Chapter Summaries

Yas, a newly transported Marine recruit in the era of Rocks D. Zebek, faced a lethal attack from Instructor Moore and awakened the Strongest Template System. He gained the Third Raikage’s lightning armor, survived Moore’s kick, and left the training ground stunned as he challenged the instructor.

• Instructor Moore singled out Yas during Marine training and mocked his calm demeanor and claim that he had joined for justice.
• Moore attacked Yas with a powerful Shave kick coated in Armament Haki, intending to teach him a lesson.
• As Yas faced the lethal blow, the Strongest Template System activated and granted him the SSS-rank Third Raikage template.
• The system’s beginner protection activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode, and Yas’s lightning armor stopped Moore’s kick.
• The lightning shocked Moore and sent him flying, while Yas stood unharmed and asked whose fists were harder now.

Yas used the Third Raikage template’s Lightning Release Chakra Mode to defeat Instructor Moore and refused to let him accuse him of secretly eating a Devil Fruit. Vice Admiral Zephyr arrived, questioned Yas, and launched a powerful strike to test his body.

• Yas checked his system and learned that his 1% fusion had unlocked basic Lightning Release Chakra Mode, while Hell Stab required 5% fusion.
• Moore accused Yas of secretly eating a Devil Fruit, but Yas demanded proof and the recruits backed him by claiming they had seen nothing.
• Yas warned Moore to watch his mouth and keep his hands to himself, then turned to leave.
• Vice Admiral Zephyr arrived, rebuked Moore, and questioned Yas about the fight.
• Zephyr raised his seastone mechanical arm and charged at Yas to test his mettle.

Yas activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and blocked Zephyr’s punch, impressing the head instructor with his strength. Zephyr exempted Yas from basic training and named Monkey D. Garp as his opponent for a special combat assessment in three days.

• Zephyr attacked Yas with a powerful punch, but Yas activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and blocked it with one hand.
• Zephyr recognized Yas’s lightning armor as a formidable ability and learned that Yas called it a special constitution.
• Zephyr exempted Yas from basic training and announced a special assessment against Marine Headquarters Vice Admirals in three days.
• Zephyr told Yas that he had arranged a special opponent for his final assessment: Monkey D. Garp.

Yas faced down Monkey D. Garp after clashing with him over food in Marineford’s mess hall. At the recruits’ combat assessment, Yas activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode to begin their fight.

• Yas refused to let Garp take the grilled meat from his plate, and the two tested each other’s strength before Garp left with rice crackers.
• Yas recognized that Garp’s casual grip had pressured his body despite his low fusion rate with the Third Raikage template.
• At the combat assessment, Yas learned he had been assigned a one-on-one match against Vice Admiral Garp, while Marines gathered to watch.
• Garp taunted Yas in the training ground, and Yas answered by activating Lightning Release Chakra Mode in a burst of blue lightning.

Yas manifested Raijin Armor and challenged Garp, then endured Garp’s Iron Fist without being injured. After Yas mocked the punch, Garp coated his fist in Armament Haki and prepared to strike again.

• Yas activated Raijin Armor, and its lightning shocked the Marines watching him.
• Garp used Shave to rush Yas and hit him in the chest with an Iron Fist.
• Yas took the punch head-on, and the clash created a crater and sent Marines flying.
• Yas remained uninjured and mocked Garp’s punch as weak.
• Garp coated his right arm in Armament Haki and announced a stronger Iron Fist.

Yas endured Garp’s relentless Armament Haki punches, growing stronger under the pressure while Marines and officers watched in shock. As Garp prepared to end the fight with an even stronger blow, Yas unlocked the Third Raikage’s Four-Finger Nukite and prepared to strike.

• Yas charged Garp and traded more than a hundred brutal blows without dodging or defending, while his damaged Raijin Armor and body grew stronger under the assault.
• Garp’s punches sent Yas flying, but Yas repeatedly got back up, and Garp realized his lightning and physical strength were repairing injuries that should have incapacitated him.
• Sengoku and Zephyr recognized that Garp’s pressure was driving Yas to unleash his potential, while the veterans stopped mocking him.
• Yas and Garp paused to recover, and Garp announced that he would use eighty percent of his strength to break Yas’s Raijin Armor.
• Yas surpassed five percent fusion with the Third Raikage template, unlocked Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite, and formed a concentrated lightning blade at his fingertips.

Yas unleashed Four-Finger Nukite against Garp, overpowering his Armament Haki and carving a massive trench through Marineford's training ground. Exhausted but triumphant, Yas asked Garp if his Nukite had been tough enough.

• Garp reinforced his arms with Armament Haki and braced himself to withstand Yas's Four-Finger Nukite.
• Yas vanished in a burst of speed and drove his four-finger strike into Garp's crossed arms.
• Yas's strike pierced Garp's defense and drove him back more than a hundred meters.
• Zephyr shielded a major from the unleashed lightning, but the blast tore through the training ground and seawall before plunging into the sea.
• The blast split Marineford's First Combat Training Ground with a long trench that reached the sea, while Yas's lightning armor faded and his body spasmed from exhaustion.
• Yas looked toward the panting Garp and asked whether his Nukite had been tough enough.

