One Piece: The Strongest Swordsman Novel

Cursed at birth with a strange facial mark, Yoriichi awakens in the One Piece world despised by his own family as demonic. His father and kinsmen regard him with contempt, yet his mother's boundless love stands as his sole sanctuary. Silent and emotionless, Yoriichi's stoic nature convinces his family he cannot speak—a nameless ghost in his own home.

Tragedy strikes when an unknown illness claims his mother at age ten, severing his last connection to love. His father seizes the opportunity, finally ridding himself of the burden by selling young Yoriichi to slave traders destined for The Holy Land Mary Geoise.

Enslaved in the celestial city, Yoriichi's ordeal marks the beginning, not the end, of his destiny. Witness his escape from chains and his phenomenal ascension to become the One Piece world's strongest and most legendary swordsman—an undefeated warrior whose path is written in legend.