Marco, Ever Thought About Cultivating Immortality?

Yun Qi, a prodigy of the cultivation world, worked herself to the bone and left countless fellow disciples in the dust before finally ascending.

On the day of her ascension, ninety-nine bolts of heavenly lightning struck her down and blasted her right out of the cultivation world.

Then... she became Big Mom's Nth daughter in the world of pirates, with an astonishingly ugly arranged-marriage partner thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for asking. I'm in Totto Land and preparing to make a run for it.

While fleeing, she accidentally (or rather, unwillingly) took a blast of her birth mother's Ikoku Sovereignty. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying beside a strange man.

The man had a pineapple-shaped head and looked half asleep. “You're awake? What a miracle, yoi.”

Yun Qi spotted the faint blue flames flickering behind him, and her eyes lit up. “Fellow Daoist, would you sell me some of that fire...?”

Marco: ???

Marco looked like he wanted to say something but held back. Yun Qi suddenly understood. “I get it. Then, fellow Daoist... want to cultivate together?”

Marco: ???

*

After falling out with her companions, Yun Qi was penniless and about to sleep on the streets when a strange middle-aged man came to her rescue.

“Gurararara! Little girl, come aboard my ship and be my daughter.”

The strange man had a crescent-shaped white mustache and smiled with his eyes squeezed shut. He didn't look like a human trafficker... or so you'd think!

Yun Qi turned to leave, but her hand somehow ended up in the strange man's palm...

The Whitebeard Pirates' assistant ship's doctor was ethereal and otherworldly, with no pirate-like qualities whatsoever. The crew all called her their fairy little sister.

Marco: ...My silence is deafening.

*

Yun Qi thought this ship would be nothing more than a temporary place to stay. She did her best to play the part of a pirate, but the pirates wanted to be her family.

Especially the captain, who kept calling her “little girl” and “daughter” until she almost started believing him.

Actually... the captain was quite charming. Calling him “Dad” wouldn't be so bad.

The vast ocean has no room for narrow-hearted love. The world's best dad deserves the world's best family.

So...

She would heal Dad's old injuries.

She would extend Dad's life.

She would change the Whitebeard Pirates' future.

She would protect every member of her family with her life.

“So you're the Navy, huh? I'll charge right in and wipe you all out, dump your bodies in the sea, and make sure there's nothing left!”

Navy: ???

Marco smiled and pulled Yun Qi back behind him. “Sorry, my little princess is a bit fierce, yoi.”

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine is at the peak of combat power, cultivation-style.

2. Slice of life is the focus, with a cultivation expert dropped into the pirate world.

3. Marco is the doting, fatherly boyfriend.

4. OOC warning!!!

5. The timeline has been heavily altered, and the plot takes priority over logic. If something doesn't make sense, I may just be making it up, so don't overthink it. Read at your own risk!

A companion story in the same vein: “Marco, How About Becoming a Live-In Son-in-Law?” Blurb:

In the Kingdom of Lorian, where Lorian Celeste was born, there's a custom: from the day a daughter is born, her parents save up a huge fortune for her, so that when she comes of age, she can marry a man she loves and have him care for her for the rest of her life.

Celeste grew up in an orphanage, so no one saved a fortune for her. On the day she came of age, all the old woman at the orphanage could give her was 1 beli.

One beli wasn't even enough to buy a meal, let alone a husband.

Penniless Celeste thought of the great treasure she'd heard pirates talk about.

So she decided to set sail as a pirate, find the great treasure, and marry the most perfect man in the world.

Unfortunately, before she could get started, she encountered a storm at sea and was forced to dock near Sphinx Island. Her ship was damaged, too.

To get back out to sea, Celeste had no choice but to work on the island and save enough money to buy a better ship.

The owner of a little diner offered room and board, and her daily work was easy enough. The only catch was that during her free time, he would send her to cause trouble at the clinic of his rival, the pineapple-headed doctor.

Good pay, little work. The job was practically made for her.

But... heavens, why had no one told her that the pineapple-headed doctor was the former Whitebeard Pirates' First Division Commander?!

After Whitebeard and Ace died in battle, the Whitebeard Pirates disbanded. Marco returned to Whitebeard's hometown of Sphinx Island and became a small-town doctor.

Day after day, life was peaceful, quiet, and boring.

Until one day, a panicked child from town told him that pirates had invaded.

Ever since Marco moved to the island, no pirate had dared invade.

No one was allowed to lay a finger on Dad's hometown.

But this time, it was a woman with a lone little sailboat, its flag decorated with a crude pirate doodle.

The woman crouched in front of her rickety boat, muttering to herself. After all her hard work, the boat finally fell apart...

Lorian Celeste, captain of what she called a one-woman pirate crew, stayed in town to work. She was an outsider, so naturally Marco kept an extra eye on her.

Besides, she came to mess around in his little clinic every day with unflagging enthusiasm, adding a bit of fun to his peaceful life.

Her arrival made life a little less boring.

So, to show his gratitude, it was only reasonable to offer the unemployed woman a place to stay, a job... and a husband. At least, that's what Marco thought.

[Reading Guide]

1. Penniless captain VS retired phoenix.

2. Set after the Summit War, with a quiet life in a small town.

3. I want Marco to have a good life from now on.

Theme: You can make a new world for yourself even if you don't belong in this one