Anselm fell on his back on the grass in despair.

'Wallahi, I'm finished. I'm dead. I'm an NPC fodder. I'll get captured by pirates or slavers and be sold as a slave to the celestial dragons. Those people have no line they can cross. I might be raped. I'll be experimented on. On second thought, I do look normal as hell though. And hold on! It might be possible. I might be able to become strong. I could wield swords and be cool like Mihawk and Zoro. I could get a DF. On second thought, I don't have insane luck like the main cast. There are hundreds of DF Users. Unlike in the series, there might be some fools who actually died from drowning.'

Wait, hold on, don't get ahead of yourself. Let's confirm if we're in the One Piece world or not first. You might never know. Some countries have used birds for messenger delivery in the past.

Yeah like Rome. Rome is nice. Pretty chill place where you drink piss and have orgies. Who knows? I might score some Ancient baddies. I wonder if they got STDs though? I might need to steer clear of the women. And men of course.

He ran down the street and picked up the newspaper. 'I wonder how this works. Does the bird know which house to deliver to or do they just get paid to drop them in towns?'

Opening the newspaper, Anselm first looked for the date. Great, I don't even think One Piece ever specified dates. And when they did. It's probably for obscure things. Well let's take a look at what's going on around the world. On the front page there was some news about a marine captain's death or something. 'You never know? Marine Captain ain't a One Piece exclusive word. After flipping through a dozen pages, he finally saw something at the end.

CONFIRMED THROUGH SEVERAL SOURCES, A SAMURAI FROM THE LAND OF WANO JOINS THE FEARED WHITEBEARD PIRATES.

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'Welp that settles it. I'm in the One Piece world. 26 years ago. Around this time, Oden joined the Roger pirates. If I remember correctly, Roger disbanded the crew one year later and became King of the Pirates. He got executed a year later and started the Great Pirate era.

'God, I can't believe this. I'm reborn in a dystopian world with giant ass sea monsters and absolutely horrible monstrous people. Forget the pirates, even the government is fucked up.'

Anselm looked down on his rather fragile body.'I need strength. Power. Discpline. I have to train. train like a madman. It's my priority from now on. I need power to protect myself.'

'From today onwards, I'm hunting my own food. I need meat. And maybe some leafy greens and berries so I don't shit bricks. Since this is the One Piece world, as long as I eat meat, I'll probably grow tall and buff again. I just hope it's not as tall as the admirals or whitebeard. Garp's height is fine though.'

'That reminds me. The elephant in the room….. To be a pirate or join the navy?'

'Hmmmmmm. I'll have to think long and hard on this. However, one thing I'll do first before becoming either of them, is learning Haki. Both the regular types.'

'It'll take years. I might need a partner for learning observation Haki. Or I might need to invent innovative ways to learn observation Haki.'

'As for the colour of the Conqueror's, forget it. You're either born with it or you should have the qualities of a king to attain it. But that's a long way ahead of me. I'll need to train harder than everyone else.'

'That's actually one thing I look forward to in the One Piece World. As long as you keep fighting and training hard, your strength will keep improving relative to your output.'

'So the route to power is somewhat planned out. So is nutrition and other miscellaneous things. I just need to get to the capital and find out where the hell I'm at.'

'After examining the ocean, It's definitely not in the Calm Belt. So either Paradise, New World or the four Blues. Let's hope it's one of the Four Blues. That might make my life a hell of a lot easier.'

Allright.'

'Main Objective : Survive

Objective 1 : Choose a weapon and Train to be strong.

Objective 2 : Reach the capital city.

Objective 3 : Find a map and then plan for the future.

Until then the goals will stay the same.