Recaps

Queen Jora unleashed her power against the pirates attacking her city, while Rossi recognized that the approaching White Dragon, Baruf Tani, was the threat he remembered. Baruf Tani launched herself toward the harbor and ordered her first mate, Anok, to deal with the Donquixote Family while keeping them alive.

• Jora joined the battle and used powerful kicks and a protective red cloak to devastate the pirates attacking the docks.
• Rossi warned the Donquixote Family that the enemy officers would soon enter the fight and watched Baruf Tani’s ship.
• Baruf Tani dismissed the pirates’ failed assault and ordered Anok to handle the Donquixote Family without killing them.
• Baruf Tani leapt from her ship toward the harbor, and Anok stepped off the deck and strode across the sea.

Pica confronted his former colleague over the World Government’s version of justice while a powerful balding old man attacked the Donquixote crew. Rossi was hurled toward the docks, awakened a heightened perception in midair, and landed after crushing a path through the pirates below.

• Pica emerged beside Senor Pink and accused him of serving an unjust order; Senor Pink attacked and argued that justice belonged to the winners.
• The balding old man crossed the sea and boarded the Donquixote, knocking Diamante through the cabin wall and breaking Rossi’s sword and arm.
• Pica restrained the old man while Doffy attacked with threads, but the old man broke free and sent Rossi flying toward the docks with a punch.
• As he fell, Rossi silenced his distracting thoughts and sensed the surrounding fighters’ positions, movements, and intentions.
• Rossi changed his course in midair, crushed several pirates beneath his feet, and landed steadily on the dock.

Rossi awakened Observation Haki through the Calm-Calm Fruit and fought his way through more than a hundred pirates, then rushed toward Baruf Tani after learning Doffy's group was still holding out. He rescued the poet Poliziano Jora's ally from Swift and ordered him to use the Cheer-Cheer Fruit on him.

• Rossi used the Calm-Calm Fruit to silence his thoughts and erase the pirates' awareness of him, defeating over a hundred men and forcing the survivors to withdraw.
• Rossi contacted Doffy through a thread speaking tube, but Doffy told him not to return because Vergo was holding off the balding old man, Anok.
• Rossi sensed Jora battling Baruf Tani and realized her Art-Art Fruit powers were enhancing her, so he hurried toward the fight.
• Vergo endured a contest against Anok with both arms in the flames, declaring that Doffy would wear a crown and Rossi would conquer every sea.
• Swift attacked the poet with a ranged sword strike, but Rossi rescued him and told him to use the Cheer-Cheer Fruit on him immediately.

Rossi and Jora joined forces against Baruf Tani as her ice powers overwhelmed the docks, while the Lyrist strengthened the surviving knights with his poetry. The chapter ended with Rossi asking Jora to use her Art-Art Fruit to help him fight Baruf Tani.

• Baruf Tani unleashed an ice-coated punch that struck Jora and buried her beneath collapsing ruins.
• The Lyrist used his poetry to awaken Rossi's strength, and Rossi charged toward Jora and Baruf Tani.
• Jora survived Baruf Tani's attack, and Rossi struck the pirate captain with a flurry of blows before she unleashed a freezing storm across the docks.
• Rossi retreated to the wounded Jora, learned how her Art-Art Fruit worked, and asked her to assist him.
• Baruf Tani suspected her opponents could interfere with Observation Haki, while the Lyrist's verses renewed the strength of the surviving knights.

Rossi fought Baruf Tani at the frozen docks, using the enchanted gear and powers at his disposal to withstand her assault and strike back. After his hidden Seastone pellets weakened her, the two became locked in a stalemate, and Rossi warned her that she should read more.

• Rossi arrived with the Golden Mountain King's blade and attacked Baruf Tani with a powerful flying slash.
• Baruf Tani charged Rossi with a barrage of icy punches, while Jora trusted the cloak and sword she had forged to protect him.
• Rossi endured the assault and unleashed a concentrated golden slash that collided with Baruf Tani's frost-wrapped fist, devastating the docks and surrounding city.
• Baldy chose to stay with the still-conscious Vergo rather than intervene, trusting Rossi to handle the fight.
• Baruf Tani offered Rossi a place as her first mate, but he ignored her and prepared to attack again.
• Rossi used Seastone pellets hidden in his clenched hand to weaken Baruf Tani, but she grabbed his fist and called their position a stalemate.

