Recaps

Rossi trained Life Return by eating enormous amounts of special nutritional food, then forced the Donquixote Family to join him. Meanwhile, King brought a surrendered pirate ship to Kaido, who calmly reflected on the vast sea as Onigashima flew through the clouds.

• Trebol considered how the Donquixote Family could trade its newly acquired rights to mine Seastone, while Vergo asked where Rossi had gone.
• Gary revealed that Rossi was practicing in the High Research Institute’s physical enhancement room, where robotic arms prepared special meals based on Ivankov’s 99 Recipes of Vitality.
• Rossi explained that Life Return had begun changing his body, but Trebol, Diamante, and the others burst in and laughed at his bloated appearance.
• Rossi made the family eat the costly nutritional meals and used Vergo and Pica to keep Doflamingo from escaping the training.
• King intercepted a pirate ship beneath the flying Onigashima, accepted the captain’s immediate surrender, and ordered him to follow.
• King reported to Kaido among Onigashima’s ruins, where Kaido said he was clearheaded and untroubled as he guided the island through the sky.

Kaido accepted that he was not the figure in the prophecy and began training Yamato after she awakened Conqueror’s Haki. Meanwhile, Rossi trained the Family, and Scarlet confessed her love for Kyros; their wedding was approved and Dressrosa celebrated the news.

• Kaido learned that Doflamingo, Rossi, and possibly the Red Count made revenge against them too dangerous, then dismissed the prophecy and focused on his own strength.
• Yamato awakened Conqueror’s Haki while confronting the pirates who had wrecked her home, and Kaido began training her by striking her with his club.
• Rossi put Doflamingo, Trebol, and the others through grueling food-based conditioning, then taught them the basic applications of Life Return.
• Scarlet confessed that she had feelings for Kyros, and Rossi and Doflamingo approved their marriage despite Riku’s concern about Kyros’s past killings.
• Dressrosa’s residents largely celebrated Kyros and Scarlet’s engagement, while a few disappointed admirers mourned the news.

After Kyros’s wedding, Rossi and Doffy planned the Donquixote Family’s return to the North Blue under cover of a staged clash with Dragon’s organization. The Family set sail across the Calm Belt, leaving Dressrosa in the hands of its remaining members.

• Ivankov told Rossi that the North Blue Plan could begin and accepted Rossi’s financial gift before leaving to pursue his cause.
• Rossi told Doffy and the Family’s core members that Dragon had recruited the Red Count and that they would stage a fight to transfer their North Blue assets and publicly sever ties.
• Rossi considered Flevance and Trafalgar D. Water Law as the Family prepared to return to the North Blue.
• Rossi selected a traveling party, while Kyros, Gary, Pica, Jora, and Jinbe stayed behind to guard Dressrosa and handle their duties.
• Rossi, Doffy, and the others departed aboard the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo, using its engine, seastone hull, and Noise Generator to cross the Calm Belt.

Rossi and the Family returned to Spider Miles, where Bolkin moved to clear refugees from Dock One until Rossi stopped him. Rossi noticed Monet and Sugar among the displaced children and ordered them taken to the old place as promising prospects.

• Two workers in the shantytown cared for an injured companion and shared fish soup with him, while the workers feared the Family’s return after recognizing its flag.
• Rossi and the Family arrived at Dock One, and Bolkin rushed to greet Trebol, who accused him of letting refugees occupy the Family’s dock.
• Bolkin drew a flexible alloy sword and charged toward the shacks, prompting a middle-aged worker to shield the children nearby.
• Rossi stopped Bolkin and the armed guards, then gave Sugar sweets after she introduced herself; he also recognized Monet.
• Rossi ordered Bolkin to take the children to the old place and told Doffy and Trebol that Monet and Sugar were promising prospects.

Rossi’s Family defeated the Steel Devil and took in Fifth Child, while Rossi began assembling and training a new generation of recruits. He then revealed that Flevance’s supposed epidemic was Amber Lead poisoning, as the kingdom faced imminent “purification.”

• Rossi sent Vergo to find the Steel Devil’s people, and Vergo returned shortly afterward with their leader Amata’s head.
• Rossi asked the girl known as Fifth Child to join the Family, and Bolkin agreed to have her serve him.
• Rossi welcomed Monet and Sugar and said they would join the next generation’s reserve team alongside other recruits.
• Rossi told the Family that training would begin at half the intensity of their own past training, with Monet and Baby 5 starting first.
• Rossi showed the Family a report announcing that Flevance’s residents had been designated sources of contamination and explained that Amber Lead Syndrome was poisoning, not a plague.

