Chapter Summaries

The Charlotte Family and other fighters battled the dragons during the Martial Combat Festival as Rossi killed the blue dragon with a lightning-charged sword strike. The Calamity of the End descended over Elbaf, and Rossi prepared to face it.

• Perospero, Smoothie, Mont-d'Or, and Amande coordinated attacks that killed dragons and protected the Charlotte Family.
• Umit tried to escape the battlefield, while Piekro sold dragonscale armor to warriors fighting the dragons.
• Rossi redirected the blue dragon's lightning, charged Sandai Kitetsu with electricity, and killed it with a single strike.
• The Giant King recognized Rossi's surname as connected to the Windmill Knights and dismissed his concern about the legend.
• The Calamity of the End descended from the World Tree, and Rossi tightened his grip on his blade to face it.

Rossi fought an ancient seven-headed dragon whose Emotion-Emotion Fruit amplified the emotions of those who saw its eyes, while Gion and the girl helped him resist its effects. After discovering that the dragon’s necks converged at a vulnerable patch, Rossi wounded it, but the battle continued amid the destruction of the Giants’ city.

• The dragon’s gaze drove warriors, including Amande and Rossi, into emotional frenzy until Gion covered Rossi’s eyes and warned him not to look at it.
• The Giant King explained that the thousand-year-old dragon had eaten the Emotion-Emotion Fruit, and the girl said her Devil Fruit ability suppressed draconic creatures.
• Rossi dodged the dragon’s attacks and tried to cut its heads and limbs, but its scales proved too tough for his strikes to penetrate deeply.
• Rossi baited the dragon’s heads into attacking, then slashed the sparsely scaled point where their necks converged and drew a torrent of blood.
• The wounded dragon writhed in pain and destroyed buildings with its tail and shock waves as Rossi rose from the rubble, determined to continue fighting.

Rossi and the Giant king battled the seven-headed Sin Dragon in Elbaf, while Gion helped Rossi counter its mind-affecting power. Their attacks devastated Oslo, and the fight continued in the city’s enormous lava crater as the wounded dragon resisted their combined assault.

• The Giant king struck the Sin Dragon, which answered with seven powerful beams that carved molten craters into the battlefield.
• Rossi used Gion’s senses to bypass the Sin Dragon’s bewitching power and cut three of its necks.
• The Sin Dragon combined its seven fiery breaths into a massive attack that engulfed much of Oslo, but Rossi escaped with Gion.
• Rossi and the Giant king attacked together, and the king’s Ancestor's Hammer drove the dragon into the lava while destroying Oslo and the Royal Court.
• The wounded Sin Dragon went berserk, and the Giant king entered Rage Soul Release to fight it in the crater.
• Rossi joined the Giant king in a pincer attack, but the Sin Dragon held off both of them.

Rossi fought the seven-headed Dragon of Sin through a day and night before the giant king ended the Martial Combat Festival in a draw. Afterward, Taran explained the giants’ Blood Rage technique to Rossi, who began learning how it resisted emotional manipulation.

• Umit and Piekro stayed near the battlefield, while Perospero urged Amande and the Charlotte Family’s other children to regroup and continue the festival.
• Rossi and the seven-headed dragon called off their clash when the dragon declared a draw and challenged Rossi to seek it at the top of the World Tree.
• The giant king ended the Martial Combat Festival, and the exhausted giant warriors fell asleep as the dragons gathered their wounded and dead.
• Taran recognized Rossi as the winner and expressed surprise that he had copied and improved the giant’s ultimate technique after seeing it once.
• The giant king offered to let Taran teach Rossi Blood Rage, and Taran explained how the technique used Haki and anger to resist the Emotion-Emotion Fruit’s influence.

After the giants’ battle, Gion received first place in the Martial Combat Festival for killing the most dragons, while Rossi learned that the festival’s next five years would train the younger generations. As the visitors departed, Perospero discussed using Smoothie’s marriage to Rossi as a political alliance despite their apparent closeness.

• Rossi thanked Taran for explaining the giants’ Haki-based Soul of Fury and reflected on its risks and power.
• The Giant King awarded Gion the diamond prize after her dragon kills secured first place, then announced that the visitors’ festival had ended.
• Taran explained to Rossi that the next five years would pit young giants against young dragons, and said he had left the Shichibukai to protect the young giants.
• Rossi and Taran toasted their reunion in five years as the guests prepared to leave Elbaf.
• Perospero reassured Mont-d'Or that the Charlotte Family had won the giants’ goodwill and argued that Smoothie’s marriage to Rossi could serve as an alliance regardless of love.

Rossi traveled with the Charlotte Family to Dressrosa, where Doflamingo accepted their invitation to the tea party and marriage-alliance talks. The Donquixote Family declined the proposed matches, while Rossi recognized that Senor Pink’s fateful meeting with the woman he loved was approaching.

