Chapter Summaries

Six years after leaving Cocoyasi Village, Yang Cheng had become the feared bounty hunter Orange Killer and joined Baroque Works as Mr. 5, wielding a Famous Sword that had eaten the Bomb-Bomb Fruit. In Whiskey Town, he and Miss Valentine were sent to assess new recruits, and she questioned why he had not risen higher in the organization.

• Yang Cheng spent years mastering the Six Powers and Haki, hunting pirates across the East Blue and Grand Line, and building a fearsome reputation as Orange Killer.
• Nico Robin recruited Yang Cheng into Baroque Works, where he replaced the original Mr. 5 and became Miss Valentine’s partner.
• Crocodile provided Yang Cheng with Rending Wound and the Bomb-Bomb Fruit, which Yang Cheng fed to the sword rather than eating himself.
• Yang Cheng explained that his imagination let him use the Bomb-Bomb Fruit’s explosive power far beyond the original Mr. 5’s techniques.
• In Whiskey Town, Miss Valentine complained that she and Yang Cheng were assigned exhausting fieldwork and asked why he did not challenge the higher-ranking officer agents.

Yang Cheng and Miss Valentine arrived at Whiskey Peak to help capture the pirate Destruction King Laboon, while Miss Valentine worried that Yang Cheng might leave her behind if he advanced in Baroque Works. The chapter ended as Laboon charged at Miss Valentine and she leaped into the air using her Devil Fruit powers.

• Miss Valentine praised Yang Cheng's strength and panicked at the thought that a promotion could separate them as partners.
• Yang Cheng told Miss Valentine he had no desire to rise in Baroque Works and threatened to request a new partner if she kept pestering him.
• Yang Cheng and Miss Valentine arrived at Whiskey Peak, where Baroque Works agents and Millions were struggling against Laboon's crew.
• Miss Valentine checked Laboon's wanted poster, mocked his fifteen-million-Beli bounty, and drew his attention.
• Laboon charged at Miss Valentine, who reduced her weight to one kilogram and sprang into the air.

Mr. Valentine defeated Laboon and his pirates, while undercover agents Vivi and Igaram worried about Baroque Works’ strength. Yang Cheng unexpectedly offered them a promotion, leaving their covers intact and giving them a chance to rise within the organization.

• Mr. Valentine crushed Laboon with a ten-thousand-kilogram attack and a million-ton flying kick, scattering the Laboul Pirates.
• Vivi and Igaram, newly infiltrated into Baroque Works to uncover the cause of Alabasta’s unrest, feared the officer agents’ strength would make their mission impossible.
• Yang Cheng questioned Vivi and Igaram, prompting them to fear that their identities had been exposed.
• Yang Cheng explained that he wanted to recruit them to work under him, and Vivi and Igaram accepted and gave their false names.
• Mr. Valentine wondered why Yang Cheng had taken an unusual interest in the two newcomers.

Yang Cheng revealed that he knew Vivi was Alabasta’s princess and warned that her current rank in Baroque Works would not let her uncover its leader or crimes. He claimed he meant to repay a kindness she had once shown him, leaving Vivi and Igaram wary but listening.

• Miss Valentine suspected Yang Cheng was a lolicon and accused him of giving Vivi special treatment.
• Igaram shielded Vivi, while both prepared for a possible fight over her safety.
• Yang Cheng rebuked Miss Valentine and insisted that he was neither a lolicon nor a pervert.
• Yang Cheng identified Vivi as Alabasta’s princess and explained that her rank could not reveal Baroque Works’ president or provide evidence against him.
• Yang Cheng said he had recognized Vivi from Alabasta and was repaying her for helping him before.

Yang Cheng revealed that Crocodile was behind Alabasta’s drought and unrest, and warned Vivi and Igaram that the Navy would not protect them from him. The Unluckies discovered Yang Cheng and Miss Valentine’s identities, leaving them both on Baroque Works’ blacklist.

• Yang Cheng reminded Vivi that she had saved him in Yuba years earlier, and Vivi recalled the incident.
• Yang Cheng said he had partly joined Baroque Works because Vivi had once helped him, then hinted that a group not yet at sea would eventually save Alabasta.
• Yang Cheng explained that Crocodile had used dance powder and blamed Cobra to provoke conflict and seize Alabasta for something hidden there.
• Yang Cheng warned Vivi and Igaram that appealing to the Navy would expose them to Baroque Works, since Crocodile was a Shichibukai.
• Miss Valentine noticed the Unluckies displaying portraits of her and Yang Cheng before they fled, and Yang Cheng told her she was now on the organization’s blacklist.

