1 Peculiar System

What could be more cliché than transmigration?

Yes, after his death on the Earth, Leo has transmigrated into the "One Piece" world. It was a super express trip from the Earth to the "One Piece" world, there was no stop at God's place. It's been three months since he came here. He had a very happy family back on Earth. Many of you may be thinking, how much of a good opportunity this is, you get to live in the world of your favorite manga. But if he had a choice, he would have rather lived with his family than come here.

Unfortunately, he had no choice. So he decided to live by the saying, "If you can't avoid it, then enjoy it".

On the Earth, Leo was a professional otaku. His family was rather rich, and he was the only son, so he was not much worried about his future. Most time of the day, he would be sitting in front of a PC. As a professional otaku, laziness was one of his traits. But he never considered himself lazy, if someone called him lazy, he would reply, "I am not lazy. I just don't want to waste my otaku time on some other things".

This laziness had turned him into a big fatty. His parents many times took him to the gym, but after a few days, he would return to his usual routine. He felt doing exercise was a waste of time. Ironically, not exercising became the cause of his death. He died at the age of 25, due to the excessive fat present in his body.

After his death, he transmigrated into a five-year-old boy, Leo Adams.

Leo was standing in front of the mirror. He was the most average-looking boy, with common black hair, common black eyes, and the only thing which stood out was his scrawny body. After looking at himself he felt like someone was discriminating against him. "This is not fair. Why did I transmigrate into this body? Almost every transmigrator got, out of the world handsome body. After every few chapters, a new, country toppling beauty would fall in love with them. Somehow I could have managed with this body, but even my system is so peculiar. Are you punishing me for not exercising in my previous life?"

The system he got was very unusual. It does not upgrade his strength directly, it doesn't give him any mission, he could not buy anything from it, no space storage, and it even restricted him from using weapons and the Devil fruit.

Leo was frustrated with this system. "With so many restrictions, do you have any face to call yourself a system? What kind of concept is this, you are in the One Piece world, and you could not use the Devil fruit."

With this system, the only way to strengthen was the same as everyone, to train himself.

Asides from all the bad points, the system also has some good points, one is that there is a possibility of going back to the Earth. Another one is, it gave him a [Limitless Body] - He would get stronger and stronger as more he trained. There was no upper limit.

He also has the white space in his mind, where his conscious can spar with the 'Ultimate Sparring Partner'. He could adjust the stats of the sparring partner according to his requirement. This function of the system is for close combat training, fighting only with your physical body.

For the first time when he used this function, he kept the sparring partners' stats the same as his. Even with the same stats, he couldn't even touch him, he felt like his opponent was using Observation Haki's ultimate ability, future vision. It felt as if he was predicting his every move. Of course, the sparring partner wasn't using Observation Haki, as Leo was an amateur in fighting, the sparring partner made quick work of him. So Leo got the hell of a beating, even though he was fighting with his consciousness, pain here he felt was real. It was the first time he felt so much pain, sparring partner wasn't a little bit restrained, he got the full brunt of his power. So his first sparring session became his last sparring session, he decided never to enter this white space.

The system allowed him to train in only one power system, and that is Haki.

Haki is cool, but you have to train your ass off. The system gave him the ultimate training tool, [Gravity Controller]. He can change the gravity of the world anyhow he wants, this change could only be felt by him.

Day after he arrived in this world, he had a big ambition to stand at the top of the world, and look down on 'World Government' and 'Yonkos'. After the first day of training his ambition was only to be one of the 'Yonkos', after another day it was to have his own 1 billion bounty poster, yet after another day, it was reduced to 500 million bounty, and so on his ambition got lower and lower.

Finally, he decided to inherit the family business and spend his whole life in Jingle town. "Damn this training thing is difficult, I always avoided exercising on the Earth. I don't know how other transmigrates do all the training stuff, only God knows."

When he arrived in the One Piece world, the first feeling he felt was not excitement, but fear. Even though 'One Piece' was his favorite manga, he would have never chosen to live in this world. In this world personal strength matters very much. He knew, he would have to train himself to live a long happy life in this world, but in the end, his laziness won over his fear. He thought he would be safe if he remained in the Jingle town for all of his life. So he stopped training himself.

While he was complaining about his body and system, he heard a voice from downstairs. "Leo, come down, we will be opening for business shortly."

"One moment mom." He hurriedly combed his hair and went to help her.

She is his mother, in the One Piece world, her name is Nejiko. She is a sweet lovable lady in her late twenties. Unfortunately, her husband, died while fishing. She has opened a tavern, on the ground floor of her two-story building, it has a good business.