• Perospero offered Rossi passage to Dressrosa, and Rossi agreed to attend Charlotte Linlin’s tea party while insisting that marriage candidates would choose for themselves.
• Rossi traveled aboard the Charlotte Family’s ship, with Smoothie guiding him to a cabin as he focused on his blood-manipulation insights.
• At the Palace, Doflamingo used his Conqueror’s Haki before accepting the Charlotte Family’s invitation, and Perospero left to await the allied fleet.
• Rossi asked the Donquixote Family members whether they would consider the marriage alliance, but none volunteered.
• Rossi recalled Senor Pink’s coming encounter with the woman who despised pirates, while Pink remembered approaching her under a false identity.

Rossi agreed to handle the marriage alliance with the Charlotte Family and traveled with the Donquixote Family to Totto Land. After seeing the islands and meeting the eerie musical welcome at Whole Cake Island, he silenced the noise as the group arrived to meet Charlotte Linlin.

• Rossi’s colleagues teased him about the marriage alliance, and Doffy ordered him to bring back a daughter of the Charlotte Family.
• Rossi accepted the assignment and sailed to Totto Land with Perospero and the Donquixote Family.
• Perospero showed Rossi and the others Nut Island and described how the Charlotte Family had built Totto Land into a home for many races.
• Rossi assessed Totto Land’s prosperity and defenses while discussing the Charlotte Family’s food-producing Devil Fruit users.
• The group reached Whole Cake Island, where the island’s singing buildings, plants, and Chess Soldiers staged a welcome.
• Rossi snapped his fingers and silenced the pier, prompting someone to ask whether he disliked the welcome.

Rossi, Doflamingo, and the Donquixote Family arrived at Big Mom’s tea party, where they met Underworld figures Du Feld, Stussy, and Morgans. The gathering left the Donquixote Family facing Charlotte Linlin and her assembled children and guests, amid speculation about an alliance between the two families.

• Rossi and Doflamingo rode through Whole Cake Island in silent carriages and discussed Charlotte Linlin’s use of Homies and the strength of the Donquixote Family’s officers.
• At the base of the cake tower, Rossi noticed Stussy, and he privately warned Doflamingo that she was a Cipher Pol Aigis Zero agent.
• Morgans introduced Rossi and Doflamingo to Du Feld and Stussy, while exposing Du Feld’s links to the MADS research team.
• Pica raised the group on a stone pillar and formed a bridge to the banquet venue atop Whole Cake Chateau.
• Rossi, Doflamingo, and their group entered the tea party and met Charlotte Linlin as the guests speculated about a possible alliance between the Charlotte and Donquixote Families.
• Morgans surveyed the gathering and recognized Charlotte Linlin’s children, including Compote, Katakuri, Daifuku, and Oven.

Doflamingo negotiated the Donquixote Family’s proposed marriage alliance with Charlotte Linlin, demanding changes to the terms. The banquet nearly erupted into violence, but Linlin unexpectedly agreed to his conditions.

• Rossi and the Donquixote Family joined Charlotte Linlin’s banquet while both sides watched each other warily.
• Doflamingo began negotiations, and Linlin asked him to demonstrate his sincerity by reviewing the alliance terms.
• Doflamingo proposed joint control of trade routes, defined technology sharing, and the right to choose the marriage partner.
• Linlin threatened Doflamingo, and Oven stepped forward as Jinbe prepared to fight.
• Linlin abruptly sat back down and agreed to the proposed terms, leaving Perospero and the other guests stunned.

Rossi and Doflamingo challenged Charlotte Linlin’s attempt to expose their families’ marriage alliance and proposed settling which family would lead through a series of duels. Linlin hesitated over the wager and introduced her daughter Custard as a swordswoman, leaving the contest’s terms unsettled.

• Charlotte Linlin proposed marrying her daughters to members of the Donquixote Family, and Rossi reacted angrily to the women she presented.
• Rossi and Charlotte Linlin briefly clashed, wrecking the banquet venue before agreeing to sit and talk.
• Rossi warned that Linlin’s public announcement of their private alliance risked drawing the Navy and World Government against the Donquixote Family.
• Rossi proposed nine one-on-one matches, with four wins deciding which family would lead, and Linlin considered the stakes.
• Linlin argued that a family needed tangible bonds, while Rossi and Doflamingo defended their proposal and Linlin introduced Custard as a swordswoman.

Rossi secured Charlotte Linlin’s agreement to prepare a contract for the family alliance by sunset the next day, and Smoothie was selected as his prospective bride. Katakuri privately asked Rossi to protect Smoothie, and Rossi promised to watch her back as an officer; meanwhile, Jinbe’s companions nearly revealed that they were preparing underwater defenses.

