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Chapter 870: Parting
Predictions this chapter touches — filed in writing, chapter-cited, scored on the board.
This chapter's foreshadowing ledger — what it plants, what it pays off, and what debuts here. Locked seeds pay off beyond your ⚓ progress; tap one to reveal it anyway.
- Plants
- 2 seeds🌱 dialogue-from-dead-character🌱 chekhov-explicit
- Pays off
- 1 chainJudge Disowns Sanji As His Secret Shame
- Firsts
- Bege's Big Father fortress shrugs off cannon fire but can't defend against Armament Haki, and he can't turn to gas while transformed
- Bege's escape plan: revert to human with everyone still inside his body-chamber, then Caesar airlifts him to safety
- Sanji renounces the Vinsmoke name — 'Vinsmoke Sanji died at sea; I ran away from Germa 13 years ago'
- Judge admits Sanji's paternity is his 'secret shame' and vows never to approach Sanji or the East Blue again
- The Straw Hats have the Road-Poneglyph copies they came for; the rendezvous is Wano
Arc: Whole Cake Island · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released: 2017-07-18
Summary
As Big Mom rampages against Capone Bege’s “Big Father” fortress — rejecting Chiffon (“I told you not to show that face around here,” because Chiffon looks just like the runaway Lola) and naming her targets (the Firetank Pirates, the Straw Hats, Jinbei, and Germa 66) — the alliance shelters inside Bege’s body-chamber. Bege, taking cannon-fire to protect everyone, devises a suicidal escape: he’ll revert to human with the whole group still inside him, and Caesar Clown will airlift him out. Sanji, asked by Judge why he saved the Vinsmokes, says it’s so the father who raised him won’t be ashamed of him; he declares “Vinsmoke Sanji died at sea” and throws Judge’s own disowning words back in his face (“You are not [my son]… don’t ever show your face around me again!!!”) — the parting. Judge vows never to approach Sanji or the East Blue again and pledges Germa to guard the escape. Caesar reverts Bege and flies the group out under heavy fire; Germa (Niji, Reiju) covers them. Rather than flee quietly, Luffy and Sanji leap out together to strike Big Mom (Gum-Gum Gun / Diable Jambe), to the crew’s exasperation.
New reveals
- Bege’s Big Father fortress takes cannon blasts “without a scratch,” but he can’t gas-shift to defend against Armament Haki — escaping it intact is a “zero percent chance of success” by ordinary means.
- Bege’s escape plan: he reverts from Big Father to human with the whole alliance still inside his body-chamber (a space unaffected by external blows), then Caesar Clown picks him up and flies them all out.
- Sanji formally renounces his lineage: “And Vinsmoke Sanji died at sea. I ran away from Germa 13 years ago.” He saved the Vinsmokes only so the father who raised him (Zeff) wouldn’t be ashamed to see him stay shackled to childhood hatred.
- Judge admits paternity is his “secret shame” and asks Sanji never to mention it; he then vows he “will never approach you or the East Blue again.”
- The crew already has the Road-Poneglyph copies they needed (Brook); the plan is to escape Totto Land and regroup with the rest of the crew in Wano.
- Big Mom rejects Chiffon on sight because she’s the twin of the daughter (Lola) who fled an arranged marriage.
Foreshadowing seeds planted
Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)
Mentions / appearances
- Appear: Big Mom, Capone Bege, Charlotte Chiffon, Capone Pez (infant, crying), Luffy, Sanji, Brook, Nami, Tony Tony Chopper, Caesar Clown, Vinsmoke Judge, Vinsmoke Reiju, Vinsmoke Ichiji, Vinsmoke Niji, Vinsmoke Yonji, Germa 66, Firetank Pirates, Big Mom Pirates
- Flashback (p.9): young Sanji imprisoned; Vinsmoke Judge
- Mentioned, not shown: Jinbei (named as a target), Lola (Chiffon’s twin), Zeff (Sanji’s “father” who raised him), Zoro (“Zolo and the rest of the crew”), Wano Country (rendezvous), East Blue, Road Poneglyph
Notable panels
- Page 1 — Title page + cover-story serial: “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet Vol. 7, Bartolomeo: ‘I find and crush the baddest guy in port’.” B&W splash of Bartolomeo astride a felled giant figure amid a burning, castle-spired town.
- Page 2 — Big Mom rejects Chiffon: “You still look just like Lola!” / “I told you not… to show that face around here!!!”
- Page 7 — Bege explains the body-chamber escape: “I’ll return to being human with you all still inside! Then Caesar will pick me up and fly me to safety!!!”
- Page 9-10 — Cage flashback + the parting: “Vinsmoke Sanji died at sea. I ran away from Germa 13 years ago.” → “You are not… don’t ever show your face around me again!!!”
- Page 13 — Bege reverts (NYORI) and Caesar reluctantly airlifts the group; Big Mom appears (BAAM).
- Page 16-17 — Luffy (Gum-Gum Gun) and Sanji (Diable Jambe: Crosse) leap out together and strike Big Mom despite the crew’s “you said we shouldn’t fight!!”
- Page 18 — Vol-87 SBS “Question Corner” opens (Portgaz D. Ayana’s question about Bege’s son Pez; Smoothie/Chiffon gags).
Open questions raised
- Will Bege’s body-escape plus Caesar’s airlift actually clear Big Mom’s homie barrage, or does the gambit cost the alliance?
- Now that Luffy and Sanji have engaged Big Mom directly, how do they break contact and rejoin the escape?
- With the Road-Poneglyph rubbing in hand and Wano set as the rendezvous, what is the route off Totto Land?