Chapter Summaries

Kael, a transmigrator in One Piece and Kizaru’s nephew, recalled how his parents’ deaths had made him abandon his Marine ambitions as he went to answer Kizaru’s secret summons. He planned to activate his game-like system and secretly form a pirate crew, but the system still required him to establish one sincerely.

• Kael burned Kizaru’s secret order and prepared to meet his Second Uncle at Marine Headquarters.
• Kael remembered that pirates had killed his Marine parents when he was thirteen, leaving him convinced that becoming a Marine meant dying.
• Kael recalled that Zephyr had expelled him from elite Marine training after he refused to continue, and that the later attack on Zephyr’s training ship strengthened his fear of Marine service.
• A waiting Marine gave Kael a conical hat, disguised him, and led him toward the headquarters office building.
• Kael opened his game system and saw that it would not activate until he entered a name for a pirate crew he genuinely intended to create.
• Kael postponed his plan to sneak out and start a crew until after he had dealt with Kizaru’s summons.

Kael agreed to become a Marine intelligence operative posing as a pirate and accepted his first mission investigating powerful cannonballs in the East Blue. Three days later, as he sailed from Marineford, he discovered that Kizaru had secretly placed the Storm-Storm Fruit in his luggage, though Kael had not decided whether to eat it.

• Sengoku explained that the Marines wanted Kael to infiltrate the underworld as a pirate and gave him Zephyr’s old training plan for the Six Powers and Haki.
• Kael realized Kizaru had recommended him because of his hatred of pirates and his inability to become a Marine, then thanked his second uncle.
• Sengoku offered Kael a first mission to investigate an East Blue organization selling powerful cannonballs, and Kael signed the letter of intent, giving up his Marineford status and subsidy.
• Three days later, Kael departed Marineford aboard a merchant ship bound for the East Blue.
• Kael found the Storm-Storm Fruit hidden in his luggage by Kizaru and decided to wait for his system to activate before choosing whether to eat it.

Kael arrived at Aksi Island, collected the ship he had ordered, and founded the Dusk Pirates to activate his mysterious system. The system revealed its Captain interface and explained how Kael could gain experience and skills.

• Kael traveled to Aksi Island after studying the East Blue and locating several villages, though he could not find Zoro.
• Kael collected his newly built ship at the island’s port and sailed it out of the dock.
• Kael raised the Dusk Pirates’ flag, prompting the system to offer him the option to bind the crew.
• Kael confirmed the binding, unlocking a new interface with Captain, Backpack, Companions, Shipyard, and Gacha options.
• Kael inspected his Captain panel and learned that spending one million Berries earned one experience point, while each level granted a random character skill.

Kael explored his altered game system and activated the shipyard by naming his vessel Tiga. He inspected the gacha machines and weighed their costs against his limited 50 million Beli, then decided to try spending some money on them.

• Kael checked the Inventory and Companions panels, finding only unlimited storage and no companions to cultivate.
• Kael bound his current ship in the Shipyard and named it Tiga, activating its information panel and learning how ship levels and facilities worked.
• Kael considered spending his 50 million Beli on ship and captain upgrades but chose to inspect the gacha system first.
• Kael examined the Normal, Premium, and Legendary Gacha Machines and their costs, prizes, and guarantees.
• Kael decided to spend some Beli testing the gacha machines despite expecting their rewards to be poor.

Kael tested the gacha system and drew an A-rank Character Card for Rukia Kuchiki, learning that it could only be loaded onto a compatible crew member. He also drew an A-rank Zanpakuto, advanced to Level 1, and began a skill prize-wheel draw whose result was not yet revealed.

• Kael spent 10 million Beli on an ordinary ten-pull and received mostly E-rank items, plus an A-rank Character Card for Rukia Kuchiki.
• Kael learned that Character Cards required a crew member with at least 60% compatibility, and he considered recruiting Tashigi in Loguetown as a possible match.
• Kael spent another 10 million Beli on a premium single pull and obtained an A-rank Zanpakuto restricted to specific characters.
• Kael saw that his captain level had risen to Level 1, then clicked the skill slot marked Awaiting Draw.
• Kael watched the prize wheel stop over a line of red text, but its result was not revealed.

