Chapter Summaries

Lucifer Carlos reflected on his past life on Earth and how he had transmigrated into a destitute boy in the One Piece world. After rebuilding his martial arts skills and joining the Mike Family, he had become a subordinate leader on Iron Island, where his story now began.

• Lucifer Carlos recalled growing up on Earth, training at Shaolin Temple for fifteen years, and becoming a martial arts instructor.
• During a storm in 2019, Chou Xiao Chi was struck by lightning and woke up in the body of ten-year-old Lucifer Carlos in Oceanic Era 1493.
• Carlos learned from the boy’s memories that his parents had died when Pirates attacked their merchant ship, leaving him poor and alone.
• After the original Carlos died in a fight with street punks, Lucifer used three months to secure food and shelter, then spent four years restoring his martial arts skills.
• Lucifer joined the Mike Family to fulfill Carlos’s dream and rose from an outer member to a subordinate leader managing fifty underlings.

Carlos, a rising Mafia subordinate leader in the West Blue, learned that Patriarch John had taken a Devil Fruit recovered from wreckage on Iron Island. The chapter left Carlos with a valuable lead about the fruit.

• Carlos reflected on the West Blue Mafia’s hierarchy and his ambition to rise beyond his current rank.
• Noah woke Carlos and invited him to drink with Cani at Clover Tavern.
• Carlos and Cani drank late into the night while the other Mafia members passed out.
• Cani revealed that wreckage had washed ashore in his patrol area with treasure chests containing Berries, jewels, and a Devil Fruit.
• Cani said Patriarch John had personally arrived and taken the recovered items.

Carlos learned that the Mike Clan possessed a Devil Fruit and decided to steal it, infiltrating their villa on Iron Island. After reaching the mansion and interrogating a staff member, he learned Patriarch Mike lived on the top floor and believed the fruit was kept near him.

• Carlos confirmed that Patriarch Mike's clan had a Devil Fruit and resolved to take it for himself.
• Carlos knocked out the tavern's patrons, disguised himself among them, and secretly left for the Mike Clan's villa.
• Carlos avoided the heavily guarded front of the hill and climbed the sheer cliff on its seaward side.
• Carlos entered the mansion undetected and killed two Mafia Members who approached with a staff member.
• Carlos forced the staff member to reveal that Patriarch Mike lived on the villa's top floor, then killed him and crept toward the building.

Carlos infiltrated the Mike Family villa and stole a strange Devil Fruit, which he swallowed and discovered was a Special Paramecia. The chapter ended with him turning his crimson, tomoe-marked eyes toward Mike Moxie's bedroom.

• Carlos climbed the villa and searched its top floor for Mike Moxie.
• Carlos watched Mike Moxie and three family leaders discuss a tiny, unusual Devil Fruit, then saw them decide to sell it.
• After the others left, Mike Moxie kept the Devil Fruit on the coffee table and later fell asleep.
• Carlos slipped into the room, swallowed the Devil Fruit, and learned that it was a Special Paramecia.
• Carlos looked toward Mike Moxie's bedroom with his crimson eyes and a black tomoe showing.

Carlos killed Mike Moxie and returned safely to the Clover Tavern, choosing to spare the sleeping woman beside him. He reflected on the Eye of the Devil’s powers and limits, and planned to build his strength before pursuing control of the Mafia.

• Carlos entered Mike Moxie's bedroom at night and snapped Mike Moxie's neck, but spared the woman sleeping beside him.
• Carlos used the Byakugan to evade the villa's guards, climbed down the back cliff, erased his tracks, and returned to the Clover Tavern.
• Carlos assessed the Eye of the Devil, which could imitate, evolve, or create powerful eyes, and recognized that its use drained his physical and mental strength.
• Carlos decided to focus on strengthening himself so he could eventually unleash more of the Devil Fruit's abilities and rise within the Mafia.
• Carlos restored the Clover Tavern room, drank the remaining liquor, spilled some on his clothes, and pretended to have passed out.

After Mike Moxie was found murdered and the Mike Family began investigating his death and the missing Devil Fruit, Carlos returned to his base and prepared to exploit the turmoil. The chapter left Carlos leading fifty disciplined men to Mike Moxie’s funeral, hoping for an opportunity to rise in the Mafia.