Crocodile suspected Yang Cheng knew where Pluton was and decided to confront him personally, bringing Nico Robin along. At Whiskey Peak, Yang Cheng chose to wait for Crocodile while Miss Valentine and Vivi prepared to leave.

• Crocodile questioned Nico Robin about Yang Cheng, then concluded that Yang Cheng might know Pluton's whereabouts.
• Crocodile put on his fur coat and set out to deal with Yang Cheng himself, taking Nico Robin with him.
• Miss Valentine tried to persuade Yang Cheng to flee Baroque Works with her and open a chocolate shop.
• Vivi thanked Yang Cheng and prepared to return to Alabasta with Igaram to seek help from the World Government.
• Yang Cheng told Mikita to leave and decided to wait at Whiskey Peak for Crocodile.

Yang Cheng stayed in Whiskey Town to confront Crocodile, hoping to keep the fight away from Alabasta, while Miss Valentine and Vivi remained with him. When Crocodile arrived and demanded information about Pluton, Yang Cheng claimed Alabasta held a Poneglyph recording the weapon’s whereabouts, prompting Crocodile to ask where it was.

• Yang Cheng explained that Crocodile’s reliance on his Devil Fruit gave him a chance to win outside Alabasta, and Miss Valentine decided to stay with him.
• Miss Valentine imagined taking over Baroque Works after Yang Cheng defeated Crocodile, while Vivi thanked him for helping Alabasta.
• Several days later, Crocodile and Nico Robin arrived in Whiskey Town, where Yang Cheng had been waiting with Miss Valentine and Vivi.
• Crocodile demanded that Yang Cheng reveal the ancient weapon, and Yang Cheng openly asked whether he meant Pluton.
• Yang Cheng said Pluton was not in Alabasta but that a Poneglyph there recorded its location; Crocodile demanded to know where the Poneglyph was.

Yang Cheng used Rending Wound’s explosive slashes to destroy Crocodile’s sand tornado and blast him into a crater, but Crocodile survived by elementalizing and re-forming from sand. Crocodile acknowledged Yang Cheng’s strength and again offered him a chance to reveal Pluton’s location, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Crocodile attacked Yang Cheng with Sables, a sand tornado that grew as it advanced.
• Yang Cheng split the tornado with a slash from Rending Wound, whose Bomb-Bomb Fruit power caused an explosion that scattered the sand.
• Yang Cheng used Shave to close in and struck Crocodile’s Golden Hook, triggering a blast that carved a huge crater and left Crocodile missing.
• Nico Robin, Princess Vivi, Miss Valentine, and the others believed the blast had killed Crocodile, but he re-formed from sand nearby.
• Crocodile praised Yang Cheng’s strength and offered to spare and promote him if he revealed where Pluton was.

Crocodile offered Yang Cheng a place in Baroque Works, but Yang Cheng mocked his reliance on Pluton and challenged his ambitions. Crocodile lost his temper and attacked, and the chapter ended with Yang Cheng’s Azure Flame chains trapping him amid an explosive clash.

• Crocodile recognized Yang Cheng’s strength and offered to recruit him into Baroque Works.
• Yang Cheng rejected the offer and told Crocodile that relying on Pluton meant he had already lost.
• Crocodile launched Desert Grande Spada, but Yang Cheng countered the sand blades with an explosive flying slash and rushed in close.
• Yang Cheng broke Crocodile’s Crescent Moon Sand Dune with Armament Haki and followed with a sword strike that Crocodile blocked with his Golden Hook.
• Yang Cheng’s sword triggered an explosion, and Azure Flame chains wrapped around Crocodile’s ankles, stopping him from escaping through elementalization.

Yang Cheng fought Crocodile in Whiskey Town and drove the wounded Shichibukai to flee, leaving Nico Robin behind. Vivi then begged Yang Cheng to help Alabasta, while Miss Valentine believed they could now act freely.

• Crocodile used Erosion Cycle to turn the ground to sand and escape Yang Cheng's Azure Flame chains, but Yang Cheng broke through his defense and punched him through two buildings.
• Crocodile reemerged and questioned Yang Cheng's origins, while Yang Cheng claimed he had learned about Haki through his travels and sources as a bounty hunter.
• Yang Cheng and Crocodile clashed with powerful attacks, destroying Whiskey Town as they fought from day until night.
• Crocodile fled wounded and defeated, leaving Nico Robin behind because Yang Cheng could defeat him but could not safely kill him.
• Vivi begged Yang Cheng to help Alabasta, and Miss Valentine celebrated their newfound freedom to act.