Rossi ordered the Donquixote Family to go to Flevance and take its children, claiming he could eventually cure Amber Lead Syndrome with the Op-Op Fruit. As Flevance’s desperate residents clashed with the neighboring countries’ soldiers, a ship arrived at the harbor, leaving the children’s fate uncertain.

• Rossi told the Family that Flevance’s wealth belonged to the Revolutionary Army and that they should take the children, whom he planned to save and recruit.
• Oni questioned whether Rossi could cure Amber Lead Syndrome, and Rossi revealed his plan to obtain the Op-Op Fruit from Diez Barrels.
• The Donquixote Family set out for Flevance, where Rossi intended to take children and fight the Revolutionary Army to avoid suspicion.
• Doctor Germann tried to convince Stavanger’s soldiers that Amber Lead Syndrome was not contagious, but they shot him, sparking a desperate charge and a bloody battle at the border.
• A man in a dark green robe watched the massacre and condemned it as unjust.
• At Flevance Hospital, medicine ran out and officials ignored a physician’s warning, while children waited at the docks with a woman in black robes; a ship crashed into the harbor without slowing.

Rossi rescued the children of Flevance from a World Government massacre and offered them a place with the Donquixote Family. Luo left with his sick sister Lami after his parents stayed behind, and Rossi promised to find a way to keep her alive.

• World Government troops marked the children at Flevance's docks as infected and prepared to kill them, but Doflamingo turned the troops' guns on themselves and recruited the children.
• Rossi found the boy at the docks and offered to take him and his sister with him.
• Rossi brought the boy, Luo, to the hospital, where his parents told him to take Lami and leave while they remained behind.
• Rossi reassured Luo that the Family's laboratory could treat Lami and suggested replacing her body with one made of iron and gears if necessary.
• Rossi and Luo carried Lami through the burning streets toward the harbor.

Rossi and the Donquixote Family faced Dragon and the Revolutionary Army in a staged confrontation that erupted into a battle of immense powers. As the fight began, the Revolutionary Army also transported Flevance’s Amber Lead stockpiles to ships, and Kildayo stopped to help a fallen worker.

• Rossi identified Morley, Lindbergh, Karasu, and Inazuma as Revolutionary Army officers as they assembled at the docks with Dragon.
• Oni reassured the nun and the children aboard the warship, telling them to watch the confrontation.
• Rossi’s slash split Dragon’s cyclone and opened the clouds, while Doflamingo spread a white substance across the coastline.
• Doflamingo launched a forest of white threads at Dragon, but Dragon reformed after being cut in half and summoned two enormous cloud vortexes with “Twin Dragons Playing in the Clouds!”
• Rossi leaped into the air with Sandai Kitetsu to meet the descending vortexes as the battle escalated.
• At Stavanger Kingdom’s port, Terry Kildayo oversaw the Revolutionary Army’s recovery of Flevance’s Amber Lead, then went to help a worker who had fallen.

Kildaeo and a Cipher Pol No. 9 ambush team attacked a bearded officer near Flevance, while the battle between the Revolutionary Army and the Donquixote Family raged across the harbor. Dragon, Ivankov, Inazuma, Karasu, Morley, and their opponents fought in separate clashes, with Pica confronting Morley in a clash of Haki.

• A disguised Cipher Pol No. 9 agent tried to stab Kildaeo, but Kildaeo shattered his skull and defeated the ambushing agents, including their leader, who killed himself with poison.
• The bearded officer watched the distant battle and told his subordinates to clear the battlefield and hurry before the Revolutionary Army team withdrew.
• Doffy bound Dragon with awakened strings, but Dragon countered his attack with Dragon's Breath as their Haki collided in a massive explosion.
• Ivankov fought a black-armored opponent with Death Wink, while Inazuma battled Trebol with his scissors and fire.
• Karasu scattered into a flock of birds to attack the swordsman pursuing him, while the little man used Hyperdimensional Teleportation to evade an attack from below.
• Morley split Pica's colossal stone fist with his trident, but Pica emerged from the giant's shoulder and met Morley's weapon with a Haki-coated punch.

Rossi and Doflamingo concluded their confrontation with Dragon as their forces fought around Flevance, and Dragon declared his resolve to expose the world's rulers. The groups departed, while a sick boy aboard a rocking boat woke to hear a little girl call him “Big brother.”

