Recaps

After enjoying himself on Maglin Island, Carlos provoked the Ferro, Gambino, and Charlie Families over disputed territory and ordered his forces to prepare for war when they refused. He also considered visiting Ohara to rescue archaeologists and use them to trouble the World Government.

• Carlos returned to his castle and demanded that the Ferro Family, Gambino Family, and Charlie Family return territory they had taken from the John Family.
• Carlos read notices about Portgas D. Rouge and the destruction of the Ohara Poneglyph expedition, and considered going to Ohara to save archaeologists.
• Carlos learned that the three families had refused his demand and ordered his subordinates to prepare for war.

Carlos mobilized the Lucifer Family for an all-out war against the Charlie Family and led a surprise fleet toward its headquarters on Paradise Island. His fleet left Maglin Island with over seven thousand men and destroyed the pirate crews that tried to block its route.

• Carlos ordered the Lucifer Family and its affiliated Mafia families to prepare for all-out war.
• Carlos chose the Charlie Family as the first target after Noah said it had been the most arrogant.
• Carlos ordered the family’s leaders to assemble a force quickly and declared that he would command and fight on the front lines.
• After four days and three nights of preparations, over seven thousand men boarded thirty ships at the Lucifer Family’s dock.
• Carlos led the fleet east across the West Sea toward Paradise Island, and its cannons destroyed pirate crews that blocked its path.

Carlos led the Lucifer Family’s fleet toward the Charlie Family’s territory and avoided a confrontation with Aokiji’s Navy ships. After reaching Ham Island, the fleet launched a sudden attack, beginning the war against the Charlie Family.

• Carlos ordered his fleet to avoid ten Navy warships after their lookout spotted them.
• A Navy colonel reported the Lucifer Family’s ships to Rear Admiral Aokiji, who chose not to attack because they were Mafia rather than Pirates.
• Carlos spotted Aokiji but decided not to approach him, and both fleets continued toward their destinations.
• The Lucifer Family fleet entered the Charlie Family’s territory and headed for Paradise Island, first attacking Ham Island with cannon fire.
• Carlos landed with three thousand armed thugs, seized key routes, and led an assault on the enemy headquarters.

Carlos led the Lucifer Family in an assault on Ham Island, breaking the Charlie Family’s defenses and wiping out the enemy forces there. After killing Lawson as he fled, Carlos set sail with his main force to continue raiding before the Charlie Family could respond.

• Carlos charged across the river, destroyed the firing towers, and pierced dozens of Mafia thugs with Void Piercing Finger.
• Carlos used Overlord Elbow to shatter the mansion’s wall, allowing the Lucifer Family troops to storm inside and overwhelm the defenders.
• Lawson called Charlie Eagle to report the invasion, and Charlie ordered him to retreat while preparing to confront Carlos.
• Carlos sniped enemies from the mansion’s highest point, killing Lawson and his fleeing confidants.
• After the battle ended, Carlos left men to handle the aftermath and led the main force onward by ship to attack the Charlie Family again.

Carlos led the Lucifer Family to Flowing Cloud Island, where they began a two-front battle against the Charlie Family’s reinforced forces. He launched himself at the enemy fleet and began killing its fighters with his Heartbreak Palm.

• Carlos’s forces captured five Charlie Family islands, leaving three between them and Paradise Island, while suffering fifteen hundred dead or wounded.
• The Charlie Family gathered more than six thousand men on Flowing Cloud Island and prepared its defenses, while reporters arrived to cover the conflict.
• Carlos split the Lucifer Family fleet, sending twelve ships to attack the Charlie Family’s fleet and thirteen to assault the island.
• As the naval battle began, Carlos crossed the sea to the enemy fleet and dodged incoming fire.
• Carlos boarded an enemy ship and used Heartbreak Palm to kill attacking Pirates by striking through their bodies.

Carlos overwhelmed the Charlie Family’s forces, subdued Mad Lion O'Neal, and began cutting apart their ships. When a gray-clothed swordsman and a sniper intervened, Carlos chose to fight the swordsman at close range and kill him.

