Summary:
Sanji has flashbacks of his escape from the Germ Kingdom, meeting Zeff, and later joining the Straw Hats as his family heads to Whole Cake Castle. Luffy and Nami ride Kingbaum out of the Seducing Woods and contact Chopper and Carrot, who reveal where Sanji is headed as they are being chased by Brûlée. They manage to hide again, but Brûlée brings Randolph, his crane, and Noble Croc to the world to help her catch the duo, and Chopper gets an idea to gain control of Brûlée’s power. Back in the real world, Luffy and Nami reach Sanji and Luffy is reunited with his crewmate. However, Sanji kicks Luffy out of the carriage, claiming to have accepted his royal heritage and renounced Luffy.
On Baratie two years ago, Sanji gave food to a starving Gin. Luffy watched this matter and asked Sanji to join his crew as a cook. Later, during the battle against Don Krieg, Sanji watched in awe as Luffy fought fearlessly, risking injury and finding creative ways to take down his opponent. Back in the present, Luffy and Nami drive Kingbaum out of the Seducing Woods, and Nami talks to Chopper and Carrot through the mirror shard. They report that Sanji is heading to the Whole Cake Castle and make sure they’re okay, though the communication breaks down intermittently before a shard of the mirror suddenly shatters. In the Mirror World, Brûlée has once again lost track of Chopper and Carrot, but gets an idea and drags Randolph, his crane, and Noble Croc into the Mirror World to help her hunt down the duo. Although Chopper and Carrot are scared, Chopper gets the idea to use Brûlée’s powers to his own advantage.
A few days ago at Zou, Sanji first received a summons from Capone Bege to go to Whole Cake Island and marry Charlotte Pudding, much to the shock of his classmates, but he was prepared to face the consequences for them. As he fought Cracker, Luffy confidently claimed that he would get Sanji back and after a tough fight, he finally managed to take down the Sweet Commander. In the present, Nami is shocked to witness the sleeping Luffy returning to his normal size. Kingbaum then points out that Sanji’s family is on their way right in front of them, which wakes Luffy up. Luffy sees Sanji and excitedly heads towards the carriage where he grabs the door and stands right in front of Sanji. The Germa 66 soldiers circle around to attack, but as Luffy talks to Sanji, the chef suddenly kicks him away. Sanji tells Luffy that he has accepted his royal heritage and surname, so Luffy should start, and calls Luffy and the other Straw Hats low class pirates. Luffy refuses to believe Sanji and Yonji offers his help in getting rid of Luffy, but Sanji states that he will do it himself.
As a child, Sanji was severely abused by his brothers and imprisoned by his father to be hidden from society. Given a chance at freedom, Judge allowed him to go, but on the condition that he never refer to him as his father. With Reiju’s help, Sanji escaped to Orbit with tears in his eyes. When the cooks returned to the ship, they met Sanji, who begged them to take him in because he dreamed of being a cook. On Orbit and later on Baratie, Sanji told people about the All Blue he had read about in the Teutonic Kingdom, and this led him to fight Zeff when his crew attacked Orbit. When Sanji was thrown overboard in a storm, Zeff dived in to save him and cut off his leg when it was caught in an anchor, and when they were both stranded on an island, Zeff gave Sanji all his food rations, pretending that the sack of treasure was his food . Sanji truly realized that Zeff was a true father to him when Zeff forbade him from kicking a woman, saying that it would bring shame on him while raising Sanji.