Chapter Summaries

Carlos visited Shakky’s bar on Sabaody Archipelago to meet Rayleigh and hear stories about the Roger Pirates. Rayleigh and Shakky accepted his friendly intentions and began recounting how Roger first met Rayleigh.

• Carlos entered Shakky’s bar, ordered mint liquor, and watched Rayleigh while he drank and smoked.
• Shakky closed the bar and joined Rayleigh in questioning Carlos about why he had come.
• Carlos introduced himself as Lucifer Carlos and said he meant no harm, explaining that he admired Roger and knew Shanks.
• Rayleigh and Shakky lowered their guard after hearing Carlos’s reasons for visiting.
• Rayleigh began telling Carlos the story of how Roger met him, while Shakky asked him to include how she joined them.

After touring Sabaody Archipelago, Carlos traveled to Marine Headquarters and confronted Fleet Admiral Sengoku, who questioned his motives and accused him of causing the Marines heavy losses. Carlos defended his past actions by pointing out that the Marines had also used him, leaving Sengoku unable to deny his contribution against New World Pirates.

• Carlos paid for drinks, said farewell to Pluton Rayleigh and Shakky, and spent two days sightseeing around Sabaody Archipelago.
• Rayleigh and Shakky discussed Carlos’s immense strength, self-centered nature, and personal principles after he left.
• Carlos headed for Marine Headquarters at Marineford, where Sengoku, Aokiji, Akainu, and Kizaru held their new ranks.
• Sengoku released his Conqueror’s Haki when Carlos arrived through the office window, and Carlos met it with his own Haki.
• Sengoku demanded to know why Carlos had come and criticized him for freeing criminals from Impel Down, while Carlos argued that the Marines had used him to fight New World Pirates.

Carlos stayed at Marine Headquarters while Sengoku arranged for Momousagi to return, then challenged Aokiji to a spar. Aokiji accepted and led Carlos to find a place to fight.

• Carlos persuaded Sengoku to recall Momousagi and give him a pass to move around Marine Headquarters.
• Carlos spotted Aokiji in his office and decided to challenge him to a spar.
• Aokiji agreed to fight Carlos after seeing the pass and hearing that Carlos had fought Sakazuki and Borsalino.
• Aokiji put on his Marine Cloak of Justice and led Carlos out to find a suitable place for their fight.

Carlos and Aokiji rode bicycles across the sea to a vast sheet of ice, where they began their fight. Carlos used his Rinnegan and Deva Path Pain to attack Aokiji, then revealed his Limbo: Border Jail technique as the battle continued.

• Carlos convinced Aokiji to ride bicycles across the sea instead of taking a warship, and Aokiji froze a huge expanse of ocean for their fight.
• After resting, Aokiji opened the battle with a barrage of ice spears, which Carlos shattered with Shinra Tensei.
• Carlos used Banshō Ten'in to pull Aokiji close and struck him with a Haki-coated fist, but Aokiji transformed into ice and reformed unharmed.
• Carlos summoned Deva Path Pain and attacked Aokiji alongside his puppet, while Pain launched a lightning arrow that Aokiji dodged.
• Carlos used Limbo: Border Jail against Aokiji as the lightning arrow pierced the ice and exploded beneath it.

Aokiji struggled to locate Carlos’s hidden Limbo shadows and merged into the ice to protect himself. Carlos then left Deva Path Pain to face Aokiji in a spectacular clash of lightning beasts and ice birds.

• Carlos’s hidden strike sent Aokiji crashing across the ice, and Aokiji sensed an unseen danger nearby.
• Aokiji spread ice spikes and freezing mist to expose the hidden threat, but Limbo: Border Jail remained difficult to detect.
• Aokiji merged his body into the surrounding ice, accepting that he could not safely reveal himself.
• Carlos left the battle to Deva Path Pain and settled nearby to watch.
• Deva Path Pain summoned lightning beasts from the storm clouds, while Aokiji formed countless ice birds to meet them.
• The thunder beasts and ice birds collided, creating a clash more powerful than either Carlos or Aokiji had expected.