• Carlos defeated Mad Lion O'Neal despite his Cat-Cat Fruit: Lion Form, then demanded that he and the surviving Mafia thugs surrender.
• Carlos warned O'Neal that he would be thrown into the sea if he refused to submit, and the remaining thugs threw their weapons overboard.
• Carlos used Sky Eagle Claw to slice apart two Charlie Family ships, while the fleets continued closing in on one another.
• A sniper shot at Carlos as a gray-clothed swordsman attacked him with Sword Qi, interrupting his assault on the ships.
• Carlos closed in on the swordsman and fought him at close range, deciding to kill him after his attempt to recruit him failed.

Carlos defeated the Charlie Family’s forces at sea, developed Cyclops-like red laser beams, and helped secure victory in the landing battle. After accepting Mad Lion O'Neal’s surrender, he prepared for the last battle against the Charlie Family.

• Carlos overwhelmed the gray-clad swordsman with Hurricane Fist, then destroyed the Charlie Family’s ships until the survivors surrendered.
• Carlos split his fleet, joined the battle on shore, and used his Devil Fruit ability to imitate Cyclops and fire powerful red beams from his eyes.
• Carlos tested his new laser attacks against the Charlie Family’s defenses as the battle turned decisively in the Lucifer Family’s favor.
• Carlos accepted Mad Lion O'Neal’s surrender and ordered doctors to treat him.
• Carlos anticipated one final battle with the Charlie Family and hoped to face a powerful opponent.

Charlie Eagle hosted a banquet on Paradise Island for the experts he had hired to defend the Charlie Family, hoping to defeat Carlos and seize the Lucifer Family. The chapter introduced three formidable Grand Line fighters as Carlos prepared to face worthy opponents.

• After Flowing Cloud Island fell, Charlie Eagle invited powerful allies and experts to defend Paradise Island and planned to kill Carlos and divide the Lucifer Family’s territory.
• Charlie Eagle hosted his guests at a lavish banquet in the island’s largest hot spring.
• The chapter introduced Dolores, the Blood Cherry Swordmaster, as a famous titled swordmaster from the Grand Line.
• The chapter introduced Jack Riley, user of the Inflation-Inflation Fruit, and Keith Martin, user of the Shatter-Shatter Fruit, with Martin ranked as the strongest of the three.
• Carlos remained unaware of the banquet but looked forward to fighting opponents who could challenge him.

Carlos led the Lucifer Family fleet into a head-on battle with the Charlie Family near Paradise Island, where the two sides began exchanging cannon fire. The battle left off with Keith Martin, wielder of the Shatter-Shatter Fruit, standing guard beside Charlie Eagle's flagship.

• Carlos led more than four thousand Lucifer Family men toward Paradise Island as news vessels followed their advance.
• The Charlie Family assembled a fleet of similar size to intercept the Lucifer Family, and both fleets charged at each other under the command of their respective leaders.
• Carlos opened the battle by firing Cyclops at a Charlie Family warship, punching a hole through its hull.
• Both fleets entered cannon range and exchanged heavy fire, inflicting casualties and damaging ships.
• Carlos used Observation Haki and Cyclops to destroy cannonballs threatening the Lucifer Family flagship.
• Charlie Eagle stayed calm aboard his flagship, protected by powerful experts, including Keith Martin, wielder of the Shatter-Shatter Fruit.

The Charlie Family and Lucifer Family began a sea battle, with Martin using the Shatter-Shatter Fruit to destroy cannonballs and deflect Carlos's laser attack. Carlos reached the Charlie Family flagship unharmed by bullets and studied its strongest fighters as they tried to identify his ability.

• Martin shattered more than a dozen incoming cannonballs, and Charlie Eagle watched with satisfaction as his hired fighter proved his worth.
• The fleets exchanged cannon fire, and the Lucifer Family gained a slight advantage through Carlos's reckless use of Cyclops.
• Carlos raced across the air toward the Charlie Family flagship and fired a laser shockwave at Charlie Eagle.
• Martin intercepted the laser and redirected its fragments into the sea.
• Carlos landed on a nearby mast, endured a hail of bullets without injury, and sized up Charlie Eagle, Martin, Jack Riley, Charlie Fikes, and Roberts Dolores.

Carlos fought Charlie Eagle’s three Grand Line hired fighters aboard the Charlie Family flagship and seriously injured Jack Riley. The fleets collided and brutal boarding battles began while Carlos faced Martin and Dolores with Riley wounded.

