Recaps

Carlos secretly confronted Josh Morris in the Lord's Mansion and discovered that the John Family had arranged to seize most of the Mike Family's former interests on Iron Island with the Mansion's help. He forced Morris to turn the scheme against the John Family and left his family as leverage before knocking him unconscious.

• Carlos used Kamui to enter the Lord's Mansion and found Josh Morris asleep in his bedroom.
• Carlos woke Morris at gunpoint, revealed his identity, and threatened his family if Morris lied about colluding with the John Family.
• Morris admitted the John Family had offered the Lord's Mansion a share of the Mike Family's interests and control of East City in exchange for helping remove Carlos's forces.
• Carlos ordered Morris to help trap every John Family member who came to Iron Island and took Morris's wife and children as guests and leverage.
• Carlos made Morris lose consciousness before he could object.

Lord Morris turned against the John Family after Carlos took his wife and legitimate children, while Carlos prepared Iron Island to resist the John Family’s invasion. The John Family’s forces landed and advanced toward Lucifer Manor, confident they would defeat Carlos.

• Lord Morris found his wife and legitimate children missing and agreed to follow Carlos’s instructions by turning against the John Family.
• Carlos told the three leaders about the Lord’s Mansion’s alliance with the John Family and ordered them to secretly contact the Steel Self-Defense Force about cooperating against the plot.
• Three days later, the John Family’s ten ships reached Iron Island, and cannon fire began a battle with the Lucifer Family’s coastal defenses.
• The John Family’s forces landed after the defenders suffered heavy losses, while Carlos’s layered defenses drew the invaders toward Lucifer Manor.
• John Movinton, Degu, and Kara discussed capturing or killing Carlos, confident that the John Family and the Lord’s Mansion would win.

Carlos joined the battle at Iron Island and killed Kara and the gunmen protecting him, turning the tide of the fight. As enemy leaders converged on him, he waited for them while two forces moved in to encircle the battlefield.

• Carlos left the hilltop and shot at Kara, forcing the enemy sniper to retreat as he advanced.
• Carlos dodged Kara’s bullets, defeated the men who converged on the sniper, and closed the distance with Soru.
• Carlos used Force Through a Thousand Armies to kill Kara and the surrounding gunmen.
• Carlos’s attack lifted his allies’ morale and slowed the enemy advance, while Degu and the John Family’s fifth young master moved toward him.
• Carlos waited for the enemy leaders as two forces of two thousand armored men approached to encircle the battlefield.

Carlos defeated Movinton and the John Family leaders with Susanoo while his reinforcements ambushed the enemy army. After killing Movinton and cornering the fleeing Degu, Carlos demanded his surrender or death, and Degu knelt.

• Carlos activated Susanoo to withstand Degu's attack and repel him, then evolved it to defeat Movinton's sword strikes and knock away four John Family leaders.
• Carlos's reinforcements ambushed Degu's forces, and Movinton realized the gunfire came from the enemy before Carlos grabbed and killed him.
• Carlos took Movinton's blade and used Kamui to appear in front of the fleeing Degu.
• Carlos demanded that Degu surrender or die, and Degu knelt after a brief hesitation.

After defeating his enemies, Carlos interrogated Degu with the Mangekyō Sharingan and learned every detail about him, then began planning to replace the John Family. He left the chapter weighing an indirect strategy that could exploit divisions within the family.

• Carlos ordered his subordinates to handle battle casualties and compensation properly, then told them to arrange a victory banquet.
• Carlos used the Mangekyō Sharingan to hypnotize Degu and make him reveal his personal details, secrets, and history.
• Carlos showed Degu the notes of his exposed secrets, secured his oath of loyalty, and ordered that he receive the highest treatment.
• Alone, Carlos decided he wanted to replace the John Family and later unify the West Sea Mafia before sailing toward the Grand Line.
• Carlos assessed his lack of manpower against the John Family and considered recruiting its neglected factions to avoid a direct battle.