After drawing the A-rank Hyper Intuition skill, Kael upgraded Tiga and brought the ship spirit into existence. Tiga demonstrated his abilities, and Kael realized the spirit could become physical, sparking a daring new idea.

• Kael drew Tsunayoshi Sawada’s A-rank Hyper Intuition skill and weighed its overlap with Observation Haki.
• Kael spent his cash to upgrade Tiga through the Shipyard system, causing the ship spirit to appear.
• Kael greeted Tiga and learned he could steer and repair the ship, as well as help fight.
• Tiga loaded and fired a cannon, then explained he could become physical when he wanted to act.
• Kael recalled Merry repairing her hull and formed an idea that could shock the pirate world.

Kael gave the Storm-Storm Fruit to the ship spirit Little Tiga after learning that the fruit’s seawater weakness would not affect the ship itself. Little Tiga gained control over storms and used the power to drive the Tiga at more than three times its former speed.

• Kael asked Little Tiga whether eating a Devil Fruit would weaken him or the Tiga in seawater, and Little Tiga explained that their connection was spiritual rather than biological.
• Kael brought the Storm-Storm Fruit from the captain’s cabin and offered it to Little Tiga, who ate it without hesitation.
• Little Tiga created a powerful gust and sent a spiraling column of water rising beside the ship, demonstrating that the fruit’s power worked.
• Kael checked a nautical chart and ordered Little Tiga to test his new power by sailing in a chosen direction at full speed.
• Little Tiga controlled the winds and waves around the Tiga, more than tripling the ship’s speed while leaving its deck calm.

Kael arrived in Loguetown and began a scheme to abduct Tashigi by luring her out with a famous sword. He bribed two Marines to bring her to him for an appraisal, leaving him waiting at a café.

• Kael reached Loguetown aboard the Tiga and told Little Tiga to guard the ship while he went ashore.
• Kael set out to kidnap Tashigi, hoping to recruit her as a fighter and administrator and make her compatible with Rukia’s character card.
• Kael bought three elephant-strength tranquilizer doses from a former black-market dealer, tested one on the shop owner, and took back his payment.
• Kael showed two patrolling Marines Frost and claimed he wanted an expert to appraise the famous sword.
• The Marines offered to bring Tashigi to appraise Frost, and Kael secretly bribed them before agreeing to wait at a café.

Kael lured Tashigi to a café by offering to show her Frost, then drugged and kidnapped her after discovering she had 80% compatibility with his Rukia character card. He carried her toward the harbor, while two Marines headed to the café and found the waitress crying on the floor.

• Kael waited for Tashigi to arrive, reasoning that his deception of the Marines could help him complain about Smoker to Fleet Admiral Sengoku.
• Tashigi rushed to the café, where Kael showed her Frost, one of the Fifty Grade Blades, and discovered she had 80% compatibility with his Rukia character card.
• Kael sprayed Tashigi with a drug disguised as blade polish, caught her when she collapsed, and stuffed her into a burlap sack.
• Kael intimidated the café customers, slung Tashigi over his shoulder, and ran toward the harbor.
• Two Marines spotted Kael leaving but assumed he had sold a sword; when they entered the café, they found the waitress crying on the floor.

Kael tried to escape Loguetown with the unconscious Tashigi, but Smoker intercepted him at the harbor. Kael held Tashigi at gunpoint and forced Smoker to let them pass, leaving their escape unresolved.

• After learning Tashigi had been kidnapped, Smoker rushed to Loguetown Harbor and found Kael carrying a sack.
• Kael dodged Smoker's attacks and tried to create distance while making his way toward the Tiga.
• Kael fired a blank shot, revealed Tashigi in the sack, and threatened her with his flintlock.
• Kael demanded that Smoker let them leave, and Smoker reluctantly waved away the smoke screen and turned aside.

