A Man in One Piece, and My Uncle Is Kizaru!

A pristine white shirt and a light gray cloak.

Beneath the shadow of the hood was a pair of dim eyes concealing endless melancholy, as though they had long since lost all hope in the world.

The young man in the mirror looked to be around twenty. He had a well-proportioned build and stood about six feet tall. Through his tight shirt, it was easy to make out his lean, capable muscles.

Yet for some reason, he always looked utterly listless.

Looking at himself in the mirror, an indescribable emotion flickered through Kael's eyes.

He was a transmigrator.

A week ago, while playing a pirated mobile game, he had suddenly blacked out for no apparent reason.

When he opened his eyes again, his consciousness and soul had already descended into this brand-new body.

"Sure, I've read plenty of web novels, and I was sick to death of the 996 grind in my previous life..."

"But isn't it a little too careless to just transmigrate me like this?"

Kael muttered to himself in the mirror.

Although Kael was a seasoned web novel reader, this unreasonable, forced method of transmigration had still caught him completely off guard.

Fortunately, after transmigrating, he had immediately inherited the original owner's memories, keeping him from panicking too much over the ordeal.

And after sorting through the original owner's memories, he immediately realized...

This transmigration of his was anything but simple!

Because the world he had transmigrated into was actually the world of his favorite anime—One Piece!

And the identity of this body was none other than the biological nephew of one of the strongest forces in the One Piece world, Marine Admiral Kizaru!!!

Everyone said Kizaru was the best uncle in the world.

Who would have thought that this time, he would get the chance to personally experience Kizaru's unclely love!

In his previous life, he had been nothing more than an ordinary nobody. Now, with a single transformation, he had become the second generation of a high-ranking military family.

Naturally, he lived at Marine Headquarters—Marineford, where the families of many high-ranking Marines resided!

A Marine stronghold hailed as the safest place in the world, yet one that Whitebeard would completely destroy in the near future.

At that moment, Kael stood in his room, doing his utmost before the mirror to project an air of melancholy.

Only when his handsome face wore a lifeless expression did he nod calmly and say in an indifferent tone:

"Mm... This is about what the original owner's temperament used to be like!"

"Keep it up! Don't make any mistakes later."

Following the final instruction in the secret order, Kael reached out and held the letter that a Marine soldier had just delivered over the flame of the oil lamp beside him.

The gently flickering flame met the flammable paper and immediately climbed upward.

Only after the secret order had burned down to a single corner did Kael release it, tossing the remaining scrap onto the floor and letting it slowly burn away.

Watching the gradually weakening flame, he could not help but let out a long sigh inwardly and began to complain.

"Damn it..."

"Of all times, why summon me only after I transmigrated? It feels like I'm being targeted!"

After straightening his collar one last time in the mirror, he stepped out of the room.

The secret order Kael had just burned came from none other than the biological uncle of his current body—Marine Admiral Kizaru.

Though he was a Marine Admiral's nephew, Kael was not a Marine himself.

As for why, in Usopp's words...

Kael suffered from the "terminal illness where becoming a Marine means dying"!

Once upon a time, Kael had also been a hot-blooded youth who admired his uncle and dreamed of carrying those dashing words, "Justice," upon his shoulders.

To that end, he had even entered Zephyr's elite Marine training class through his own talent and hard work.

Zephyr had even called him "a once-in-a-generation genius."

Though he could not compare to the three Marine Admirals at the same age, he was at least no weaker than the likes of Smoker.

Many people had high hopes for him, believing Kael could become a pillar of the Marines' future just like his uncle!

Twelve-year-old Kael had believed so too.

However...

An accident had completely shattered the world of that genius boy.

Seven years ago, thirteen-year-old Kael had taken a civilian merchant ship from Marineford to the Sabaody Archipelago with his Marine parents during a vacation.

As the island closest to Marine Headquarters, the route from Marineford to the Sabaody Archipelago should have been the safest route on the Grand Line.

But fate loved playing cruel tricks.

A band of pirates that had appeared out of nowhere suddenly intercepted the merchant ship Kael and his family were aboard, carrying out an inhuman slaughter and pillage.

The captain of that pirate crew possessed the strength of a pirate worth over a hundred million.

Kael's parents, merely a Marine colonel and major, were no match for them, much less while protecting an entire ship of ordinary people.

Surrounded by pirates, Kael's parents both died before his very eyes.

Although Kizaru rushed over from Marine Headquarters shortly after receiving the news and wiped out every last pirate in those waters, saving young Kael...

The dead could never be brought back to life.

And Kael, who had personally watched pirates kill his parents, developed a somewhat twisted psychological illness as a result.

In his young heart, Kael had always believed that his parents were killed by pirates because, as Marines, they had no choice but to protect those ordinary people.

Having grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth, Kael's path through life had been too smooth, leaving his heart less resilient than even that of some children from ordinary families.

From then on, Kael's subconscious began resisting the idea of becoming a Marine.

He was even kicked out of the elite Marine training class by a disappointed Zephyr after repeatedly refusing to participate in basic training.

A year later.

The training ship led by Zephyr came under pirate attack.

Of the entire elite Marine training class, only two students survived besides Zephyr.

