Yang Yunzhi · Justice System

In the summer of Sea Circle Calendar 1510, at Golden City Maritime Academy, Yang Yunzhi walked out of the school gates with his graduation certificate in his arms, a dazed look on his face. After turning right and walking a few hundred meters, he reached his home beside the academy.

After finding his bedroom, he casually tossed aside his graduation certificate and collapsed face-first onto the bed.

It was a three-story building. The first floor was a storefront rented out to a fruit seller, the second floor was the living room, and the third floor held the bedrooms.

A house built beside the academy naturally did not come cheap, but that was no challenge for Yang Yunzhi, a transmigrator.

The problem was, making money was easy. How was he supposed to live the rest of his life?

In his previous life, Yang Yunzhi had achieved nothing remarkable. He came from an ordinary background, had ordinary intelligence, went through school ordinarily, and then became an ordinary freelancer.

Calling it freelancing was just a nicer way of saying he had no proper job and merely drifted through life.

He had made videos, streamed online, and delivered takeout, but in the end, he chose to write novels.

Since he was no great author, he had not made much money. Coupled with his narrow social circle and lack of any way to meet girls, he had remained unmarried even in his thirties.

He had originally planned to muddle through life like that, but who would have thought that a quick trip out to buy sunflower seeds would land him in such absurd luck?

By the time his memories awakened, he was already in the Flower Country.

At first, he thought this Flower Country was some parallel-world version of China. Then he heard that the Flower Country commanded an Eight Treasures Navy, and that one of its officers was named Green Pepper.

So this was not some parallel China. This was One Piece!

The moment he learned this was One Piece, Yang Yunzhi immediately decided, I'm going to train and become strong!

However, after training just once, he was so exhausted that his back and waist ached that night. Even after resting for two days, he did not recover.

His family circumstances after reincarnation were fairly good, so Yang Yunzhi had his parents buy Sea King meat. He believed that perhaps ordinary food was the issue. If he could eat Sea King meat from childhood, his training results would definitely improve.

The result was that after training for another day, he spent two more days bedridden.

Yang Yunzhi believed his methods were unscientific, so he asked his parents to take him to a swordsmanship dojo. He planned to learn a proper cultivation method.

The result was that after the dojo master felt his bones, he told him, "This child's talent is average. I don't recommend that he practice martial arts..."

Heavens, you let me transmigrate into One Piece, but you didn't give me a body suited for training. Why did you send me here? So I could keep being a bum?

Fortunately, heaven never sealed off every path. Yang Yunzhi knew there was another way to become strong in this world: eating Devil Fruits.

As long as he got himself a Paramecia Devil Fruit, he believed that with a transmigrator's imagination, he could surely develop it into something extraordinary.

He did not dare dream of becoming one of the Four Emperors, but even strength on the level of a Seven Warlord would be enough to dominate one region, wouldn't it?

The result was that after more than ten years, he had not even seen a single Devil Fruit.

Not only had he never seen one, no one in the entire Flower Country had even heard of anyone seeing one.

He did not know whether there truly were none around or whether his information network was simply too poor.

Fortunately, while his body was lacking, his brain still worked well enough. So from a young age, he had begun offering his parents ideas and gradually improved the family's circumstances.

Only by a little, though. Any more would attract covetous eyes.

As for himself, he had gone through school all the way from village school to township school, and then to Golden City Maritime Academy.

Well, that was what they called elementary and middle school here.

He had wanted to attend high school and university, but unfortunately, neither existed here.

As for why he wanted to study, perhaps it was simply a habit.

After all, he did not know what children were supposed to do if they did not go to school. It was not as though he could go up a mountain and fight tigers like Luffy.

Golden City Maritime Academy was one of the few top-tier schools in the Flower Country. Its students were naturally all talented, and their employment prospects were broad. They could join either the Eight Treasures Navy or the Flower Country government.

But the problem was that, for some reason, the Flower Country had fallen into civil war last year. The Eight Treasures Navy and the government had fought each other into a complete mess.

With the strength of an ordinary person like him, enlisting at a time like this would be suicide. The wind kicked up by a single move from those strong fighters could probably kill him.

Become an official? That did not work here either.

Because there was a ceiling on being an official here. Not only could he not govern a region, he could not even hold any position with real authority.

At most, they would let him work as a clerk.

The Flower Country was still in the era of feudal dynasties. And being feudal was one thing, but several major Aristocratic Clans even controlled the court. As a result, nearly every position with actual power was monopolized by nobles, leaving no place for ordinary people.

It was like the Tang Dynasty in ancient times. The imperial examination system existed, but those who passed were all children of Aristocratic Clans. Ordinary people never got a turn.

Go into business?

Put it this way: if you had no one backing you, then doing business was no different from becoming someone else's money bag!

Business would not work, becoming an official would not work, and joining the military would not work either!

Yang Yunzhi suddenly began to understand what the textbooks from his previous life meant when they said feudal society devoured people.