Carlos judged that his strength was not yet enough to defeat the John Family alone and planned to unify the West Blue Mafia to build up his power. After John Abad prepared a larger assault on the Lucifer Family, Carlos developed a plan to strike first and set the pace of the conflict.

• Carlos reasoned that even top fighters could be worn down by large forces and concluded he could not face the entire John Family alone.
• News of the Iron Island defeat reached the John Family, and John Abad grieved for his dead son while fearing the loss of his position as family head.
• John Abad decided to deal with internal challengers before attacking the Lucifer Family again with the forces of both the main and affiliated families.
• Carlos received word of the coming attack and refined a plan to strike first rather than let the John Family dictate the conflict.

Carlos traveled to Maglin Island with Degu and planned to exploit John Matt’s ambition to sow chaos within the John Family. He then prepared a masked assassin persona called Tobi and left Degu to make contact with John Matt.

• Carlos took Degu to Maglin Island using Kamui and asked him to identify an ambitious but weak member of the John Family.
• Degu recommended John Matt, and Carlos ordered Degu to approach him and introduce Carlos as an assassin named Tobi who could eliminate his rivals.
• Carlos instructed Degu to encourage John Matt’s ambition and provoke conflict among the John Family’s brothers.
• Carlos visited a mask shop, commissioned an orange-yellow spiral mask and a black-and-red cloud outfit, and hypnotized the shop workers to cover his tracks.
• Carlos put on the outfit and mask to assume the appearance of Tobi, then departed to make preparations.

Carlos accepted a request from Matt to kill Jamie Ward as proof of his strength, then tracked down and killed the man with his Mangekyō Sharingan. He took Ward’s watch as evidence and left the body in a private club restroom.

• Carlos agreed to kill Jamie Ward and asked Degu for Ward’s location and routine.
• Carlos read a newspaper, dismissed its government-focused coverage, and rested before beginning the job.
• Carlos followed Ward to a private club and watched him with the Byakugan until he went to the restroom alone.
• Carlos ambushed Ward as he left the restroom, froze him with a Mangekyō Sharingan illusion, and killed him by crushing his throat.
• Carlos left Ward’s corpse in the restroom, took his watch as proof, and departed.

Carlos met John Matt at the Royal Court Hotel to begin their partnership, with Carlos aiming to use Matt to spark a struggle within the John Family. After a lavish banquet and a visit to the hotel’s private hot springs, Carlos used his Sharingan to learn that the woman assigned to him had come willingly for money, and he proceeded with her.

• Carlos arrived at the Royal Court Hotel and greeted John Matt, agreeing that Carlos would gain money while Matt pursued power.
• John Matt hosted Carlos, Degu, and his underlings at a lavish welcome banquet and celebration feast.
• John Matt brought Carlos and the others to the hotel’s private hot spring area and arranged a woman to attend Carlos.
• Carlos used his Sharingan to hypnotize the woman and learned that she was there willingly in exchange for money.
• Carlos released the hypnosis and proceeded with the woman.

Carlos struck a deal with John Matt to eliminate or recruit the core figures supporting Matt’s brothers in the John Family’s succession struggle. After agreeing to the plan and its risks, Carlos prepared to begin a bloody campaign that he intended to use to claim the family’s position among the Five Great Godfathers of West Blue.

• Carlos assured John Matt that his assassination skills could handle targets across the West Sea and offered him a discount.
• John Matt gave Carlos an envelope of targets, offering double payment for anyone Carlos recruited and asking him to kill those who refused.
• Carlos warned John Matt that the killings could provoke retaliation and advised him to hide; John Matt chose to stay concealed and strengthen his guards.
• Carlos asked John Matt to provide detailed information on the targets the next day, then returned to his room with a box of cigars.
• After searching his suite with his Byakugan, Carlos planned to spread panic among the Mafia’s young masters and use the resulting bloodshed to pursue the family-head position.

