This is what the main series earned but couldn't afford to show you. Three moments that rewrite why these men chose their paths, starting with Nero and Vanno as something other than corpses waiting to happen. The second story, Ganzo meeting Vincente, is the actual origin of the Vanetti family, told quietly in a bar with drinks getting colder. You watch a crime dynasty form from a single favor asked by the wrong person at the right time. The framing story finds Nero and Avilio alive and moving forward, which this OVA earns by spending its entire runtime on the weight of what came before it.

Three short stories set around Lawless make up this single OVA episode. In the first, a young Nero and Vanno talk Nero's younger brother Frate into skipping Sunday mass to sneak off to the circus in town, knowing trouble will follow. In the second, Ganzo meets Vincent Vanetti, a newly arrived Italian immigrant looking for work, at a bar in Lawless. Struck by Vincent's ambition to one day lead his own family, Ganzo arranges for him to meet members of the Morenos, a meeting that will shape the city's mafia families. In the last, Nero and Avilio head back to Lawless after defeating Mad Mack. Nero falls ill with a fever and drifts into vivid dreams of the past, while Avilio tries to nurse him back to health with a special remedy.