Chapter Summaries

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.

Rossi and his crew reached the sky island, where their swift defeat of the Shandia drew the attention of both the Shandia and Gan Fall. Gan Fall confronted a pink-haired girl carrying an unconscious Shandia warrior beside the crew’s ship and asked who she was.

• Shandia warriors attacked the ship, and Rossi decided to play the villain amid the conflict between the Shandia and Angel Island.
• A scout told Gan Fall that the Blue Sea visitors had quickly defeated the Shandia, so Gan Fall ordered his people to stay alert and went to investigate.
• A Shandia warrior fled through the jungle on cloud paths and wind-jet boots, but the pink-haired girl outpaced him, took his weapons, and knocked him unconscious.
• The pink-haired girl carried the warrior out of the forest as Gan Fall swooped down and ordered her to put him down.
• The girl dodged Gan Fall’s lance and retreated beside the ship, where Gan Fall stopped and asked who she was.

Rossi declared that Jaya belonged to the Family and overwhelmed the Angel Island and Shandia forces with his terrifying presence. After the survivors returned to Angel Island and learned Hidden Cloud Village had been erased, Rossi’s crew searched the ruins of Shandora for gold while Enel remained focused on the legendary land above.

• Gan Fall and the Shandia chief Kukku arrived with their forces as Rossi declared Jaya the Family’s territory.
• Rossi released an overwhelming presence that incapacitated most of the divine soldiers and Shandia warriors and destroyed life across the surrounding clouds and vegetation.
• Gan Fall and Kukku led the injured back to Angel Island, where the people learned Hidden Cloud Village had vanished and that Rossi had threatened to destroy Angel Island within twenty-four hours.
• Rossi explored the ruins of Shandora while Oni and Gary uncovered buried treasures and Diamante allowed them to take whatever gold they wanted.
• Enel watched the crew search for gold and continued to desire the legendary, boundless land.

Rossi led Diamante and the others to a legendary city made entirely of gold, then urged Diamante to claim the treasure he had long believed he did not deserve. Diamante accepted his identity and became a towering black-and-gold colossus, demonstrating a major rise in strength.

• Diamante froze at the sight of the ruined settlement, and Rossi revealed the gold city by blasting away the earth and debris covering it.
• Rossi told Diamante that he deserved the gold, and Diamante recalled his childhood, his mother’s illness, and the shame behind the persona he had built.
• Diamante reached the top of a golden spire, saw Rossi encouraging him, and declared himself a member of the Family.
• Diamante absorbed the city’s gold, formed a towering colossus coated in Armament Haki, and declared that he would destroy any enemy Rossi named.
• Diamante demonstrated his new strength by splitting the clouds with an enormous black-and-gold sword, while Rossi praised his training and the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit.

Diamante and Rossi waited in a golden castle for Sky Island’s people to challenge them, while Angel Island and the Shandia prepared to resist the invaders. Gan Fall explained the Haki powers they faced, and the chapter ended with Shandia warriors making personal vows before the coming battle.

• Diamante reshaped the golden colossus into a lavish castle, and Rossi told Oni and him to wait for the heroes to arrive.
• Angel Island’s inhabitants fled by ship as a scout reported that the Shandia homeland had been shattered.
• Wyper, Kamakiri, and Braham joined Shandia and Angel Island leaders, where Wyper threatened a divine soldier captain who questioned involving children.
• Gan Fall explained Observation, Armament, and Conqueror’s Haki, identified the invaders’ abilities, and said Rossi would leave if they managed to hurt him.
• Wyper vowed to avenge the destruction of his village, and Gan Fall urged the assembled warriors to fight because Rossi had promised to depart if they injured him.
• Shandia warriors prepared their weapons and recalled loved ones as they faced the coming battle.

Rossi ordered the destruction of Angel Island while the Skypieans and Shandia mobilized for battle. As the fighting began, Diamante’s golden colossus advanced on the island, and Gan Fall confronted one of Rossi’s executives outside the Castle.

• Rossi ordered Angel Island destroyed and left Oni and Gary behind while he waited for the opposing force to reach him.
• Gan Fall led the Skypieans into battle as Angel Island’s divine soldiers moved toward Upper Yard.
• Diamante controlled a golden colossus that smashed through the divine soldiers’ formation and marched toward Angel Island.
• A hidden mechanical weapon ambushed a divine soldier patrol, killing its captain as the others destroyed the construct.
• Gary went to investigate after her toy was triggered, while Rossi maintained an unusually detailed perception of the Castle.
• Gan Fall and Pierre confronted a swift Family executive near the Golden City Wall.

