c1: My Uncle is Kizaru in Pirates!
A clean white shirt and a light grey cape.
Under the shadow of the hood, there are a pair of dim eyes hiding countless melancholy, as if he has lost hope in the world.
The young man in the mirror looked to be about 20 years old, with a standard figure and a height of just under one meter eighty. Through his tight shirt, it was not difficult to see his well-developed muscles shaped from years of military training.
However, for some reason, he always looked weak.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Kyle's eyes flashed with an indescribable feeling.
He is a time traveler.
A week ago, he was playing a pirated mobile game based on One Piece when he suddenly fell into a coma for unknown reasons.
When he opened his eyes again, his consciousness and soul had already descended into this new body.
"Although I have read a lot of online articles, I am also tired of the 996 policy in my previous life..."
"But isn't it a bit too hasty to let me travel through time just like that?" Kyle muttered to himself in the mirror.
Although Kyle is a veteran online novel reader, this unreasonable and direct way of traveling through time still caught him off guard. Fortunately, after he traveled through time, he immediately inherited the soul memory of his original body, which prevented him from being too panicked by the travel.
After sorting out the original body's consciousness, he immediately realized…
This journey of mine is not easy!
Because the world he traveled to was actually the world of his favorite manga, One Piece!
And the identity of his current body is actually the nephew of Admiral Kizaru, Borsalino, one of the three great Marine Admirals known across the seas for their overwhelming power!
Everyone says Kizaru is the best uncle in the world. Unexpectedly, this time he actually had the opportunity to experience Kizaru's uncle's love in person!
He was just a commoner in his previous life, but he transformed himself into a second-generation high-ranking military officer.
The place of residence is naturally the Marine Headquarters where many families of senior officers are located—Marineford! A base of justice that once symbolized the world government's authority, and yet, according to the original story, would one day become the battlefield of the Paramount War where Whitebeard shook the seas and fell.
At this time, Kyle was in his room, looking at the mirror and trying hard to express his melancholy.
It was not until a pair of lifeless eyes appeared on that handsome young face that he nodded calmly and said in a calm tone, "Hmm… the original body's temperament was almost like this!"
"Hold on! Nothing can go wrong later."
Following the last instruction of the secret order, Kyle reached out and placed the letter that the navy soldier had just delivered above the flame of the oil lamp next to him. The slow flame encountered the flammable paper and immediately attacked it. Only when the secret order was burned to a corner did Kyle let go and threw the remaining debris to the ground, allowing it to slowly burn. Looking at the gradually weakening flame, he couldn't help but sigh and complain in his heart.
"Sister…"
"Why didn't you summon me earlier or later? Why did you wait until I came here to summon me? I feel like I'm being targeted!"
After adjusting his collar in front of the mirror for the last time, he walked out of the house.
The secret order that Kyle just burned came from no one else but his uncle, Admiral Kizaru.
Although he is the nephew of the admiral, Kyle is not a Marine himself. As for the reason, in Usopp's words, Kyle is suffering from a "terminal disease that will kill him if he joins the Navy"!
Once upon a time, Kyle was also a middle school boy who yearned for the figure of his uncle and wanted to carry the handsome word "Justice" on his shoulders. To this end, he even entered Zefa's elite Marine training class with his talent and hard work, and was described by Zefa as a "rare genius."
Although he cannot be compared with the three future Admirals of the Navy at the same age, he was at least not weaker than Smoker back then, a man who would later gain fame with his White Chase. Many people had high hopes for him and believed that Kyle could become a pillar of the Navy's future like his uncle! Kyle, who was only 12 years old at the time, thought so too.
However…
An accident completely destroyed the world of this talented young man. Seven years ago, 13-year-old Kyle took advantage of his vacation and boarded a civilian merchant ship of Marineford to visit the Sabaody Archipelago with his parents, who were also in the Navy.
As the island closest to the Navy Headquarters and the seat of the World Nobles' lawless playground, the route from Marineford to the Sabaody Archipelago should have been the safest route in the Grand Line. But fate plays tricks on people.
A group of pirates suddenly appeared out of nowhere and intercepted the merchant ship that Kyle and his crew were on, carrying out an inhumane burning, killing, and looting.