• Pica and Morley resumed their close-combat fight while Lindbergh tested his Frost Beam and Mind Interference Instrument against Bainessarna.
• Rossi, Doflamingo, and Dragon spoke inside the storm, with Doflamingo agreeing that the Family's North Blue businesses would pass to Dragon as the Family focused on the New World.
• Oni urged the Flevance children aboard a warship to value their rescued lives as they watched the distant battle.
• Dragon split the storm with a slash, warned that the Family would remember the debt, and declared his aim to expose the world's supposed gods.
• Dragon and his followers left, the Family's members regrouped with Rossi and Doflamingo, and Rossi told them to head back.
• A boy dozing in a cramped boat cabin woke when a little girl on the bed called, “Big brother?”

Trafalgar Law cared for his sick sister Lami aboard the ship while the Donquixote Family discussed its plans for the Sea Train and the children rescued from Flevance. Rossi assigned the officers to teach the children, and Oni and Diamante volunteered for navigation and swordsmanship.

• Trafalgar Law reassured Lami that he would find treatment for her and left to get her food, asking a girl in the corridor to watch over her.
• Rossi and Doflamingo decided to abandon some North Blue business, transfer some to Vinsmoke, and keep their foothold in Spider Miles as they prepared for the Reverie.
• Rossi argued that the Family could profit from selling Sea Train technology while the railway expanded trade and helped the Revolutionary Army grow.
• Rossi told the officers that the Family needed to cultivate its strength and train the 497 children aboard the warship as future members.
• Rossi assigned Jora to handle practical arrangements and ordered each officer to teach a subject; Oni chose navigation and Diamante chose swordsmanship.

Rossi brought children from Flevance aboard the Family ships and took them to Germa, where Vinsmoke Judge showed him incubation pods that could slow their illness but not cure it. The children began training on the voyage, while the Family prepared to return to Dressrosa with a possible way to prolong the children’s lives.

• Rossi and Doflamingo agreed to teach the Family’s combat techniques, while doctors on the seized warship panicked at the children’s Amber Lead Syndrome.
• Rossi refused to search for more local doctors, left Bolkin and Wesker in charge of the territory, and set out for the New World with the children.
• The children trained aboard the ships, and Rossi told Law that someone they were going to meet might stabilize Lami’s condition.
• Rossi and Doflamingo arrived at Germa, where Doflamingo mocked Vinsmoke Judge before Rossi intervened and Judge led them inside.
• Judge showed Rossi incubation pods that could slow the children’s decline by dozens of times, though they could not cure the illness.

Doflamingo and Rossi inspected Judge’s genetically enhanced children, condemned their lack of emotion as a weakness, and Rossi warned Judge that emotion was essential to Haki. After the ships departed, Judge let Sanji pursue cooking, while the children aboard the Flevance intensified their training.

• Judge presented his five children to Doflamingo and Rossi, and the children demonstrated extraordinary strength and speed.
• Sanji collapsed during the tests, and his brothers attacked him for being an ordinary human toddler; Rossi said the emotionless children would struggle to awaken Haki.
• Rossi told Sanji to live by his own convictions and urged Judge not to underestimate emotion before he and Doflamingo sailed away with the incubation pods.
• Judge stopped his sons from beating Sanji and allowed him to go into the kitchen, wanting to see where his emotions would lead him.
• After seeing the Vinsmoke children’s abilities, the children aboard the Flevance pushed themselves through grueling training, and Luo kept exercising after reaching one hundred repetitions.

Rossi brought the Flevance children to Dressrosa, where Jora took charge of their new training orphanage. As the children settled in, Luo focused on becoming strong enough to protect Lami, and several young trainees began training before dawn.

• Luo endured two hundred counts of training before his arms gave out, and Rossi praised the resolve that let people surpass their limits.
• The Flevance children arrived in Dressrosa to a cheering crowd, then learned they would train at the Second White Sand Orphanage for three years under Jora’s direction.
• Rossi asked Jora to oversee the children and arrange lessons from the Family’s officers, while she said caring for them gave her purpose.
• Luo woke from a dream about his parents and went to the training ground, determined to protect Lami and gain the strength to help her.
• Luo met a green-haired girl and a horned girl training before dawn, and another trainee joined them as two observers predicted they would grow strong.

Rossi represented Dressrosa at the one hundred and forty-third Reverie while Doflamingo stayed behind at the docks. As the conference began, Rossi watched the seven most powerful countries take their seats, and the chapter ended with two observers mistaking the Family’s closeness for trust between blood relatives.