In a society like this, all you could do was labor like cattle and horses. The system gave you no chance to rise at all!

If he were not a transmigrator, perhaps he could still have lived such a life, just like his parents. They were used to it.

But he had transmigrated here from Earth. How could someone who had seen the light endure this?

"Should I join the Revolutionary Army?" Yang Yunzhi suddenly had a new idea.

He had a head full of theories for overthrowing tyrants. Even without combat ability, he could still become a revolutionary mentor in the Revolutionary Army!

But the problem was that revolutionaries hid themselves extremely well. Unless they took the initiative to cause trouble in the Flower Country, Yang Yunzhi had no ability to find them.

He could not exactly place an ad in the newspaper saying he wanted to join the Revolutionary Army, could he?

"I can't spend my whole life drifting around, can I? There's no such thing as good fortune in this world!" Yang Yunzhi began to grow agitated again.

Fortunately, he still had one final hope.

That was four o'clock in the afternoon.

That would be his eighteenth birthday.

He had read plenty of novels where the protagonist's cheat ability awakened at eighteen. Maybe a system would come for him too!

Even if not, perhaps his home planet could grant him something, like a reward-for-hard-work talent or heaven-defying comprehension.

And if that really did not work, a system that rewarded having many children would be fine too. He was a genuine pervert. He would never do something like having a many-children-many-blessings system but refusing to marry or have kids.

When the time came, he guaranteed he would have a hundred children in three years, more than even the auntie next door.

As for whether there might be some conspiracy behind such gifts, who cared? Even if you wanted my soul, then for the sake of giving me a lifetime of pleasure, why not give it to you?

After that, he did nothing at all, merely watching time pass bit by bit.

One in the afternoon, two, three, and then... four.

"Ding!"

Yang Yunzhi abruptly jumped to his feet. Had the system arrived?

But where was the light screen? Could it be one of those old-fashioned systems that could only communicate inside his mind?

Then he heard the sound becoming increasingly urgent, accompanied by frantic knocking at the door.

Fine, it was not his system awakening. Little Black was knocking on the door downstairs.

"What is it?" Yang Yunzhi opened the door and saw Little Black downstairs holding a strange pineapple-shaped fruit, milky white in color and faintly patterned with what looked like rays of light.

His heart immediately leaped with joy. "A Devil Fruit?"

"Boss, is this the strange kind of fruit you wanted?"

Little Black held out the Devil Fruit to Yang Yunzhi and said, "It was originally a pineapple, but this morning it suddenly changed color and became like this. I immediately thought of that strange fruit you told me about before, so I brought it to you!"

"That's right, that's exactly the fruit I wanted!" Yang Yunzhi immediately took the fruit and patted Little Black on the shoulder. "You did well, Little Black. I'll waive your rent for three months!"

"Thank you, Boss. Hehe, thank you, Boss!"

"Something like this really happened?" After seeing Little Black off, Yang Yunzhi stared excitedly at the fruit in his hand. He had originally run this fruit store himself, thinking that if a Devil Fruit ever reincarnated, perhaps it would reincarnate in his own shop.

But after running it for two years, he had not seen a single Devil Fruit.

So he transferred the fruit store to Little Black, though he had Little Black continue running it while keeping an eye out for Devil Fruits.

He never expected Little Black to actually bring him one.

Fortunately, Devil Fruits were legendary great treasures that few people had ever seen. Little Black did not recognize it, and its strange appearance did not resemble a proper fruit. If people did not know what it was, they would generally not dare eat it even if they found it.

"I'll eat it first and worry about the rest later!" Yang Yunzhi did not even check what kind of fruit it was. He would accept it even if it was a Zoan, because such things were far too rare for him to be picky.

Besides, he was afraid that something might happen and someone might snatch the fruit away.

How many people had Devil Fruits right at their lips, yet refused to eat them, only to have them stolen afterward?

He took a vicious bite, and Yang Yunzhi's expression immediately changed.

Not because it tasted awful, but because the fruit had no flavor at all!

"That's not right. Didn't they say Devil Fruits taste terrible?" Yang Yunzhi frowned. Besides, he had already taken a bite, yet he did not feel any ability awakening within him!

Did I get a fake Devil Fruit? Or has someone drilled a hole into this Devil Fruit?

Just as he was about to inspect the Devil Fruit carefully, he suddenly heard a ding inside his mind.

It truly came from inside his mind, completely different from the doorbell.

Then he heard an official-sounding female voice. "Detected source energy from the current world. Energy extraction in progress. System repair in progress!"

So I really did have a system, but it needed this source energy to activate?

Did that mean that if I had not obtained a Devil Fruit in this life, I would never have been able to activate the system?

"System repair complete. System activated!"

"Hello, Host!"

"It is currently July 7th, Sea Circle Calendar 1510. Your location is Golden City, Flower Country. Today is clear, with temperatures of 25–32°C, suitable for going outdoors."

"The Justice System is at your service!"