The captain of that pirate group possessed the strength of a notorious New World outlaw worth over a billion berries. But Kyle's parents, who were a naval colonel and a major, were no match for them, not to mention that they had to protect a ship full of ordinary people.
Under the attack of pirates, Kyle's parents both died in front of him. Although it didn't take long before Kizaru, who got the news, rushed over from Marine Headquarters at the speed of light and wiped out all the pirates in that sea area without leaving a single one alive, saving little Kyle, those who had already died had no chance of survival.
Kyle, who witnessed his parents being killed by pirates, developed some twisted mental illnesses. In his young heart, Kyle always believed that his parents were killed by pirates because they were Navy officers and had to protect ordinary people.
Kyle, who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, had too much smooth sailing on his road to growth, which resulted in his inner strength not being as strong as some children from ordinary families. From that time on, Kyle's subconscious mind began to resist becoming a Marine.
He was even kicked out of the elite naval training class by Zefa, who was disappointed with him, because he failed to participate in basic training many times.
Another year later, the training ship led by Zefa was attacked by pirates. In the entire elite naval training class, only two students survived besides Zefa. When young Kyle heard the news, he even confirmed his subconscious thoughts.
[People who become Marines will die.]
This idea, which had no reason or basis, was deeply rooted in little Kyle's mind.
This is the end. Like the families of other officers, he became an ordinary member of Marineford. Seven years passed like this. Until a week ago, his body was taken over by a soul from another world.
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Stepping on the marble road, Kyle observed the surrounding environment while maintaining his own personality. Because his predecessor had given up the idea of becoming a Marine, and so much time had passed, he actually didn't know how to get to Kizaru's office. Fortunately, when he just walked out of the house, he met a naval officer who had been waiting for him for a long time.
He took the hat handed to him by the navy officer, which could cover his face and body.
Kyle, transformed into a mysterious man, followed the naval officer and walked towards the office building of Marine Headquarters through a sparsely populated path.
"By the way, Kizaru, my cheap second uncle, asked me to go find him, and he was being so mysterious. What on earth is going on?"
According to the original body's memory, Kyle's mother once told him that she and Kizaru had an older brother who was killed by pirates when they were young. That tragedy was one of the reasons Borsalino, later known as Kizaru, joined the Marines and eventually became an Admiral whose strength was feared across the seas. So Kizaru is the second child in the family, and Kyle has to call him second uncle.
Following behind the leading navy officer, Kyle's eyes kept turning under his bamboo hat, trying to figure out his second uncle's intentions based on his inherited memories. Although the original Kyle had never told anyone about his mental illness, so many years had passed that Kizaru must have guessed something. The Admiral's easygoing, drawling voice and lazy demeanor in public often hid his sharp perception. Even Sengoku, the Fleet Admiral, trusted Kizaru's ability to sense things others overlooked.
So on weekdays, Kizaru usually visited Kyle at Kyle's home or invited him into his mansion, often appearing without notice, just like when he appeared late during the Shichibukai summons in Sabaody but still instantly subdued troublesome pirates. This is the first time in seven years that Kizaru had asked Kyle to go to the Marine Headquarters to find him.
It has to be said that Kizaru's sudden secret order directly disrupted Kyle's plan! Because he had originally planned to find an opportunity to leave Marineford today and activate the golden finger that had traveled through time with him!
As a time traveler, Kyle, in addition to his current identity as a second-generation military officer, also carried extraordinary luck and naturally deserved to have a golden finger accompanying him. And this golden finger was none other than the pirated mobile game he played before he traveled through time.
"It looks like we have to postpone activating the system."
Kyle sighed in his heart, and then he came to his senses. A not-very-gorgeous interface immediately appeared in front of his eyes. Like all third-rate mobile games, this was a reskin game that did not have official authorization. The game mainly used the One Piece world as its background, with the era of Gol D. Roger's execution and the Great Pirate Era as the starting point.
As the captain of a newly formed pirate group, the player draws capsule toys from the summoning system to obtain crew members and props. What attracts people is… it seems that because of the idea that "there is no official authorization anyway," the studio that made this game just gave up on rules and added a lot of characters and props from other anime into the gashapon prize pool.
