Chapter Summaries

After Whitebeard reassured his crew, Carlos and Golden Lion secured two islands and used the incident to strengthen their reputations and forces. The World Government and Marines learned that Carlos controlled the former prisoners but decided to avoid confronting him for now.

• Whitebeard comforted Marco, rallied the Whitebeard Pirates, and resumed their celebration.
• A week later, Whitebeard and Golden Lion handed over an island each to Carlos, who planned to garrison them and expand his territory.
• Golden Lion publicized a polished account of the conflict, raising the Flying Pirates’ reputation and helping them recruit Pirates by revealing Bullet as their vice-captain.
• Carlos agreed that Golden Lion could reveal Asura Path Pain’s identity, provided the Flying Pirates would assist if the Marines or World Government retaliated.
• The Five Elders, Kong, and Sengoku discussed Carlos’s control of the six former prisoners but chose to turn a blind eye rather than risk another enemy and lose West Sea income.

Carlos and the Divine Eye Pirates kept a low profile while pirates and Marines made moves across the New World, and Carlos tracked events through newspapers and Stussy’s intelligence access. By Oceanic Era 1504, Carlos remained focused on developing his islands and his Death God's Eye.

• Carlos assigned Shiryu and Martin to guard the two distant islands while Kelly and the other core crewmates managed Sun Moon Island and Qingsang Island.
• Red-Haired Shanks and his crew rose to prominence, Mihawk challenged powerful swordsmen, and Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Gecko Moria pursued their own schemes in the New World.
• After Kong’s promotion and Sengoku’s appointment as Marine Fleet Admiral, the Marines launched major operations across the seas and destroyed a powerful New World pirate crew.
• The World Government announced that Dragon’s son had been born, but Carlos showed little interest in visiting the newborn Luffy.
• Carlos remained on Sun Moon Island, handling affairs, training, developing the Death God's Eye, and using Stussy’s connections to access intelligence.
• Time passed, and the year became Oceanic Era 1504.

Carlos tested his newly developed Death-God's Eye on the moon and stars, then decided to attend the Big Mom Pirates' Tea Party after Kelly told him about the invitation. He planned to travel alone without the Underworld Moon or any core Crewmates.

• Carlos used his Death-God's Eye to study the moon and stars but could not see their death lines or death points.
• Carlos spent the night with four women given to him by Golden Lion and rose the next morning refreshed.
• Carlos ate breakfast on the grasslands and answered a call from Kelly.
• Kelly told Carlos that the Big Mom Pirates had invited him to their Tea Party.
• Carlos accepted the invitation and told Kelly to arrange for him to go alone without the Underworld Moon or core Crewmates.

Carlos encountered Doflamingo and Gecko Moria fighting near Big Mom’s territory and invited both crews to join him at Big Mom’s Tea Party. He left with plans to build ties with the two pirates as part of his ambition to become the king among the Shichibukai.

• Carlos sailed from Moon Island toward Whole Cake Island aboard a ship flying the Divine Eye Pirates’ flag.
• Carlos found Doflamingo and Gecko Moria’s crews fighting, with Doflamingo’s crew holding the advantage.
• Carlos told Gecko Moria he would not interfere, then asked Doflamingo whether he had been invited to Big Mom’s Tea Party.
• Carlos offered to take both pirate crews to the Tea Party using the extra places on his invitation, and Doflamingo and Gecko Moria agreed.
• Carlos told both crews to clean up their ships before traveling with him, hoping to build relationships that could help him bring them under his command.

Carlos arrived at Whole Cake Island for Big Mom’s Tea Party, bringing Doflamingo and Gecko Moria with him. Big Mom welcomed him warmly and considered marrying him to one of her daughters, while Doflamingo and Gecko Moria began thinking about an alliance.

• Carlos and his companions entered Big Mom’s waters, and Big Mom approved their visit despite Doflamingo and Gecko Moria not having invitations.
• Big Mom personally welcomed Carlos at Whole Cake Island and praised him for attending her Tea Party.
• Carlos complimented Big Mom’s Tea Parties, prompting her to consider marrying one of her daughters to him to secure an alliance.
• Big Mom invited Carlos to a welcoming ceremony and promised to share her special Chocolate Milk Cake with him.
• Doflamingo and Gecko Moria saw the Big Mom Pirates’ strength and privately agreed that their crews needed to form an alliance.

