Recaps

Yang Yunzhi explained Devil Fruit abilities and discussed his administrative work with Hina, who became increasingly attracted to him. Their conversation turned intimate, and they went to Hina’s office to bathe together, leaving what happened next omitted.

• Yang Yunzhi explained how a prison that prohibited blades could give Marines with guns an advantage over pirates.
• Hina asked why Yang Yunzhi had stayed late, and he explained that he was reviewing the previous adjutant’s files and the base’s accounts.
• Hina offered to massage Yang Yunzhi’s shoulders, but her hands wandered to his chest.
• Yang Yunzhi pulled Hina onto his lap and asked what she wanted, and they kissed and embraced.
• Hina stopped Yang Yunzhi and suggested they go to her office to bathe before continuing.

After spending the night with Hina, Yang Yunzhi explained why he had performed poorly during his Marine entry test. As they settled into life as a couple at Base 36, both experienced physical improvements from the Great Yin-Yang Art, and their relationship became popular among the Marines.

• Yang Yunzhi woke beside Hina and explained that he had failed to run five laps because he had gone hungry before the test.
• Hina accepted Yang Yunzhi as her boyfriend and began helping him with domestic duties while continuing to train the troops.
• Hina noticed that her skin, old injuries, and stalled strength improved after she began dating Yang Yunzhi.
• Yang Yunzhi realized the Great Yin-Yang Art was working despite neither of them having the usual requirements to cultivate it, and he also felt sharper and more energetic.
• The Marines at Base 36 spread news of the couple and admired how well Hina and Yang Yunzhi looked together.

Vice Admiral Gion arrived at Base 36 to exchange the Cloud-Cloud Fruit for the Door-Door Fruit and inspect Hina’s newly organized Marines. After both fruits were verified, Yang Yunzhi and Gion each took a bite, then immediately retched at their taste.

• Gion arrived at Base 36 and was impressed by the disciplined formation of its 352 Marines.
• Hina credited Yang Yunzhi with arranging the soldiers and assured Gion that their training also included combat.
• Gion gave Hina the Door-Door Fruit, and Hina handed Gion the Cloud-Cloud Fruit.
• Hina and Yang Yunzhi checked the Door-Door Fruit against the Devil Fruit Compendium, while Gion verified the Cloud-Cloud Fruit.
• Yang Yunzhi ate the Door-Door Fruit, and Gion ate the Cloud-Cloud Fruit; both retched at the taste.

Yang Yunzhi ate the Door-Door Fruit while Gion tested the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, and he explained that he had chosen his fruit to store weapons and supplies. After Gion offered him a position at the General Staff Office on Tsuru’s recommendation, Yang Yunzhi declined and chose to advance through the ranks in West Blue.

• Yang Yunzhi ate the Door-Door Fruit, learned its basic abilities, and had the fruit’s abnormal will removed by the system.
• Gion experimented with the Cloud-Cloud Fruit and discussed its potential uses with Hina and Yang Yunzhi.
• Yang Yunzhi said he had chosen the Door-Door Fruit because its storage space could ease his firepower deficiency anxiety and fulfill a childhood dream.
• Gion told Yang Yunzhi that the Marines valued his report and poem, then offered him a General Staff Office position from Chief of Staff Tsuru.
• Yang Yunzhi declined the position, saying he wanted to work his way up from the grassroots, and Gion wished him and Hina success in West Blue.

Yang Yunzhi explained why he stayed in the Four Seas and planned to build an intelligence organization hidden inside the Door-Door Fruit’s alternate space. He and Hina agreed on how often he could travel, and he hoped to develop a door that would let him return instantly.

• Yang Yunzhi told Hina he had refused Gion’s offer to transfer him to Marine Headquarters so he could build up his forces in the Four Seas.
• Yang Yunzhi urged Hina to delegate soldier training and focus on developing her Devil Fruit ability.
• Yang Yunzhi learned that Aokiji had visited the West Blue and that the commander of Branch 82 on Ghost Mulberry Island had met him.
• Yang Yunzhi explained that the Door-Door Fruit would conceal the intelligence organization’s headquarters and that the organization would operate under no fixed name.
• Yang Yunzhi and Hina settled on him returning to the base at least once a week while he traveled to gather intelligence.
• Yang Yunzhi said he planned to develop a teleportation gate that could let him travel instantly between the Four Seas.

Yang Yunzhi developed a Spark Portal using his Door-Door Fruit and practiced adjusting its size, position, and activation. He left the warehouse able to open portals with a thought, and considered developing Ancient One’s Mirror Space next.