And upon hearing this news, young Kael became even more convinced of what his subconscious had been telling him.

[People die when they become Marines.]

This utterly baseless belief took deep root in young Kael's mind.

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From then on.

Like the families of other officers, he became an ordinary resident of Marineford.

And seven years passed like that.

Until a week ago, when his body was occupied by a soul that had traveled from another world.

Walking along a road paved with marble, Kael observed his surroundings while maintaining "his" persona.

Since the original owner had already given up on becoming a Marine, and so much time had passed, he actually had no idea how to get to Kizaru's office.

Fortunately, the moment he left his house, he encountered a Marine officer who had been waiting for him for quite some time.

After putting on the conical hat handed to him by the Marine, one capable of concealing both his face and figure...

Kael, now disguised as a mysterious man, followed him down a rarely used path toward the Marine Headquarters office building.

"Come to think of it, this second uncle of mine, Kizaru, asked me to see him and made such a big mystery out of it. What exactly is going on?"

According to the original owner's memories, Kael's mother had once told him that she and Kizaru had another older brother, who had been killed by pirates when they were children.

Therefore, Kizaru was second in the family, and Kael was supposed to call him—Second Uncle.

Following behind the Marine who led the way, Kael's eyes constantly shifted beneath the conical hat as he pondered the intentions of his Second Uncle from his memories.

Although the original Kael had never told anyone about the illness in his heart, after all these years, Kizaru must have noticed something.

That was why Kizaru usually visited Kael either at Kael's home or at his own residence.

This was the first time in seven years that Kizaru had asked Kael to come to Marine Headquarters to see him.

It had to be said that Kizaru's sudden secret order had completely disrupted Kael's plans!

He had originally planned to find an opportunity today to leave Marineford and activate the cheat that had transmigrated with him!

As a transmigrator, aside from his current status as the descendant of a military family, Kael had also, luckily and quite naturally, obtained a personal cheat.

And that cheat was none other than the pirated mobile game he had been playing before transmigrating.

"Looks like activating the system will have to be postponed."

Kael sighed inwardly, then shifted his thoughts.

An interface that was not particularly flashy immediately appeared before his eyes.

Like every third-rate mobile game, it was a reskinned game that had never received official authorization.

The game primarily used the One Piece world as its setting.

Players took the role of captains who had just founded their own pirate crews, drawing capsules from a summoning system to obtain crew members and items.

What made it appealing was...

Perhaps because the developers thought, We didn't get official authorization anyway, the studio that made the game had simply gone all in and stuffed the capsule prize pool with a large number of characters and items from other anime.

Although this left the game's balance in complete shambles, its addictive, exquisite character art still attracted plenty of players.

Kael had originally been drawn in by the artwork of the game's female characters.

Those constantly bouncing breasts, smooth and delicate legs, and alluringly sweet faces had made him fall deeply in love with the game.

Whenever he played, he would somehow end up opening his browser.

If he could truly use this cheat, Kael believed his future would be bright!

This time, the holy light would never again obstruct his view!

"Hehehe..."

Whenever he thought of this, Kael would always let out a simple-minded laugh.

Yet before every beautiful thing, there were always a few minor complications.

For instance, Kael's cheat was currently stuck on a completely unexpected screen...

[The Great Pirate Era has arrived! Create your own pirate crew and sail the magnificent seas!]

[Please enter pirate crew name: ______]

After opening the system, a gold-trimmed pop-up window appeared in the center of Kael's vision.

Behind it was the game interface, darkened by a dim filter.

Having played this game before, Kael naturally knew that this was the screen for creating a character name before entering the game.

But after transmigrating here, he had entered a pirate crew name countless times. He had even made a pirate flag at home, yet he still could not successfully activate the system.

Clearly, this kind of self-deception could not earn the system's approval.

Kael guessed that this pirate crew was not merely a formality. He had to sincerely establish a pirate crew of his own.

He had already decided that after dealing with Kizaru's summons, he would find a chance to sneak out of Marineford, locate some remote backwater, and see whether he could start a pirate crew there.

But everything had to be done in secret.

If his Second Uncle found out he was thinking about becoming a pirate, he would probably rush straight to him at the speed of light, drag him back to Marineford, and teach him a harsh lesson.

The scariest part was...

That "speed of light" was not even an exaggerated figure of speech!

So Kael planned to return directly to Marineford and quietly build up his strength after activating the system.

He would never leave until he had reached the level of the Sword God of Ten Miles Slope!

Anyway, when the Summit War came, civilians like them would be evacuated to a safe area, so there would be no danger.

What he feared was the system undergoing some kind of mutation and forcing him to put out to sea.

"Sigh, being the descendant of a military family can be a burden sometimes."

"If Kizaru finds out I'm thinking about how to become a pirate, I wonder if he'll break my legs."

"Although being the descendant of a military family lets me start in a safe zone, it seriously affects the time I have to develop in the early stages..."

Beneath the conical hat, Kael maintained the original owner's image as a gloomy, handsome man as always, while inside, he began imagining himself sailing the seas with Tsunade in his left hand and Rangiku in his right.

Behind him would be a flock of anime beauties, each with her own distinct style.

Big is good!

More is beautiful!

That was an eternal truth!!!