This time, I won’t just turn the tide of firepower at the Summit War. I’ll also save the soul that has resolved to die.
Lin Xuan, a veteran One Piece fan, transmigrates to Loguetown on the eve of the Summit War, carrying a wisp of blue flame that has yet to die out.
Taking on the identity of Alex and bearing the incomplete power of a Mythical Zoan, the Phoenix, his only goal is to snatch that burning flame from the crucible of fate: Portgas D. Ace.
He has only one year! Drawing on his knowledge of history, he becomes an unseen ghost, slipping through the Grand Line:
He steals crucial footage in Alabasta, saves the Warlord on the Sky Island and receives a gift from history, then steals top-secret documents from the shadows of Enies Lobby... He treads carefully, all so he can set the board for a reversal of life and death on the final battlefield.
The Summit War, watched by the whole world.
Just as Akainu’s vicious scheme is about to succeed, at the instant Ace turns back in fury
Alex doesn’t step in front of him. Instead, he burns through every last bit of his life and Haki, and lets out a soul-shaking roar:
“Live! Luffy and Sabo both need you!”
Ace survives, and the world is turned upside down.
But the Ace who lives on bears an even heavier burden: the belief that he exists because of someone else. And with his survival come the World Government’s highest-priority manhunt and Blackbeard’s relentless hatred.
Facing the tide of history, now utterly changed by his actions, Alex raises a flag marked with an X, wreathed in blue flame.
He will be more than the “savior” who rescued one life. He will guide every broken soul toward a new beginning and raise a new beacon for these seas, becoming their
“standard-bearer.”