• Yang Yunzhi chose the Sorcerer Supreme’s golden-spark portal as his first skill to develop.
• Yang Yunzhi used his Byakugan to locate a stone platform near Glazed Town and opened a portal to it on his second attempt.
• Yang Yunzhi tested how portal stamina costs changed with practice, size, and distance, and found that maintaining a portal also used stamina.
• Yang Yunzhi practiced opening small portals inside the warehouse and learned to control their size and orientation, then open them without gestures.
• Yang Yunzhi discovered he could not move a portal after fixing its opening position and considered trying to develop Mirror Space.

Yang Yunzhi spent seven days mastering and expanding the Door-Door Fruit’s abilities before setting out to recruit Robin for the Military Intelligence Office. After a twenty-one-day journey using portals and ships, he arrived at Ghost Mulberry Island.

• Yang Yunzhi mastered portals and developed the Spirit World, a large Portable Space, Dimensional Roaming, and Mirror Space.
• Yang Yunzhi decided to form the Military Intelligence Office and chose Robin as the person best suited to lead it.
• Yang Yunzhi traveled from Glazed Town to Gem Country, stocked his Portable Space with food, and secretly boarded a ship to Luminous Island.
• Yang Yunzhi continued his journey between islands, using Spark Portals to return to Base 36 each week and keep his promise to Hina.
• After twenty-one days of travel, Yang Yunzhi reached Ghost Mulberry Island.

Yang Yunzhi searched Ghost Mulberry Island for Robin and learned she had left for the South Blue eighteen days earlier. He recruited Bezos, an island information broker, and used the Link-Link Fruit to help him begin building a far-reaching intelligence network.

• Yang Yunzhi searched Ghost Mulberry Island with his Byakugan but found no sign of Robin.
• Bezos told Yang Yunzhi that Robin had stayed at the Seagull Inn and library before leaving aboard the merchant ship White Wave for the South Blue.
• Bezos explained how he gathered information through street orphans, beggars, and other informants, and Yang Yunzhi offered to fund a global intelligence network.
• Yang Yunzhi used Little Bean's Secondary Link ability to authorize Bezos as a link point and connect him to Little Bug and forty-two other informants.
• Bezos eagerly accepted Yang Yunzhi as his chief, and Yang Yunzhi told him he was secretly preparing to oppose the World Government.

Yang Yunzhi recruited Bezos to build an intelligence network and traced Nico Robin to Cinnamon Island in the South Blue. He left Ghost Mulberry Island to pursue her, while Robin prepared to move on, unaware that Yang Yunzhi was closing in.

• Yang Yunzhi gave Bezos a monthly budget of 200,000 Beli and tasked him with expanding the network and finding Nico Robin.
• Bezos's agents learned that Robin had traveled from Ghost Mulberry Island to Emerald City and then Cinnamon Island, while General Aokiji had searched for her and apparently let her go.
• Bezos described the Oniki Clan's succession conflict and its leader's Origin Heart Sword, but Yang Yunzhi postponed pursuing the weapon until after finding Robin.
• Yang Yunzhi authorized Bezos to manage Ghost Mulberry Island's linked agents, left him training materials, and confirmed that Robin was staying at the Scholar Inn on Cinnamon Island.
• Yang Yunzhi opened a Spark Portal to a merchant ship bound for Emerald City, while Bezos monitored 143 linked informants and Robin prepared to leave Cinnamon Island.

Yang Yunzhi tracked Nico Robin to Cinnamon Island, where he discovered she had been watching him after spotting Da Limu’s surveillance. He intervened when local thugs cornered Robin and left with her, still concealing his real intentions.

• Yang Yunzhi learned at the Scholar Inn that Robin had checked out eight days earlier and asked about ships to Pepper Island.
• Yang Yunzhi met Da Limu, added him to DD Chat, and learned that Robin had sailed to Pepper Island aboard the White Elephant.
• Yang Yunzhi spotted Robin watching him from an inn and deliberately led her into an alley to draw her closer.
• Five thugs confronted Robin, and Yang Yunzhi claimed she was his girlfriend to help them leave together.
• Yang Yunzhi paid the thugs to let them go, then left the alley with Robin.

Yang Yunzhi revealed his identity and invited Nico Robin to join his unnamed organization, promising support for her search for history and a world where people could live with dignity. Robin asked for three days to decide, while Yang Yunzhi set plans in motion to expand his intelligence network on Cinnamon Island.

