Chapter 5: The Experience of a Transcender

As a time traveler with knowledge of the plot and an omniscient perspective, Sariya truly viewed the Ohara incident this way.

Having grown up in a peaceful environment, Sariya naturally despised the rotten world of the Grand Line. When she first crossed over—from an outsider to a participant—she felt utterly screwed.

The original world she came from was Lishi Island in the West Sea, a tiny, even remote island. There were hardly any nations nearby, and the naval base was leagues away.

When pirates armed with guns and cannons landed on Lishi Island, the ordinary people there were utterly defenseless and were slaughtered to the last one.

Sariya’s entire family was killed by those pirates.

After she crossed over, the island she found herself on was nearly devoid of any living souls, littered with sickening corpses, blood, and dismembered bodies filling the view.

Now a three-year-old child, Sariya, driven by extreme hunger, ate a lot of fruit to stave off starvation, inadvertently consuming a Devil Fruit.

With the power of the Devil Fruit, she managed to survive amidst the piles of dead.

Because the accumulation of animal corpses could easily lead to plague, Sariya decided to cremate the bodies on the island.

As she painstakingly threw the dead into the flames, she unexpectedly discovered another survivor, Sil Rockie.

Rockie was an adult man, and after Sariya nursed him back to health, he recovered swiftly.

They became the only two survivors of Lishi Island.

At that time, Rockie, seventeen years older than Sariya, decided to adopt the three-year-old as his daughter.

However, Sariya’s mind was that of an adult, and she refused to suddenly add a new "father" out of nowhere.

So Rockie became her honorary older brother instead.

A month after the pirate massacre, the nearest naval unit—the 193rd Division of the Gonge Archipelago Navy—arrived.

Seeing only two survivors on Lishi Island, the navy harshly condemned the pirates but felt powerless.

The ocean was vast, the islands numerous, and news traveled slowly.

After pirates wreaked havoc, they would vanish, and the navy could only chase after them, often unable to catch them.

The navy informed the two survivors that the pirate crew responsible was the “Blood Sword” Pirates. They had tracked the Blood Sword Pirates to Lishi Island.

Virtually every island that the Blood Sword Pirates visited was left completely wiped out, with only a few scattered survivors.

The navy ship carried dozens of survivors rescued from places the Blood Sword Pirates had ravaged.

Rockie and Sariya boarded the navy ship and returned to the 193rd Division along with the others.

To reduce danger, Sariya publicly claimed to be a boy and said Rockie was her brother.

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Rockie and Sariya settled in the Gonge Archipelago, and Rockie, fueled by hatred for pirates, joined the navy.

Years passed, and Rockie rose from the lowest rank of private to a colonel at naval headquarters.

Recently, he graduated from the elite training camp founded by former Navy Admiral Zephyr and became a navy rear admiral.

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