Chapter Summaries

Rossi infiltrated the Jedi Family manor to find Trebol, Pica, and Diamante, but a beast tamer and his hounds forced him into a desperate fight. Doffy, Vergo, and Bolkin attacked the manor with explosives and entered to find Rossi as Rossi charged the beast tamer.

• Rossi climbed into the manor, questioned its men, and learned that Trebol, Pica, and Diamante were being held in the backyard basement.
• A strange voice alerted Rossi that an uninvited guest had arrived, while Doffy, Vergo, and Bolkin launched their assault on the manor.
• Doffy blasted the guards with iron canisters as Vergo attacked the panicked thugs, and Bolkin followed them into the burning main house.
• Rossi fought off one hound but fled from three others, escaped through a window, and was surrounded in the backyard by the hooded beast tamer and his pack.
• Rossi taunted the beast tamer and charged him, but the hounds stayed still when their master ordered them to finish Rossi.

Rossi and Doflamingo defeated the beast tamer and his hounds, then found and freed Trebol, Diamante, and Pica from the basement. As they escaped, they faced the suffering captives left hanging there, and Doflamingo began granting their pleas for death.

• Rossi wounded the beast tamer and used his bleeding hand to turn the hounds against him.
• Doflamingo and Vergo joined Rossi in the courtyard, and the three of them killed the remaining hounds.
• Rossi led Doflamingo and Vergo into the basement, where they found rows of tortured captives.
• Rossi, Doflamingo, and Vergo freed Trebol, Diamante, and Pica, and Rossi prepared to lead them out.
• Doflamingo asked the dying captives if they wanted release, then began shooting those who begged him to end their suffering.

Rossi and the wounded Four Suits officers escaped the Jedi Family’s siege, while Doflamingo revealed his powerful Conqueror’s Haki. After the group recovered the Devil Fruit at sea, the officers knelt and offered to follow Doflamingo, but Rossi intervened before Trebol could finish his oath.

• Rossi led Diamante, Trebol, and Pica through the manor as Doffy created a diversion and knocked out the men guarding their escape route with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Qiao reported to Thompson and the Jedi Family members that the targets had escaped through the sewers, while Paul argued against pursuing them into a likely ambush.
• Vergo surfaced beside the Pinta carrying the iron chest, and Torpol opened it to reveal a spiral-patterned Devil Fruit.
• Torpol, Diamante, Pica, and Vergo knelt before Doflamingo, and Diamante identified his power as Conqueror’s Haki.
• Trebol began asking to follow Doflamingo, but Rossi stepped between them and stopped him.

Rossi stopped Trebol and the others from kneeling to Doflamingo, then identified the String-String Fruit and urged them to sell it rather than have Doflamingo eat it. After weighing flight against taking the Jiedi Family’s place in Spandamruze’s Underworld, Doflamingo committed to destroying the family, and the group began planning against it.

• Rossi told Trebol, Diamante, Vergo, and the others that real family did not kneel, and said they should prove their bond through their actions.
• Rossi identified the Devil Fruit as the String-String Fruit and argued that Doflamingo should not eat it because it had limited potential and could be sold for a good price.
• Rossi proposed either disappearing at sea or eliminating the Jiedi Family and taking its place in Spandamruze’s Underworld.
• Doflamingo declared that the Jiedi Family had to disappear, and Trebol and Diamante agreed to fight alongside him.
• Trebol described the Jiedi Family’s territory, businesses, members, and hired fighters as the group ate and prepared to learn what they faced.

Rossi and Doflamingo’s group discussed the brutal rule of the Jedi Family and agreed that ending its trafficking and slave businesses mattered as much as defeating it. Rossi and Vergo went to scout the family’s warehouse district, while Wesker arrived at Rose Manor with a Germa 66 guard who warned that their contract did not cover personal conflicts.

• Trebol described how the Jedi Family exploited workers and trafficked women and youths in Spandamruze.
• Diamante toasted Doflamingo’s leadership, but Rossi insisted that trafficking, slavery, and the related business must end; Doflamingo said he did not care whether ordinary people lived or died.
• Rossi decided to scout the Jedi Family’s territory with Vergo while Doflamingo stayed aboard the Pinta to keep Trebol, Diamante, and Pica in line.
• Rossi and Vergo watched a lone guard in the eastern warehouse district, and Rossi told Vergo to remember the man’s face as their first target.
• Wesker entered Rose Manor and complained about the people who had angered him, while guard 8674 warned that Germa 66 would not cover conflicts caused by his personal conduct.