Carlos finished his battle with Aokiji and returned to Marine Headquarters, where he reunited with Momousagi. After she changed out of uniform, the two headed into town for dinner, growing comfortable with each other again as they walked.

• Carlos and Aokiji fought with lightning and ice until dusk, with Deva Path Pain holding a slight advantage while Aokiji kept his true body hidden.
• Carlos and Aokiji returned to Marine Headquarters aboard a warship, and Carlos waited at the harbor for Momousagi.
• Momousagi arrived, and Carlos openly praised her and asked her to go into town with him.
• Momousagi sent her subordinates to rest, changed into casual clothes, and left with Carlos for dinner.
• Carlos and Momousagi chatted as they walked, and their earlier ease with each other returned.

Carlos spent an evening with Momousagi before secretly searching Marine research facilities for Vegapunk, whom he wanted to recruit. After failing to locate him, he tasked Stussy with investigating and stayed at Momousagi’s villa the next morning to play mahjong.

• Carlos and Momousagi shared dinner and explored the night market before returning to their residences late at night.
• Carlos slipped into the Marine research laboratory to search for Vegapunk but found no trace of him.
• Carlos called Stussy and ordered her to investigate Vegapunk’s whereabouts while he prepared to attend the Reverie.
• Carlos visited Momousagi the next morning for breakfast, washed the dishes, and persuaded her to arrange a mahjong game.

Carlos joined the United States of Night delegation on its way to Mary Geoise for the Reverie and instructed his ministers to cultivate high-ranking World Government officials. The delegation reached the Red Line and settled into the designated reception area, where Carlos encountered Momousagi on patrol.

• After three days at Marine Headquarters, Carlos left for the United States of Night fleet while Momousagi went to Mary Geoise with the Marine forces.
• Carlos used Kamui to reach the delegation, changed into the United States of Night’s Royal Robe and crown, and ordered his ministers to identify senior World Government officials they could win over.
• Noah said the delegation had already bribed lower-ranking officials, and Carlos declared that he would personally pursue more influential targets.
• At the World Government’s reception point, Carlos’s arrival attracted attention, and he boarded a machine that carried the delegation up the Red Line.
• Carlos followed staff to the delegation’s lodging and greeted Momousagi, whom he encountered leading a patrol.

At the Reverie in Mary Geoise, Carlos won support from West Sea kingdoms but was rebuffed by rulers from other regions. Enraged, he ordered a coordinated campaign of pirate attacks against countries that had insulted him.

• Carlos arrived at the kingdoms’ Mary Geoise residence and went out to seek support for becoming the leader of the Shichibukai.
• Carlos secured the West Sea kingdoms’ backing by promising benefits and invoking the United States of Night’s influence.
• Kings from other seas and the Grand Line rejected Carlos or treated him with disdain, souring his mood.
• Carlos called Kelly and ordered ten thousand Pirates to attack four New World countries, including Dressrosa and Prodence.
• Carlos directed other elite Pirates to recruit crews across the seas and keep attacking more than twenty named countries until he gave further orders.
• Carlos began contacting his people and allies to mobilize them for the campaign.

Carlos enlisted Golden Lion and Big Mom to attack more than twenty World Government member nations in the New World, then returned to Mary Geoise as the raids began. The Five Elders tried to contain the news and summon him, but the Kings learned of the attacks almost immediately, and they suspected Carlos had leaked it.

• Carlos told Golden Lion a distorted account of the Kings’ insults and asked him to strike four countries without destroying them; Golden Lion agreed and dispatched his forces.
• Carlos asked Big Mom to attack three dessert-producing kingdoms, warning her not to destroy them, and she assigned the mission to her crew.
• Carlos arranged transport for O'Neal and the others using flying creatures summoned through the Animal Path, then returned to Mary Geoise.
• The Divine Eye Pirates, Flying Pirates, and Big Mom Pirates mobilized, then attacked more than twenty World Government member nations in the New World at dusk.
• The Five Elders issued a gag order and summoned Carlos, but learned that the Kings already knew of the raids and suspected Carlos had leaked the news.