After John Matt hired Carlos to eliminate thirteen people connected to the John Family, Carlos began carrying out the assassinations across Maglin Island. By noon, he had killed eight targets and continued toward the rest.

• John Matt gave Carlos detailed files on thirteen targets, and Carlos promised to do his best to eliminate them.
• Carlos mapped the targets' locations and schedules, then used Kamui to infiltrate a shipyard and kill the first target.
• Carlos used the same method to kill the second, third, fourth, and fifth targets by noon.
• Carlos shot the sixth target through the heart from a rooftop overlooking a busy snack street.
• Carlos then shot the two women accompanying the sixth target before leaving the scene.

Carlos continued his campaign against John Matt’s rivals, killing nine targets in one day and returning after a rest to strike again. He killed the final target in a carefully prepared villa trap, leaving John Matt’s path to power clearer.

• After the John Family tightened security, Carlos killed only three targets by dusk, bringing his total to nine of thirteen.
• Carlos rested until three in the morning, planning to remove the John Family’s direct lineage and gain John Matt’s trust.
• Carlos attacked three villas in succession and killed three more targets, but the final target had prepared a layered trap.
• Carlos forced his way into the final target’s guest room and struck the guards and middle-aged man with Eagle Shatters the Sky.
• Carlos used Kamui (Attack) to twist the middle-aged man’s neck and kill him.

Carlos infiltrated the John Family headquarters to kill its patriarch, John Abad, and trapped him in the Tsukuyomi world. John Abad recognized Carlos as Lucifer Carlos just before Carlos began torturing him.

• Carlos killed the four guards protecting a John Family boss, then shot two incapacitated guards and escaped using Kamui.
• John Abad learned that four more core John Family members had been killed and ordered experts to protect the family’s leaders.
• Carlos infiltrated the John Family headquarters, intending to kill John Abad and provoke a struggle over the patriarch’s position.
• Carlos appeared in John Abad’s office and caught him in the Tsukuyomi illusion before he could call for help.
• John Abad recognized Carlos as Lucifer Carlos, and Carlos stabbed him in the stomach with a summoned blade.

Carlos used Tsukuyomi to torture John Abad with realistic pain, intending to break his mind rather than accept control of the John Family. After showing Abad the deaths of his loved ones, Carlos drove him to mental collapse and killed him in less than fifteen minutes.

• Carlos explained that injuries in Tsukuyomi felt real and could kill someone through mental collapse, then tortured John Abad with a branding iron.
• John Abad begged Carlos to stop and offered him anything, so Carlos burned him alive in Tsukuyomi before restoring most of his body.
• Carlos asked for the John Family and a position among the Five Great Godfathers of West Blue, but rejected Abad's offer because he suspected the family would resist and Abad would seek revenge.
• Carlos fired a Sa vz. 26 at John Abad in Tsukuyomi, keeping him alive through the pain because he wanted his followers to be loyal.
• Carlos used Abad's heart to summon his beloved women and children, then made their deaths play out before him until John Abad's mind collapsed and he died.

Carlos killed John Abad and used Kotoamatsukami to manipulate John Matt, then covertly intensified the John Family’s succession struggle. John Matt emerged as the next family head and one of West Blue’s Five Great Godfathers, with his formal ceremony set to take place soon.

• Carlos killed John Abad with Tsukuyomi, then secretly altered John Matt’s will with Kotoamatsukami.
• The John Family found Abad dead, received an autopsy report of sudden death, and held a five-day funeral while preparing to choose a new leader.
• John Abad’s sons and nephews competed for succession, and Carlos secretly helped keep the rivals evenly matched, worsening violence across Maglin Island.
• Ten days after Abad’s death, the struggle sharply escalated and several candidates and their followers were eliminated.
• John Matt became the leading candidate and secured the support needed to become the John Family’s next head and a new Five Great Godfather of West Blue.
• The John Family sent invitations for John Matt’s formal succession ceremony, scheduled to include daytime guests and nighttime family witnesses.

