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Chapter 887: Someone Somewhere Is Wishing for Your Happiness

Arc: Whole Cake Island · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released: 2017-11-27

Summary

Off Cacao Island, Bege’s body-fortress is surrounded on sea and land by the Big Mom Pirates under Master Oven, who is ordered to make Bege surrender so the wedding cake Chiffon is hauling can be salvaged. Bege shoots Oven, then springs his fortress’s secret gimmick — its paddle-wheels convert into tank treads, making it an amphibious craft — and tells his “brothers” he never revealed it because he always planned to backstab Big Mom. Sanji hoists the giant cake cart aboard with one leg (to the awe of the harbor and the swooning of Lady Pudding), and the fortress runs Oven over and crashes into the sea, escaping toward the southeast. Oven retaliates by boiling the seawater with his heat powers, threatening to cook the crew, melt the cake’s cream, and ruin the chocolate. As Bege’s son Pez laughs uncontrollably, a large caretaker woman — shown in a 26-years-ago flashback cradling the infant Chiffon and her twin while Linlin gave the babies up — strikes Oven down, cools the water, and tearfully congratulates Chiffon on her wedding before the Nostra Castello breaks free. The chapter cuts to the Thousand Sunny, still fleeing the rampaging Big Mom across her own territory (“Give me that cake!! I found youuu!!!”), with the crew racing to decorate Sanji’s replacement cake in time.

New reveals

• The Nostra Castello is amphibious. Bege’s castle-form ship transforms its paddle-wheels into tank treads (“the ship’s paddles turned into tank treads!!!”, p. 5), letting it drive across land and ram through the chocolate harbor. Bege kept the gimmick secret: “Why would I reveal my secrets to the people I’m planning to backstab?!! Yeah, because I never told you!!” (p. 6).
• Charlotte Oven leads the Cacao Island blockade and has heat powers: he superheats a wide area of seawater so the fish “are literally floating,” boiled (pp. 11-13). VIZ caption: “heat-heat powers at work!! This is Oven’s… There’s only one man who can do this!!” — the first on-page use of the Heat-Heat Fruit (Netsu Netsu no Mi).
• Sanji’s leg strength: he lifts the enormous wedding-cake cart onto the moving fortress with a single leg — “Who is that?! He’s lifting it with one leg… A cook?!” (pp. 7-8).
• Pudding’s infatuation with Sanji is in full bloom: “Sanji, dear ♡” / “Lady Pudding ♡ BLURT” (p. 7) — she is otherwise unconscious/wounded (“Wake up, Lady Pudding!!”, p. 8).
• The caretaker flashback (26 years ago): a large woman cradled the infant Chiffon (and her twin), begging Linlin — “I just want to hold them, like, once!!” — while Big Mom gave the babies away (“The kids are born, I’m done with you now… make sure your mommy and daddy love you very much”, p. 14). In the present she fells Oven, cools the sea, and farewells Chiffon: “Let me just say one thing at the end… Congrats… on your wedding!!” (pp. 13-16).
• Two parallel escapes: Bege’s fortress breaks off Cacao Island (“We made it off Cacao Island!!!”, p. 10) toward the southeastern sea; the Thousand Sunny is still being personally chased by Big Mom across Big Mom’s territory (pp. 16-17).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

(No earlier seed closes on-page this chapter; Bege’s anti-Big-Mom agenda — long held as a “pending seed” on Capone Bege — is now acted on openly mid-escape, though the full wedding-coup outcome was depicted in the preceding chapters of this arc.)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters (shown): Capone Bege, Sanji, Charlotte Oven (run over), Charlotte Chiffon, Charlotte Pudding (unconscious, swooning), Capone Pez, Big Mom (26-yr-ago flashback + present-day pursuit of the Sunny), Nami, Tony Tony Chopper, Brook, Carrot (Mink) (on the Sunny, p. 17)
• Characters (shown, unnamed): a large caretaker woman [unknown name] who raised the infant Chiffon 26 years ago — fells Oven and congratulates Chiffon on her wedding (pp. 13-16). Mistaken by the Big Mom Pirates for a man (“Who is that man? Master Oven’s sworn enemy?!”). No name given on-page — not minted as a note.
• Groups / fruits: Firetank Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, Straw Hat Pirates, Netsu Netsu no Mi (Oven, shown), Shiro Shiro no Mi (the Nostra Castello)
• Locations: Cacao Island, Totto Land
• Cover-story B-plot: “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol.
• SBS Vol 88 (p. 18): Doflamingo (“the Young Master”) confirmed held in Impel Down Level 6; Tsuru is not bringing him a newspaper; Q&A on Charlotte Katakuri’s “perfect-character” face (Ch 883), Lao G, and Luffy’s perception of beautiful women (Alvida/Nami/Robin/Hancock).

Notable panels

• p. 1 — Title page; cover-story art below: “The Saga of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Fleet, Vol.
• p. 5 — The Nostra Castello’s paddle-wheels grind into tank treads (“DRRRUM”); the fortress rises onto land.
• p. 7 — “BWOOH” — Sanji single-leg-lifts the colossal cake cart toward the deck; Pudding swoons.
• pp. 11-13 — Oven boils the sea; fish float cooked; “heat-heat powers at work.”
• pp. 14-16 — The 26-years-ago caretaker flashback intercut with the present rescue and the “Congrats on your wedding” farewell.
• p. 17 — Big Mom surges through the water after the Sunny: “Give me that cake!! I found youuu!!!”
• p. 18 — SBS Question Corner (Vol 88).

Open questions raised

• Who is the large caretaker who raised the infant Chiffon, and what is her relationship to Chiffon, Lola, and Big Mom’s household? (Unnamed this chapter.)
• Can Bege’s fortress and the Thousand Sunny both keep ahead of Oven’s fleet and the rampaging Big Mom long enough to deliver the replacement cake?
• Will the boiled/melted cake still satisfy Big Mom’s craving when it’s finally decorated?