Although this resulted in a mess of the game's data balance system, it still attracted many players with its exquisite and irresistible character portraits. Kyle had been especially attracted by the portraits of the female characters in this game. The constantly swaying rabbit girl, the smooth and delicate legs drawn with dazzling precision, and the seductive and sweet faces made him fall deeply in love with this game.
He always opened his browser for no apparent reason while playing, searching for fan art and guides, unable to resist. If he could really use this golden finger here in the actual world of One Piece, Kyle firmly believed that his future would be bright. This time, the holy light of so-called justice would no longer be able to block his sight.
"Hey hey hey…"
Whenever he thought of this, Kyle would always laugh out loud, imagining himself rising above even the Admirals.
However, with all the good things, there are always some small incidents. For example, Kyle's cheat code was stuck on an unexpected interface…
[The Great Age of Pirates has arrived! Please create your own pirate group and ride on the vast sea!]
[Please enter the name of the pirate group:______]
After opening the system, a pop-up window with a gold border appeared in the center of Kyle's sight.
Behind the pop-up window was the game interface covered with a dark filter, like the menus he used to swipe past endlessly on his phone. Kyle, who had played this game countless times in his past life, of course knew that this was the interface for entering the game and creating a character name.
However, after he came to this world, he had entered the name of the pirate group countless times, even sketching out designs for a pirate flag at home like the ones Luffy and his crew painted on their sails, but he still could not successfully activate the system interface.
Obviously, this self-deceptive approach could not be recognized by the system. Kyle guessed that this pirate group might not just be a formality, but instead required him to genuinely form one, just like how Gol D. Roger's words at Loguetown had sincerely triggered the Great Pirate Era. It wasn't a game input, it was about truly staking a claim on the seas.
He had already decided that after dealing with Kizaru's summons, he would find an opportunity to escape from Marineford and see if he could find a remote place, far from the eyes of the World Government, to form a pirate group.
But everything had to be done quietly.
If his second uncle knew that he was plotting to become a pirate, Borsalino would probably appear instantly in front of him at the speed of light, pick him up by the collar like he did to Hawkins on Sabaody, and drag him back to Marineford for a merciless lecture.
The scariest thing was… this "speed of light" was not even an exaggeration! Kyle had inherited the memories of the original body and knew exactly how terrifying Kizaru's Pika Pika no Mi was. In the Paramount War, that blinding kick he landed on Whitebeard's division commanders shook even Marco, the Phoenix. If such a blow landed on him, Kyle doubted whether he'd still be alive to complain.
So Kyle planned carefully. He would return to Marineford, endure in silence, survive, and secretly develop himself after activating the system. He told himself firmly that he would never come out until he reached a level comparable to the legends—at least until he could swing a sword like the world's strongest swordsman, Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk, who with a single stroke cut apart icebergs and tested Whitebeard's might.
Anyway, during the war at Marineford, the civilians were always evacuated to safe zones before the fighting began. The ordinary families of Marines were sheltered away from the battlefield, just as Sengoku had ordered during the war against Whitebeard. For now, there would be no immediate danger to his identity.
The only thing Kyle feared was that something might go wrong with the system, forcing him prematurely out to sea where he would have to face Emperors like Big Mom or Kaido, who ruled the New World with overwhelming force.
"Alas, the identity of a second-generation military officer can sometimes be a burden."
"If Kizaru knew that I was thinking about how to become a pirate, I wonder if he would break my legs on the spot."
"Although my status as a second-generation Marine child allows me to be born in a safe area like Marineford, it seriously affects my early development time…"
Under the bamboo hat, Kyle maintained the image of a gloomy handsome man as always, but in his heart he began to imagine himself galloping across the sea, his name feared like Doflamingo or Shanks. He saw himself surrounded not only by power, but by the beauty that only his cheat system could deliver—fantasizing about holding Tsunade in his left hand and Rangiku in his right, with Hancock glaring jealously nearby and Nami counting his treasure.
Behind him, in his delusion, trailed a fleet of anime heroines with different styles, forming his personal harem crew.
Bigger is better!
More is more beautiful!
This is the eternal truth!!!
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