Rossi wounded Baruf Tani and stalled her until the Navy was alerted, forcing the White Dragon Pirates to abandon the attack. Before leaving, Baruf Tani challenged Rossi to meet her in the New World.

• Rossi used the Golden Mountain King's incantation to send a golden sword into Baruf Tani's neck, but she transformed into a white dragon and healed the wound.
• Baruf Tani asked Rossi to join her crew as deputy, but Rossi refused, and Anok arrived to urge him to leave before the Navy came.
• Anok revealed that a Den Den Mushi had intercepted a distress call confirming that the Navy was on its way, while Baruf Tani's roar had incapacitated many pirates.
• A girl rushed toward Rossi and begged him to save her mother, but Rossi recognized her as the informant who had helped bring the pirate ships to the city and restrained her.
• Baruf Tani transformed back into a woman, challenged Rossi to meet her in the New World, and ordered her pirates to take what they could carry and retreat.

After the battle at Odensai, Rossi’s side celebrated surviving the White Dragon Pirates while both Baruf Tani and Doflamingo resolved to grow stronger. The Navy arrived to find the city damaged but still standing, and Rossi began preparing the Donquixote family to learn Observation Haki.

• Rossi returned Balph Misaoli to Anok, and she vowed to make Rossi pay someday.
• The White Dragon Pirates withdrew with captured ships and cargo as Odensai’s survivors hailed Rossi and Queen Jora.
• Doflamingo watched the aftermath from the Donquixote and decided he had to become stronger.
• Baruf Tani asked Anok to teach her the power Rossi had used, while Balph Misaoli recovered aboard the Vixen and swore revenge.
• A Navy fleet reached Odensai and prepared to land after finding civilians clearing rubble and captured pirates bound near the docks.
• Rossi told Doflamingo and the others that his ability could help them train their perception, and Doflamingo urged the family to catch up to the White Dragon Pirates.

The Donquixote Family discussed Vergo’s first possible signs of Armament Haki after the battle, while Queen Jora offered to join them because Acanlia could not pay its debts and needed protection from CP3. Doflamingo granted Jora provisional membership, and she explained the limits of her Art-Art Fruit and her martial arts training.

• Doflamingo told Rossi that Vergo seemed to have reached the threshold of Armament Haki, but Vergo said he had only endured his injuries through sheer will.
• Rossi advised Vergo to remember the moment and try to stabilize the state that might be the beginning of Armament Haki.
• Jora thanked the Donquixote Family for saving the city and offered to join them in place of payment, prompting Trebol to trap her in slime until Rossi stopped him.
• Rossi explained that Jora’s offer would form a political alliance against threats from CP3, and Jora swore to protect the family with her Art-Art Fruit.
• Doflamingo released Jora and granted her provisional membership, telling her she would have to earn the family’s approval.
• Jora described how her Art-Art Fruit turned objects into fairy-tale props, said she could maintain four transformations, and mentioned that Hound Guiche had taught her kicking techniques.

Jora joined Rossi and Doffy’s group, leaving Odense’s recovery to Eric while the city rebuilt after the attack. Aboard the ship, Rossi and Doffy tested each other’s abilities, and Doffy revealed a thread-made puppet that could disrupt Rossi’s perception.

• Rossi, Doffy, and the others introduced their fighting styles without revealing all their trump cards.
• Jora left the throne and entrusted Odense’s remaining troubles to Eric, explaining that joining the family would draw CP3’s attention away from the city.
• Odense’s residents cleared rubble and began rebuilding, while a worker recorded the deaths of a man and his wife and set aside usable belongings for their twelve-year-old son.
• Jora admitted to Rossi that she felt empty being far from home, and Rossi bluntly recognized that she had joined partly to distract CP3 before asking her to take lookout duty.
• Doffy ambushed Rossi in the captain’s cabin with thread traps and a gun, then revealed a thread-woven Shadow Puppet that had disrupted Rossi’s perception.
• Rossi explained that his perception remained vulnerable to emotional disturbance, while Doffy asked whether he knew how to train Conqueror’s Haki.

Rossi and his companions trained aboard their ship while Jora urged them to clean its filthy interior and practiced the Art-Art Fruit. Meanwhile, CP3 agents planned to recover from their failed operation by targeting Rossi and the queen of Acanlia.

