Luke cautiously observed the two people across from him, only approaching carefully after confirming he saw no hostility in their eyes.
The thin fog couldn’t block close-range vision. Luke looked from left to right.
The person on the left was a burly man with a rough, heroic face. His frame appeared over two meters tall with a robust build. A sword hung at his waist, radiating masculinity and exceptional martial prowess.
The person on the right was a child of about ten years old, with delicate and pretty features that made it momentarily difficult to distinguish their gender. Dressed in a white school uniform and blue school pants, their slender build gave off a strangely fragile impression.
“Welcome, new Luke.”
The burly man spoke first, grinning with a mouth that looked like it could bite off half the child’s head in one go. “Which world are you from?”
Luke couldn’t immediately understand his meaning and hesitated to respond. The more he looked at these two, the more familiar and kind they felt. Despite their vastly different appearances, it felt like looking in a mirror.
The child floated lightly toward Luke, shooting the burly man a glare. “If everyone talked like you, we’d waste too much time. Let’s just get started.”
He extended a pale, delicate hand, gesturing for the burly man to come over. Both simultaneously placed their hands on Luke.
The moment the three made contact, Luke felt his consciousness expand unprecedentedly. Everything around became chaotic, then two memories not his own exploded into his awareness at incredible speed.
The first halves of both memories were identical to Luke’s: following family tradition to become a gynecologist, the nephew’s hospital he joined closed down, failed job interviews, discouraged by low online freelance rates, fake dating an internet celebrity only to run into his landlord, then getting hit by a car.
Then the memories diverged.
In the first memory, he was reborn as the captain of the royal guards in One Piece’s Alabasta Kingdom. After assessing the situation and discovering the kingdom had been suffering drought for half a year while the capital Alubarna had continuous rain, he attempted to provide aid within his capabilities but failed. Luke decisively fled with his life savings.
He had to run – Crocodile had already started making moves, and the Alabasta civil war would begin in two and a half years. As a small fry, running was his only option.
He first went to Windmill Village, working as security at Makino’s bar. Half a year ago when his cheat code activated, he thought he could make it, so he bid farewell to Makino and went to Shimotsuki Dojo to learn swordsmanship from Koshiro.
After half a year of training, swordsmanship mastery remained distant, but his body grew increasingly robust, gradually developing toward superhuman levels.
The second memory came from the child-looking old thing – this guy was already over forty years old, wandering around in the Rukongai. He was the first Luke to enter the mysterious space. After sharing once with the pirate Luke, his soul quality doubled, successfully entering the Shin’ō Academy.
Currently still in the beginner phase without even awakening his zanpakuto, he knew demon arts below number twenty. His flash step results could only be considered average, while his hand-to-hand combat was decent thanks to pirate Luke’s support. Overall, he ranked medium to high among freshmen.
Luckily, his timeline was 1998 – Toshiro had just become captain of the 10th Division, and Kurosaki Ichigo wouldn’t be born until next year. The main plot was still far away.
After digesting these two memories, he roughly understood his cheat code’s function: sharing everything with his counterparts across worlds, including but not limited to physical fitness, mental strength, energy, talent, abilities, skills, etc.
Just during the contact moment, he directly gained a not too weak spiritual pressure, high-sequence demon arts, plus pirate Luke’s One Piece-characteristic tank-like physique and beginner-level swordsmanship.
Not bad for a cheat code.
The corners of Luke’s mouth gradually lifted, his expression turning increasingly arrogant.
In just a few breaths, his alignment rapidly shifted from Neutral-Lawful to Chaotic-Good, with tendencies toward Chaotic-Evil.
Pirate Luke’s eyes widened after reading Naruto Luke’s memories. “Copying Pinduoduo? And driving Konoha’s industries to start internal competition? Is that even allowed?”
His brain struggled to process this – everyone in One Piece was simple-minded, ready to fight at the slightest provocation.
Since coming to the One Piece world, he felt himself gradually stop thinking. Initially he knew to escape, but after arriving at Windmill Village’s bar, his brain became fogged by alcohol.
At the dojo, his daily routine consisted only of eating, sleeping, and fencing with fellow disciples. No need to think about anything, just practice swordsmanship and exercise.
Combat – satisfying!
Meanwhile, the child-like Shinigami Luke clicked his tongue in disdain. “Blacksmith Luke, another bare minimum.Except for the negligible chakra and relatively healthy physique and soul that could be directly ignored, there were no highlights. Definitely a negative review.