Carlos attended Big Mom’s Tea Party, where she tried to strengthen their alliance by offering him several daughters in marriage. When he rejected her proposal, Big Mom suddenly attacked him, and Carlos fought back as the Tea Party erupted into violence.

• Carlos joined Big Mom at the Tea Party and observed the senior members of the Big Mom Pirates, including Katakuri and three veteran former Rocks Pirates.
• Carlos tried to leave his seat to meet Stussy, but Big Mom stopped him and introduced him to her daughters.
• Big Mom offered Carlos several daughters as marriage partners, but he refused and returned to his seat.
• Big Mom became enraged at Carlos’s rejection and swung her palm at his head, smashing the table when he dodged.
• Carlos crushed his teacup and hurled Haki-coated shards at Big Mom, who destroyed them with a piercing cry and powerful sound waves.

Carlos challenged Big Mom to a one-on-one battle and revealed his newly developed Death-God's Eye, which let him see and cut the Lines of Death on objects. He left Big Mom holding only Napoleon's empty hilt after severing the weapon at its base.

• Big Mom released her soul-threatening aura and summoned Napoleon, Prometheus, and Zeus, while Carlos refused to summon Pain and introduced his Death-God's Eye.
• Carlos warned the onlookers to retreat and Big Mom forbade her crew from interfering, keeping the confrontation between the two of them.
• Carlos struck Napoleon's Line of Death, causing half of the Homie's blade to crumble into ash and leaving it gravely wounded.
• Big Mom attacked Carlos with Emperor Sword: Broken Blade, but Carlos met the flaming sword with Overlord Elbow, and their clash shattered the plaza.
• Carlos avoided a contest of raw strength, then cut another Line of Death on Napoleon, severing its blade at the base and leaving Big Mom with only the hilt.

Carlos tested his newly developed Death God's Eye against Big Mom, using it to destroy Napoleon and collapse Prometheus's flames. He then endured Big Mom and Zeus's combined attack before splitting Zeus in two, leaving the Homie screaming in pain.

• Carlos nearly destroyed Big Mom's Napoleon with two slashes from Death God's Eye.
• Big Mom attacked Carlos with Prometheus's flames and Zeus's lightning, but Carlos dodged most of the lightning and pierced the pillar of fire's death point, making it collapse.
• Carlos rushed Big Mom as Prometheus and Zeus attacked him, then met Big Mom's lightning-coated punch with his own fist.
• Carlos endured Zeus's lightning while searching for an opening, then sliced Zeus along a death line and split its body and soul in two.

Carlos ended his fight with Big Mom after demonstrating that his Death God's Eye could inflict lasting damage on her Homies. Big Mom proposed an alliance between their crews in exchange for Carlos teaching three of her daughters, leaving him suspicious of what she had whispered to them.

• Carlos warned Big Mom that continuing the fight would seriously damage her Homies, and she decided it was unwise to keep fighting.
• Carlos explained that he did not want to marry into Big Mom's family, and Big Mom jokingly offered to marry him instead.
• Carlos changed the subject to the promised desserts, and Big Mom offered an offensive and defensive alliance if he agreed to teach some of her children.
• Carlos agreed to consider teaching Big Mom's daughters and selected Smoker, Charlotte Galette, and Charlotte Marble.
• Big Mom whispered to the three girls, and Carlos grew wary as he noticed their cheeks turning red.

After leaving Whole Cake Island, Carlos returned to Sun Moon Island and planned the Divine Eye Pirates’ next expansion. He chose six more islands to connect with the four he already owned, forming a pentagram, and summoned his core crewmates to begin the campaign.

• Carlos met and arranged mutually beneficial cooperation with underworld magnates, including Stussy, during Big Mom’s Tea Party.
• After Doflamingo and Gecko Moria left, Carlos toured Whole Cake Island for several days before bidding Big Mom farewell and promising the Divine Eye Pirates would cooperate with her in future operations for a share of the benefits.
• Carlos returned to Sun Moon Island with three female disciples, introduced them, and arranged accommodations for them.
• Carlos studied a map of the New World and decided to exchange or seize six islands so that his ten islands would form a connected pentagram.
• Carlos judged that the Divine Eye Pirates could take the islands without help from another force and summoned his core crewmates to return to Sun Moon Island.

