System Speaks

If you asked Qi Yan when he felt the most nervous, he could answer without hesitation: every time he drew cards.

[Perform ten consecutive draws?]

"Confirm!"

Starlight began flashing across the panel screen, continuously gathering in the starry sky.

Qi Yan kept praying inwardly, Gold! Gold! Gold!

Qi Yan cautiously opened one eye and looked at the animation on the screen. The moment he saw it, the expression on his face froze.

Among the flashing stars in the sky, let alone gold, there was not even a single purple one. Seven blue, three white.

Qi Yan thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. He closed them and rubbed them, but when he opened them again, all ten character cards had flipped over. They were all nameless fodder he did not recognize.

That was right. No gold, no purple, just a pile of blue.

"System?! Why didn't I get gold?!"

Qi Yan angrily questioned the system.

[??? Host, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand you?]

"I'm asking why I didn't get gold?"

[Isn't it perfectly normal not to get gold? The pity threshold is gold after 100 draws, not after 10. The chance of getting gold from each draw is only 1%, and the chance of getting gold in ten consecutive draws is 9.56%. Isn't not getting gold the most normal outcome?]

"Then what about purple? Why didn't you give me even one purple?"

[Host, aren't you underestimating purple character cards a little too much? The chance of getting purple per draw is slightly higher than gold, but only slightly. The probability is merely 5%, and the chance of getting purple in ten draws is only 40.13%. Isn't it normal not to get purple either?]

"..."

Although Qi Yan had made it into university, he was terrible at calculations. Even when counting money, he had to separate it into piles first. Only now did he realize that the odds of getting gold from ten consecutive draws were close to one in ten.

[Host's luck was previously incredible. Every ten consecutive draw gave you a gold character card, and you even got purple character cards from single draws.]

[However, that does not mean Host will remain lucky forever. Getting gold or purple is the exception; getting green and white is the norm. In fact, Host's luck was still fairly good this time. You got seven blue cards out of ten.]

Qi Yan's mouth twitched. He suspected the system was mocking him. What was the use of drawing more of these blue character cards?

"I refuse to believe it! I'm a one-in-a-billion transmigrator, and I'm even a chosen transmigrator who awakened a system. How could my luck possibly be bad? On top of that, I have the goddess's blessing, plus ten consecutive draws to prime my luck. With three buffs stacked on me, there's no way I won't draw gold!"

[Perform ten consecutive draws?]

"Confirm!"

Starlight began flashing across the panel screen, continuously gathering in the starry sky.

Qi Yan stared fixedly at the screen. White, blue, white, green, blue, white, blue, green—eight stars appeared in succession, their colors representing the grades of those character cards.

Just when Qi Yan thought this round was completely hopeless—

Whoosh—!

A purple star lit up.

"I got purple!!"

Qi Yan was instantly overjoyed.

Purple character cards might not represent the absolute peak of power in their respective works, but they were still among the strongest.

For example, Kisame Hoshigaki, whom Qi Yan had previously drawn from a single pull, possessed extremely formidable overall strength. Might Guy had only barely defeated him after opening seven gates of the Eight Gates.

One had to know that when Might Guy opened all eight gates of the Eight Gates, Ten-Tails jinchuriki Madara Uchiha had praised him, saying: "I, Madara Uchiha, acknowledge you as the strongest man."

So while the upper limit of purple character cards might be somewhat lower than that of gold character cards, their overall strength was only slightly inferior.

Just when Qi Yan thought the card draw had ended, a dazzling golden starlight descended from the heavens.

"I got gold!!"

Qi Yan was beside himself with joy.

"System, say something!!!"

Qi Yan jumped to his feet and shouted arrogantly.

[...]

The system was speechless too. It felt that its host's luck seemed a little too good. Could this guy really be the chosen one?

The system immediately dismissed that thought. A one-in-ten chance was not low; this foolish host had merely gotten lucky.

At that moment, Qi Yan stared intently at the panel as the character cards began flipping over one by one.

Qi Yan skipped over the white, green, and blue cards at the front. Character cards of that level were all experience packs. There was no point in keeping them.

What Qi Yan cared about were the purple and gold cards at the end.

Very soon, the purple character card flipped over.

"It's actually him!!"

Qi Yan could not help being greatly surprised when he saw the person who appeared.

The figure on the character card had black hair, normal skin, and freckles on his cheeks. He wore an orange cowboy hat with "smiling" and "sad" badges along its brim, as well as a skull-shaped ornament tied to it. A string of red beads hung around his neck. He wore black shorts and black shoes, while his upper body remained bare, displaying his perfect physique. A dagger hung at his waist.

That was right! He was one of the greatest regrets of countless One Piece fans—

—"Fire Fist" Ace.

It was because of him that the most iconic Marineford War in the One Piece manga had taken place.

In order to rescue Ace, Whitebeard had led his entire grand fleet in declaring war on Marine Headquarters.

Looking back, such an act had essentially been a death wish. Yet that man had no choice but to go, because he was the strongest man in the world: Whitebeard.

Unfortunately, heroes grew old, and Marine Headquarters' lineup had been far too powerful.

Although they had eventually succeeded in rescuing Ace, they had also paid an enormous price.

In the end, while protecting his younger brother, Ace had his chest pierced from behind by Akainu's magma fist and died.

When Qi Yan had watched that scene back then, he had cried uncontrollably. He had never imagined that one day, he would actually draw Ace's character card.

There was no need to say much about Ace's strength. Although the later parts of the anime had greatly strengthened the role of Haki, Logia-type Devil Fruit abilities were still incredibly powerful and remained mainstream.

"The Flame-Flame Fruit isn't even worth feeding to a dog" was merely a joke.

He refused to believe that anyone could resist eating the Flame-Flame Fruit if it were truly placed right in front of them.

Ace's only weakness was probably that he had appeared too early, when the Haki setting had not yet been fully developed.

But even if Ace had truly been a master of Haki, he probably still would not have been able to withstand Akainu's punch. Akainu was still established as the strongest expert in single-target burst damage.

Perhaps because of those flaws, Ace had been placed among the purple character cards. Yet even among purple character cards, Ace's strength should have been considered top-tier.

Qi Yan turned his gaze toward the final gold character card. After all, this was the main event.

The instant Qi Yan saw what the person looked like, he was utterly shocked.

"It's actually him!!"