He’d been freeloaded off twice already.
Twice!
Shinigami Luke’s pretty little face looked particularly melancholy.
Good news: the cheat code arrived.
Bad news: both arrivals were freeloaders.
Naruto Luke choked on Shinigami Luke’s address, his face instantly darkening.
“What blacksmith Luke? Call me Naruto Luke!”
“Just blacksmith Luke, blacksmith Luke blacksmith Luke blacksmith Luke!”
Shinigami Luke’s mentality seemed to have regressed to match his childlike appearance as he argued with himself.
He pointed at Naruto Luke. “You’re blacksmith Luke.”
Then pointed at pirate Luke. “You’re retard Luke.Pirate Luke aggrievedly shrunk his two-meter-plus frame. “What does this have to do with me? Why are you insulting me now?”
“Shouldn’t you be insulted? When you came, you were worse than the blacksmith. At least he had chakra. You, the dignified royal guard captain of a kingdom, had physical fitness on par with commoners, spending all day playing cards, drinking, bragging, and chatting, delegating all work to subordinates.”
No need to work, just play every day? Such good fortune exists?
Naruto Luke listened enviously. “The kingdom’s guard captain counts as someone with real power, right? And you actually ran away… Speaking of which, with your previous high status, why didn’t I see any adult content in your memories?Pirate Luke is also quite helpless. “What could I do? I was the king’s personal guard – wherever the king went, I went. There weren’t many women I could encounter to begin with, and women in One Piece are all polarized – either extremely beautiful or extremely ugly. In the kingdom, the only beautiful ones were Princess Vivi and the Queen.”
Naruto Luke’s eyes lit up as he leaned toward pirate Luke. “I think Vivi’s pretty good.”
“She is good, but she’d just turned fifteen when I arrived. Who could bring themselves to make a move on someone so young?” Pirate Luke looked at Naruto Luke with an expression of seeing a beast.
“The Queen was indeed beautiful with a great figure, but the old king treated me well, caring for me like his own son. How could I have the nerve to be a homewrecker.”
One still needs to have bottom lines, even as a Luke.
Naruto Luke nodded with some regret, then asked: “Why did the old king dote on you so much?” You’re not his illegitimate child, are you?”
The memory volume was too large – he’d only skimmed through it roughly, unable to catch every detail.
“Not that either. When assassins tried to kill him, my father sacrificed himself protecting him. It’s normal to pamper your savior’s son.”If you put it that way, Naruto would have objections,” Naruto Luke silently complained.
Pirate Luke’s heroic old face slightly reddened as he revealed his true thoughts: “My actual target was Makino, but before I could pursue her, the cheat code activated. I figured I should improve my strength first before finding a partner, so I went to Shimotsuki Dojo.”
The outcome went without saying – girls like Kuina who learned swordsmanship were already rare. Shimotsuki Dojo wasn’t particularly famous either, with few fellow disciples, all male.
Finally, he sighed with some regret. “Such a precious tool left unused.”
Naruto Luke shook his head at this. “Precious tool? How much have you been drinking? You’re only average, how can you praise yourself like that?”
Thinking this, he suddenly paused, his gaze falling on pirate Luke’s two-meter-tall robust frame, his eyes unconsciously narrowing.
Almost forgot about the One Piece-characteristic large builds.
Naruto Luke quietly flipped through the memories flooding his mind, immediately sucking in a sharp breath.
“Hiss~ No particular meaning, I just want to ask – with our cheat code, can body parts be shared too?”
Whether Luke inherently had such development potential or the One Piece world’s soil was particularly fertile, making grown fruits seem mutated, he looked on with great envy.
Pirate Luke honestly nodded. “It can indeed make your body parts grow to the same scale.”
“Ooooh!!!”
Such a considerate cheat code.
“Hey hey, you two losers, what the hell? I’m lecturing you and you start chatting!”
Shinigami Luke saw the two conversing by themselves and couldn’t help wanting to jump up and hit their knees.
“Get your minds on proper business, you two.”
Naruto Luke used his usual skill of rubbing his little brother’s head, patting Shinigami Luke’s head. The real-time activated sharing function let him simultaneously experience both rubbing a child’s head and having his own head rubbed – quite novel.
“Relax, I believe a powerhouse Luke will come eventually.”