Yas stunned the Marines by injuring Garp with his Four-Finger Nukite, prompting Sengoku and Zephyr to recognize his extraordinary potential. Sengoku ended the assessment and announced Yas’s exceptional promotion, but had not yet revealed its final rank.

• Yas asked Garp whether his Four-Finger Nukite had been powerful enough, and Garp inspected the scorched indentations it had left on his guarded arms.
• Sengoku and Zephyr discussed Yas’s destructive technique and his potential to become a powerful Marine against the era’s greatest pirates.
• Garp laughed, praised Yas’s attack, and invited him aboard his warship, but Yas insisted that he still had a stronger move.
• Sengoku and Zephyr joined Garp before Yas, and Sengoku ended the live-combat assessment.
• Sengoku awarded Yas an S rating and announced that he would receive an exceptional promotion, beginning to declare his new status.

Sengoku promoted Yas directly to Marine Headquarters major and ordered him to hunt the Butcher Pirates, challenging him to prove his rank through combat. When veteran Marines refused to join Yas’s crew, a trembling recruit volunteered, leaving the rest of the crew unchosen.

• Sengoku granted Yas the rank of Marine Headquarters major, provoking furious objections from veteran officers.
• Zephyr silenced the protesters, and Garp backed Yas’s promotion with a threat to train anyone who disagreed.
• Sengoku assigned Yas to lead a squad against the Butcher Pirates near the Reverse Mountain route, and Yas accepted without hesitation.
• Sengoku gave Yas his appointment papers and uniform and announced that he needed twenty-nine crew members for the Vanguard.
• The veteran Marines avoided volunteering, and a trembling recruit finally declared that he was willing to join Yas.

Yas assembled a crew of more than twenty recruits and Lieutenant Bullet to hunt the Butcher Pirates, then led them out of Marineford aboard a Vanguard-class gunboat. Before they had been at sea half a day, the pirates appeared, and Yas ordered his inexperienced crew to prepare for battle.

• Teppei and more than twenty recruits volunteered to follow Yas, and Lieutenant Bullet joined them as well.
• Yas led the recruits and Bullet to Pier Seven, where they boarded a Vanguard-class gunboat and prepared to sail.
• Bullet commanded the gunboat out of Marineford toward the Reverse Mountain route while the Marines on shore doubted the crew would survive.
• As the recruits grew anxious at sea, Bullet told Teppei their survival depended on how much of a monster Yas was.
• A lookout spotted the Butcher Pirates' ship charging toward them, and Yas ordered all hands to prepare for battle.

Yas and the Vanguard faced a deadly assault from Gore and the Butcher Pirates, whose captain sought to seize the Marine gunboat. As cannonballs bore down on the ship, Yas prepared to confront the barrage himself, and the chapter ended before his response was revealed.

• Lieutenant Bullet struggled to ready the frightened Marines aboard the Vanguard as Gore's Bloody Mary charged toward them.
• Gore ordered his pirates to fire a broadside at the Vanguard, leaving the recruits convinced they were doomed.
• Yas received a system mission to annihilate the Butcher Pirates and was promised a fusion increase and an advanced Raikage-type skill.
• Yas told Bullet to hold the ship steady and ordered the recruits to stay back and protect his new ship.
• As the cannonballs reached the Vanguard, Yas calmly raised one bare hand without activating his Raijin Armor.

Yas used his Lightning Release Armor to withstand the Bloody Mary’s cannonballs and Seastone bullets without injury. With Captain Gore and his pirates terrified, Yas crouched and prepared to strike back.

• Captain Gore and his pirates mocked Yas as he held out his hand against their cannon barrage.
• Yas covered himself in blue Lightning Release Armor and stopped the cannonballs without moving.
• Gore ordered his pirates to attack with Seastone Bullets, but Yas’s armor deflected and melted them.
• Yas told the pirates it was his turn, then crouched as a surge of Lightning Release Chakra erupted around him.

Yas used his lightning speed to cross the sea, board the Bloody Mary, and slaughter Gore’s pirates. He faced Gore alone, and as Gore attacked with his massive saber, Yas prepared to catch the blade with his bare hand.

• Gore ordered his crew to fire on Yas, but Yas vanished from the Vanguard and streaked across the sea in a burst of blue lightning.
• Yas crashed onto the Bloody Mary’s foredeck, terrifying the pirates as he emerged from the crater.
• Gore offered a reward to anyone who killed Yas, and dozens of pirates charged him.
• Yas killed and incapacitated the attackers with lightning-fast strikes until the survivors fled or jumped into the sea.
• Yas approached Gore, who backed against the cabin door and then swung his horse-slaying saber at Yas.
• Yas raised his open hand to catch the blade and told Gore he was too weak to merit his Three-Finger Nukite.

Yas defeated Gore the “Butcher” by catching his enormous saber barehanded and shattering it, leaving Gore terrified and helpless. Yas identified himself as a Marine passing by and prepared to finish him.