• Third Madam discovered Mike Moxie dead in his bedroom, and the Mike Family found that someone had snapped his neck and stolen the Devil Fruit.
• Mike Henry oversaw the family’s initial investigation and arranged for the news to be contained while they searched for the killer and considered the next patriarch.
• Mike Moxie’s guards took Cani from Clover Tavern for questioning, while Carlos guessed they suspected him of revealing information about the Devil Fruit.
• Carlos learned that Mike Moxie had supposedly died of illness, pretended to mourn, and privately hoped the upheaval would open a path to promotion.
• Carlos gathered fifty men in mourning clothes and led them to Mike Moxie’s funeral.

Carlos trained to improve his martial arts and combine his Byakugan and Sharingan with his fighting techniques while tracking the Mike Family’s leadership struggle. He assassinated Mike Henry with a sniper rifle, leaving the family’s succession conflict poised to erupt.

• After leaving Boss Mike’s mansion, Carlos returned to his base and devoted himself to physical conditioning and martial arts training.
• Carlos studied how to use his Byakugan and Sharingan to enhance his Eagle Claw Technique, Twelve Road Tan Leg, and Golden Bell Shield.
• Carlos learned that Mike Henry, Mike Kellen, and Mike Klin were competing for the family head position, and he decided to provoke a violent conflict by assassinating one of them.
• Carlos hid near the road to the Mike Family mansion and used his Byakugan and Sharingan to identify Mike Henry in the approaching convoy.
• Carlos shot Mike Henry through the temple as he rode in his car, then escaped from the area.

After Mike Henry's death intensified the Mike Family's struggle for power, Carlos read about the rising legends of the New World and resolved to grow stronger and expand his influence. When a staged clash between family factions offered him an opportunity, he gathered his men to escalate the conflict and pursue his own ambitions on Iron Island.

• Mike Kellen and Mike Klin grew suspicious of each other after Mike Henry's death and both set their sights on becoming patriarch.
• Carlos read reports of the Roger Pirates' victory over the Golden Lion Pirates, Roger's voyage toward Raftel, and Redfield's overwhelming strength.
• Carlos decided he needed to strengthen himself and unite the West Blue Mafia to prepare for the coming Great Age of Pirates.
• A subordinate reported that Carlos's men had clashed with men from Mike Kellen's side, and Carlos ordered his men to arm themselves and support their brothers.
• Carlos suspected Mike Klin had arranged the clash to frame Mike Kellen, but he chose to exploit the feud and sent his men out to escalate it.

Carlos helped Mike Klin secure control of the Mike Family, earning a leadership position and more than two hundred subordinates. After three months of training, Carlos awakened his three-tomoe Sharingan and developed Internal Energy strong enough to visibly enhance his martial arts.

• Carlos attacked the Mafia base, killed several men, and blamed Mike Kellen for the provocation in his report to Carlton.
• Mike Klin and Carlton ambushed Mike Kellen’s men as they tried to reach the John Family representative, then won the representative’s support with money and assets.
• Mike Klin became the new head of the Mike Family, while Mike Kellen lost his position and Carlos became a leader with Noah promoted beneath him.
• After East City’s Mafia conflict ended, Carlos devoted himself to training at his villa and around the island.
• Three months later, Carlos opened his Sharingan to three tomoe and strengthened his Internal Energy until it enhanced his techniques, including a Golden Bell Shield that stopped a bullet.

Carlos learned that Roger had reached Raftel and become the One Piece, then revealed his ambition to seize the highest position for himself. He recruited Noah to help carry out a direct plan to take power from the Mike Family, confident that his strength could suppress opposition.

• Carlos trained his Golden Bell Shield and cultivated his Internal Energy in the villa's backyard.
• Noah brought Carlos news that the Roger Pirates had reached Raftel and Roger had become the One Piece.
• Carlos told Noah that he intended to seize the top position and that the Mike Family would face destruction or submission.
• Noah pledged his loyalty, and Carlos shared his plan with him.
• Carlos said his strength was enough to suppress opposition, and Noah went to make arrangements.