• Rayleigh said Rossi could not simply learn the power he sought, and Rossi planned to develop his fruit abilities and train his Observation Haki instead.
• After learning Robert was dead, the CP3 agents’ superior identified Senor Pink as the mole who had exposed their operation and Rossi as the key to their next plan.
• The CP3 superior ordered the agents to travel to Spandamruze, target Rossi and the queen of Acanlia, and arrange another attack on the Antagarich Alliance.
• Jora criticized the ship’s filth and rats, so Rossi proposed a rat-catching contest that drew Doffy and the others into a competitive cleanup.
• Jora transformed an oil lamp with her Art-Art Fruit and summoned a small servant, then ordered it to clean the ship’s lower hold.

After returning to Spider Miles, Doflamingo and Rossi confronted the Donquixote family’s uneasy business partners and uncovered an ambush in a warehouse. Rossi pursued the escaping ability user through a hidden passage.

• During the return voyage, a captain invited Doflamingo and Rossi to a ball and hinted they should remember his ship, the Gear.
• At the dock, Doflamingo noticed three partners were missing, while Rossi sensed that the welcoming crowd and the escorting captain concealed ulterior motives.
• Rossi pointed out a damaged warehouse roof, and Doflamingo insisted on checking the cargo before attending the banquet.
• Inside the warehouse, Rossi sensed six hidden attackers, including an ability user, as Doflamingo trapped the men who dropped from above with his threads.
• Rossi pursued the fleeing ability user through a concealed passage and found him struggling to open a rusted iron grille.

Rossi and Doflamingo returned to Spider Miles, punished the officials and merchants who had betrayed their family, and learned that CP3 was preparing an operation against them at a ball in two days. Rossi recruited Wesker to help manage the family’s businesses, leaving him to sort through the accounts.

• Rossi defeated Thunder Weasel Kam, while Doflamingo captured the remaining attackers and forced the factory owner to name the harbormaster and tax collector as conspirators.
• Rossi and Doflamingo arrived in the harbor district, where the family’s associates welcomed them and the local power brokers pledged their service.
• The mayor and the captain of the Gear discussed CP3’s planned operation at a ball in two days and weighed the family’s chances against the agency.
• Doflamingo demanded total loyalty from the merchants and officials who had secretly turned against the family, while Rossi left the town’s workshops and shops operating under new ownership.
• Rossi proposed that Wesker manage the family’s businesses, and Wesker accepted the role.
• Rossi gave Wesker his first task: sort out the family’s monthly finances.

The Donquixote family attended a ball under CP3 surveillance, where the magician Field used his Cube-Cube Fruit to scatter them into separate spaces. Rossi found himself surrounded by CP agents as their assault began.

• CP3 agents abandoned their failed covert schemes and enlisted Field to help ambush the Donquixote family.
• Senor Pink failed to get close to Rose Manor because CP agents had installed ground-listening devices around it.
• Doffy led the family to the ball, where Jora used her ability to check that the food was safe.
• Field revealed his Cube-Cube Fruit and transformed the banquet hall, scattering its guests and separating the family.
• Rossi landed in a room surrounded by black-suited agents, and a masked CP agent began threatening him before a chilling laugh cut him off.

Rossi’s companions fought the Kingdom of Rafal and CP3 forces in separate enclosed spaces, revealing that the intelligence agency had badly underestimated their strength. The chapter ended as an eleven-year-old, massively built fighter faced the feared Man-Slayer.

• Doffy released his Conqueror’s Haki, incapacitated the soldiers, and used his strings to control the conscious men in black.
• Jora fought General Roka, whose taunts failed to stop her from attacking him with her glass slipper.
• Diamante held off the Rafal soldiers until a javelin killed their commander, then unleashed Feilian Funeral and cut down dozens of them.
• The soldiers identified the towering young fighter as only eleven years old, while the Man-Slayer stepped forward and drew his blade.

Pica, Vergo, Trebol, Jora, and Rossi overwhelmed the forces sent against them, while Rossi confronted a swordsman wielding Sandai Kitetsu. The chapter ended with the cursed blade’s power revealed and Rossi facing its wielder.

• Pica crushed Man-Slayer’s head after his grip jammed the man’s sword in its scabbard.
• Vergo discarded his weapons and challenged the surrounding soldiers and agents to attack him with their own gear.
• Trebol trapped the soldiers and agents in a mass of mucus, while Rossi evaded two masked agents’ coordinated attacks.
• Jora reached Rossi after General Loka surrendered, and Rossi told her to bring the others to him.
• Rossi killed one masked agent and faced the remaining swordsman, who fed his blood to Sandai Kitetsu and unleashed a long-range slash.

