In the sea calendar year 1512, the first half of the Grand Line was known as "Paradise." After the death of Pirate King Roger, the second half came to be known as "Pirate Hell."
"Hey, kid! How long are you going to sleep?"
Hearing someone call out to him, Ye Feng opened his eyes and said weakly, "Where am I?"
I remember I was crossing the street when the light suddenly changed from green to red. Then everything went bright, and I ended up here.
Ye Feng felt that he was lying on a wooden plank. He looked around and saw no one else, only a somewhat familiar burly man standing at the front of the ship. In a gruff voice, the man said, "This is the South Blue."
Ye Feng looked around and saw nothing but water.
Then, with trembling hands, Ye Feng slowly stood up and looked toward the voice.
When Ye Feng saw the man's face and build, he was stunned and blurted out, "Holy crap!"
Wasn't this the future big bad who'd become the main character Monkey D. Luffy's greatest enemy? Then, still looking disbelieving, he asked, "What's your name? Are you a pirate?"
Teach watched Ye Feng with an amused look. "Kid, shouldn't you tell me your name before asking the name of the man who saved your life?"
Ye Feng said sheepishly, "Sorry. My name is..."
Just as Ye Feng was about to say his name, a sharp pain stabbed through his head. He clutched it with both hands.
Then, a flood of memories suddenly surged into my mind. I couldn't believe Ye Feng had transmigrated into the world of One Piece.
The previous owner of this body had the same name as the main character. He'd been captured by human traffickers, who planned to sell him to the Celestial Dragons, but a waterspout had struck during the journey. Apparently, he'd drifted here.
And by some twist of fate, our big bad had saved him.
As a pirate fan in his previous life, Ye Feng knew Blackbeard's story: he'd endured years in the Whitebeard Pirates for the sake of the Dark-Dark Fruit.
After all those years, he'd finally broken the Whitebeard Pirates' ironclad rule.
"Never harm a crewmate." In the end, he'd obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit and recruited several powerful subordinates from the sixth level of Impel Down. He'd even emerged as the greatest victor of the Paramount War.
He'd killed his own Pops and taken the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, rising to become the strongest of the Four Emperors—a man of unmatched ambition and drive.
Seeing Ye Feng crouched on the ground, clutching his head in pain, Teach asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"
Three or four minutes later, Ye Feng got to his feet with a helpless look. "My name is Ye Feng. I've forgotten my last name."
Teach paused, then burst out laughing. "Zehahahaha! Then you're my little brother from now on."
"My name is Marshall D. Teach. Since you don't remember your name, let me give you one."
He thought for a moment, then said, "You can take my name and be called Marshall D. Ye Feng. How does that sound? Zehahahaha!"
That signature laugh, "Zehahahaha," made it clear who he was. But Ye Feng never expected him to be the one who saved him.
He'd even given him a name. And the scariest part was, he'd accepted him as his little brother.
Was this how I ended up becoming a villain? Whatever. No matter what happens, I just have to save him when he dies.
While Ye Feng was thinking about all this, Teach saw that he hadn't answered and looked a little displeased. "What's wrong, kid? Don't you like the name I gave you?"
After finally settling his inner struggle, I came back to my senses and realized that I'd been silent so long he thought I didn't like the name he'd given me.
Ye Feng hurriedly said, "No, no. I was just thinking about some things. I didn't have a name anyway, so from now on I'll be called Marshall D. Ye Feng."
Hearing that Ye Feng liked the name, Teach spread his arms and laughed. "Zehahahaha! Aren't I a genius?"
Just as I was about to say, "Have you no shame?" the little ship suddenly began to rock. I grabbed the helm and shouted, "What's going on?"
A gigantic shadow rose from the sea, its body dozens of meters long.
If I hadn't seen One Piece before, I would've been astonished by the sight of this monster.
It was a specialty of the One Piece world: Sea Kings, dozens or even hundreds of meters larger than ordinary fish.
While Ye Feng stared in astonishment at the Sea Kings,
Teach gave a cold laugh and stepped to the bow. He glared at the Sea King and roared, "Get the hell out of here!"
A domineering aura suddenly poured out of Teach.
The enormous Sea King, dozens of meters tall, was frightened back into the sea.
Ye Feng watched as the gigantic Sea King fled underwater after Teach shouted, "Get out of here!"
How did this remind him of the scene in One Piece where Shanks saved Luffy? He'd used the same kind of glare to drive the Sea King back into the sea.
Then Ye Feng asked in shock, "What just happened?"
Teach turned to him. "That's the legendary Conqueror's Haki. What do you think, Ye Feng? Want to learn it?"
Hearing that, Ye Feng immediately nodded and said earnestly, "Big brother, I want to learn."
In the world of One Piece, there were only two kinds of people: the first were the Celestial Dragons, the Celestial Dragons of the World Nobles; the second were those who relied on their own efforts to become strong on the seas.
Since I, Ye Feng, didn't have the first option, I'd choose the second: becoming one of the strongest on these seas through my own efforts.
After all, the protagonist had something others didn't: all the plot details of One Piece. That was what I could rely on.
But why did everyone else who transmigrated get a cheat ability or a ring with an old man inside? At the very least, I should've gotten a system. Why did I get nothing?
Ye Feng continued, "Big brother, what year is it now?"
When Teach heard Ye Feng call him big brother, he burst out laughing. "Zehahahaha! It's the year 1512 of the sea calendar..."
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