Yang Cheng explained why he could not yet defeat Crocodile in Alabasta and advised Vivi on how to undermine Crocodile’s plans. As he sailed toward Jaya to improve his Observation Haki, Robin and Mikita argued over their relationship with him, while his growing fame drew unlucky pirates into Mikita’s path.

• Yang Cheng told Vivi that Crocodile would be far more dangerous in Alabasta’s desert, but predicted Crocodile would avoid an open attack for now and advised Vivi to secretly coordinate with Koza and her father while preserving the appearance of conflict.
• Yang Cheng decided to leave for Jaya and seek out Sky Island to improve his Observation Haki.
• On the voyage, Mikita confronted Robin about joining the ship, and Robin countered that she had known Yang Cheng longer and shared a secret agreement with him.
• Yang Cheng stopped Robin and Mikita from fighting by warning that their battle could sink the ship and drown them both.
• After Yang Cheng’s battle with Crocodile made him widely known, pirates who challenged him were beaten, and Mikita used the small-time troublemakers to vent her anger.

Yang Cheng’s disastrous fishing trip ended when Miss Valentine and Nico Robin caught fish effortlessly, prompting him to retreat to the Mysterious Space. There, he met a new High School Yang Cheng and learned that the newcomer was genuinely an ordinary high school student, leaving Pirate Yang Cheng envious after seeing his memories.

• Yang Cheng handed his fishing rod to Miss Valentine for a break, and she caught a huge fish and filled a bucket while he ate.
• Yang Cheng gave the rod to Nico Robin, who used her Flower-Flower Fruit to catch fish after his own efforts failed again.
• Yang Cheng threw down the rod and entered the Mysterious Space to recover from his ruined confidence as an angler.
• Pirate Yang Cheng met High School Yang Cheng and initially doubted that an ordinary high school student could exist in an anime crossover setting.
• Naruto Yang Cheng shared his memories and power with Pirate Yang Cheng, who saw that High School Yang Cheng really was ordinary and grew envious.

Yang Cheng joined the other versions of himself after gaining their shared abilities, and agreed to look for manga about their worlds in his own. At Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, he started life in Class D with extraordinary strength and a plan to earn private points through café work.

• Naruto Yang Cheng and One Piece Yang Cheng reacted to Classroom of the Elite Yang Cheng's comparatively peaceful world and discussed the possibility of other versions appearing from different anime genres.
• Naruto Yang Cheng asked whether Yang Cheng's world had manga or novels about their worlds, and Yang Cheng agreed to look for them after returning.
• Yang Cheng woke in Tokyo and discovered that the abilities he had shared with the others made him nearly inhumanly powerful, though supernatural techniques could not be used there.
• At school, Yang Cheng spoke with Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Yosuke Hirata, and suggested Ayanokoji would be popular if he stopped hiding his abilities.
• Ayanokoji and Suzune Horikita had questioned the school's generous private-point system, then discovered Yang Cheng earning points by working part-time at the school café.

Yang Cheng explained to Suzune Horikita and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji that private points could be used to buy information, and that Class D’s poor conduct had cost them their monthly allowance. Sae Chabashira revealed that students could earn points through other channels and left impressed by Yang Cheng’s resourcefulness, seeing potential in Class D.

• Yang Cheng told Suzune Horikita and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji that he had used private points to learn from upperclassmen and gather information at the school café.
• Sae Chabashira announced that Class D had earned zero private points because its students had been late or absent ninety-eight times and used their phones during class three hundred and ninety-one times.
• Sae Chabashira scolded Class D for failing to think for themselves and explained that students could earn private points through channels beyond the regular monthly allowance.
• Sae Chabashira noticed Yang Cheng and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji’s unusual performance and considered them promising among Class D’s students.

Sae Chabashira became convinced that Yang Cheng was a brilliant student hiding his abilities and saw him as Class D’s chance to rise and make up for her past failure. After she left, the class searched for the student who knew how to earn points, while Suzune urged Yang Cheng to speak up.

• Sae Chabashira investigated Yang Cheng and Ayanokoji, finding that Ayanokoji had scored exactly fifty on every entrance exam and deciding Yang Cheng had disguised his own abilities with deliberately uneven results.
• Sae Chabashira observed Yang Cheng posing as a third-year Class A student at the café, teaching second-year students and working without showing fatigue.
• Sae Chabashira recalled how her refusal to expel her boyfriend during the Unanimous Special Exam had cost her class its chance to catch Class A, and she hoped Yang Cheng could help Class D rise.
• Sae Chabashira chose not to expose Yang Cheng’s deception, unaware that his new abilities came from knowledge shared by One-Punch Monster Yang Cheng.
• After Sae Chabashira left, Class D students searched for the classmate who knew how to earn points, and Suzune pressed Yang Cheng to share what he knew.

