Bad End Musical

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On Puffs Island, at Big Mom's side, the long-awaited wedding cake finally reaches her mouth. Chapter 900, "Bad End Musical," opens with the emperor towering over the confection like a disaster given hunger. She bites into it with "Chomp" and "Munch," while the people around her cry out "Uwaaaaaahhhh" and the sound of panic rings like "Klang Klang." The cake is not treated as a simple dessert; it is the single gamble that might stop a rampage threatening all of Totto Land. Big Mom keeps eating, swallowing huge mouthfuls as everyone watches for the result. Her body, her face, and the whole island seem to pause around that taste, waiting to see whether salvation or another nightmare will come from the cake.

As Big Mom swallows with a heavy "Gulp!!", the story returns to the kitchen where Sanji stood before the impossible job. Someone protests, "That method will take the whole night, won't it!?" but Sanji refuses to accept the limit: "We don't have that sort of time. We'll bake it in two hours!!" The reply is disbelief: "Are you joking!?" Sanji answers calmly, "It'll be fine...!!" and the others can only recognize, "He's... a true cook!" Pudding snaps at him, "Why are you grinning to yourself? Be more serious about this, Black Leg!! Your ship and the lives of your crew, along with the lives of those in this country, are on the line right now, you know!?" Sanji admits, "Oops... I was just... Thinking about Big Mom calling this cake 'delicious' with a delighted face. How lovely..." The others are stunned that, even under threat of death, he is imagining the eater's joy.

Big Mom suddenly crashes down from her frenzy, the sound of her fall shaking the scene as "FALL!!" and a heartbeat-like "Ba-dump!!" follows. Those watching panic at the change: "Mama!!?" and "Is it the poison!!?" But the cake shines before her, and tears gather in her eyes rather than rage. She drools, overwhelmed, and the truth of Sanji's cooking appears in her expression. Big Mom does not collapse from poison; she melts into delight, declaring, "It's so good, that I could die right now..." and "So delicious and sweet" with hearts. The witnesses are left unable to understand what they are seeing, because the woman who had been destroying everything is now weeping with joy over taste.

Big Mom rises into an ecstatic shout: "This... is it!!!" and then screams for what she has wanted all along, "The wedding caaaaaakkkeeeeeeeee!!!" Around her, the Charlotte Family realizes the rampage has stopped. "Is Mama regaining her senses?" someone asks, while another cries, "Look!! She stopped rampaging!!" and another confirms, "It worked!!" Suspicion still remains: "What about the poison...!?" but Perospero concludes, "There's no way they didn't put any in it!! It just didn't work on Mama, as expected!" Big Mom keeps devouring the cake with "Chomp," "Munch," and more delighted bites. The assassination plot has failed completely, but the cake's flavor has still done what weapons could not: it has halted her destruction.

Big Mom eats on, singing through the sweetness: "I know I've tasted it somewhere before!! What is this taste!?" and "This is the best... This sweetness..." Her joy becomes an announcement across the entire country. Perospero broadcasts, "This is an announcement to all of the islands of Totto Land... perorin." Then the message everyone has been praying for arrives: "Mama's tantrum has ended!" The damage will go no further, and voices across Totto Land erupt in relief: "Yeeesss!!" The announcement credits "the efforts of the Charlotte Family's 35th daughter, Pudding..." as the savior of the crisis. The people celebrate because the disaster is over, even though the true cause of that miracle includes the enemies they are hunting.

On Cacao Island's Back Street, citizens break into relief. "Since ours is right next to Cacao Island!" one says, and another admits, "Thank goodness!! I thought she would reach our island next..." From a boat, frightened people cry, "I was so scared...!!" and "It's going to be okay now!!" In town, the gratitude rolls toward Pudding: "Lady Pudding was able to use that traitor Chiffon...!!" and others praise the act "To save Totto Land admirably. And her chocolate." They call out, "That's amazing!!" and "Thank you for this...!!" But Pudding, alone and trembling with the truth, whispers, "No... It wasn't me...!!" The people continue, "I expected no less from Lady Pudding!! Thank you so much, Lady Pudding...!!" while at sea near Cacao Island, the escape is still far from over.

At sea, the battle turns because Jinbe's people have moved beneath the waves. Someone identifies the hidden force: "The Fishmen in the sea are...!!" and the answer comes proudly: "We're the Sun Pirates!!" The enemy ships suddenly stop moving. "Hey, the ships aren't moving!!" one soldier shouts, before the damage is discovered: "There's a hole at the bottom of the ship...!!" The Sun Pirates have opened the route from below, and they tell the Straw Hats, "Use this chance to sail straight ahead...!!" Voices call, "Captain Jinbeeee!!" and "Go!! Jinbe!!" From the Sunny, Sanji and the others see the path cut through the fleet: "Look!! They made a path for us!!" The ship charges forward as they shout, "We're gonna plow right through!!" and "Thank you, everyone!!"

