Chapter Summaries

Yang Yunzhi was promoted to private first class and gained new combat skills, then helped Hina address the Navy’s lack of literacy and military-law enforcement. He realized Nico Robin could solve their staffing problems and decided to find and recruit her into the Navy.

• Hina promoted Yang Yunzhi to private first class, explaining that his discovery of a Logia Devil Fruit had earned him a reward.
• Yang Yunzhi claimed his promotion rewards, which raised his Doriki Value and granted him Basic Body Arts, and he discovered his Byakugan now reached 8,000 meters.
• Hina told Yang Yunzhi that many Navy soldiers could not read and that no one appeared to enforce the Navy Code.
• Yang Yunzhi proposed literacy classes so soldiers could read the code and become more effective, and Hina asked him to lead one.
• Yang Yunzhi thought of Nico Robin as a potential secretary and decided to locate her, disguise her appearance, and recruit her into the Navy.

Yang Yunzhi drew the weapon Thundering Pulse, then read the Navy Code and devised conduct rules for the recruits. He planned to arrange literacy materials and privately suggest adding formation training to Hina’s program.

• Yang Yunzhi drew Thundering Pulse, a lightning bow that could also become a blade, and put it away until he had a chance to practice.
• Yang Yunzhi learned that Saint Donquixote Alfred, a Celestial Dragon from four hundred years earlier, had founded the Marines and written the Navy Code.
• Yang Yunzhi adapted eleven regulations from the Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention for the recruits to follow.
• Yang Yunzhi planned to contact West Blue Weekly for literacy materials and went to Hina’s office to borrow her Den Den Mushi, but found her training recruits.
• Yang Yunzhi noticed Hina’s training lacked formation drills and decided to raise the matter with her privately.

After Yang Yunzhi explained his recruit-training rules to Hina, she promoted him to second lieutenant and assigned him the duties of an adjutant. With Little Bean’s help, he found ways to save Navy funds and planned to spend the money on Marines’ benefits and the Military Intelligence Office.

• Yang Yunzhi explained to Hina that recruit drills and blanket folding could instill military bearing and obedience.
• Hina gave Yang Yunzhi his second lieutenant insignia and documents for his new adjutant duties.
• Yang Yunzhi used Little Bean to handle supply, accounting, and other clerical work.
• Yang Yunzhi identified local purchasing and unused weapons funds as ways to save money for Base 36.
• Yang Yunzhi planned to use the savings to increase Marines’ allowances and death benefits and fund the Military Intelligence Office.

After Yang Yunzhi was promoted to lieutenant, he received new skills and lottery rewards, including the Great Yin-Yang Art and a powerful Pod. Little Bean linked with the Pod, gained immense computing power and new abilities, and received the codename Thunder Emperor.

• Hina gave Yang Yunzhi his lieutenant insignia after his rapid rise through the ranks.
• Yang Yunzhi received Intermediate Shooting and Intermediate Swordsmanship, increased attributes, and two lottery draws for his promotions.
• Yang Yunzhi drew the Great Yin-Yang Art, a cultivation method that could preserve youth and develop an Acquired Yin-Yang Body, and considered courting Hina so he could practice it.
• Yang Yunzhi obtained a Pod from the NieR:Automata Universe and linked it with Little Bean, greatly increasing her computing power.
• Little Bean said she could connect with Den Den Mushi worldwide and create artificial storms, so Yang Yunzhi named the Pod Thunder Emperor and considered giving it the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Yang Yunzhi organized supplies and military discipline at Marine Base 36 while Hina grew curious about his abilities. He proposed that Hina develop her Cage-Cage Fruit as a large-scale power-suppressing ability, and she resolved to train it.

• Yang Yunzhi arranged market-price supply contracts with Glazed Town farmers and Gem Country fishermen, saving money previously lost to kickbacks.
• Yang Yunzhi helped Hina introduce military discipline to recruit training, and the recruits quickly formed orderly ranks.
• Hina asked Yang Yunzhi about his navigation school and learned that Staff Officer Tsuru had praised his report and urged Hina to listen to his opinions.
• Yang Yunzhi considered how Hina could grow stronger and suggested developing her Cage-Cage Fruit to seal away opponents' abilities and skills.
• Hina recognized she had only used parts of a prison and agreed to train her fruit's sealing abilities.

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.