• Carlos attacked Charlie Eagle, but Charlie Fikes intercepted his kick and was driven through the deck before Charlie Eagle retreated.
• Martin, Dolores, and Riley introduced themselves as Grand Line fighters hired by Charlie Eagle, and Carlos invited them to join him.
• Carlos used his ability to let Martin’s and Dolores’s attacks pass through him, then focused his assault on Riley.
• Carlos trapped Riley with an illusion and struck him with Heartbreak Palm, inflicting severe internal injuries; Riley warned the others not to look into Carlos’s eyes.
• The two fleets collided, and their crews began fierce close-quarters battles aboard the ships.

Carlos defeated Riley and then fought Martin and Dolores aboard the flagship, showing off his Haki and unusual abilities. He began targeting the two remaining opponents while hoping to recruit them, but Martin’s attack instead shattered the ship’s deck.

• Carlos used the Heartbreak Palm and a flurry of punches to knock Riley unconscious, deciding he might be worth recruiting.
• Martin and Dolores attacked Carlos, but he met their blows with Haki-coated fists and blasted them backward.
• Carlos told Martin and Dolores to fight him farther from Riley and said he wanted both of them as crew members or companions.
• Dolores unleashed Cherry Blossom Remnant, but Carlos shattered her hidden Sword Qi with Void Piercing Finger and forced her back.
• Martin used Shatter Fist—Collapse against Carlos, but his punch passed through, so he angrily struck the deck and cracked it across the ship.

Carlos used Amaterasu to incapacitate Martin and then defeated Dolores, showing the strength of his Mangekyō Sharingan and Bloodied Battle Body. He left both alive for now and turned his attention to swallowing up the Charlie Family as Charlie Fikes continued slaughtering his men.

• Carlos used Amaterasu to burn Martin until he was heavily injured, then extinguished the black flames.
• Dolores attacked Carlos through the rain, but his Susanoo blocked her sword strike.
• Carlos activated Bloodied Battle Body, resisted Dolores's sword, and overpowered her.
• Carlos pinned Dolores, numbed her shoulder, and knocked her unconscious while planning to take over the Charlie Family.

Carlos turned the battle against the Charlie Family into a victory and decided to force the other three Mafia families into submission rather than conquer them outright. Charlie Eagle escaped to Paradise Island to seek allies, while Carlos set off after him.

• Carlos abandoned his plan to conquer the Mafia families one by one and resolved to make the Charlie Family an example before compelling the other three families to obey him.
• Carlos slaughtered enemies across the battlefield, turning the fight in the Lucifer Family’s favor.
• Charlie Eagle fled toward Paradise Island with Charlie Fikes and trusted subordinates, planning to rally the other families against Carlos.
• After Charlie Eagle escaped, the Charlie Family’s troops surrendered, and the Lucifer Family began tending to its wounded and securing prisoners.
• Carlos ordered Dolores chained and locked in his room, instructed his officers to organize the survivors, and left for Paradise Island to pursue Charlie Eagle.

Carlos arrived at Paradise Island and killed Charlie Eagle and Charlie Fikes, then destroyed the Charlie Family’s ships and escape routes. He left the remaining island forces in chaos for his subordinates to handle.

• Carlos appeared behind Charlie Eagle aboard a ship and dodged the patriarch’s gunfire.
• Carlos shot Charlie Eagle dead as Charlie Fikes and other family members arrived.
• Charlie Fikes attacked Carlos, was knocked back, and then died in Carlos’s barrage of Void Piercing Finger strikes.
• Carlos wrecked the ships at the docks and killed the Charlie Family members who tried to stop him.
• The Charlie Family scattered across Paradise Island, while Carlos left the remaining pursuit to his subordinates.

After the Lucifer Family took control of Paradise Island, Carlos ordered the Charlie Family’s remaining members hunted down and began restoring order. He recruited Martin, Riley, and Dolores as his crew members, promising to help them grow stronger while keeping the secrets of his abilities to himself for now.