• Doflamingo stayed at the docks to oversee matters while Rossi departed to handle the conference, warning that the five might turn against them.
• Rossi arrived at Red Harbor with Trebol and Diamante as rulers and reporters gathered for the Reverie.
• Rossi exchanged glances with the young representative of the Flower Country before entering the conference hall.
• Rossi took his seat as seven powerful figures entered, and an official announced the start of the one hundred and forty-third Reverie.
• Two observers watched the cable car carrying the Dressrosa party and remarked on the apparent closeness between the Donquixote Family members.

Rossi attended the World Government conference in Mary Geoise as the Donquixote Family’s representative, where he rejected the empty-throne oath and confronted a powerful figure behind the Elders. The conference opened with Ballywood’s proposal to restrict Sea Train technology and redistribute World Routes, leaving Rossi to hear the proposal’s presentation.

• Garp warned Rossi that Ballywood was preparing a proposal to force him to hand over the Sea Train blueprints, and Rossi confirmed he had heard about it.
• At the ceremony, Rossi refused to take the sword or swear an oath to an empty throne, prompting the sword-bearing Elder to withdraw when a dark-robed figure intervened.
• Rossi spoke with a tall, long-haired man in a dark blue suit, dismissed concerns about the younger generation, and demanded that he get to the point.
• Rossi left Trebol and Diamante in the plaza and entered the conference, where Ballywood’s joint motion on maritime rail-train controls and World Routes rights appeared as the first agenda item.
• Zhu Youxiao invited a young man in a star-studded top hat to present the motion, and the young man began by describing the Sea Train as a special vessel that traveled across the sea.

Rossi defended Donquixote’s control of Tom and the Sea Train plans at the Reverie, then negotiated a share of the project’s profits with the Five Elders and the assembled nations. The proposal passed, and afterward Rossi left his companion to handle the eager delegates while he watched a middle-aged man in the crowd.

• A young man proposed obtaining Tom’s Sea Train blueprints, but Rossi said the craftsman and technology belonged to Donquixote and challenged anyone who wanted to take them.
• Rossi offered the nations access to the technology in exchange for thirty percent of the Sea Train’s profits, but a Five Elder demanded another thirty percent for the World Government.
• Rossi objected to the World Government’s share, and the Elder asked him how he thought the profits should be divided.
• The young man explained that the Sea Train could travel faster than ordinary sailing ships and let people cross the sea more safely, and the proposal passed after the nations agreed to it.
• Afterward, Rossi directed a well-dressed man to discuss the details with his companion, then spotted a middle-aged man in the crowd.

Rossi attended the Reverie, confronted Mushul and Elizabello II, and watched the conference decide trade and political matters. After it ended, he infiltrated the Celestial Dragons’ quarters in search of Boa Hancock, but a man in a sealed white suit entered the study where Rossi was hiding.

• Rossi caught Mushul using his Devil Fruit ability against him, then let Mushul’s father take him away while Diamante secretly poisoned the boy with spores.
• Elizabello II challenged Rossi over Dressrosa, but Dagama hurriedly led the Fighting King away before a fight began.
• After seven days of the Reverie, Rossi reflected on the conference’s decisions and considered rescuing Boa Hancock from the Celestial Dragons’ quarters.
• Rossi infiltrated the Holy Land at night and searched a Celestial Dragon’s study, finding books filled with shallow romantic tales.
• A middle-aged man in a sealed white suit entered the study and looked toward Rossi’s hiding place.

Rossi infiltrated the Holy Land and freed Boa Hancock and her two sisters from a slave cage, then escaped after Sengoku confronted him. He told Trebol to return to Dressrosa without him and said he would arrive in a few days.

• A shadowy observer watched Saint Rosward, whose schemes seemed linked to the Donquixote Family, Gamenio, and the ruined slave market.
• Rossi found Boa Hancock and her two sisters imprisoned underground and offered to take them away, while the other captives raised an alarm.
• Rossi broke the girls’ chains and carried them out as guards pursued them.
• Sengoku learned that someone had broken into the Holy Land, then intercepted Rossi and the three girls at its edge.
• Rossi protected Hancock and her sisters from Sengoku’s shock wave and escaped through the air with them.
• Rossi told Trebol to return to Dressrosa and said he would join them in a few days.

Rossi brought Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold to Sabaody Archipelago and reunited them with Shakky. After the sisters settled in, Rossi and Rayleigh sparred, and the chapter ended with Shakky reporting that the girls were asleep while she, Rossi, and Rayleigh remained at the Rip-off Bar.

• Rossi flew with Hancock, Sandersonia, and Marigold toward Sabaody Archipelago and reassured them that he would not sell them.
• Rossi found Shakky and Rayleigh at Grove 13 and reunited the three sisters with Shakky.
• Rossi challenged Rayleigh to a swordsmanship match, and Rayleigh agreed to spar with him.
• After the match, Rossi told the sisters they could feel safe and spoke with Shakky and Rayleigh about rescuing them from Mary Geoise.
• Shakky returned from checking on the sleeping girls, leaving only Rossi and Rayleigh in the bar.