• Rossi rejected Charlotte Linlin’s request for three days and secured her agreement to prepare the contract by sunset the next day.
• Smoothie stepped forward as the chosen match, and the tea party resumed after the confrontation.
• Morgans reported that a thirteen-year-old World Government agent had killed the pirates who seized five hundred soldiers, leading Rossi to identify the agent as Rob Lucci.
• Katakuri asked Rossi whether Smoothie would be safe with him, and Rossi promised not to abandon her on the battlefield.
• Jinbe’s companions gathered with him and nearly disclosed their work on underwater defenses while the Charlotte Family’s surveillance network watched the surrounding waters.

As Rossi’s Family sparred and socialized with the Charlotte Family, Rossi and Doffy recognized that the Five Elders were preparing to move against them. The chapter ended aboard Rossi’s ship, where Trebol teased him about a possible marriage alliance with Smoothie.

• Oni admitted to Gary that she felt uneasy about no longer having Rossi to rely on in fights, and she dismissed the idea that she had feelings for him.
• Oven and Pica’s arm-wrestling match ended when Oven released Armament Haki and shattered the candy table, prompting Perospero to call the contest a draw.
• Rossi and Doffy discussed the Five Elders’ growing concern over the Family’s strength and agreed that they needed to prepare for a battle.
• The Five Elders reviewed intelligence on Rossi and Doffy, debated eliminating them, and acknowledged the risks posed by their power and the secret they held.
• Smoothy sparred with Rossi and praised his skill, while she and Oni showed growing familiarity aboard the ship.
• Trebol teased Rossi about a possible marriage alliance between the two Families, and Rossi turned toward him with his hand on his sword.

Rossi and the Donquixote Family learned that the Five Elders had moved to restrain them, with Marines surrounding three of their New World islands and kingdoms challenging their Sea Train profits. The Family prepared to confront the Navy at Carnival Island and punish the kingdoms, while an unidentified ship flying their flag appeared elsewhere.

• Rossi demonstrated how Observation Haki could detect a target hidden inside Trebol's slime creation, before Tesoro arrived with urgent news.
• Tesoro reported that warships had surrounded Beast Fighting Island, Food Island, and Carnival Island, and Doflamingo staged an angry call with Fleet Admiral Kong before revealing the performance to the others.
• Rossi and Doflamingo decided to head to Carnival Island and confront the Navy, while Doflamingo planned to teach the kingdoms opposing the Family's Sea Train profits a lesson.
• Tesoro revealed that several kingdoms along the Sea Train route had suddenly challenged the Family's share of the profits, and Rossi said he had already planned countermeasures.
• As the Family set out, reports of their movements remained hidden from the wider press, while an unidentified ship bearing their twin-dragon flag was spotted.

Rossi and his Family crossed the Red Line aboard the Golden Airship without resistance, then arrived at Carnival Island, where the Marines and Cipher Pol demanded the island be handed over to the World Government. Rossi refused and silenced the Cipher Pol 8 chief with a display of force.

• Oni steered the Golden Airship past Marine G-1 as the Marines obeyed orders not to provoke the Family.
• Rossi and his companions crossed the Red Line and descended toward their designated waters after finding no forces waiting at its edge.
• Sengoku and Tsuru watched the Golden Airship approach Carnival Island, where Marines and Cipher Pol had blockaded the harbor for more than ten days.
• Camille and Anok recognized the arriving airship as Marines, including Sengoku, faced the Family's combatants at the docks.
• Sengoku claimed Beast Fighting Island, Food Island, and Carnival Island for the World Government, and Rossi refused.
• The Cipher Pol 8 chief insisted that Rossi could not refuse, so Rossi raised his hand and forced the man's body to tense under Iron Body.

Rossi fought Sengoku on Carnival Island while the Marines and the Family watched from the surrounding ships. Amid the battle, Rossi offered the Marines control of three islands and a list of the people managing their business networks, leaving Tsuru and Sengoku to decide whether to accept.

• Rossi used Haki to crush the man in black into the warship deck, then threatened to fight for the Family.
• Rossi and Sengoku exchanged attacks around Carnival Island, while their forces kept back from the destructive battle.
• Rossi told Tsuru that the Family would surrender Beast Fighting Island, Food Island, and Carnival Island to the Marines, but not to the World Government.
• Rossi gave Tsuru and Sengoku a booklet listing the people who controlled the islands' business networks and offered it as a gift.
• Tsuru asked what the Family hoped to gain, and Rossi suggested it might simply dislike the Five Elders.

Rossi ended the battle with Sengoku by staging a retreat while the Marines took control of three islands, then recruited Rayleigh for a war against the Holy Mountain. He left to gather the era’s legends, determined to challenge fate and carve his own path.