Kael escaped Loguetown aboard the Tiga with Tashigi as his hostage after exposing Smoker’s attempted rescue and shooting him. Smoker ordered a pursuit and requested a new bounty poster for Kael, the captain of the Dusk Pirates.

• Kael reached the Tiga with Tashigi and revealed that he had detected Smoker’s smoke-based attempt to rescue her.
• Kael used a tornado to carry himself and Tashigi onto the ship, which began sailing away under a pirate flag.
• Kael shot Smoker in the left shoulder with a Seastone bullet and declared himself the captain of the Dusk Pirates before retreating into the cabin.
• The Tiga sped away from Loguetown as Smoker remained behind, shaken by Tashigi’s capture and Kael’s criticism.
• Smoker rejected his doubts, ordered Marines to pursue the Tiga, and requested a new bounty poster describing Kael and his crimes.

Kael escaped Smoker’s pursuit aboard the Tiga and kept the unconscious Tashigi aboard, where she slept through the night in the upgraded captain’s quarters. When she woke, Kael teased her and claimed she had failed a test, leaving her confused and demanding answers.

• Kael praised Little Tiga for steering the ship away from five warships and docked at an unmapped island.
• Kael explained the captain’s quarters’ recovery effect and considered other facilities available through the dockyard system.
• Tashigi woke after sleeping for a day and found herself in Kael’s unfamiliar room.
• Kael joked that the operation had made her a girl, and Tashigi blushed before recognizing him as the sword seller who had framed her.
• Tashigi discovered Shigure was missing and demanded to know what Kael wanted.
• Kael told Tashigi that his test was over and she had failed, then asked Tiga to bring her breakfast.

Kael told Tashigi that his kidnapping of her had been a test, then used a harsh critique of Loguetown’s Marines to persuade her that their work was failing. He called Fleet Admiral Sengoku and claimed that his investigation into the East Blue had uncovered a serious problem in the Marine forces there.

• Tashigi read a newspaper account of Kael’s attack on the Loguetown Marine base and asked him what had happened.
• Kael falsely presented himself as a Fleet Admiral intelligence agent and blamed the Marines for letting dangerous pirates slip through.
• Kael softened his criticism by praising Tashigi’s sense of justice and claiming he would seek personnel reassignments for her and the other Marines.
• Kael called Sengoku and said that, after investigating the cannonball that pierced a Marine warship, he had concluded that the East Blue Marine forces had a serious problem.

Kael persuaded Sengoku that corruption had hollowed out the East Blue Marines and secured broad authority to investigate it through the Dusk Pirates. He then maneuvered Tashigi into joining his intelligence operation, leaving her agreeing under pressure.

• Kael told Sengoku that East Blue Marines might be colluding with pirates and diverting warship funds while suppressing capable soldiers.
• Sengoku canceled Kael’s previous mission and authorized him to investigate corruption at East Blue Marine bases.
• Kael obtained permission to recruit Marines and seek pardons for his crew, and to raid corrupt bases for funds.
• Kael proposed using Smoker to arrest corrupt officials and asked Sengoku to assign Tashigi to his intelligence operation.
• Kael pressured Tashigi to accept, and she tearfully agreed to join the Dusk Pirates’ mission.

Kael welcomed Tashigi into the Dusk Pirates and taught her to act like a convincing pirate while maintaining her cover as a Marine agent. He revealed Little Tiga’s ship-spirit powers and loaded Rukia Kuchiki’s character card into Tashigi, then discovered the newly unlocked Partner System’s details about her.

• Kael welcomed Tashigi aboard and warned her to abandon her polite Marine habits and behave arrogantly like a pirate.
• Kael introduced Little Tiga as the ship’s spirit, and Little Tiga used his Storm-Storm Fruit powers to speed Tiga toward the next island.
• Kael explained that he was an agent of Sengoku and the user of the Imagine-Imagine Fruit, then loaded Rukia Kuchiki’s character card into Tashigi.
• Tashigi gained unfamiliar combat knowledge and asked Kael if she was a Soul Reaper, but he was occupied examining the Partner System.
• Kael saw Tashigi’s Partner System profile, which listed her as Tashigi (Rukia Kuchiki) with A aptitude, level 1, and combat power 35.

