A Rocky Road - Law and Corazon's Journey of Life

Frozen by the discovery that Corazon can speak, Law learns the silent act was always a lie. To shield their words from passersby, Corazon raises a sphere of silence using the Nagi Nagi no Mi, then admits everything he did served one aim: keeping his monstrous brother Doflamingo from spiraling out of control. He recounts the lynching the family once endured, where Homing pleaded for his sons while Doflamingo alone vowed vengeance. Corazon urges the boy to flee before he hardens like Doflamingo, but Law insists that brutality is exactly what he wants.

Corazon explains the dreaded legacy of the D. initial, a name once used to frighten children in Mary Geoise and branded in some lands as the natural enemy of gods. Furious, Law bolts to expose the deception, hurls Corazon into a dumpster, bribes Buffalo into silence, then changes his mind to repay an old debt. Aboard ship, Doflamingo warns that Tsuru's fleet is closing in. Corazon then slips away on a small boat with Law bound at the bow, fields a call from Sengoku, and begins dragging the boy from hospital to hospital. Every clinic recoils at the words Amber Lead and Flevance, and the visits all fail.

Half a year later, a drunken Corazon weeps over a sleeping Law, confessing that the boy's stabbing wound hurt far less than watching him relive Flevance. Law, secretly awake, cries too, and the next morning addresses him as Cora-san for the first time. The present-day frame returns to Dressrosa, where Luffy dodges Bellamy and spots the string clone bearing down. The adaptation pads Law's reactions with fearful expressions absent from the manga and invents the breakfast scene, while a brief animation slip restores Corazon's heart shirt over his jumper.