Rossi convinced Wesker to join him and Vergo in a plan to destroy the Jiedi Family, using a share of its wealth and the threat to Wesker’s wife to secure his cooperation. The chapter left Rossi and Vergo watching the Gilded Rose, where their target was expected to eat lunch.

• Wesker renewed his security agreement with Codename 8674 after escaping the Jiedi Family’s attack.
• Rossi visited Wesker and proposed that they join forces against the Jiedi Family, offering him thirty percent of its wealth.
• Rossi warned Wesker that the Jiedi Family would eventually kill him and that his wife could be endangered if Rossi and Vergo were harmed.
• Wesker agreed to stake his fortune on the alliance with Rossi and Vergo.
• Rossi and Vergo watched the Gilded Rose from a villa attic, waiting for their target to arrive for lunch.

Rossi and Vergo ambushed Qiao, a powerful Jedi Family officer, but struggled against his strength and rapid attacks. Thompson sent the Family’s elite forces to help Qiao as the fight continued in the alley.

• Rossi and Vergo identified Qiao at a restaurant and watched him leave after lunch.
• Paul told Thompson that Doflamingo and Rossi had taken the Four Suits’ remaining Devil Fruit, and Thompson ordered his subordinates to stand by.
• Rossi and Vergo ambushed Qiao on the road to the waste disposal district, but Qiao battered them with his metal bat.
• Thompson learned that Qiao had encountered trouble and sent the Jedi Family’s elite forces to assist him.
• Qiao drove Rossi and Vergo backward with relentless strikes from his metal weapon.

Rossi and Vergo turned the fight against Qiao around with Rossi’s sound-based weapon, killed him, and escaped through a manhole. A Germa 66 observer decided to report the weapon, while Thompson learned of Qiao’s death and ordered the alley burned clean.

• Qiao overpowered Rossi and Vergo in the alley, but Rossi revealed that his Calm-Calm Fruit let him erase sound and prepared a hidden weapon.
• Rossi detonated a sound-wave device that ruptured Qiao’s eardrums and left him unable to fight.
• Rossi stabbed Qiao through the chest, then escaped with Vergo through an open manhole.
• A Germa 66 Security Company employee watched the fight and decided to report Rossi’s weapon to the supreme commander.
• Thompson arrived, learned from Paul that intense sound had killed Qiao, ordered the area burned clean, and went to the Gilded Rose Restaurant with Paul and Vincenso.

Thompson ordered his men to burn everything, while Rossi and Doffy prepared tools and training for the coming fight. A warship caught the Pinta at sea and devastated it with cannon fire, leaving Pica badly wounded and Doflamingo injured, but Rossi launched himself toward the enemy ship with Trebol’s help as the chapter ended.

• Thompson finished eating and ordered his men to burn everything.
• Rossi showed Doffy a sound-producing device and discussed making flashbangs, while Doffy trained with a barrel.
• Rossi ordered the Pinta away from Spandamruze, but a warship pursued and opened fire on them.
• A broadside wrecked the Pinta’s stern and badly wounded Pica; Doflamingo injured his foot, and the ship began sinking.
• Pica explained that protecting the group was his duty, while the warship prepared to fire again at the Pinta’s mast.
• Doffy steered the Pinta into a sharp turn as Trebol swung Rossi toward the warship on a sticky grappling line.

Rossi and Diamante boarded the warship and fought its crew, but Lieutenant Colonel Anderson overwhelmed Rossi with a powerful Navy technique. Badly injured, Rossi faced Anderson and prepared to continue the fight.

• Trebol swung Rossi across the sea and threw him onto the warship, where Rossi used gunfire and stun grenades to overwhelm the sailors.
• Rossi defeated an armed officer and pursued the mustached captain into the cabin, but Anderson emerged and knocked Rossi back.
• Diamante joined Rossi and fought off the sailors while Rossi challenged Anderson with his Feilian Break technique.
• Anderson used a Navy technique to send Rossi crashing into the mainmast and demanded his name and origins.
• Rossi recognized Anderson's technique as one Gion had demonstrated, wiped blood from his mouth, and stood his ground.

Doffy and his allies seized control of the Gear and tricked the pursuing fleet into believing the ship had betrayed them. As the Gear and the Pinta fought back against the Lever, the ships maneuvered into a dangerous three-way battle.