Carlos ordered the Divine Eye Pirates to seize six islands while arranging peaceful exchanges for two others, leaving his officers to prepare for war without his direct involvement. The Big Mom Pirates alliance helped secure the exchanges, while the World Government and Navy chose to tolerate Carlos's growing influence for now.

• Carlos told his officers that the Divine Eye Pirates would expand to ten islands and assigned Shiryu, Martin, Dolores, and Raid to conquer six.
• Carlos assigned Kelly to coordinate supplies, Susanna to survey the routes, and Sholmer to prepare medicine and poison, while letting O'Neal, Olsen, and Louis choose their commanders.
• News of Carlos's alliance with the Big Mom Pirates spread, strengthening the Divine Eye Pirates' influence across the New World.
• The two forces controlling the islands Carlos wanted to exchange agreed readily and offered to withdraw their forces in advance.
• The World Government and Navy considered punishing Carlos but decided to ignore his ties to pirates until they had dealt with other threats.

The Divine Eye Pirates launched a four-pronged campaign to seize six islands, deploying thirteen thousand fighters. Shiryu reached Snowflake Island first and began a brutal assault on the Giant Sword Pirates, leaving the island’s battle underway.

• After three days of preparation, Shiryu, Martin, Dolores, and Riley led their forces out from Sun Moon Island toward their assigned targets.
• Two days later, Shiryu led three thousand fighters to attack Snowflake Island while another thousand blockaded the surrounding sea.
• Shiryu clashed with a giant-sword-wielding officer, damaged his weapon, and killed him with Crimson Illusion.
• Shiryu slaughtered Pirates across the enemy ships until the Giant Sword Pirates fled and his own men watched him in fear.

Shiryu led the Divine Eye Pirates across Snowflake Island despite the Giant Sword Pirates’ ambushes and harsh winter conditions. He reached the enemy’s fortified city and began cutting through its defenders, drawing the attention of their captain, Starn.

• Shiryu led three thousand Divine Eye Pirates toward the Giant Sword Pirates’ city while Starn’s forces harassed them with traps, gunfire, and avalanches.
• Shiryu scouted ahead and used his Sword Qi to remove most threats, keeping the main force’s losses low as they reached the valley stronghold.
• After resting for fifteen minutes, Shiryu ordered the attack and charged into the valley as the defenders opened fire.
• Shiryu climbed the cliffs and slaughtered the gunmen with Raiu, then returned to clear more enemies while advancing toward the city.
• Starn, captain of the Giant Sword Pirates, saw Shiryu’s advance and vowed to chop him into meat paste, while Shiryu prepared to face him after reducing the threats around the main force.

Shiryu defeated Starn and turned the battle against the Giant Sword Pirates in the Divine Eye Pirates’ favor. Meanwhile, Martin led an invasion of a forest island to seize its valuable medicinal herbs, and the Tiger Tribe discovered his force as a fierce battle loomed.

• Shiryu fought Starn, using speed and swordsmanship to wear down the giant before killing him with Thunderclap Slash.
• Starn’s death lifted the Divine Eye Pirates’ morale and weakened the Giant Sword Pirates’ chances of victory.
• Martin’s forces captured a first, relatively weak island under O'Neal’s leadership.
• Martin led three thousand five hundred men into a forest island inhabited by primitive tribes and rich in medicinal herbs, targeting the powerful Tiger Tribe.
• O'Neal scouted ahead in lion form, but the island’s people eventually discovered Martin’s force, and battle was about to begin.

Martin's Divine Eye Pirates fought the Tiger Tribe, whose primitive weapons and ferocious charge could not match the pirates' firepower or Martin and O'Neal's strength. Martin shattered the tribe's sound-wave attack and faced its chieftain and three strongest warriors.