• Carlos ordered Xiaoli to bring five thousand reinforcements, contact the other three families about a meeting, restore Paradise Island, and bring him the three defeated fighters.
• Carlos freed Dolores from her shackles and told her, Martin, and Riley that the war was nearly over and they had to choose whether to join him or die.
• Carlos offered the three fighters crew positions as partners, with high status and the option to bring their own Grand Line forces.
• Dolores, Martin, and Riley agreed to join Carlos, and Dolores called him captain.
• Carlos said he could help them reach the strength needed for the New World, but put off explaining how he predicted their moves and fought their abilities.

After the Lucifer Family defeated the Charlie Family, Carlos negotiated with the heads of the three remaining West Sea families over the spoils and a meeting to redraw their territories. The families agreed to meet on Purple Heart Island, where Carlos ended the call with a cold, disdainful smile.

• News of the Charlie Family’s defeat spread across the West Sea as Carlos reviewed the assets his family had seized.
• Xiaoli told Carlos that the heads of the Capone, Gambino, and Ferro Families wanted to speak with him.
• Carlos offered the three families a share of the Charlie Family’s territory in exchange for eliminating its remnants and meeting to redraw the West Sea’s borders.
• The three family heads agreed to meet with Carlos on the fifteenth of next month and chose Purple Heart Island as the location.
• Carlos accepted the location, ended the call, and smiled disdainfully.

Carlos traveled with his Crewmates and a thousand Mafia thugs to Purple Heart Island for negotiations with the Gambino and Capone Families. He arrived to find the island occupied by the three families’ forces, then followed their guides toward the negotiation venue.

• Carlos led Martin, Riley, Dolores, and a thousand selected thugs aboard five warships bound for Purple Heart Island.
• During the voyage, Dolores won most of the Berries in a card game against Carlos, Martin, and Riley.
• Carlos arrived at Purple Heart Island and saw more than thirty ships belonging to the three families gathered at the docks.
• Representatives of the three families greeted Carlos, whose men noticed that Mafia forces had occupied the docks and island.
• Carlos and his party followed their guides through the island’s vineyards and occupied town toward the negotiation venue.

Carlos met the Gambino, Capone, and Ferro family heads in the town square, then abruptly demanded that they submit to him as the West Sea’s sole godfather. He trapped the three bosses and their bodyguards inside a wall of Amaterasu flames, leaving both sides stunned as his plan to unite the Mafia began.

• Carlos brought more than three hundred followers into the square while placing others at ships and key streets, and he saw the three families’ overwhelming show of force.
• The Gambino, Capone, and Ferro family heads greeted Carlos politely and gathered around a map to discuss business.
• Carlos proposed a four-family Mafia alliance led by himself, then threatened that anyone who refused would die.
• Carlos activated Third Form Susanoo and formed a wall of Amaterasu flames around the three family heads and their six bodyguards.
• Carlos’s men and the three families’ forces stared in shock as he revealed his plan to unite the Mafia without conquering each family separately.

Carlos used Susanoo to overpower the three great Mafia families and demanded that they unite under him as the West Sea’s sole Godfather. He escalated to Fourth Form Susanoo to demonstrate his strength, leaving the families and nearby residents stunned as they considered their fate.

• Carlos trapped the three family heads and their men with Amaterasu flames, then used Yasakani no Magatama to devastate the Capone Family’s ranks.
• Gambino Marjo urged the others to stay calm, and Carlos explained that he wanted the Mafia to support his plans to enter the Grand Line and New World.
• Carlos demanded that the three families acknowledge him as their alliance leader and warned that their decision would determine their fate after three minutes.
• Carlos transformed Susanoo into its Fourth Form, brought Dolores, Martin, and Riley into its control room, and formed two enormous swords.
• The three families and nearby residents stared in shock at the towering Susanoo as Carlos prepared to enforce his demand.

Carlos forced the patriarchs of three West Sea Mafia families to accept his leadership, then publicly united their families under his rule. He left the chapter as the sole Godfather of the West Sea, with a larger formal announcement and banquet planned for Paradise Island.

• Carlos used Susanoo to intimidate the three patriarchs into accepting his demands and subordinate status under the Lucifer Family.
• Carlos ordered Martin to summon Western Sea media and kept the patriarchs on Purple Heart Island until the press conference.
• Carlos played poker with the three patriarchs and used x-ray vision to win all their money over an afternoon and half the night.
• Carlos held a press conference with the patriarchs, announcing an alliance under his leadership as the West Sea’s sole Godfather.
• Carlos planned a formal press conference and banquet on Paradise Island for the first of the next month.