Kael explored the companion development system and equipped Tashigi with an A-rank Zanpakutō, giving her new power and improving her aptitudes. He led her into the cabin to begin planning her training, while the system had secretly raised her loyalty to him and the Dusk Pirates.

• Kael checked his captain panel and learned that Tashigi's character template had raised his combat power to 3.5.
• Kael explored the Level Up, Weapons, and Awakening pages, discovering that companions could use experience items, equip weapons, and unlock stronger forms.
• Kael equipped an A-rank Zanpakutō to Tashigi, and the blade appeared in her hands with a soul-deep connection.
• Kael explained that Tashigi had gained power from another world and urged her to grow strong enough to help complete their mission.
• The Zanpakutō raised Tashigi's total aptitude from 350 to 400 and her displayed combat power from 35 to 40.
• Kael led Tashigi into the cabin, unaware that the system had secretly raised her loyalty to him and the Dusk Pirates to its highest level.

Kael installed a Training Room aboard the Tiga and showed Tashigi its efficient training function and a top-secret journal on Haki and the Six Powers. Tashigi began training while Kael returned to his captain's quarters to study the journal and train on his own.

• Kael spent 5 million Beli to transform an unused room below deck into a Training Room, startling Tashigi.
• Kael explained that companions could gain 100 experience per hour in the room, with limits on daily hours and trainees.
• Kael gave Tashigi a training journal containing methods for Haki and the Six Powers and ordered her to train for eight hours a day.
• Tashigi became absorbed in reading the journal and entered the Training Room's focused training state.
• Kael left Tashigi to train, then returned to his captain's quarters to practice from the journal using its stamina recovery benefit.

Kael planned the Dusk Pirates’ route and targets while Tashigi’s training steadily increased her strength. After two quiet days, Tashigi reached Level 10, though she still had not begun Haki training.

• Kael planned to sail to Will, then eventually target Shells Town and Colonel Nezumi for money while avoiding the stronger Arlong Pirates.
• After Tashigi’s first hour of training, her level rose to 2 and her combat power increased to 120, with Kael receiving some of the gains.
• Kael recorded future plans and remembered plot information while Tashigi trained and Little Tiga practiced at the lookout.
• Over the next two days, Tashigi trained with her Zanpakuto, gained spiritual power, and learned Kido techniques, becoming increasingly eager to train.
• While Tashigi practiced dodging moving balls in the training room, another surge of energy raised her to Level 10 and greatly increased her combat power.

Kael and Tashigi sailed toward Will Town after learning that pirates were raiding it. Their arrival interrupted Alvida as she forced the townspeople to praise her beauty, and Kael began to answer her question.

• Kael noticed cannon fire near Will Town and ordered Little Tiga to rush the ship there at full speed.
• Kael summoned Tashigi from her training and told her to help wipe out the pirates raiding the town.
• Alvida gathered Will Town’s residents at the harbor, threatened them, and demanded they name her the most beautiful woman on the sea.
• Kael called Alvida the ugliest woman in East Blue, and his ship sped into the harbor and stopped near her platform.

Kael and Tashigi defeated Alvida and her pirates at Ville Town, and Kael ordered Tashigi to hunt down the remaining pirates. He left Alvida bound at the harbor and called for the town’s mayor.

• Kael and Tashigi landed on Alvida’s platform and Kael ordered Tashigi to take on the pirates.
• Tashigi sliced through Alvida’s iron club and wounded her, while Kael forced her to surrender at gunpoint.
• Kael identified himself as the notorious figure from Loguetown and claimed Alvida’s crew and supplies as his own.
• Tashigi bound Alvida with Hainawa after Kael ordered her tied up.
• Kael sent Tashigi to clear out the pirates in town, then called for Ville Town’s mayor.