• Rossi and Sengoku traded words that disguised their understanding of the battle’s outcome, and Rossi led the Donquixote Family fleet away as Sengoku ordered the Marines not to pursue.
• Rossi entrusted the fleet and its young members to Anok, then went to meet Rayleigh and Shakky at Sabaody Archipelago.
• Rossi challenged Rayleigh to compare their swordsmanship, and Rayleigh admitted he would lose if they fought to the death.
• Rossi asked Rayleigh to join an unprecedented battle, declaring that he intended to attack the Holy Mountain rather than wait for Joy Boy.
• Rossi left to recruit Golden Lion, Oden, Whitebeard, Red Count, and other legends for the coming war.

Rossi returned to the New World after his clash with Sengoku, while news of his strength and Doflamingo’s brutal campaign spread across the seas. He then sought out Golden Lion Shiki’s Flying Archipelago, where an old acquaintance appeared and summoned Shiki.

• Shakky and Rayleigh discussed Rossi’s ambition to gather legendary figures and watched his Haki erase their bar from existence.
• Rossi returned to his golden ship, ordered his crew to sail for the New World, and left the first-half islands behind.
• Newspapers reported Rossi’s near draw with Sengoku and Doflamingo’s devastating purge of kingdoms that had challenged the Family.
• Rossi’s group traveled toward Shiki’s Flying Archipelago and reached Kingston City on Springwater Island.
• A white-robed stranger caught Henry’s cannon-powered bullet, asked him about Golden Lion, and told him to inform Shiki that an old acquaintance had arrived.
• Shiki descended over Kingston City, then met the white-robed stranger at a street stall, where the stranger greeted him as Mr. Horne.

Rossi revealed himself to Shiki and demanded that the Golden Lion wield his blades for him, then challenged him to a fight. Their battle began above Shiki’s Floating Islands, where Rossi broke through Shiki’s attacks and pressed the assault.

• Horne welcomed the hooded Rossi aboard Shiki’s ship and led him to the banquet on the Main Island.
• Shiki announced that Rossi had freed him from Impel Down, and Rossi invited him outside to stretch their legs.
• Rossi removed his hood, and Shiki recognized him as Rossi of the Family before asking why he had rescued him.
• Rossi demanded that Shiki wield his blades for him, and the two agreed to settle the matter with their swords.
• Rossi charged through Shiki’s ice lion and escaped the seawater trap with a cylindrical shock wave.
• Shiki raised his twin swords to block Rossi’s attack as he unleashed Thousand Slashes.

Rossi defeated Shiki’s resistance and persuaded him to join his plan to gather the ocean’s strongest fighters for an unprecedented war. Rossi then reached a harbor where Yamato, King, Queen, and other powerful figures confronted a group that included a mechanical creation of Rossi’s former colleague.

• Rossi suppressed Shiki in their sword fight, and Shiki agreed to wield his swords for Rossi again.
• Rossi left Shiki’s floating island and contacted his allies, confirming that Anok and the others had reached Dressrosa safely.
• Yamato, Queen, and King incapacitated the harbor guards and demanded that Rossi come out.
• A massive man attacked the red-lensed figure with Thunder Bagua, but the blow failed to move him.
• The Cat-Eared Girl revealed that her father had sent her to confront his former colleagues, and the red-lensed man recognized her as a creation built from memories and computation.
• The red-lensed man transformed his body with machinery and flesh as the Cat-Eared Girl launched Spark Queen and Prism Light.

Diamante, Doflamingo, and other Donquixote Family fighters battled Kaido’s forces as Doflamingo unleashed an island-splitting attack that Kaido survived and countered. After Kaido nearly defeated him, Doflamingo awakened his Conqueror’s Haki and forced Kaido back, leaving the two on equal footing.

• Diamante fought the masked man with the Golden Sword, but the man trapped his blade and struck him with a blazing wing; Diamante rose from the lava in Dark Gold Armor and resumed the clash.
• Trebol watched the battle while a stray attack pierced him, and Doflamingo confronted the man with the Spiked Club, who mocked his fighting ability.
• Doflamingo launched a string-and-electricity-powered slash that split the island, but the man survived and regenerated from his wounds.
• Kaido exploited Doflamingo’s hesitation, struck him with his Spiked Club, and left him broken in a crater while the Donquixote Family could not reach him.
• Kaido called Doflamingo no genius like Rossi, provoking Doflamingo to rise and block the club with his foot as black Conqueror’s Haki lightning erupted around him.
• Doflamingo knocked Kaido into the ruined island and declared that Rossi’s strength came from fighting harder than anyone; Kaido rose, recognizing Doflamingo as his equal.