Yamakaji’s Bounty at 500,000,000 Berries

Once the Levely abolishes the Warlord system, the Marine needs a new way to neutralize its former holders — and Yamakaji is the one who leads the fleet sent to capture Boa Hancock on Amazon Lily, with Koby serving directly under him. The operation collapses in seconds: Hancock turns the entire fleet to stone except for Koby, until Silvers Rayleigh steps in on his own initiative and frees everyone from the petrification.

The real cost isn't the stone — it's what happens in the chaos that follows. With no authorization to engage an Emperor directly, the Blackbeard Pirates use the confusion to abduct eight hundred Marine soldiers and an entire warship, a loss of both personnel and material that Yamakaji's fleet never manages to prevent or recover. A vice admiral at Marine Headquarters with no Devil Fruit, he had already advised Tsuru to stay back during the Battle of Marineford; she refused. This time, his own caution didn't save his own command from disaster.

His reputation, confirmed across multiple convergent sources, ranks him among the most easily overpowered vice admirals in the entire hierarchy — a harsh verdict, but one anchored in one specific incident rather than vague rumor.

Cross Guild still rates him at five stars, five hundred million berries by its scale: the exact same number carried by officers who have never lost an entire fleet in a matter of seconds.