Horikita Suzune told Class D that students could earn personal points by working part-time, but her classmates accused her of hiding the option. Yang Cheng defended her, condemned Class D for its irresponsibility, and left after declaring that he could defeat the other classes alone.

• Horikita Suzune explained that Class D needed better midterm results to regain Class Points and personal points, and that campus part-time jobs could provide personal points.
• Yosuke Hirata helped persuade the class to listen as Horikita shared the part-time work option, while Yang Cheng silently urged her not to reveal that he had been the first to earn points that way.
• Several classmates accused Horikita of withholding the information to win their gratitude, and Yang Cheng stood up to defend her.
• Yang Cheng told his classmates they had only cared about earning points once they faced hardship, then left the classroom after saying he could beat the other classes by himself.
• Class D was stunned by Yang Cheng's outburst, and some girls speculated that he liked Horikita, who blushed and considered clarifying that she was not looking to date.

Yang Cheng met Kikyo Kushida after receiving a flood of invitations from classmates and their teacher. He exposed that he knew about her hidden nature, and when she tried to threaten him over their encounter, he revealed that he had recorded it.

• After Class D's meeting ended, Suzune Horikita invited Yang Cheng to meet on the athletic field to discuss dating and the midterms.
• Yang Cheng received invitations from Suzune Horikita, Kei Karuizawa, Kikyo Kushida, Yosuke Hirata, and Sae Chabashira, and he turned down Yosuke Hirata for the time being.
• Yang Cheng met Kikyo Kushida and told her he knew about her darker side and that Suzune Horikita had probably forgotten her.
• Kikyo Kushida grabbed Yang Cheng's hand and pressed it against her chest, then accused him of acting improperly and threatened to report him.
• Yang Cheng retrieved his phone from a nearby utility pole, showing Kikyo Kushida that he had recorded their exchange.

Yang Cheng used a video of Kikyo Kushida framing him to turn her threats back on her. Kushida tried to tempt him into crossing a line she could use against him, but he refused, leaving her to depart in frustration.

• Yang Cheng showed Kikyo Kushida clear footage of her pressing his hand against her chest and threatening him.
• Kushida tried to leave, but Yang Cheng warned that he could expose her fake public image with the video.
• Kushida suggested Yang Cheng wanted her body and tried to tempt him by revealing her cleavage.
• Yang Cheng refused to take things further, recognizing that Kushida could use his actions as leverage against him.
• Kushida left in a huff after her attempts to manipulate Yang Cheng failed.

Yang Cheng met Suzune Horikita, who was preparing to explain her feelings, but Manabu Horikita interrupted and tried to force her to leave the school. Yang Cheng intervened and fought Manabu, ending the chapter as he struck him with an Iron Mountain Lean.

• Kikyo Kushida left after Yang Cheng refused to fall for her plan, and he headed to meet Suzune Horikita.
• Suzune Horikita met Yang Cheng after exercising and nervously began to explain why she had invited him.
• Manabu Horikita interrupted Suzune and criticized her for attending the school and being placed in Class D.
• Manabu grabbed Suzune and prepared to strike her, but Yang Cheng caught his arm and defended her.
• Manabu failed to break free and kicked at Yang Cheng, who blocked the kick and drove an Iron Mountain Lean into his chest.

Yang Cheng stopped Manabu Horikita from hitting Suzune and revealed that Manabu was trying to make his sister withdraw because he feared she would struggle at school. Suzune began to understand her brother’s concern, while Yang Cheng encouraged her to overcome her shortcomings.

• Yang Cheng easily evaded Manabu Horikita’s attacks and overwhelmed him in their brief fight.
• Manabu recognized Yang Cheng’s skill and mentioned what he had learned about his café work and academic abilities.
• Yang Cheng explained that Manabu had likely confronted him because he was close to Suzune and that Manabu was trying to protect her by pushing her to leave school.
• Suzune asked Manabu whether Yang Cheng’s explanation was true, but Manabu left without answering and said Yang Cheng had caught his interest.
• Suzune thanked Yang Cheng for helping her understand her brother’s actions, and Yang Cheng told her that an older brother should support his sister as she grows.