• Doffy forced the mustached captain to order the sailors to surrender, ending the fighting aboard the captured ship.
• Lopez told the pursuers that three people had taken control of the Gear, while the lieutenant colonel warned that the Jedi Family's fleet would keep searching for them.
• The blond-haired boy ordered the Gear to sail before dawn, and Rossi used his ability to alter the mustached captain's message into a declaration of betrayal.
• The Lever fired on the Gear despite the captain's attempt to signal that he was on their side, so the mustached captain ordered his crew to return fire.
• The Pinta joined the fight, and the Gear and Pinta maneuvered around the Lever as it turned toward the Gear.

Rossi challenged Lieutenant Commander Anderson to help free Spandamruze from the Jedi Family, then infiltrated the pursuing warship with Trebol. Rossi attacked its crew with flash-and-sound devices while Trebol restrained the survivors, leaving the battle on the ship in their hands.

• Rossi asked Diamante about becoming the World's Greatest Swordsman, then told him his own dream was to become someone no one could shake.
• Rossi confronted Lieutenant Commander Anderson, accused him of turning a blind eye to the Jedi Family's crimes, and urged him to help defeat them.
• Rossi jumped from the Gear into Trebol's mucus and approached the pursuing warship underwater.
• Rossi climbed onto the warship's gunwale and threw metal cylinders onto the deck, blinding and disorienting the crew with their flashes and sound waves.
• Trebol's mucus spread across the deck and trapped the fallen sailors and the remaining men who resisted.

Rossi recruited Farid and Lopez to join him in stealing Thompson’s incriminating records and escaping Spandamruze, then confronted the danger of challenging the Jedi Family. The chapter ended with Rossi calmly answering that the harbor’s tides carried away old victims and swallowed new ones.

• Rossi greeted Captain Farid, whose body was bound in mucus, and proposed joining forces against the Jedi Family.
• Thompson told Farid and Lopez by Den Den Mushi that he had captured the man he wanted, while the captains disputed what they had agreed to do.
• Rossi explained that Thompson had made the captains liabilities and revealed that his safe contained forged documents implicating them in a planned attack.
• Rossi, Farid, and Lopez agreed to steal the records, divide the valuables, and escape through the old harbor after the guards changed shifts.
• Rossi instructed the captains to tell Thompson that the Pinta needed towing and to ask him to send a Port Authority ship for the handover.
• The captain of the Lever warned Rossi that the Jedi Family had ruled Spandamruze for sixteen years, and Rossi replied that the tide washed away old bones as new ones sank.

Rossi persuaded the captains to join a plan to seize power from the Jedi Family, then led his allies toward a confrontation with Thompson. As the Money’s guests awaited the returning ships, Wesker and Codename 8674 watched the warships escort a battered vessel into port.

• Rossi convinced the two captains that defeating the Jedi Family could win them control of the port and public acclaim.
• Rossi proposed that Pica and Diamante hide aboard the Gear and the Lever, then ambush the Jedi Family while the others attacked Thompson.
• Rossi pointed to a newspaper report about the Roger Pirates gaining a new recruit, urging his companions not to delay their rise to power.
• Three figures agreed to keep their plan and left the breakwater as Thompson’s lavish ship, the Money, remained lit offshore.
• Wesker and Codename 8674 watched as the Gear and the Lever returned with the damaged Bearing in tow, prompting guests aboard the Money to turn toward the harbor.

Rossi, Doffy, and Trebol were brought aboard the Money as prisoners, but Rossi attacked the Jedi Family while the Gear opened fire on the ship. Rossi killed Thompson, though the remaining Family members still threatened the exhausted attackers.

• Ferid brought Rossi, Doffy, and Trebol aboard the Money in shackles, where the Family's guests and leaders mocked them and ordered them to crawl.
• Rossi struck down a thug who tried to force him to kneel, then charged toward Thompson as the Gear began firing on the Money.
• The cannon attack and the fleeing guests disrupted the Family's defenders, while Trebol blocked bullets and Doffy knocked many people unconscious with Conqueror's Haki.
• Rossi fought through Thompson's guards, used bodies as shields, and stabbed Thompson through the throat.
• Wesker recognized that money could not withstand violence, while Rossi was left nearly spent and the remaining Jedi Family members still posed a threat.

Rossi and Doffy’s group fought Thompson, a Logia user who trapped them in swamp mud, but Rossi used Trebol’s mucus to ignite the mire and force Thompson to flee. Rossi survived emergency surgery and woke in the hospital, with Doffy at his bedside.

