Heaven of Their Dreams

Late at night, within Marine Headquarters at Marineford, in Donquixote Rosinante's quarters.

His vision blurred slightly as Rosinante could not help recalling the day when his family had given up their Celestial Dragon status at his father's own insistence and decided to live as ordinary citizens...

From that day onward, an unending series of nightmares clung to their lives like gangrene in the bone.

Having given up their Celestial Dragon status, the family of three was stripped of its wealth by the poor and could only live in a cold, damp, dilapidated house.

His sickly mother died because of it. Having lived among people whom the Celestial Dragons regarded as mere commoners, his brother, who had been just like the other Celestial Dragons since childhood, became nearly insane.

Unable to endure the scornful looks and the people's fury toward the Celestial Dragons, his brother ignored Rosinante's pleas and shot their father dead when Rosinante was ten years old, yet still returned empty-handed.

After returning from Mary Geoise and swearing to turn the world ruled by the Celestial Dragons upside down, his brother returned to the North Blue.

With the help of Trebol, Pica, Diamante, Vergo, and the others, he formally established the Donquixote Family.

As for Rosinante, after discovering that his brother's true nature was evil, he chose to flee the family founded by the brother who had murdered their father with his own hands.

In the end, when he was at death's door, he was taken in by Fleet Admiral Sengoku and became a Marine who protected the people.

Back then, the young Rosinante had not understood why the people hated the Celestial Dragons so deeply. But after witnessing the Celestial Dragons' atrocities firsthand, he could instead understand their actions.

The exorbitant Heavenly Tribute, the wanton seizure of other