The Grind-Grind Fruit: I Grind So Hard Luffy Can't Leave the East Blue

A year before Luffy sets sail, Aike transmigrates and eats the Overwork Fruit, binding himself to the Overwork King System. As long as he outworks everyone else, he gets stronger!

And so begins the great age of overwork, enough to make the whole world’s scalps tingle!

Setting sail?

A fleet without 20,000 crew members and 20 subordinates on the level of the Four Emperors has no business sailing the Grand Line!

Conqueror's Haki?

If it can't knock out an admiral at Marine Headquarters straight from a dock in the East Blue, you have no damn right to call it Conqueror's Haki!

Women?

Marrying 200 wives and having 300 daughters is the bare minimum for a pirate!

One year later.

As Luffy dreams of setting sail and making a name for himself, he realizes something seems wrong...

Why the hell can't I even get out of the East Blue!?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.