• Martin ordered the Divine Eye Pirates to fire on the Tiger Tribe, inflicting heavy casualties while suffering few losses.
• The Tiger Tribe charged on all fours, and O'Neal transformed into a lion and slaughtered a group of warriors.
• Martin charged through the tribe with his Shatter-Shatter Fruit power, tearing apart anyone who tried to stop him.
• The Tiger Tribe chieftain and its three strongest warriors charged Martin, who shattered the ground and blocked their coordinated sound-wave attack.

Martin and the Divine Eye Pirates defeated the Tiger Tribe, took its territory, and forced the island’s other tribes to submit. On Sake Island, Dolores faced Palmer and launched her new sword technique after he refused to surrender.

• Martin defeated the Tiger chieftain and the warriors and sacred tigers sent to aid him, then killed the chieftain after an hour of fighting.
• The Divine Eye Pirates took over the Tiger Tribe’s territory and compelled the other tribes to submit or face destruction.
• Dolores and Riley led the conquest of Sake Island, where Dolores fought Palmer, a liquor-controlling Devil Fruit user.
• After Palmer refused Dolores’s offer to submit, she used Cherry Soul Blade, cutting through his liquor shield and piercing his back.

Dolores and Riley captured their assigned islands, helping the Divine Eye Pirates secure ten islands and become a major New World force. Carlos rewarded his core crewmates and paused territorial expansion while continuing to pursue greater strength.

• Dolores killed Palmer with her Red Cherry technique, defeated the remaining resistance, and took control of the island.
• Riley used the Inflation-Inflation Fruit to overpower the Small Giants and occupy Small Giant Island, where the enemy submitted to the Divine Eye Pirates.
• The Divine Eye Pirates took over two more islands, bringing their territory to ten islands arranged in a five-pointed star.
• Carlos expanded his forces by recruiting new members and granted his ten core crewmates noble titles, island-master positions, and shares of island tax revenue, while Kelly became Island Master of Sun Moon Island.
• Carlos decided the Divine Eye Pirates would consolidate their gains rather than seek more territory, though he remained determined to increase his strength.

Sengoku proposed using selected Pirates to control and weaken other Pirates, creating the prototype for the Shichibukai system. The Five Elders approved the idea in principle and planned to seek its passage at the next World Government conference.

• As the New World grew more chaotic, Sengoku concluded that the Navy could not contain the rising Pirate tide on its own.
• Sengoku wrote a proposal to divide Pirates, win some over with legal plunder, and use them to suppress their rivals.
• The Five Elders discussed Sengoku's proposal for two hours and agreed that it was worth trying, while noting the need for stronger restraints and careful candidate selection.
• The Five Elders added the proposal to the agenda for the next World Government conference and planned to secure votes from member nations in advance.

Carlos accepted the World Government’s invitation to its March 15 conference and ordered Noah to eliminate officials who had secretly changed loyalties. After the United States of Night was shaken by mass executions, Carlos looked forward to attending the conference.

• Noah told Carlos that the World Government had invited him to its quadrennial conference on March 15, and Carlos agreed to attend.
• Carlos told Noah to arrest and execute everyone on a list of officials who had switched allegiances, while sparing Noah for his years of service.
• Noah received the list, realized it included dozens of officials, and mobilized Carlos’s palace guards to prevent leaks and carry out the orders.
• Palace guards tracked down and executed every person on the list, throwing the United States of Night into panic.
• Carlos left Noah to manage the aftermath and focused on the upcoming World Government Conference.

Carlos secretly left Sun Moon Island to tour Sabaody Archipelago before visiting Marineford and Mary Geoise, where he planned to recruit influential officials, contact Vegapunk, and seek command of the Shichibukai. After enjoying the amusement and sightseeing districts, he entered the lawless area and arrived at Auntie's Rip-off BAR.

• Carlos considered his plans for Mary Geoise, including becoming the Shichibukai's Boss and recruiting high-ranking World Government officials and Vegapunk.
• Carlos left Sun Moon Island alone on a golden eagle and traveled to Sabaody Archipelago.
• Carlos explored the amusement parks and sightseeing district, enjoying the attractions and bubble culture.
• Carlos ate at an upscale restaurant, then went to the lawless districts to find a bar.
• Carlos entered Area 13 and arrived at Auntie's Rip-off BAR.