Carlos used attacks by the Flying Pirates and Big Mom to pressure the New World kingdoms into supporting his proposal at the Reverie. After threatening the Kings who met him, he left the war’s end dependent on their agreement.

• The Five Elders sent people to investigate Carlos’s sudden actions while Kings from attacked kingdoms gathered outside his castle in Mary Geoise.
• Carlos refused to meet most of the Kings and told them to seek explanations from Golden Lion and Big Mom, while allowing rulers connected to the Divine Eye Pirates inside.
• King Riku and three other Kings confronted Carlos, who denied responsibility for the attacks and threatened them when they demanded he stop them.
• Carlos claimed the Kings had offended him and offered to end the war if they supported his proposal at the Reverie.
• Carlos warned that he would conquer and destroy any kingdom whose King agreed to support his proposal but later reneged.

Carlos tried to secure the Kings’ support for his Reverie proposal, but the Five Elders secretly worked to block it. After learning of their interference, Carlos abandoned his public pressure campaign and used his abilities to secretly influence the Kings before the vote.

• Carlos forced four Kings to accept his terms and pass his message to the other Kings.
• The Five Elders ordered loyal allied Kings to reject Carlos’s proposal and recruited neutral Kings to keep his supporters below half.
• After Pirates attacked several regions, more Kings visited Carlos, and one revealed the World Government’s secret efforts to undermine him.
• Carlos withdrew his forces and publicly appeared to give up, while secretly using Kamui, Kotoamatsukami, and hypnotic suggestions to influence Kings’ votes.
• Carlos considered using Ancient Weapon Pluton to destroy an island or nation and frighten Kings into supporting his proposal.

Carlos attended the Reverie, where he built support among West Sea Kings for an alliance led by the United States of Night. As the meeting continued, he ignored most agenda items and waited for the matter he cared about, confident that his growing strength let him act as he pleased.

• Carlos greeted a West Sea King and drew other West Sea Kings into a friendly discussion.
• Carlos offered the West Sea kingdoms benefits and proposed an alliance led by the United States of Night, which they agreed to discuss after the Reverie.
• The Reverie officially began with representatives of nineteen Celestial Dragon families and the Kings in attendance.
• Carlos ignored the meeting's agenda, resting and later reading while the Reverie continued.
• Carlos reflected on his Devil Fruit nearing awakening and on how his growing strength let him disregard rules that did not benefit him.

At the World Government conference, Carlos supported the Shichibukai proposal and then pushed through a second measure naming himself their leader. The conference ended with Carlos as the Shichibukai’s nominal Boss, while the Five Elders learned that he had outmaneuvered them.

• The World Government representatives presented the Shichibukai proposal, and the Kings approved it by a two-thirds vote.
• Carlos argued that the Shichibukai needed a leader and proposed creating a leader’s seat for himself.
• Carlos’s hypnotized supporters raised their hands, and his proposal passed by two votes more than half.
• Carlos left the meeting with the West Sea Kings, pleased to be the Shichibukai’s nominal Boss.
• The Five Elders learned what Carlos had accomplished and were furious.

Carlos negotiated an alliance with the West Sea kingdoms while the Five Elders debated how to respond to his growing power. Wary of his abilities and the cost of provoking him, they decided to approach him with genuine goodwill and try to win him over.

• Carlos brought the kings of the West Sea to his castle and negotiated the West Sea Kingdom Alliance, with the United States of Night as its leader.
• The Five Elders gathered at Mary Geoise and argued over whether to punish Carlos, eliminate him, or draw him closer to the World Government.
• Masutani Yasunori revealed intelligence that Carlos could teleport anywhere in the world and warned that provoking him risked devastating retaliation.
• Hirano Masato proposed that the Five Elders set aside their arrogance and deal with Carlos sincerely.
• The other four Five Elders agreed to show Carlos goodwill and attempt to win him over.