• Yang Yunzhi marked the blond Lilac Gang member on his map and saved the man's location data.
• Yang Yunzhi escorted Robin to her inn room, where she attacked him with the Flower-Flower Fruit after he identified her as Nico Robin, the last scholar of Ohara.
• Yang Yunzhi used the Door-Door Fruit to redirect Robin's attack and explained that he wanted to recruit her into an unnamed organization.
• Yang Yunzhi described the organization's goals and offered to help Robin investigate the Poneglyphs; Robin asked for time to think and received three days.
• Yang Yunzhi told Little Bean to monitor Robin and investigate the blond thug, then ordered a second intelligence node established on Cinnamon Island with Da Limu as its administrator.

Yang Yunzhi investigated Ajilu Celo and the Celo Five, then recruited the five siblings into his organization as a future pirate crew. They accepted his offer and began training under his direction, while Yang Yunzhi hinted that their boss Lushen would soon face trouble.

• Little Bean told Yang Yunzhi how Gelaigao Celo built the Celo Family, how the family was destroyed, and how the Celo Five ended up under Lushen Celo.
• Yang Yunzhi visited Ajilu, Ali, Akai, Ayong, and Aming in their slum home and defeated them when they attacked him.
• Yang Yunzhi offered to train the siblings as pirates and threatened them if they refused; after discussing it, Ajilu and the others agreed to join him.
• Yang Yunzhi linked the five siblings to DD Chat, created the Pirate Training Camp group, and promised to train them and provide living expenses.
• Yang Yunzhi told the siblings to report anyone who bullied them and hinted that Lushen would encounter trouble soon.

Yang Yunzhi explained his plan to build an organization capable of overthrowing the World Government, and Robin agreed to join him. They exchanged a symbolic badge and prepared to return to Western Ghost Mulberry Island to establish a base.

• Yang Yunzhi told Robin he planned to unite people from every class and profession to oppose the World Government.
• Robin said she feared her status as the Devil Child would bring trouble, but Yang Yunzhi argued that their goals and resources could support each other.
• After recalling Ohara and her years alone, Robin decided to join Yang Yunzhi.
• Yang Yunzhi welcomed Robin as a comrade and gave her a silver badge bearing a door symbol.
• Yang Yunzhi planned to take the Origin Heart Sword and seize Ghost Mulberry Island, then abruptly offered to teach Robin makeup.

Robin changed her appearance and took on the identity of Yang Yunzhi’s personal assistant, Miss Rebecca, then told him about the hardships she had faced over the past decade. After Yang Yunzhi promised to protect her and support her dreams, Robin chose to trust him.

• Robin practiced makeup and styling until she looked like a confident career woman, and Yang Yunzhi gave her rimless glasses and the name Miss Rebecca.
• Robin told Yang Yunzhi that she had fled a village at fourteen after men tried to force her into marriage, then left Carlisle after the young prince tried to enter her room.
• Robin explained that she had managed Oniki Nobuko’s businesses on Ghost Mulberry Island, but Oniki Ichiro and Kijiro Oniki sent assassins after her as Nobuko gained power.
• Robin said she left the island after sensing Aokiji’s presence, afraid that another assassin might expose her identity as the Demon Child.
• Yang Yunzhi embraced Robin and promised that she would be safe and able to pursue her dreams, and Robin hugged him back and asked him not to let her down.

Yang Yunzhi decided to destroy the Oniki Clan and asked Robin to explain its history and strength. After learning how formidable the clan was, he remained confident and called for a meeting to plan its removal from Ghost Mulberry Island.

• Yang Yunzhi told Robin that his organization would unite only forces with principles and that he wanted to wipe out the Oniki Clan.
• Robin explained that the clan had once brutally suppressed Ghost Mulberry Island, and Yang Yunzhi argued that it had never admitted its past wrongdoing.
• Robin detailed the Oniki Clan’s history, inherited Origin Heart Sword and Isshin Style, leaders, fighters, and estimated combat strength.
• Yang Yunzhi learned that the Oniki Clan controlled Ghost Mulberry Island with a large force of trained fighters and asked why it had not expanded farther.
• Yang Yunzhi declared that the clan’s strength would not stop him and called for a meeting to plan how to remove it from the island.

Yang Yunzhi convened a remote meeting with Hina, Robin, and Bezos to discuss establishing a base on Ghost Mulberry Island. After learning the Oniki Clan was stronger than expected, he proposed exploiting its succession struggle to weaken it and recruit an ally from within.

• Yang Yunzhi and Little Bean prepared the remote meeting and shared a report proposing Ghost Mulberry Island as an experimental base.
• Yang Yunzhi began the meeting by assigning the attendees organizational code names and asking them to discuss the report.
• Bezos revealed that the Oniki Clan had more than three hundred armed personnel, including powerful Generals and Pillars, while Hina said defeating it would require a major Marine force.
• Yang Yunzhi identified the clan's succession dispute as a vulnerability and directed Bezos to expand intelligence gathering, promised technical support and funding, and planned to intensify conflict among the factions.
• Yang Yunzhi proposed recruiting an Oniki Clan insider as a partner who supported their ideals, and Robin and the others listened to his plan.

