Chapter 1: Crossing Over to the World of One Piece
East Blue, Goa Kingdom, Foosha Village.
"Makino, I'm back!"
In the small tavern, a simple yet sturdy figure pushed the door open and shouted carelessly with a loud voice.
A boy, no older than fifteen or sixteen, standing nearly 1.8 meters tall and wearing a white tank top, was carrying a wild boar he had knocked unconscious on his shoulder... The wild boar was massive, weighing at least two or three hundred kilograms, yet in the boy's hands, it seemed as light as a feather.
"Little Jia, you're back!"
Makino, with her dark green hair, gentle and pleasant, virtuous and generous, was clearing a table. Seeing the youth, she looked up and responded with a smile.
"Give me a glass of beer, the strongest kind!"
Ye Jia threw the wild boar onto the ground with a loud bang, then sat in front of the bar counter, asking Makino for a beer.
"It's ready for you!" Makino smiled, took a beer from the refrigerator, and placed it in front of Ye Jia.
"Thanks, Makino!"
Ye Jia grabbed the beer and gulped it down. Quite a bit of beer flowed down the corners of his mouth, dripping onto the teenager's shoulders and chest, wetting his tank top.
"Ah! That hits the spot!" Ye Jia put down the beer mug and said contentedly, "Makino, your bartending skills are getting better and better!"
"You just came back from hunting, you must be tired. Take a rest," Makino said with a gentle smile.
"Okay!"
Lying on the sofa, Ye Jia calmed his mind, and a seven-colored progress bar immediately appeared in his head.
"Progress 99%."
Strange, incredible.
Even though Ye Jia was an Earthling in his previous life and was accustomed to all sorts of strange and bizarre things, he had never seen such a weird thing!
A seven-colored progress bar in his brain, impossible to wave away or forget, visible at all times as if it were real... Was there anything weirder than this?
Oh, right, there actually was!
Another thing even weirder than this—where he was right now was the world of One Piece!
At first, Ye Jia didn't believe he had come to the world of One Piece, but after seeing the Marines, pirates, and hearing news about Monkey D. Luffy, as well as various events regarding the Grand Line and the New World, he had no choice but to believe it.
Especially after seeing the familiar Makino and Foosha Village, Ye Jia finally understood that the village where he had transmigrated was exactly where Luffy was born, and where Red-Haired Shanks gave the straw hat to Luffy, starting Luffy's legendary life!
Having been awake in the One Piece world for over three months—strictly speaking, today was exactly the one-hundredth day.
According to Ye Jia's understanding of One Piece from his previous life, the current timeline was exactly when Luffy had just caused a huge uproar at Enies Lobby.
After this event, there would be the duel between Blackbeard and Ace. Fire Fist Ace would be defeated, imprisoned by the Marines in the deepest level of the great prison, awaiting execution.
Blackbeard, due to the merit of capturing Ace, would become a new member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Gecko Moria, the Celestial Dragons, the Pirate Empress Hancock... Ye Jia remembered the series of events that would happen later with extreme clarity!
...
Having stayed here for three months, Ye Jia went from being unaccustomed to having no internet and no mobile phone at the start, to now being numbly used to it, completely keeping up with the living trajectory of people in this world. He didn't find it that hard anymore.
"What exactly is this progress bar in my head?"
Ye Jia thought about this question almost every day.
The progress bar increased by 1% a day. Today was exactly one hundred days, meaning this progress bar was about to reach 100%.
"If the progress bar fills up, what will appear?"
Ye Jia kept fantasizing.
However, he tended to think in a pessimistic direction.
What if the progress bar represented his lifespan? Wouldn't that mean he would die today?
Or maybe the progress bar represented the time he could stay in this world? Once the time was up, could he return to Earth, to his original world?
Ye Jia thought about every possible outcome every day.
Just then—
"Hey! Boss, give me a dozen beers!"
The tavern door was roughly pushed open, and several burly, fierce-looking men swaggered in.
Ye Jia's eyes immediately darkened.
"It's them again."
Ye Jia knew this group of people; they were the hooligans of Foosha Village.
This group was incompetent and good-for-nothing, only knowing how to bully the common people of Foosha Village every day.
If anyone disobeyed, they would immediately beat them up. Light consequences involved serious injury and vomiting blood; heavy consequences meant disability or death. They had long become the tyrants of the happy Foosha Village.
Ye Jia had only heard of their infamous reputation before and hadn't actually bumped into them.
The tavern here didn't get many visitors; business was cold and cheerless, and there weren't many people, so it wasn't as interesting as other bars in the village.
But Ye Jia hadn't expected that they would come knocking on the door today.
"Boss, hurry up with the beer, I'm so thirsty my throat is smoking!"
There were eight hooligans in the group. After sitting down, they crossed their legs and smoked; some even put their feet on the table.
Seeing this, the other guests in the tavern quietly left, not daring to stay at all. In the blink of an eye, only one table of guests remained in the entire tavern.
"Guests, the beer is here!"
Makino immediately brought the beer over.
The few hooligans were talking and laughing while drinking there. The noise was clamorous, making it impossible for Ye Jia to sleep.
"These guys..." Ye Jia felt anger rising in his heart. He had finally gotten a chance to rest, only to be disturbed by this group of hooligans.
But Ye Jia had no other choice.
Although he had a sturdy body and, after three months of exercise, could hunt and kill a large wild boar alone.
He was not the opponent of this group of skilled hooligans.
These hooligans were particularly tough. Ye Jia had heard others say they used to be pirates, but because they ran into another particularly powerful group of pirates, their captain was killed. The crew members either died or fled, and a few ended up in Foosha Village.
None of the hunters in Foosha Village were as skilled as them, so no one dared to provoke them.
"If only I could get a Devil Fruit and become an ability user, I would definitely punch them flying!"
Ye Jia said indignantly.
Devil Fruits were a specialty of One Piece. Once consumed, one would immediately possess special abilities. The only drawback was the fear of seawater and being countered by Seastone.
If he had a Devil Fruit, this group of hooligans in front of him... Hmph! They would be nothing!
Just as Ye Jia was thinking this, suddenly, the seven-colored progress bar in his mind reached completion.
100%
"Bzzt—"
A silent electric current exploded in Ye Jia's head. Ye Jia felt as if he had been electrocuted, and his whole body trembled.
"System binding complete. Welcome to the Synthesis System. If you ask which system is the best, my Synthesis System is the strongest!"
A sweet, electronic female voice rang out in Ye Jia's mind, giving him a real start.
"Whoa!"
"Who is speaking?"
Ye Jia hurriedly looked around in terror, then his pupils constricted violently as he looked inside his mind. "...What is this cauldron?"