After the Reverie, Carlos received a formal invitation from the Five Elders and decided to attend their party, suspecting they had a hidden motive. He arrived at their luxurious castle to meet them, where the scene inside surprised him.

• Noah told Carlos that the Five Elders had invited him to a party and handed him their gilded invitation.
• Carlos agreed to attend, sent messages to his allies, and spent the day playing cards with Noah and the others.
• Carlos arrived at the party venue, drew the attention of the guests, and went to meet the Five Elders in a nearby castle.
• Carlos left his companions downstairs and climbed to the top floor, where he entered the room after his arrival was announced.
• Carlos saw what was inside the room and inwardly called the Five Elders beasts.

Carlos met with the Five Elders, who tried to win him over through friendly conversation and introductions to their granddaughters. He accepted their overtures without committing himself, and the Five Elders sent him to enjoy the party as it began.

• Masutani Yasunori introduced the Five Elders’ granddaughters and granddaughters through marriage to Carlos.
• Carlos greeted the five women politely while suspecting the Five Elders hoped to influence him.
• The Five Elders, their granddaughters, and their bodyguards praised Carlos and offered support, including supplies, talent, and help from Branch G1 of the New World Marines.
• Carlos realized the Five Elders wanted him to identify with the World Government and decided to accept their friendship while keeping his independence.
• Noda Keiichi noted that the party and ball had begun, and the Five Elders invited Carlos to enjoy them with the five women.

After enjoying a night at the Mary Geoise party, Carlos left for Sun Moon Island as the World Government announced the Shichibukai system and his position above its members. His fame and crew grew, while Golden Lion and Big Mom sought his help and Carlos sent Shiryu and Martin to assist them.

• Carlos kept his distance from the five highborn beauties, danced at the party, and spent the night with several interested noblewomen before leaving Mary Geoise.
• The World Government announced the Shichibukai system and revealed that Carlos stood above the Shichibukai, prompting Pirates to consider seeking membership.
• Carlos returned to Sun Moon Island, accepted requests from Lone Strongmen and small factions to join the Divine Eye Pirates, and heard from Kelly about the applicants.
• Golden Lion and Big Mom congratulated Carlos but expressed bitterness about his growing influence, so Carlos promised to help them and sent Shiryu and Martin in exchange for waiving repayment for their earlier aid.

Carlos kept the Divine Eye Pirates out of the New World’s conflicts while the rising Pirate forces fought for power, and he spent three years developing his Devil Fruit. After awakening the Eye of the Devil, he discovered the possibility of unlocking even greater powers and considered what kind of place he wanted in the world.

• Carlos announced that the Divine Eye Pirates would occupy exactly ten New World islands, and their territory remained peaceful as wars spread elsewhere.
• Gecko Moria and Crocodile were defeated by Kaido and Whitebeard, Doflamingo pursued Dressrosa and a Shichibukai position, and Hawk Eyes Mihawk built his reputation as a swordsman.
• Red-Haired Shanks and his crew flourished in the New World while Carlos traveled, visited Olvia, her daughter, and Momousagi, and oversaw the Divine Eye Pirates and the United States of Night.
• Over three years, Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Gecko Moria became Shichibukai, while Carlos waited for more candidates to join before subduing them.
• Carlos fully awakened the Eye of the Devil, improved his Pupil Power, and gained the ability to use all his eye techniques through his natural eyes.
• Carlos glimpsed the potential for godlike or demonic Dojutsu and decided he would rather leave himself a goal than become the world’s ruler.

After Kelly reported that Vegapunk had been found and the Revolutionary Army was also seeking him, Carlos set out to reach the scientist first. He located Vegapunk’s buried research base beneath the sands of a remote island.

• Kelly told Carlos that his people had found Vegapunk’s location and that the Revolutionary Army had learned it too.
• Carlos decided to go after Vegapunk himself and instructed Kelly to summon Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Gecko Moria to Sun Moon Island.
• Carlos used a spatial vortex to travel to a desert island and searched it from the air.
• Carlos spotted a large grayish-black structure buried more than a hundred meters beneath the sand and flew toward it.