• Thompson revealed his Swamp-Swamp Fruit power, wounded Rossi and Doffy, and trapped Rossi, Doffy, Trebol, Diamante, Pica, and Vergo in mud.
• Rossi urged Trebol to spread his mucus, and Doffy threw an explosive at Thompson, but Thompson re-formed after the blast.
• Rossi had Trebol ignite the mucus, using the resulting flames to threaten Thompson’s mud body and free the group as Thompson fled.
• Doctors said Rossi’s severe burns, internal injuries, and embedded metal fragment made surgery dangerous, but a young voice ordered them to proceed.
• Rossi woke in the hospital with Doffy beside him, and the doctor reported that his vital signs were stabilizing.

Rossi woke in the hospital and learned that Doflamingo had saved his life with the String-String Fruit, then offered ideas for developing its powers. As the Donquixote Family moved to claim the power vacuum left by the Jedi Family, Doflamingo and his allies confronted dockside rivals plotting to take over Spandamruze.

• Rossi woke after seventy-two hours and learned that Thompson had died at sea, Vincenso had been arrested, and the Jedi Family had collapsed.
• Trebol told Rossi that Doflamingo had used the String-String Fruit to repair his internal injuries and pull him back from death.
• Rossi reassured Doflamingo and offered ideas for developing the String-String Fruit, drawing on his knowledge of its future uses.
• Battle Tank and his men planned to seize territory from the weakened Donquixote Family, but a gunman sent by Donquixote stormed their warehouse and opened fire.
• Outside the warehouse, Doflamingo waited in a wheelchair with Trebol and another boy, confident that his threads would dismantle the men inside.

Doflamingo tested his newly awakened string ability by defeating a group of warehouse thugs, while Rossi arranged the takeover of the Jedi Family’s businesses. The chapter left the brothers consolidating their new holdings as Doflamingo trained and Rossi managed the accounts.

• Doflamingo used his uncanny dodging and accurate gunfire to fight through the thugs in the warehouse, then trapped Battle Tank in strings and suffocated him.
• Doflamingo described how his strings extended his senses, helped him move, and could protect him from cuts, while Rossi said he would make his own silence ability dangerous.
• Rossi met with former Jedi Family managers at Rose Manor and kept them in their posts to ensure the factories and businesses continued operating smoothly.
• Rossi reviewed the holdings, estimating their annual income at about two hundred million Beli, and noted that Doflamingo’s punishment of thieves had helped recover missing accounts and property deeds.
• Doflamingo continued practicing with his strings as Vergo and Pica sparred, while Rossi remained responsible for managing the businesses.

Rossi planned to expand the Jedi Family’s trade by sending its ships out to sea, while recovering from his injuries and weighing the dangers of remaining in port. A visit from a Germa 66 representative ended with Rossi offering to transfer the Sonic Bomb’s production process, and the old man’s reaction remained unclear.

• Rossi asked Trebol to manage the Family’s figures and contracts as he planned to take the Pinta and Money into trade.
• Rossi argued that the Family needed to venture beyond its newly secured town, pointing to rising figures such as Monkey D. Dragon and Captain Moria.
• Rossi delayed setting sail while the Pinta and Money were repaired and he recovered from his injuries.
• Wesker arrived with a representative of the Germa Security Company and introduced the surname Vinsmoke and Germa 66.
• The old man demanded to know whether Rossi possessed the device that could instantly incapacitate people, and Rossi offered to transfer the Sonic Bomb’s production process.

Rossi negotiated Germa 66’s medical treatment in exchange for his new sound-based weapon and secured a supply of medical equipment. After returning with his injuries healed, he joined Doffy and their companions in formally swearing an oath to establish the Family.

• Pica moved to confront the old researcher, but Wesker stopped him as Doflamingo, Diamante, and Trebol rushed to protect Rossi.
• Rossi accepted Germa 66’s offer to heal his injuries in exchange for the new weapon and went to their disguised base for treatment.
• At the base, the researcher identified himself as 404 and tested the sound weapon on prisoners, confirming it could incapacitate ordinary soldiers and some fighters.
• Rossi returned with medical supplies and explained that the equipment could help treat their injuries, while Doffy planned to test it with his thread ability.
• Trebol raised the question of formally establishing the Family, and Rossi reassured him that they had already been walking that path together.
• Rossi, Doffy, Trebol, Diamante, Vergo, and Pica clinked their glasses and swore an oath as a Family.