"It was finally coming."
At the harbor of an island, Yang Hao looked at the newspaper in his hand. Its headline announced that Ace, the Pirate King's son, would be executed at Marine Headquarters in ten days.
That was right. After watching a new batch of children be born, he had begun another transmigration.
This time, he had transmigrated into the world of One Piece, but his circumstances had been rather tragic.
In this life, he was a Marine with outstanding talent. He had entered Marine Headquarters for training, where his teacher had been the former Marine Admiral Zephyr.
That had been an exceptionally good starting point. Once he graduated, he would directly begin as a commissioned officer with a rank.
Unfortunately, his luck had been poor. During his graduation internship several years ago, they had encountered the pirate Weevil. Nearly all the students had been killed, and Teacher Zephyr had lost an arm.
Of course, it was not that Zephyr had been too weak. He had simply needed to divide his attention to protect students like them, which was why one of his arms had been severed.
Only he, Binz, and Ain had survived. Ain and Binz had emerged intact, but he had been unlucky enough to lose his left arm and left leg, becoming a one-limbed man.
Afterward, he had been arranged to retire here and spend his remaining years in peace. Only a month ago had he cultivated Armament Haki, stimulating the awakening of his consciousness.
That was the restriction on his transmigration and rebirth. Only by cultivating a power unique to that world could he stimulate his consciousness to awaken.
Over the past month, he had not only mastered several applications of Armament Haki, but had also awakened Observation Haki.
The essence of Observation Haki was