Yang Yunzhi approved the DD Organization’s plan to seize Ghost Mulberry Island and explained how the group would conceal its base. As its members began preparing, Robin reflected on the possibility that Yang Yunzhi could change the world.

• Robin asked how the group would keep the World Government from discovering its base, and Yang Yunzhi proposed operating under the DD Party name and isolating information around remote Ghost Mulberry Island.
• Yang Yunzhi approved the operation, assigned intelligence work to Eyes and Ears and Historian, and asked Hina about her recruits’ readiness.
• Back at Marine Base 36, Hina questioned Yang Yunzhi about Rebecca and Little Bean, and he promised to build nearby intelligence points soon.
• Robin reviewed the meeting records under the alias Rebecca and considered whether Yang Yunzhi’s practical reform plans could change the world.
• Bezos assigned tasks in the West Blue, Ajilu finished training on Ghost Mulberry Island, and Yang Yunzhi spent the night with Hina as preparations for the operation continued.

Yang Yunzhi began building an intelligence network across the islands under Base 36 by recruiting locals with useful knowledge and connecting them through DD technology. After eighteen days, he had established a network of informants, though his limited funds constrained their pay.

• Yang Yunzhi recruited Afeng, Glazed Town’s former sailor and village chief, to report on visitors, ships, and activity at sea in exchange for monthly pay and a communication interface.
• Yang Yunzhi traveled across the nine islands under Base 36’s jurisdiction over the next eighteen days to recruit more informants.
• At Gem Country’s largest dock, Yang Yunzhi hired One-Eyed Old Joe for his memory of ships, cargoes, and owners.
• Yang Yunzhi recruited newspaper seller Little Curly to track news and the people buying specific newspaper sections.
• Yang Yunzhi recruited Mute Uncle, whose sharp hearing and observations had revealed a planned raid, and connected him to DD Chat.
• Yang Yunzhi modeled his network partly on Bezos’s use of orphans, beggars, and newspaper sellers, adding dockworkers while noting he had little money to pay them.

Yang Yunzhi built an intelligence network across nine islands and used its reports to identify the Blood Knife Pirates scouting Red Maple Island, prompting him to prepare the Navy for a clash. A detailed report from Bezos also drew Yang Yunzhi’s attention to Lina, as a covert campaign against Ghost Mulberry Island began to take shape.

• Yang Yunzhi recruited village chiefs, watchmen, and other locals as informants, completing a network of thirty-seven people across nine islands.
• An informant reported a fast black-sailed ship near Red Maple Island, and Yang Yunzhi matched it to Blood Knife Henry’s pirate crew using Navy bounty records.
• After another informant reported that armed strangers were asking about freshwater sources, Yang Yunzhi identified the pirates’ presence as confirmed and ordered Hina to convene an emergency combat meeting while Red Maple Island’s informants observed in silence.
• On Ghost Mulberry Island, Bezos sent an encrypted report detailing the Oniki Clan and its members, including Lina.
• Yang Yunzhi read Bezos’s report on Glass Island and studied Lina’s portrait as the coming naval clash and covert campaign converged.

Yang Yunzhi presented Hina with detailed intelligence on the Blood Knife Pirates and called a combat conference to plan an attack. He outlined a force of 280 Marines against the pirates, setting the goal of wiping them out while keeping casualties in the single digits.

• Yang Yunzhi gave Hina intelligence describing the Blood Knife Pirates, their island camp, individual members, weapons, habits, and supplies.
• Yang Yunzhi proposed holding a combat conference, and Hina agreed.
• Yang Yunzhi displayed a holographic map and pirate profiles to forty officers and leaders at Base 36.
• Yang Yunzhi announced that two companies, totaling 280 Marines, would confront the 79 pirates.
• Yang Yunzhi rejected the idea of a fair fight and stated that the Marines should destroy the pirates while keeping casualties in the single digits.

Yang Yunzhi briefed the officers on a coordinated nighttime raid designed to defeat the pirates with minimal casualties and introduced a secret real-time Combat Command System. He left Hina in command at the base and ordered her to stay out of the battle unless Blood Blade proved impossible to defeat with gunfire.