Carlos attended John Matt’s succession ceremony in disguise, then used Kotoamatsukami’s influence over John Matt to announce that Carlos would take over the John Family’s forces. The conference room erupted in protest, and John Matt shot himself, leaving Carlos to face the final step of his takeover.

• Carlos followed John Matt through the day’s ceremony and banquet, then slipped away to watch from the mountaintop and dance with guests.
• That night, John Matt gathered the John Family’s powerholders and twenty affiliated Mafia family heads in the conference room.
• John Matt introduced Carlos as his successor and announced that Carlos would take over all the John Family’s forces.
• The assembled leaders erupted in anger, and Carlos removed his mask and thanked John Matt before promising to spare his youngest son.
• John Matt drew his pistol and killed himself, silencing the conference room.

Carlos used his hidden forces and Susanoo to seize control of the John Family headquarters, killing most of the family’s core members and forcing the Mafia bosses and surviving outsiders to submit. He ordered the new subordinates to help crush the remaining resistance and purge the John Family.

• Nathanson led Carlos’s armed guards into the conference room after Carlos had secretly brought five hundred men to Maglin Island and taken over the castle.
• John Family disciples attacked Carlos, but his Susanoo stopped them while the guards’ gunfire swept through the room.
• Carlos killed nearly all the John Family’s core members, sparing eight who were not surnamed John and the heads of the other Mafia families.
• Carlos demanded the Mafia bosses and surviving outsiders submit, and they agreed rather than face death.
• Carlos ordered the new subordinates to join him in eliminating the remaining resistance and then purge the John Family.

Carlos led the Lucifer Family’s takeover of the John Family stronghold, crushing the remaining resistance with his Susanoo and forcing the survivors to surrender. The gathered Mafia members recognized him as the new Godfather, though he still needed to secure control of the John Family’s wider forces.

• Carlos ordered the Lucifer Family members inside the castle to attack the John Family forces surrounding it, killing or wounding hundreds in the first volley.
• Carlos leaped from a third-floor window and used Susanoo’s second form to attack the surrounding Mafia members with its fists and Yasakani no Magatama.
• After half the surrounding force had been eliminated, Carlos offered the survivors their lives if they dropped their weapons and pledged loyalty.
• The remaining fighters surrendered, and Carlos declared that the Lucifer Family would replace the John Family and that he would become Godfather.
• Carlos’s subordinates, the surviving John Family members, and the affiliated Mafia families acknowledged him as Godfather.

Carlos destroyed the John Family, secured recognition as Godfather of the Southern West Sea, and established the Lucifer Family as one of the West Sea’s five great Mafia families. His rise drew the attention of powerful organizations, while he planned to strengthen himself and seek capable Crewmates before expanding further.

• Carlos ordered his allies to purge the John Family and its affiliates across Maglin Island, sparing only the survivor he had designated.
• Carlos won over most business partners and World Government officials with generous profits, while destroying forces that refused to submit.
• When Pirates attacked Maglin Island, Carlos joined forces with the Marines and killed three famous West Sea Pirates.
• After a month, the other great Mafia families recognized Carlos as Godfather and accepted the Lucifer Family as one of the West Sea’s five great Mafia families.
• Carlos decided he needed stronger Crewmates and planned to recruit them after improving his own strength.
• Carlos’s growing assets and influence attracted the attention of kingdoms, merchants, Marine Headquarters, and World Government intelligence agencies.

Golden Lion sent Carlos weapons, access to supply networks, and eleven secret arts as thanks for Carlos replacing the John Family. Excited by the techniques, Carlos delegated his affairs and began preparing for intensive training.

