P.S. Fan Letter

Set not long after the Punk Hazard Arc, the story finds the Rich Kid Marine sulking in a cafe, bitter that his pay was cut following the botched effort to seize the Straw Hats. While he catches up on New World news, the two children who often visited the bookstore approach, saying a serious incident is underway and asking him to come along. On the Yarukiman Mangrove, a lower root has trapped a small girl who tumbled down onto it and can no longer climb back up, and there the Marine is led.

Feigning disinterest, the Marine readies a rope and proclaims himself a hero of justice. His first try at pulling her up goes wrong when his footing slips on the bark and he drops down to join her. He next has the girl cling to his back and attempts a climb, but the slick surface offers no grip, so he punches out a run of hand- and footholds directly into the wood. The two boys warn they will summon a different Marine if he keeps failing, threatening to spoil his heroic moment, so he psyches himself up and climbs again, only to lose his hold just shy of the top.

Falling backward, he hurls the girl up to the waiting boys, then plunges headfirst into the water. He resurfaces soaked and is met by the Younger Brother Marine, who praises his conduct. On their return trip, the two cross paths with a jittery cluster of Marines whom word of a drowning comrade has thrown into alarm, and our would-be hero works to reassure them. Elsewhere on the archipelago, the rescued girl strolls with another girl and recounts how a kind Marine came to her aid. The piece ran in a One Piece Magazine extra issue and features cameo art of Luffy, Usopp, and Law.