

A portrait of a Vivi-like woman in Imu's Room of Flowers (around chapters 1114–1116) is often identified as Lili. The page we know of doesn't name her.

THEORY — Is Elbaf's Lily Nefertari Lili?

The case for it:

  • The spelling. The same name, in the same katakana.
  • The disappearance. By Cobra's account, Lili left Arabasta and never came home, and her name vanishes from the records. A queen who disappeared needs to have gone somewhere.
  • The Poneglyphs. Imu blames her for scattering them. Elbaf's arc is full of hidden history: a library, a hidden room, a letter handed down.
  • Japanese readers. Japanese reader reactions to 1195 made this connection quickly. One reading has Elbaf as where she went after the Poneglyphs were scattered.

The case against it, for now:

  • No surname. The owl doesn't use one.
  • No date. The chapter gives "long ago", not 800 years.
  • No link to the box. The page doesn't connect her to its contents.
  • Robin's reaction proves nothing. She repeats the name, and the page gives no sign either way of whether she knows it.

Our call: the connection is the most natural reading and an easy one to make. Until a chapter says "Nefertari", gives a date, or opens the box, it stays THEORY.

What to watch

  • whether the owl's story names her as Nefertari or ties her to Arabasta;
  • what is in the box — the letter and the tool;
  • whether Robin, who reads Poneglyphs, connects the letter to them.

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