One Piece: Law’s Story, original concept by Eiichiro Oda, written by Shusei Sakagami

Future Warlord of the Sea and fierce ally of Luffy’s Straw Hat Crew, young Trafalgar Law says farewell to his savior Corazon and starts his career as a surgeon and buccaneer! Along the way he meets an eccentric inventor named Wolf, Bepo the talking polar bear, and the mischievous orphans Shachi and Penguin… Follow along as the Heart Pirates begin their adventures together in this exciting novelization of Law’s youth!

Read an excerpt from One Piece: Law’s Story, the new light novel from the hit series, One Piece.

My heart pounded in my chest. Ba-bump, ba-bump. The pulse grew stronger and fiercer. Ba-bump ba-bump ba-bump ba-bump ba-bump ba-bump ba-bump…

It felt like my body was a pump whose sole purpose was to circulate blood. It wasn’t a bad feeling—if anything, it was like a new force was awakening within me.

Next I heard a hum. I realized that I was in the center of a dome-like membrane. What the heck is this?Inside the dome, I could see through everything—even my own body. I focused my thoughts: Brain, heart, lungs, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, spleen. In some new way, I understood each organ. From my internal organs to my muscles to the pathways of my nerves, I had an innate understanding of how each part fit together and what it all did.

This must be the Op-Op Fruit’s power.

It wasn’t just that I could see inside my body; my instincts told me that I had the ability to augment anything inside of the dome. I could move things, switch their positions—I had power over everything within. This dome would become my operating table.

I think I can do it now… Once again, heat surged into my dying body. I would cure my white lead disease. There was now a powerful intent driving my actions. --

I closed my eyes and focused. White lead disease was caused by an internal buildup of the particular metal the disease was named for. To cure it, I only had to remove that buildup. Carefully and thoroughly, I checked every place in my body. When I looked into my liver, I found a huge deposit of white lead.

I walked to a barrel that had been left behind in the cave and took out my liver. There was no pain. I could simply reach in and take out my internal organs, as though it were perfectly natural. I put my liver on the barrel.

This is the hard part. I couldn’t cut the liver out entirely. That would kill me before the white lead disease did. I had to remove the lead, then put the liver back into my body. First, I used my powers to gather the lead from all around my liver and concentrate it in one place. Then I took a scalpel from my pouch.

It was time for me to make use of the medical expertise my parents had passed on to me. Ordinarily, a person’s internal organs don’t feel much pain. But because the organ I’d removed was still connected to my body, when I touched it I would feel the pain in the membranes that surrounded the organ. I took a deep breath and wished I’d prepared an anesthetic.

Finally, I was ready. I grabbed the scalpel and jabbed it into my own liver, then screamed out loud as the agony jolted my body.

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