Carlos gathered his strongest subordinates and demanded their support in overthrowing the Mike Family, using threats and promises to secure their cooperation. Two nights later, he invited the Mike Family’s leaders to appraise a supposed rare treasure, leaving his real plan undisclosed as the private-room doors closed.

• Carlos told forty Mafia elites that he intended to replace the Mike Family and become the Iron Island Mafia’s new Boss.
• A subordinate leader and two fighters tried to leave, but Carlos used his Sharingan to make them stab one another to death.
• Noah encouraged the others to support Carlos, and the remaining subordinates agreed after Carlos threatened dissenters and promised rewards.
• Carlos ordered Noah to record the supporters’ names and home addresses and arrange surveillance of their families.
• Two nights later, Carlos welcomed Mike Klin, Carlton, and other Mike Family leaders to a hotel, claiming he had a rare treasure for them to appraise.

Carlos used a surprise attack to kill the Mafia Bosses and their bodyguards, then summoned Noah and his men into the private room. He ended the chapter seated calmly among the bodies, while his followers looked at him with awe and wariness.

• Noah and his men served specially prepared food and wine to the Bosses’ unguarded subordinates in the hallway.
• Carlos opened a treasure box, used Illusion Techniques on the strongest bodyguards, and shot them before killing the others with his pistols.
• The four Mafia Bosses fired at Carlos, but his Golden Bell Shield and Sharingan let him evade their bullets and kill two of them with his bare hands.
• Carlos used his Sharingan to incapacitate Carlton and Mike Klin, then snapped Mike Klin’s neck and crushed Carlton’s pistol before killing Carlton.
• Carlos called Noah and ten underlings into the wrecked private room, where they saw the corpses and regarded him with awe and wariness.

Carlos arranged the deaths of the Mike Family’s bosses to look like mutual slaughter, then summoned the family’s leaders and forced them to accept him as the new boss. The leaders submitted under threat of gunfire, and Carlos demanded pledges of allegiance.

• Carlos ordered Noah to stage the scene, summon the leaders in Mike Klin’s name, and help him seize control of the family.
• The leaders arrived with few guards, and Carlos claimed that Boss Mike, Boss Carlton, and two others had killed one another, then declared his intention to become the new boss.
• Carlos’s armed men surrounded the leaders, and they realized they had been trapped.
• When three Mike Family leaders threatened Carlos and invoked the John Family, Carlos’s men shot them dead.
• Carlos took the remaining leaders to inspect the staged scene, and they returned too frightened to challenge his account.
• The leaders unanimously backed Carlos as boss, and he told them they needed to pledge allegiance to be completely safe.

Carlos ordered the complete destruction of the Mike Family after Boss Green praised his mercy, then watched his men seize the family’s influence and mansion. He celebrated his growing power on Iron Island and turned his attention to the John Family.

• Carlos ordered the leaders to eliminate the Mike Family’s Mafia influence and seize control of its mansion, initially offering the family a choice between surrender and destruction.
• Boss Green praised Carlos for being merciful, prompting Carlos to order the leaders to trick the Mike Family into boarding a ship and sink it with no survivors.
• Carlos threatened the leaders with severe punishment if any Mike Family members survived, and they agreed to carry out the plan.
• Carlos’s men wiped out the Mike Family’s remaining Mafia influence and seized its mansion after overwhelming the family’s resistance.
• Carlos arrived at the mansion that night, received a grand welcome, and rewarded his men with a celebration.
• Carlos reflected on his rise to power and looked ahead to dealing with the John Family.

After taking control of the Mike Family, Carlos prepared for retaliation from the John Family and strengthened security around his forces. On his third night as Boss, an armed group ambushed his convoy on the road to his mansion.

• Carlos reviewed the Mike Family’s forces and assets, learning that he commanded over 1,600 members and roughly two billion Berries but still faced the John Family’s retaliation.
• Carlos ordered Noah to suspend arms sales, arm the Mafia members, watch for strangers, and serve as leader for the time being.
• Carlos considered how the John Family might attack him while attending social engagements and inspecting East City’s Mafia bases.
• On Carlos’s third night as Boss, his convoy stopped when tree trunks and rocks blocked the road to his mansion.
• Ten attackers rushed the convoy, and Carlos’s combatants opened fire with guns and rocket launchers, but the attackers moved too quickly to target.