After the Mafia unified the West Sea, reports spread across the seas and drew the attention of CP9 and the Marines. The World Government and Marines chose to monitor the new alliance while avoiding a direct conflict unless it threatened them.

• Carlos planned to stay on Paradise Island, transfer Kelly there, and leave Noah to watch over Maglin Island.
• Reporters gathered residents' accounts of Carlos's Susanoo and a four-billion-Berry gamble, then published increasingly exaggerated stories praising the Lucifer Family.
• Carlos and the other family heads left Purple Heart Island to prepare for the alliance's next steps, including a large banquet and persuading their families to accept the unification.
• Newspapers spread news of the West Sea Mafia's unification across the seas and the Grand Line, prompting speculation that the alliance might expand outward.
• CP9 discussed strengthening surveillance of the Mafia and using covert measures if it opposed the World Government.
• The Marines decided to take the Mafia more seriously but avoid provoking it while they focused on the growing Pirate threat.

Carlos prepared for a major press conference and banquet on Paradise Island, then considered why the World Government was determined to suppress the True History of the Void Century. He left the question unresolved, believing the history concealed both a dangerous ideology and knowledge of weaknesses in the World Government’s foundations.

• Carlos announced a press conference and banquet for the first of next month and planned to entrust their preparations to Kelly.
• Kelly arrived on Paradise Island, and Carlos introduced her to Martin, Riley, and Dolores.
• The World Government Gazette accused Ohara’s scholars of studying True History to revive the Ancient Weapons and announced a joint operation to eliminate them.
• Carlos reasoned that the World Government’s campaign against Ohara pointed to a threat beyond scandals or Ancient Weapons.
• Carlos concluded that the Void Century might reveal the ancient kingdom’s ideology and how to break the World Government’s foundations, though he could not confirm his theory.

Carlos laid out his theory of the Void Century, arguing that the Clan of D once fought and defeated a tyrannical group of self-proclaimed gods before Imu engineered the Great Kingdom’s downfall. He ended by explaining how Alabasta’s king preserved Pluton’s secrets and rejected the new order, while acknowledging that the theory was speculation.

• Carlos connected Alabasta’s royal family, Pluton, and the missing century, proposing that Alabasta’s upright king withdrew from the Twenty Kingdoms rather than join the Celestial Dragons.
• Carlos theorized that the Clan of D had formed a resistance against technologically advanced Moon People who called themselves gods, and that the Clan’s Devil Fruits helped them fight back.
• Carlos proposed that Pluton, commanded by Vivi’s ancestor, and Uranus clashed in a devastating war, while the Clan of D’s leader sought help from the Mermaid Princess and promised equality for her people.
• Carlos claimed that the Clan of D defeated the gods, founded the Great Kingdom, and built Noah, but that the immortal Imu infiltrated the kingdom and framed it before leading twenty kingdoms against it.
• Carlos explained that the Great Kingdom’s leader created the True History tablets as defeat loomed, while Alabasta’s king withdrew with Pluton and concealed its location in a tablet with the Kozuki Clan’s help.
• Carlos concluded that Imu established the World Government after the war and likely helped erase Alabasta’s ability to read the tablets, then recommended another story’s interpretation of the Void Century.

Carlos decided to go to Ohara and secretly rescue Nico Robin and Nicole Olvia, though he had no intention of saving the island’s scholars or civilians. He arrived to find the Marines had encircled Ohara with a powerful Buster Call force, making his rescue risky.

• Carlos weighed whether to intervene in Ohara’s destruction and chose to save Nico Robin and Nicole Olvia for personal reasons.
• Carlos informed his crewmates and subordinates, then traveled alone to Ohara using Kamui.
• Carlos arrived in a forest on Ohara with a disguised appearance and saw Marine warships surrounding the island.
• Carlos used the Byakugan to survey the Buster Call force and identified its warships, officers, and elite Marines.
• Carlos recognized that the Marine lineup could endanger his rescue plan and that using Kamui openly might expose his identity.