The Konoha Crush Plan was still six or seven years away in his timeline. Besides the Uchiha clan massacre, there didn’t seem to be any major events in between. Just stay away from the Uchiha people since he wasn’t familiar with them anyway.
Naruto Luke: ┐(‘～`)┌ Let’s slack.
“Right, right.”Pirate Luke nodded in agreement.” Unlike the potentially far-reaching situations in Naruto’s world, the One Piece world was enormous. As long as he avoided plot development locations and didn’t actively get involved, he’d be fine. Currently, he just wanted to fence with his senior brothers.
Once he fences his way to swordsmaster level, then he’ll go out!
Shinigami Luke rolled his eyes, swatting away Naruto Luke’s hand. “You’d better have some sense of crisis. All three of us are just starting out. Even with shared power, we’re still small fries in our respective worlds. Although following the plot suggests no short-term risks, who knows if butterfly effects might occur.”
“Also makes sense.” Naruto Luke thought about it and felt he shouldn’t get too carried away. “When I return later, I’ll test my strength and think about how to get stronger.”With the combined talents of the other two Lukes, his chakra refinement speed should increase significantly.” At minimum, he could serve as a battery to provide energy sources for the other two.
Pirate Luke touched the sword at his waist. “Koshiro is the son of master swordsmith Kozaburo Shimotsuki, Zoro’s first teacher. I think he must have some skills – it’s just that he only teaches theory and basic swordsmanship fundamentals… Once I become a swordsmaster, I’ll go out to learn Haki.”
Joining the Marines wasn’t impossible either – the Marine growth path was quite complete.
Shinigami Luke saw the two could still listen to reason and nodded in satisfaction. “I have no clues about zanpakuto. Afterwards, I’ll mainly practice flash step – escape skills need proper training.After further exchange, they each dispersed.
…
Luke opened his eyes, feeling his body light and airy. The exhaustion from a day of blacksmithing had completely vanished. His entire being seemed liberated from gravity’s constraints, feeling like he could fly with a light leap.
The world became exceptionally clear in his eyes. His sensory abilities seemed amplified, able to detect his chest cavity’s heartbeat sounding more powerful than before.
Luke stripped naked and examined himself in the mirror. Indeed, significant physical changes had occurred.
His originally labor-developed physique wasn’t bad, but muscle distribution had been somewhat uneven. Now it had become quite coordinated and perfect.
Luke felt his clearly defined abs and upright pectorals, then glanced at pirate Luke’s sponsorship, nodding in satisfaction.
External changes were just the icing on the cake – the key was this body’s interior. Pirate Luke’s sturdy physique and Shinigami Luke’s soul intensity had transformed him completely.
Ninjas’ characteristics were high attack, low defense. Physique tended toward agility and skill, with little improvement to health bars, strength, or defense. Even Kage-level experts could easily be cut by blades without using chakra, unless they specialized in taijutsu.
Now, he felt his physical fitness could probably beat a jōnin to death – provided they didn’t use chakra to enhance their bodies, didn’t ambush, didn’t use ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu, purely in a frontal melee…
Alright, looking at it this way, he’d only advanced from not-even-cannon-fodder to early-stage cannon fodder, not even reaching late-stage cannon fodder levels.
The energy within – spiritual pressure from Shinigami Luke, after transformation, made his chakra surge tenfold!
If his original chakra amount hadn’t been pitifully small, he might have thought this tenfold increase was impressive.
His current chakra quantity probably barely reached ordinary chūnin daily reserves. The exact amount would need to be asked from Kakashi.
Currently, Luke’s weakness lay in practical combat.
All three Lukes lacked combat experience. The worst one (him) had never fought before. Shinigami Luke had been mixed all along. The best, pirate Luke, had only sparred with fellow disciples – strictly speaking, contests rather than actual combat.
Put together, their combined stats weren’t completely terrible, but in actual fights, he estimated he couldn’t even defeat a chūnin. Genin might be overwhelmed by numerical advantage… if they didn’t use methods like poison or explosive tags.
Thinking about it this way, he couldn’t even guarantee victory against genin.
Still very weak – need to lay low.
Luke silently resolved in his heart: without Kage-level strength, adhere steadfastly to survival for ten thousand years without wavering!
After determining his future action plan, he crossed his legs and began attempting to refine chakra.
Discovering some readers were struggling with chakra issues, please directly treat this as a world basically similar to Naruto but with some differences (i.e., alternate setting).
When in doubt, quantum mechanics.