• Yas caught Gore’s horse-slaying saber in his bare hand, shattering Gore’s arms and hurling him across the deck.
• The recruits aboard the Vanguard, including Lieutenant Bullet and Teppei, watched in stunned disbelief.
• Yas crushed the Butcher’s Fang into countless fragments with his fingers and Lightning Release Chakra.
• Gore scrambled backward in fear as Yas approached, realizing Yas had never intended to spare him.
• Gore demanded to know who Yas was, and Yas replied that he was a Marine passing by who hated seeing trash like Gore alive.

Yas defeated and killed “Butcher” Gore after effortlessly catching Gore’s Seastone bullet. With the pirate ship Bloody Mary still intact, Yas prepared to destroy it and complete his mission.

• Gore fired a Seastone bullet at Yas, but Yas caught it between two fingers and tossed it into the sea.
• Gore lost all will to fight, and Yas killed him with One-Finger Nukite.
• The system announced that Yas’s mission to wipe out the Butcher Pirates was 99% complete, with the destruction of Bloody Mary still required.
• Yas aimed three fingers at the ship’s ammunition magazine and declared that Bloody Mary would disappear.

Yas destroyed the Bloody Mary with a lightning strike that pierced its ammunition magazine, then returned to the Vanguard as the ship exploded. After the recruits survived the blast, Bullet spotted smoke rising from the island occupied by the Butcher Pirates.

• Yas unleashed a powerful lightning attack and formed a compressed spear of energy at his fingertips.
• Yas used Three-Finger Nukite to pierce the Bloody Mary's decks and ignite the ammunition in its hold.
• Yas returned to the Vanguard as the Bloody Mary exploded and broke apart, while Bullet shielded Teppei from the blast.
• The recruits recovered and saw that only burning wreckage remained of the Bloody Mary.
• Bullet spotted an island ahead and warned Yas that smoke rising from the Butcher Pirates' old base suggested trouble.

Yas changed course to the Butcher Pirates’ island to rescue survivors, then destroyed an approaching pirate ship with another devastating blue beam. After the battle, he discovered a faint black sheen of an unfamiliar power on his fist, which Bullet witnessed.

• Yas accepted the system’s side mission to eliminate the island’s remaining enemies and rescue survivors in exchange for 5% Template Fusion and beginner Chakra Sensing, then ordered the Vanguard to change course.
• Yas landed on the devastated island and sent Bullet to search for survivors while Teppei guarded the ship; Yas found a frightened little girl hiding in a house.
• Bullet reported that a dozen or so elderly people and children had survived, and a lookout spotted an auxiliary ship of the Butcher Pirates approaching.
• Yas told the survivors to stay inside and destroyed the approaching pirate ship with a blue beam before it could reach the harbor.
• After using most of his Lightning Release Chakra, Yas sensed a new power, focused it into his fist, and struck a reef rock as Bullet noticed a faint black sheen.

Yas awakened the nascent form of Armament Haki after destroying a reef rock with a punch, and imagined combining Haki with his Lightning Release powers. After wiping out the Butcher Pirate Crew and its fleet, Yas and the Vanguard left the island for Marineford.

• Yas used a punch without Lightning Release Chakra to reduce a massive reef rock to powder, and the system confirmed that he had reached the threshold of Armament Haki.
• Yas considered how Haki might enhance his Lightning Release Armor and Hell Stab, and wondered whether he could awaken Conqueror's Haki.
• Bullet recognized Yas's punch as an advanced form of Armament Haki and became even more convinced that following him was the right choice.
• Yas told Bullet to leave food and medicine for the villagers and prepare to return to Marineford.
• The Vanguard sailed away from the island, while Bullet realized the mission had taken less than ten hours and wondered how Navy Headquarters would react.

Yas returned to Marineford less than ten hours after departing and was revealed to have annihilated the Butcher Pirate Crew. Sengoku and Zephyr marveled at his feat, while Garp arrived and called for a celebration.

• Yas's Vanguard returned to Dock Seven, where Raymond mocked the crew for supposedly fleeing their mission.
• Bullet submitted the mission report and Gore's severed head, then announced that Yas had destroyed the entire pirate crew and sunk both ships.
• Sengoku read the report confirming the mission took nine hours and forty minutes, and Zephyr agreed that Yas's speed was beyond normal sailing.
• Sengoku declared that the Marines had gained a monster of their own, and Garp burst into the office to congratulate Yas and suggest a celebration.

After Yas returned from wiping out the Butcher Pirate Crew, Garp and Sengoku argued over his ruthless methods before Garp brought him a feast. When Zephyr asked what had changed on the mission, Yas revealed that he had awakened Armament Haki, shocking Garp.

• Sengoku warned Garp that Yas had executed the pirates without trial, while Garp defended his brutality and Zephyr urged them to focus on his mission.
• Garp brought Zephyr to the Third Mess Hall, where Yas was devouring food after exhausting himself on the mission.
• Garp rewarded Yas with a giant Ironclad Bull, while Zephyr questioned whether anything unusual had happened on the island.
• Yas showed Zephyr and Garp the black sheen of Armament Haki covering his fist.
• Garp grabbed Yas's arm in shock and demanded to know how he had learned Haki in less than a day.