Rossi’s forces destroyed Angel Island while Shandia and Sky Island warriors fought their way to his throne. The golden colossus’s impact tore open the sky above Jaya, and the chapter ended as a giant python restrained Diamante’s colossus and Gan Fall turned his horse around.

• Shandia and Sky Island warriors braved the palace traps and reached Rossi, who showed them the destruction of Angel Island from the throne room.
• Diamante’s golden colossus struck Angel Island with Golden Funeral, shattering the island and the cloud sea beneath it.
• The collapsing sky and falling fragments stunned Mock Town’s residents, then drew pirates out to salvage the wreckage.
• A Shandia boy attacked Rossi with a spear containing a Heat Dial, but Rossi remained unharmed and defeated the warriors who reached him.
• Rossi ordered Diamante to dispose of the fallen warriors, but a giant python coiled around the colossus, and Gan Fall turned his horse around.

Rossi defeated Gan Fall and honored his agreement with the injured boy, telling him Shandora’s bell remained somewhere higher and that lighting the flame was his responsibility. Rossi and his crew returned toward Dressrosa aboard a giant golden airship, whose crossing of the Red Line drew attention across the world.

• The boy used a Seastone ring to weaken Rossi, then struck him with a Reject Dial, but Rossi survived with only a slight sting.
• Rossi told the boy that Shandora’s bell had not been melted down and left him to find it and light the flame himself.
• Rossi and Diamante departed, leaving the boy to rise from the blood pool and drag himself deeper into the castle.
• Aboard the airship, Rossi tested and reinforced Sky Island Dials, while the crew steered toward Dressrosa.
• The thousand-meter golden airship crossed the Red Line, and its appearance sparked rumors and drew the attention of powers across the seas.

The Donquixote Family welcomed Rossi back to Dressrosa with gold from Sky Island, a new airship mechanic named Enel, and news of a powerful Logia Devil Fruit. Rossi reunited with Rody and Oguri Cap, who explained that Zou’s people still faced escalating slave raids and lacked a fighter strong enough to deter them.

• The World Economy News Paper reported that Rossi and the samurai had driven the Kaido Pirates from Wano, prompting the pirates to vow war against the Donquixote Family.
• Dressrosa’s residents and the Family gathered to watch the Golden Airship land, while Rossi’s group brought home treasure and the mechanic Enel.
• Rossi told Doflamingo that the Sky Island mission had gone smoothly and that the group had found a top-tier Logia Devil Fruit.
• Doflamingo challenged Rossi to guess who was waiting at the Palace, where Rossi embraced Rody and greeted Oguri Cap.
• Oguri Cap and Rody told Rossi that slave hunters had intensified their raids on Zou and that their people still lacked a top-tier fighter to protect them.

Rossi and the Donquixote Family agreed to travel to Hachinosu for the pirates’ feast and rescue the Mink Tribe children held there. After settling Enel into the Family’s laboratory and inspecting Oguri Cap and Rody’s battered ship, Rossi led the Family fleet toward Ochoku’s territory.

• The Horse-Eared Girl explained that the pirates’ feast was a four-yearly trading gathering on Hachinosu, currently ruled by the legendary pirate Ochoku.
• Oguri Cap and Rody asked Rossi and Doffy to help recover the Mink Tribe children taken to Hachinosu, and the Family agreed to go.
• Doffy ordered Kyros and Gary to stay in Dressrosa while the rest of the Family prepared to confront Ochoku.
• Rossi showed Enel the Family’s laboratory and training facilities, then inspected the old ship that Flam had repaired for Oguri Cap and Rody.
• The Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo and the Donquixote set sail for Hachinosu, with Rossi leading the Family fleet.

Rossi and the Donquixote Family sailed toward Hachinosu for the pirate feast and clashed with Charlotte Linlin’s ship when neither side yielded. After Katakuri stopped the fight, Rossi’s ships reached the crowded island, where the gathering promised further danger.

• As Rossi’s group neared Hachinosu, they saw the pirate feast’s auction listings, including three Devil Fruits and an entire kingdom offered for sale.
• The Queen Mama Chanter appeared, and Charlotte Linlin demanded that Rossi’s ships move aside.
• Rossi struck with a powerful Haki slash while Linlin answered with Ikoku Sovereignty, and their attacks created violent turbulence that tossed both fleets.
• Doffy protected Rossi’s ships inside a cocoon of threads as Katakuri persuaded Linlin to stop fighting and continue toward Hachinosu.
• Rossi recognized that Katakuri had likely identified him as the Black King who infiltrated Impel Down, but decided the knowledge would not threaten the Family.
• Rossi and his companions arrived near Hachinosu, where the gathered pirates fell silent and Rossi warned Doffy to stay alert around Ochoku’s lair.