After rescuing Hancock and her sisters, Rossi secured Amazon Lily’s gratitude and asked Rayleigh to join him in a future attack on the Red Line. He then began teaching the three sisters Haki, while reflecting that Hancock had already eaten the Love-Love Fruit.

• Shakky thanked Rossi for bringing Hancock and her sisters to Amazon Lily, and asked how he had learned about their situation.
• Rossi told Shakky and Rayleigh that he had foreseen the sisters’ predicament and asked Amazon Lily to owe him a favor; he discussed using the Kuja’s swimming snakes to tow ships across the Calm Belt.
• Rossi hinted that he might seek Rayleigh’s help to attack the Red Line, and Rayleigh promised to act if that day came; one of the sisters overheard them and resolved to grow strong enough to destroy her nightmare herself.
• Rossi learned that Hancock had already eaten the Love-Love Fruit and that the other sisters had not obtained the snake-related Devil Fruits he had hoped for, so he began teaching all three Armament and Observation Haki.
• Rayleigh joined the lesson as Rossi explained advanced Haki techniques, and the old man was impressed by how clearly Rossi taught them.

Rossi left Hancock in Rayleigh’s care, climbed the Red Line back to Dressrosa, and proposed an expedition to the legendary Golden City. He confirmed the city existed and set out with Diamante, Oni, and Gary.

• Rossi said goodbye to Hancock and departed, while Rayleigh agreed to help train her in Haki.
• Rossi climbed the Red Line barehanded, crossed the clouds, and returned to Dressrosa by way of the Flying Carpet.
• Rossi asked the Family who remembered the Golden City and confirmed that Shandora was real.
• Oni volunteered for the expedition, while Trebol and Vergo declined to join.
• Gary asked to join the expedition to fund her father’s research, and Rossi confirmed the team would be himself, Diamante, Oni, and Gary.

Rossi and his companions reached the sky through High West’s ancient orbital elevator and arrived at Birka. The chapter ended with them being carried toward the island by an Express Shrimp as Rossi recognized its buildings were made of solidified cloud.

• Rossi explained how Sky Islands formed and told Oni, Gary, and Diamante that they would reach one through High West rather than risk the Knock Up Stream.
• The Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo reached High West, where a damaged orbital elevator lifted the ship through a huge pillar.
• Oni used the ship’s mechanical wings to steady it during the turbulent ascent through the elevator.
• The ship emerged into the cloud sea and landed on the clouds, where Rossi warned his companions that they could sink in them like the sea.
• White-robed warriors on an Express Shrimp offered to guide the visitors to Birka and carried their ship across the cloud sea.
• Rossi and his companions saw Birka’s green landscape and unusual buildings, which appeared to be made of solidified cloud.

Rossi and his companions landed on Birka, where the residents attacked them after mistaking Gary for a forbidden creation. After Rossi demonstrated his strength, Enel explained Birka’s fear of technology and revealed his inherited drive to return to his people’s original homeland; Rossi then prepared to continue toward Angel Island.

• Rossi’s group landed on Birka, and a warning bell prompted the residents and warriors to attack because they thought Gary was a forbidden creation.
• Rossi defeated the guards and Priests, then split the cloud sea open with a sweep of his arm to show his power.
• Enel approached Rossi and led him and his companions to his cave, asking them to hear his explanation.
• Enel described how Birka forbade technological creations and showed Rossi the blueprint for the flying Ark Maxim.
• Rossi said the group intended to travel to Angel Island, while Enel concealed his resentment toward Birka and his own plans.

Rossi recruited Enel as the Donquixote Family’s mechanic after securing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and defeating the priests’ guardian. As they traveled toward another Sky Island, the group approached a vast island of solid earth, whose value Rossi explained to his companions.

• Enel offered to reveal the Rumble-Rumble Fruit’s location if Rossi supported his research, and said the price was to kill a god.
• Rossi and his companions defeated the temple’s giant guardian, and Rossi took the Rumble-Rumble Fruit while rebuking the priests’ claims of divinity.
• Rossi welcomed Enel into the Donquixote Family as its mechanic, and Enel agreed to maintain the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo.
• Enel guided the ship along the Cloud River toward a large Sky Island and a neighboring island of solid earth.
• Rossi explained that the land was a rare resource in the sky, capable of growing grain and feeding many people.