Rossi fought a black-suited agent wielding Sandai Kitetsu and endured the sword’s mind-affecting Demon Aura. He overcame its influence and claimed the blade as the agent collapsed, while Doflamingo and Jora watched.

• Rossi outmaneuvered the black-suited agent’s powerful sword swings and briefly disarmed him, but Sandai Kitetsu resisted Rossi when he tried to take it.
• Rossi discovered that the sword’s aura could cut through Field’s Cube and inflict pain even without a direct strike.
• Doflamingo arrived with Jora and stopped her from intervening as Rossi chose to face the agent’s next attack head-on.
• Rossi caught the descending blade between his palms and resisted the Demon Aura’s attack on his mind and body.
• Rossi’s will drove back the sword’s aura, and the senior agent collapsed as Rossi took hold of Sandai Kitetsu.

Rossi and his companions escaped the manor after defeating the CP3 agent, with Senor Pink joining them and the town’s authorities deciding to avoid further involvement. Back at Rose Manor, Rossi began to reveal something that left everyone stunned.

• Rossi took control of Sandai Kitetsu and explained how the cursed blade fed on its wielder’s strength.
• The wounded CP3 agent tried to trigger an explosive device, but Senor Pink emerged from underground and the device failed; Doflamingo shot the agent.
• Rossi invited Senor Pink to come with them, and Senor Pink accepted so he could recover and seek answers.
• A local official watched the group escape and decided the town should avoid being drawn into further conflicts with the agents.
• Jora apologized for putting the group in danger, but Rossi said joining their side meant being prepared for trouble.
• At Rose Manor, Rossi raised a soundproof barrier and began a revelation that made Jora, Trebol, and the others freeze in shock.

Rossi revealed that he and Doflamingo were born Celestial Dragons, described the persecution they suffered after their father abandoned Mary Geoise, and warned the family that the Holy Land would hunt them. The Donquixote Family accepted Senor Pink as its seventh member, then prepared a banquet whose invitation reached the researcher known as 404.

• Rossi and Doflamingo told the family about their Celestial Dragon birth, their mother's death, and their rejection by Mary Geoise.
• Rossi warned that the Holy Land considered the brothers a stain and would pursue them if their whereabouts were exposed; the family members pledged to stand with Donquixote.
• Rossi invited Senor Pink to join the Donquixote Family, and the others agreed before Senor Pink accepted.
• The Donquixote Family sent gilded banquet invitations to prominent households in Spandamruze, and the town's elite prepared to attend.
• 404 received an invitation at the Blackwater Security Company but dismissed the banquet as a waste of time and chose to focus on his Super Shock Bomb.

Rossi organized a banquet to establish the Donquixote Family’s standing in Spandamruze and gain the local elite’s acceptance. At the gathering, the mayor met with Doffy while researcher No. 404 approached Rossi to discuss his strength and the Vinsmoke name.

• Rossi told the family to remain in Spandamruze, build its strength, and invite influential locals to a banquet.
• Researcher No. 404 learned that the family had defeated CP3 agents and decided to attend the banquet to assess the fighters.
• Jora and Wesker organized the banquet, and merchants and prominent guests arrived at Rose Manor.
• The mayor arrived, apologized to Rossi for the trouble at his residence, and spoke with Doffy.
• No. 404 asked Rossi whether he had heard the surname Vinsmoke.

Rossi learned that Germa 66 served the Vinsmoke Family and accepted an invitation to the prince’s engagement ceremony, while keeping his family focused on their roles at the banquet. The next morning, Rossi drove the family into training and directed Pica to test himself against Diamante.

• An elderly Germa 66 researcher told Rossi that the Vinsmoke Family still existed, ruled Germa 66, and was preparing to restore its former power.
• The researcher invited Rossi’s family to the prince’s engagement ceremony in three months, and Rossi agreed to attend after discussing it with his family.
• At the banquet, Doffy spoke with the mayor while Trebol, Diamante, and others attracted attention from the guests; Rossi warned Jora to keep the family from falling into a honey trap.
• Before dawn, Rossi burst into Diamante’s room and ordered him to get up for training, then roused the rest of the family.
• Diamante defeated Trebol in unarmed training, and Rossi then told Pica to spar with Diamante and show everyone what he could do.

