Chapter Summaries

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.

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.