Carlos defeated a group of assassins sent by the John Family and interrogated the survivor, learning more about the family. He decided to provoke conflicts around the John Family and buy time to strengthen his organization, then ordered the captive executed.

• Carlos killed or incapacitated the attackers who ambushed his convoy, shot the fleeing survivor in the leg, and ordered his men to handle the wounded and bodies.
• At the mansion, Carlos hypnotized the captured assassin with his Sharingan and learned that the John Family had sent assassins raised in captivity.
• Carlos concluded that he could not confront the John Family directly and planned to exploit its internal and external conflicts while building his strength.
• Carlos ordered the captive assassin shot to honor his fallen men.

Carlos secretly left Iron Island for Maglin Island, but on the seventh day of his voyage, the ships carrying him were attacked by the Mad Bull Pirates. The escort ships fled under pursuit, and Carlos joined the battle while trying to understand why the Pirates were targeting them.

• Carlos told his trusted Mafia Members about his plan to travel to Maglin Island and secretly departed Iron Island aboard a merchant ship.
• Carlos spent the first six days of the voyage training, reading, and exploring islands where the ships stopped.
• The Mad Bull Pirates attacked the four ships, and the captain ordered everyone to abandon the merchant vessels and flee aboard the escort ships.
• The escort ships escaped while leaving many Crewmates behind, but four Pirate Ships pursued them instead of taking the merchant ships' cargo.
• Carlos joined the escort ships' defense, activating his Sharingan and Byakugan as he fired accurately at the Pirates.

Carlos used hypnosis to order two escort ships to charge the four Pirate Ships, then fought his way through the pirates to give the surviving sailors a chance to fight back. The chapter ended as Carlos led the escort crews into a brutal close-quarters battle against the Mad Bull Pirates.

• Carlos hypnotized the captain and ordered the escort ships to charge the Pirate Ships instead of fleeing.
• Mad Bull rallied his pirates after their ships rammed and disabled the escort ships.
• Carlos activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Byakugan and rushed toward Mad Bull’s ship.
• Carlos killed more than a dozen pirates in close combat, stunning both the pirates and the escort crews.
• Carlos urged the escort sailors to fight for their survival, and they joined the battle.

Carlos used a Sharingan illusion to turn Mad Bull Olsen’s rampage against his own Pirates, then faced Olsen directly after his Pupil Power ran low. The chapter ended with Carlos’s Eagle Claw Technique tearing into Olsen’s bull form.

• Carlos fought through the Mad Bull Pirates and used an illusion to make Olsen believe he had repeatedly gored Carlos with a charge.
• Olsen rampaged across the deck, killing many of his own crew while Carlos slaughtered the remaining Pirates.
• After Carlos’s illusion weakened, Olsen broke free and challenged him, and Carlos charged toward him as the guards held back the surviving Pirates.
• Olsen charged Carlos and attacked with his horns, tail, and hoof, but Carlos dodged each strike by reading his movements with the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Carlos struck Olsen’s neck with an Internal Energy-enhanced stomp, then seized his abdomen with the Eagle Claw Technique and pierced his muscles.

Carlos defeated Olsen with an illusion technique and learned that the John Family had hired Olsen to kill him. He spared Olsen after securing his submission and decided to change course toward Maglin Island to infiltrate it and strike the John Family.

• Carlos fought Olsen across the ship’s deck, then trapped him in an illusion with the Magic Shackling Technique.
• Carlos tortured Olsen in the illusion until Olsen admitted that the John Family had sent him to kill Lucifer Carlos.
• Olsen explained that he cooperated with the John Family, which had ties to several other pirate crews.
• Carlos suspected the John Family had learned his location through its intelligence network or a traitor among his men.
• Carlos offered Olsen a chance to live if he submitted, and Olsen agreed.
• Carlos decided to change his route and use Olsen to infiltrate Maglin Island and build his forces.