Rossi and Doflamingo arrived at Hachinosu, where Xu Quan enforced Ochoku’s ban on fighting by crushing an attacking pirate ship with Haki. Xu Quan then escorted the Donquixote Family through the island’s orderly pirate market to the auction house, where Ochoku awaited them.

• Rossi sensed Charlotte Linlin and Ochoku on Hachinosu and warned Doflamingo that fighting both legends would make survival the priority.
• Xu Quan stopped a pirate ship from attacking, killed its captain, and compressed the ship and its crew into a sinking sphere with Haki.
• Xu Quan introduced himself as Ochoku’s representative and cleared a path through the harbor for Rossi and Doflamingo’s ships.
• Rossi and the others observed Hachinosu’s bustling market, where goods were auctioned under Ochoku’s enforced peace.
• Xu Quan led the Donquixote Family to the auction house and said Ochoku was waiting inside.

Rossi and the Donquixote Family met Ochoku and Charlotte Linlin at a tense auction before bidding began on a princess from Kuraigana Island. Rossi became interested in the island’s creatures and suggested that the princess could serve as a guide.

• A maid led the Donquixote Family to the auction’s second floor, where Ochoku welcomed them and Charlotte Linlin watched with her children.
• Doffy transformed the room’s furniture with his threads, and Ochoku recognized the display as Devil Fruit Awakening.
• The auction began with a spear, while Rossi reassured Trebol that he and Doffy would protect the Family if violence broke out.
• Smoothie’s sisters speculated that Rossi had taken an interest in her, though Rossi was focused on her hidden fighting abilities.
• The auctioneer presented Princess Isabella Weaver of Kuraigana Island as a lot, and Rossi said he wanted the island’s creatures and saw the princess as a potential guide.

Rossi and Doflamingo watched the auction while considering their plans for a dangerous island, then saw Marine Rear Admiral Doll offered for sale and identified Tokikake in disguise among the bidders. When twenty Mink Tribe juveniles were auctioned, Rossi bid one billion Beli, only for another bidder to raise the price.

• Rossi told Doflamingo to treat the auction's lesser lots as a way to spend their spare money while he thought about the island's future violence.
• Katakuri and Charlotte Linlin discussed the wealth of the people in the opposite box and the Devil Fruits being auctioned.
• The auctioneer presented the battered Marine Rear Admiral Doll, who defied the jeering crowd as bidders hesitated to risk Marine retaliation.
• A disguised Tokikake bid one hundred million Beli for Doll, and Rossi recognized him despite his nobleman's disguise.
• The auctioneer introduced twenty Mink Tribe juveniles, and Rossi and Doflamingo realized the lot was bait.
• Rossi bid one billion Beli for the Mink juveniles, but another bidder immediately raised the offer to one billion and ten thousand.

Rossi and the Donquixote Family were ambushed at the Hachinosu auction by Ochoku and Charlotte Linlin, who had joined forces to seize the Family’s wealth and territory. As Rossi fought Ochoku and Doflamingo engaged Big Mom, Doflamingo launched a lightning-charged attack that disappeared into the ground.

• A sailor kept bidding against the second-floor voice, prompting Rossi to realize that the supposed sailor was connected to the legendary figure beside him.
• Doflamingo challenged the man beside Rossi, while Charlotte Linlin’s forces readied their weapons and Rossi prepared to fight.
• Ochoku’s plot to join forces with Charlotte Linlin and take the Donquixote Family’s assets was revealed as an explosion destroyed the auction hall’s dome.
• Rossi and the others stood atop a golden colossus, and Ochoku confronted Rossi, blocking his sword strike with a Haki-coated punch that devastated the surrounding area.
• Doflamingo intercepted Charlotte Linlin and exchanged attacks with her, dodging her lightning and firing a lightning-charged shot that vanished into the soil.

Big Mom recognized the airborne fighter’s imitation of her technique and prepared to retaliate as battles raged across the island. Oguri Cap, Rody, and Jora protected rescued Mink Tribe children, then confronted Ye Zong, while Rossi searched for a way through Ochoku’s near-impenetrable defenses.

• Big Mom landed after the earth-shaking attack, recognized her opponent’s move, and challenged the airborne fighter to face her strength.
• Gion helped Tokikake rescue Rear Admiral Doll, then stayed behind to join the fight against the pirates threatening the Shichibukai Family.
• Jora freed the Mink Tribe children from their explosive collars and left them in Pica’s care as she and her companions returned to the battlefield.
• Oguri Cap and Rody entered Sulong Form under Jora’s artificial moon and prepared to face Ye Zong’s Flame Tiger Heavy Cannon.
• Rossi realized he needed to exploit a weakness in Ochoku’s armored defense and vanished at high speed to seek an opening.