Rossi defeated Diamante and fought Pica in a bare-handed match, revealing his exceptional combat instincts and power. Doffy arrived to challenge Rossi with no restrictions, and the tense family gathering braced for their fight.

• Diamante challenged Pica but was quickly knocked down, then dismissed the loss as an easy match for an old member against a newcomer.
• Rossi fought Pica, countered his grappling with powerful strikes and throws, and pushed him through a prolonged bare-handed contest.
• Rossi recognized that Pica was absorbing and dispersing much of his force, then used a midair throw and a crushing knee strike to slam him into the ground.
• Pica refused to use his Devil Fruit, insisting that a bare-handed contest between men should have a clear winner, while Rossi said family should stop short of that.
• Doffy arrived and challenged Rossi, who chose two blades and proposed allowing weapons, guns, Devil Fruit powers, and Haki without restrictions.
• Trebol tried to stop them, but Doffy ordered him to stand down as the others sensed the tension rising.

Rossi and Doflamingo fought a duel that exposed the rivalry beneath the Donquixote family's calm, and their clash of Conqueror's Haki left the family fearing it could not have two leaders. Doflamingo trapped Rossi with strings and prepared a decisive attack, insisting he would win.

• Doflamingo attacked Rossi with strings and a sword, while Rossi cut through the attacks and pressed him in close combat.
• Rossi stopped his sword inches from Doflamingo's throat as strings threatened him from behind, and Doflamingo called the fight a draw.
• Doflamingo used Five Color Strings, and he and Rossi released Conqueror's Haki as their weapons broke in the clash.
• Rossi charged Doflamingo at close range, recalling their shared past and resolving to defy fate.
• Doflamingo used the Haki clash to disrupt Rossi's Observation Haki, bound him with strings, and prepared a powerful Five Color Strings attack.

Rossi and Doflamingo fought until they acknowledged their jealousy and agreed to share leadership of the Donquixote Family. Rossi then explained his contact with the powerful Vinsmoke Family and led his companions to a seawater pool to demonstrate his latest training.

• Rossi and Doflamingo clashed in a bloody spar, then apologized for their rivalry and reaffirmed their bond as brothers.
• Doflamingo declared that Rossi would share leadership of the Donquixote Family, and Rossi accepted the rule.
• Rossi told the family that Germa had approached him and explained the Vinsmoke Family’s power and his reasons for accepting their invitation to a wedding in ninety days.
• Lao G and the others agreed to meet the Vinsmokes, and Rossi promised to consult the family before making similar decisions again.
• Rossi led the family to a seawater pool to teach them about Devil Fruit users’ weaknesses and demonstrate what he had been practicing.

Rossi taught the Donquixote family to run across seawater and received a demanding Navy-style footwork manual from Jora. As the group trained relentlessly at Rose Manor, Bolkin reported the fleet’s profits, and Rossi reprimanded him for keeping only five million Beli.

• Rossi demonstrated how to race across seawater and taught the family the technique, which Pica and Doffy mastered first.
• Jora gave Rossi her teacher’s manual describing a rapid, repeatable footwork technique, and Rossi decided to train with it.
• Rossi and the others practiced intensely at Rose Manor, while Jora also tried learning to tread water.
• Bolkin reported that the fleet had returned safely and presented its cargo manifest and profit estimate.
• Rossi saw the figures and told Bolkin that he had pocketed only five million Beli, startling him.

Rossi punished Bolkin for squandering the family’s trust, then Doflamingo’s crew received a Log Pose pointing to the Vinsmoke Family and set sail for its engagement ceremony. When the Crab Pirates attacked their ship to seize an invitation, Doflamingo, Vergo, and Pica boarded to fight them.

• Rossi confronted Bolkin about his extravagance and disloyalty, then sent him away to reconsider what he wanted.
• Trebol showed Rossi a wristband invitation containing a Log Pose locked onto the Vinsmoke Family’s location, and Doflamingo ordered the ship prepared for departure.
• As fleets and raiders converged on the Vinsmoke engagement ceremony, the Crab Pirates approached the Donquixote, whose crew had no bounties to deter attackers.
• Doflamingo, Vergo, and Pica leaped across the sea and boarded the Crab Pirates’ ship, while Doflamingo knocked out a group of pirates with his Conqueror’s Haki.
• Doflamingo revealed that Vergo and Pica had joined the fight and swept sharp threads across the enemy deck.