Doriki Value

Not a wink of sleep all night.

The next day, Luo Sa got up early. After his morning workout, he had a hearty breakfast, then got dressed and ready.

His new recruit uniform was neat and immaculate, showing just how seriously he took this Ranking Tournament.

"Luo Sa, are you ready?"

Hina's excited voice came from outside the door.

"Coming."

Over the past few days, Hina had become a regular visitor to the little courtyard. Ever since she mastered the Kankan Fruit, she had often come to ask Luo Sa, an experienced Devil Fruit User, for advice.

Luo Sa had held nothing back, drawing on his experience from his previous life to offer Hina plenty of useful advice. As a result, she was becoming increasingly adept at using her Devil Fruit powers.

"Luo Sa, do you think I can make the top twenty?"

Hina still looked a little nervous, and kept asking Luo Sa about it as they walked.

According to the rules of the Elite Camp Assessment Ranking Tournament, anyone who made the top twenty would become a trainee in the Elite Camp.

And anyone who made the top three would become a full member of the Elite Camp right away.

In Hina's mind, the top three spots in the Ranking Tournament were already spoken for by Luo Sa, Drake, and Smoker, so her goal was to make the top twenty.

Smoker was the strongest new recruit, and Luo Sa's strongest opponent.

"Don't worry. Even before you got the Kankan Fruit, you were strong enough to make the top twenty. Now you're a sure bet."

"Mm, thank you, Luo Sa."

The two of them made their way along at an unhurried pace, and before long they reached the entrance to the New Recruit Camp.

By then, the entrance was already packed with a crowd of civilians.

They were all Navy families and ordinary townspeople from Marineford.

Under the orderly direction of the Marines, they were filing in and taking their seats in the stands reserved for them.

This really feels like going to a stadium to watch a game in my previous life.

Luo Sa smiled to himself, then entered the New Recruit Camp with Hina through the passage reserved for the competing recruits.

Once inside, Luo Sa saw that the New Recruit Camp's training ground had been remodeled to resemble the Roman Colosseum.

High walls surrounded the arena, and the stands rose in tiers beyond them.

At the far end of the arena, opposite the entrance, there were no stands. Instead, rows of chairs had been set out.

There was one chair at the highest level, then three chairs below it, followed by sixteen chairs, and finally around a hundred chairs at the bottom.

It was easy to tell from the arrangement that these seats had been prepared for Marshal Sengoku, the Three Admirals, and a group of Navy officers!

As his gaze swept over the arena, he suddenly noticed a sophisticated-looking machine at its center.

"That's the machine for testing Doriki Value. Before the Elite Camp Ranking Tournament, we have to take the test on it first."

"After that, the top fifty will be selected from among us to compete in the final Ranking Tournament!"

Hina, who knew a lot about these things, immediately explained it to Luo Sa, the naïve country bumpkin who had never seen anything like it.

"Oh! So that's the Doriki Value testing machine!" A flicker of interest crossed Luo Sa's eyes.

In the One Piece anime, the concept of Doriki Value had first appeared alongside CP9.

As he remembered it, the highest Doriki Value belonged to Rob Lucci, who was known as the strongest member of CP9 in its eight-hundred-year history. His Doriki Value was a staggering 4,000!

Jabura, who had come after him last time to kill him, had a Doriki Value of 2,180.

Of course, those were their Doriki Values ten years in the future. There was no way to know what they were now!

"Oh, oh, it's Drake! I wonder how high his Doriki Value will be?"

"You mean Drake?"

"He's an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit User with the Allosaurus Fruit. His Doriki Value's probably off the charts!"

Just then, Drake entered the New Recruit Camp's training ground, setting off a wave of screams.

"Oh, oh, it's Smoker!"

"Smoker's here too! I wonder who'll have the higher Doriki Value, Drake or Smoker?"

"If we're talking Doriki Value, Drake will definitely score higher. But in the final Ranking Tournament, Smoker, as a Logia Devil Fruit User, will have an overwhelming advantage!"

With Smoker's arrival, the atmosphere in the arena was fired up once again.

"Go, Drake!"

"Go, Smoker!"

"Go, Sakartam!"

Cheers rang out all across the New Recruit Camp's training ground.

"New recruits, gather over here! I'll call your names in order."

At that moment, Momonga, the officer in charge of the Elite Camp Assessment, appeared again and began directing the recruits.

Before long, the recruits had assembled in neat ranks, ready for the test to begin.

"First up, Aura."

Aura was a burly man who looked to be around thirty years old.

He was the sort who had been held back countless times, all in the hope of getting into the Elite Camp.

Quite a few new recruits in the camp dragged out their time there without graduating, all with the Elite Camp as their goal.

Strictly speaking, Drake and Smoker were the same kind.

But once the new recruits who had been held back in previous classes either graduated or entered the Elite Camp, Drake and Smoker had finally come into their own.

This class belonged to the two of them!

Aura stepped onto the platform and went straight to the Doriki Value testing machine, as if he had done it a hundred times before. Without waiting for Momonga to explain, he gathered all his strength and threw a heavy punch at the machine.

Boom!

The powerful blow made the testing machine shudder. The numbers on its display began to spin, then stopped at 400.

"New recruit Aura, Doriki Value: 400!"

The instructor in charge of checking the machine immediately announced the result.

"Damn, no wonder he's the most senior recruit in the entire camp. He's definitely strong enough to make the top three!"

When the instructor announced the result, the recruits erupted in commotion. Clearly, a Doriki Value of 400 was uncommon even among recruits from previous classes!

"Doriki Value of 400? I remember that ten years from now, Kalifa, the weakest member of CP9, seems to have a Doriki Value of 630. By that standard, 400 isn't bad at all!" Luo Sa thought to himself.

Meanwhile, the rest of the recruits went up for their tests one after another.

It had to be said, anyone who passed the Survival Trial had something going for them. Their Doriki Values were mostly between 200 and 300.

Now it was the turn of Drake, the Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit User with the Allosaurus Fruit.

As soon as Drake stepped onto the platform, the whole arena fell silent. Every gaze fixed on him, charged with anticipation.

They wanted to know just how high a Doriki Value this so-called genius could score!