• Yang Yunzhi showed the fleet's detailed plan to silently surround the pirate camp, seize the ships, and attack before dawn.
• Drake and the other company commanders were shocked by the plan's departure from traditional naval combat, and Yang Yunzhi explained that its goal was zero deaths and minimal casualties.
• Yang Yunzhi linked the officers to the Combat Command System and warned them to keep it secret, while the commanders accepted the plan rather than risk a bloody conventional fight.
• Yang Yunzhi dismissed the officers and told Hina to remain behind and command instead of joining the raid, giving the soldiers a chance to prove their fighting strength.

Yang Yunzhi’s forces launched a night assault on Henry and Good’s pirate camp, using coordinated infiltration and three-rank volleys to destroy the Blood Knife Pirates with no deaths. After the victory, he concluded that disciplined gunfire could let his troops defeat powerful pirates while minimizing casualties, and the fleet sailed home to claim bounties and commendations.

• Yang Yunzhi guided five darkened warships to the island, and Luo Ma and Drake led teams ashore to infiltrate the pirate camp and block escape routes.
• Luo Ma’s soldiers silently killed guards aboard the pirate ship while Drake’s men eliminated pirates in the southern woods.
• Henry sensed danger and burst from his quarters, but Luo Niu ordered the troops to fire in coordinated volleys as Henry and Good tried to rally the camp.
• The gunfire overwhelmed the pirates, killing Henry and Good and ending the battle with zero deaths and eleven lightly wounded soldiers.
• Yang Yunzhi inspected the battlefield, discussed the effectiveness of firearms with Hina, and planned to use the tactics to advance while reducing casualties.
• Yang Yunzhi ordered commendations and extra meat for the soldiers, and the Navy fleet sailed away in the morning.

Brannew brought Marine Headquarters a report on Base 36’s victory over the Blood Knife Pirates, highlighting Yang Yunzhi’s Three-Stage Shooting tactic and zero deaths. After Tsuru tested the tactic with Garp and Sengoku, Headquarters rewarded Hina and Yang while allowing him to continue his work in West Blue.

• Brannew read Base 36’s five-page report and hurried to show Ranzō its zero casualties and proposed reforms.
• Ranzō and Brannew presented the report to Tsuru, who summoned thirty marksmen, Garp, and Sengoku to test Three-Stage Shooting.
• Tsuru’s marksmen used continuous volleys to pressure Garp, who judged the tactic lethal to many opponents and effective at suppressing stronger fighters.
• Sengoku and Tsuru agreed to promote Hina to Lieutenant Colonel and Yang Yunzhi to Captain, provide supplies, and issue a general commendation for tactical innovation.
• Tsuru told Sengoku that Yang Yunzhi wanted to advance from the grassroots, so Headquarters let him continue his work in West Blue.

During the victory banquet, Yang Yunzhi learned that he had been promoted to Captain and tested the new abilities and rewards that came with his rank. He used his promotion draw to obtain Zephyr, a powerful accessory, then returned to the celebration.

• Yang Yunzhi received the system notification that he had been promoted to Captain, raising his Dao Power to 640 and granting Intermediate Martial Arts, expanded system features, and a promotion draw.
• Yang Yunzhi tested his improved martial arts, Portable Space, and map, discovering that the map could mark territories by faction and help detect intruders.
• Yang Yunzhi tested Justice Value draws and found that small draws yielded items roughly matching ten thousand Beli per point, so he decided to save points for a larger draw.
• Yang Yunzhi used his promotion draw and obtained Zephyr, a feather-shaped accessory that boosted his speed, attack power, recovery, and resistance to control effects.
• Yang Yunzhi tried Zephyr’s effects on the training ground, then returned to the lively victory banquet.

Yang Yunzhi discovered that Spell Power enhanced his attributes and system abilities while Armor strengthened his defense, both scaling with souls collected by Hell's Curse. He planned to build hospitals as a way to help people while potentially accumulating souls, and the chapter left him preparing to contact Bezos about taking Ghost Mulberry Island.

• Yang Yunzhi tested his new martial arts and discovered that Spell Power and Armor had each reached 64.5 after the Blood Knife Pirates' deaths.
• Little Bean's measurements showed that Spell Power increased his physical and system-related attributes by about 6.5 per thousand, while Armor made his skin more resistant to cuts.
• Yang Yunzhi considered whether Hell's Curse could collect souls from deaths caused by his command and decided to investigate the battlefield later.
• Yang Yunzhi devised a chain hospital plan to improve medical care and potentially collect souls from natural deaths, while insisting that patients receive proper treatment.
• Yang Yunzhi went to bed planning to contact Bezos about Ghost Mulberry Island, which he had marked as the first phase of the Fallen Leaf Plan.