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Chapter 880: Zero Escape

Arc: Whole Cake Island · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released: 2017-09-04 (est.)

Summary

In Chocolat Town on Cacao Island (p. 2), a panicked populace greets the arriving Charlotte Pudding and Chiffon; Pudding announces that Whole Cake Island has sent its 31 head chefs (the “WCI 31”) to bake a fresh wedding cake to soothe Big Mom’s country-leveling craving-illness rampage — triggered when the wedding was “ruined by the assault from Straw Hat Luffy and Bege’s betrayal” (p. 3–4). Inside the Sweets Factory, Pudding reveals she has used her Memo Memo no Mi to erase the cooks’ memories of the wedding incident: they now believe the wedding happened and that she and Sanji are married (p. 7) — letting her smuggle Sanji in as the secret head chef (p. 5). By scent alone, Sanji reproduces Chef Streusen’s week-long secret recipe (p. 6–7); the team (Sanji directing, Pudding tempering chocolate, Chiffon baking the chiffon cake, Streusen performing the “secret step”) sets a brutal timetable to finish the “ultimate cake” before the Sunny is reached (p. 8–9). Meanwhile in the Mirro-World, a recovering Katakuri, Brulee, and a burned-but-alive Perospero (gloating over Pedro’s death) direct soldiers through mirrors to burn the Thousand Sunny as Big Mom chases it (p. 10–11). Luffy bursts from a mirror, tramples through Charlotte siblings Joscarpone and Mascarpone, seizes a mirror and reaches Nami (p. 12–13). On the fleeing Sunny, Nami fights off Big Mom’s forces pouring through the ship’s mirrors with flaming arrows and cannon fire, smashing every mirror she can (p. 14–16); the chapter ends as Big Mom conjures a tidal wave threatening to swamp the Sunny (p. 17).

New reveals

• Pudding’s memory-wipe of the chefs: she used the Memo Memo no Mi to remove “the big incident from all the cooks’ memories” — they think the wedding happened and that she and Sanji are “m-married”; their memories of the first cake remain fresh, so the recipe can be rebuilt (p. 7).
• Sanji as the hidden head chef: smuggled in past the chefs (“now they won’t spot Sanji dear inside,” p. 5), he identifies ingredients by scent and reproduces Streusen’s secret recipe so faithfully a chef gasps “It’s even got the secret ingredient Chef Streusen spent a week coming up with!!” (p. 6–7).
• The WCI 31 — Whole Cake Island’s 31 head chefs — were dispatched to the Sweets Factory; baking the cake is “of utmost importance to the survival of this nation” (p. 4).
• Perospero survived Pedro’s self-detonation, badly burned; he gloats “So long, Pedro!! Did you hear that, Straw Hat?!” (p. 10), while Katakuri — holding up the burned Perospero — concedes Pedro’s “brave stand has saved his crew” (p. 11).
• Katakuri is being roused/repaired in the Mirro-World and, with Brulee, coordinates mirror-soldier raids to torch the Sunny (p. 10–11).
• New Charlotte siblings: Joscarpone (28th daughter) and Mascarpone (34th son), guarding mirrors when Luffy bursts through (p. 12).
• Big Mom chases the Sunny at sea and raises a tidal wave to sink it (p. 14, 17).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters: Luffy, Sanji, Nami, Charlotte Pudding, Charlotte Chiffon, Charlotte Brulee, Charlotte Katakuri, Charlotte Perospero, Charlotte Joscarpone (first appearance), Charlotte Mascarpone (first appearance), Streusen, Bouche (first appearance), Big Mom, Pedro (referenced — deceased), Jinbei (Nami calls for him), Lola (referenced — “Lola’s saviors”); cover story: Sai, Baby 5.
• Locations: Cacao Island, Chocolat Town (the Sweets Factory), Mirro-World, Totto Land.
• Groups / crews: Big Mom Pirates (the WCI 31 head chefs), Straw Hat Pirates, Straw Hat Grand Fleet (cover), Charlotte, Vinsmoke (referenced).
• Fruits: Memo Memo no Mi (Pudding), Mira Mira no Mi (Brulee’s Mirro-World), Soru Soru no Mi (Big Mom, referenced).
• Ship: Thousand Sunny.

Notable panels

• p. 1 — Title splash. Cover story: “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol. 14 — Sai: ‘I was going to do him the honor of being my 26th husband!!’” The “二宝 / Husband Club” panel; Sai (silhouette) and Baby 5 (Straw Hat Grand Fleet / Happo Navy cover arc).
• p. 4 — “WCI 31” splash: the 31 head chefs of Whole Cake Island arrive at the Sweets Factory, Chocolat Town.
• p. 6 — Pudding in a chef’s apron; Sanji IDs ingredients by scent.
• p. 10 — “THE MIRRO-WORLD” caption: Katakuri (scarf over lower face, being roused), Brulee, and a burned Perospero.
• p. 12 — Intro captions for Joscarpone (28th daughter) and Mascarpone (34th son); Luffy bursts from a mirror.
• p. 17 — Tidal-wave cliffhanger splash: Big Mom’s wave bears down on the Sunny.
• p. 18 — SBS Question Corner (Vol 87 SBS): Katakuri-drawn “future-sight” gag (“I know what you were about to say, Eiichiro Oda”); the mink greeting “garchu” derives from Nepali timilaimayagarchu (“I love you”); Carrot & Wanda’s fur; food-bingeing / hypoglycemia.

Open questions raised

• Will the substitute cake reach the Sunny and calm Big Mom in time — and what is Streusen’s “secret step”?
• Can the Sunny survive Big Mom’s tidal wave and the ongoing mirror raids?
• How does Luffy get back to the ship, and will the agreed Luffy–Katakuri one-on-one finally happen?