As her only family, she loves Leo very much. She had a streak of bad luck recently, her husband died and now even her original son somehow died. Leo had seen her crying many times while holding her husband's photo. They loved each other very much.

Leo is still not used to Nejiko being his mother. You can guess how you would feel if a stranger suddenly became your mother. Leo saw her crying many times, even though she was almost a stranger to him, it still broke his heart. So he always tried to make her happy.

As for the timeline in "One Piece", it's been two months since the "Fisher Tiger" incident happened, that time everyone in Jingle Town was very tense. Now the town has gone back to normal, but still, sometimes Leo hears people talking about Fisher Tiger in their tavern. Most people gave negative comments on Fisher Tiger. In our town "Pirates" are synonymous with Evil and "Navy" with the Good.

Leo respected Fisher Tiger; he climbed the entire Red Line with his bare hands to free slaves in "Mary Geoise", to do this you really need a serious amount of guts. When Leo was in school, he didn't even have the guts to face bullies, and here this man was going against the people who are sitting at the top of the world. Later in the series how he ended up due to human's betrayal at Foolshout Island, even after helping them, Leo felt very sad for him.

When Leo came down, morning sunlight had already made its way in through the door and windows, a small breeze mixed with the scent of flowers was playing inside the tavern. Leo took a deep breath and enjoyed the gentle touch of the breeze on his face. He saw Nejiko working in the kitchen, he also started his work.

He poured water to the plants in the front yard garden, which mostly had flower plants. After this, he cleaned the wooden floor and round wooden tables, neatly arranged stools around them, rubbed off the dust gathered on the glass window. When everything was done he went into the kitchen.

In the kitchen, he started arranging all the cleaned utensils on the shelf.

Leo saw Nejiko preparing breakfast. "Mom, what are you making?"

"It's your favorite, special fried rice."

Hearing "Special Fried Rice," Leo was excited. "Mom is the best in the world". Leo said this little awkwardly. "Damn, I am still not used to being her son. But I have to act like one. Even though it is impossible for her to even imagine someone else living in her son's body, I should act carefully. She is my only family in this world, I don't want to part from her. Anyway, it's not bad having such a lovable, caring lady as a mother."

After hearing Leo's comment, Nejiko felt energized, she started humming a song.

After the death of his father, original Leo became very sad and dispirited, he stopped talking to anyone, and never left the house. The whole day he would lock himself in his room. Many times she tried to change his mood, but she had no luck in it. She was very worried about him. But one day miraculously he became normal, now he was even better than before, he also made some friends in town, he started helping her in the tavern. She thanked God for this change.

By the time he was done arranging all the utensils, breakfast was ready. She put a pot of fried rice on the small dining table, placed in center of the kitchen.

Leo sat on the stool in front of her. He took a spoonful of fried rice and started savoring it.

Nejiko expectantly asked. "How is it?"

Leo gave her thumbs up. "This is the best fried rice in the whole world." Leo really liked it, he had never tasted fried rice this good.

A smile bloomed on Nejiko's face. "That's my boy. Eat a lot of it. I have made enough." She started patting his head. Leo tried to move back, but she leaned closer and continued patting. Leo then gave up, and thought to himself, "Just let her be. Anyway, this fried rice is a good trade for patting."

In mid-breakfast, Nejiko suddenly remembered something. "Leo, yesterday I saw, you and Bolt were talking something secretly." She had an amused look on her face.

Leo looked at her. "I was going to ask about that after breakfast. Bolt told me he would take me to an interesting place. Can I go with him?" Leo was looking forward to this trip. Since he came here, he never went out of the town.

Bolt is their neighbor's son, he is seven years old. His dad is a merchant and his mom is a housewife. Their family is the richest in the town, the only ship in the town is owned by them. They are good people, they have a good reputation in the town. When Nejiko's husband died, they helped her very much.

When first time Leo met Bolt, he thought, "That's how MC should be". He was always full of energy, he would always be doing something. You can say he was the opposite word of 'otaku'. He had bright blue hair, a perfect physique, and always wore a cheerful smile on his handsome face. He is very well likable, almost every kid in the town is his friend.

One of the things Leo liked about transmigration was his age. Who doesn't want to be a child again, and live a carefree life? It's only around this age you get to make innocent and true friends.

Nejiko thought for a few moments and then said, "You can, but remember to not go too far from the town. Liam's father told me that, recently he had seen wolves coming out of the forest many times." There was a genuine worry in her eyes for him.

"Don't worry mom, we will not go too far," Leo assured her.

After breakfast, they opened for business, he started working as a waiter. He freed himself from the work at around 11 AM.

Bolt and the other five kids were waiting for him in front of the tavern.