• Golden Lion sent Carlos weapons and ammunition worth more than one billion Berries, along with access to his supply channels and connections.
• Carlos examined eleven secret arts, including the sword technique Swallow Snow and the Body Techniques art Spider Web.
• Carlos decided to postpone unifying the West Blue Mafia until he had strengthened his own abilities.
• Carlos entrusted his affairs to trusted subordinates and planned to train in Haki, improve his physique, and develop new Body Techniques from the secret arts.

Carlos trained Observation Haki in an automated training room at the John Family headquarters, enduring repeated blows until he could dodge every attack. He finished the final session successfully and celebrated mastering Observation Haki.

• Carlos ordered his subordinates not to disturb his secluded training unless a major disaster or powerful invasion occurred.
• Carlos had craftsmen build a mechanized training room designed to attack him from every direction.
• Carlos began training with his eyes closed, repeatedly getting struck by the iron pillars and relying on his resilience to recover.
• Over a week, Carlos learned to sense approaching attacks and gradually dodged them all.
• Carlos evaded every pillar during the room's final session at maximum difficulty and celebrated his success in mastering Observation Haki.

Carlos trained in Armament Haki and discovered that it fused with his Internal Energy into a stronger red energy. After studying the painful mutation, he decided to convert all his Internal Energy into the new form and find a way to ease the pain.

• Carlos spent three days training until he developed Armament Haki within his body.
• When Armament Haki met his Internal Energy, Carlos felt stabbing pains and used Byakugan and Observation Haki to investigate.
• Carlos deliberately merged the two energies and discovered they created a red power that could be strengthened through either Haki training or Internal Energy cultivation.
• Carlos realized the new energy retained the strengths of both powers, but its painful creation made him seek a solution.
• Carlos decided to convert all his Internal Energy into the new type of Armament Haki and see whether that eased the pain.

Carlos spent nearly four days converting his Internal Energy into new-style Armament Haki, then secluded himself on Maglin Island to devise a cultivation method that could unify the two systems. After three months of research and brutal training, he created a special Armament Haki cultivation method of his own as the pirate turmoil intensified.

• Carlos converted all his Internal Energy into new-style Armament Haki but found he could only cultivate normal versions of Internal Energy and Armament Haki separately.
• Carlos began studying both cultivation methods and stayed in seclusion on Maglin Island through the winter, telling his subordinates to obey Kelly's messages or face his anger.
• Carlos divided his time between developing the new method and punishing physical training, then used his new-style Haki to nourish his body and strengthen himself.
• Pirate attacks increased across the seas, and Maglin Island resisted repeated incursions while Carlos continued his research.
• After more than three months of study and deduction, Carlos created a special Armament Haki cultivation method that belonged solely to him.

After testing his newly cultivated Armament Haki, Carlos rested and spent over a year integrating techniques into a personal Body Techniques combat system. He emerged from seclusion in July of Oceanic Era 1500, ready to make a name for himself.

• Carlos tested his new Armament Haki with a serious punch that registered 89,654 jin on the Strength Tester.
• After a week of rest, Carlos began combining copied combat techniques and secret arts with his martial arts to create his own Body Techniques system.
• Carlos divided his secluded training between strengthening his physique and developing his combat system while the Lucifer Family continued without him.
• More than a year later, Carlos emerged from the cultivation area in July of Oceanic Era 1500, aged seventeen and ready to build achievements across the seas.

After more than a year of secluded training, Carlos returned with seven powerful ultimate techniques and reunited with the Lucifer Family’s leaders. He heard reports on the family’s affairs, declared himself satisfied, and ordered a celebratory banquet.

• Carlos completed his secluded training, creating seven ultimate Body Techniques and improving his overall strength.
• Carlos returned to the castle where he lived, and a maid’s discovery of him spread news of his return.
• Kelly, Noah, and the Lucifer Family’s other leaders gathered to greet Carlos in the grand reception hall.
• Carlos listened as Noah reported on the past year’s important affairs, with Kelly adding details.
• Carlos accepted the reports and ordered a banquet so everyone could celebrate his return.