The Straw Hats understand the full scale of the help they have been receiving. Luffy grins, "As expected of Jinbe's crew!!" and Jinbe says, "They ended up helping me to the very end!!" Nami realizes, "I see... They were also the ones who... stopped the enemy trackers from working!! Why didn't I realize that before...!?" But on Cacao Island, the enemy is already adapting. Oven arrives as soldiers report, "Master Oven!! Is it alright over at Cacao Island?" and he answers that "Just now, Brulee brought us some Germa-effective bullets... It's only a matter of time now..." He cannot forgive the outcome, snarling, "...But more importantly... I can't forgive... that little kid who defeated Katakuri...!!!" The Sun Pirates call after the fleeing ship, "Please take care of Jinbe, Straw Hat!!" and Jinbe replies, "Thanks, you guys!"

Oven turns the sea itself into a weapon. He roars, "Hot sea hell!!!" and "Get out of my way... Fishmen!!!" The water boils around the Sun Pirates, forcing screams of "Uwaaaaahhhhh!!" and panic as ships and swimmers are caught in the heat. Someone cries, "It's too hot. I can't stay close!!" and another recognizes the threat: "It's Oven!!" The escape route the Fishmen carved begins to collapse under heat, while the Charlotte fleet regains its confidence. "Mont d'Or!!" someone calls, and the answer comes with timing that favors Big Mom's forces: "The Queen Mama Chanter is almost there." The massive flagship appears, and a voice confirms, "Alright!! It made it in time!!" The victory path narrows just as the Straw Hats seemed ready to break through.

Big Mom falls completely into the taste, chewing through the cake with musical sounds: "Mmmmmmmm," "Gulp," "Chomp," and "Fluffy!" The cake's texture becomes a performance around her, and the onlookers echo the wonder: "Dreamy... Taste?" "Is this?" "What--" Big Mom's own words grow stranger and more joyful as she searches for language that can contain the flavor. "It's a taste that could even make a dead puppy break into a dance," she sings. Then she asks again and again, "What what is this? What is this taste?" before deciding, "No, this is beyond my wildest dreams. I can't even find the words to describe it." While the chase rages outside, the emperor is locked inside a private paradise of sweetness.

Big Mom's feast becomes the "Bad End Musical" itself, a song where childish sweetness and battlefield disaster overlap. She sings, "It's..." and the image becomes "A pet cemetery," complete with playful horror and barking "Woof Woof" sounds. The taste passes through faces across the battlefield as the words continue: "So velvety," "So velvety," "And milky," "And milky," "So sweet," "So sweet." Then comes the darker note: "And risky." The line lands as explosions erupt at sea, with the Sunny and surrounding ships thrown into chaos. The same sweetness that saved Totto Land from Big Mom's tantrum now accompanies a violent counterattack against the people who made escape possible.

The song keeps layering celebration over destruction. Big Mom sings, "Look, that's right. This kind of a ruckus..." and compares the sensation to catastrophe dressed as entertainment: "Is like when a bomb is thrown... into a amusement park." In her stomach, the flavor becomes spectacle: "In my stomach..." and then "A big... Ceremony..." Outside the fantasy, the sea is still chaos. The Straw Hats and allies are tossed by force, smoke, water, and impact; the musical imagery does not soften what is happening but makes it more unsettling. Big Mom's joy creates a bright, carnival-like language while the panels show the escape breaking apart under the Charlotte Family's pressure.

Big Mom turns her delight toward the memory of Mother. She sings, "Hey... Mother... Can you feel it?" and then names the sensation: "This overflowing... Blissful sweetness." Around the battlefield, faces tighten in fear and pain, but her mind drifts back to the birthday table of Linlin's childhood. "That's right," she sings, "Of the happiness from back then. It's the taste..." The memory forms around a croquembouche-like tower marked "Happy Birthday Linlin," with voices calling "Happy birthday..." and "Linlin!!!!" The page makes the cake's success more disturbing: it has not defeated Big Mom; it has restored the happiest hunger at the center of her nightmare.

The musical promise of Totto Land unfolds beside the collapse of the Straw Hats' route. Big Mom sings, "Hey, Mother... I can definitely... Do it, right?" and imagines a dream: "Create a peaceful world... Where everyone's happy... A place... Where no race is rejected... Although if you try to leave... I'll kill you." The contradiction is pure Big Mom: a paradise built on forced belonging and lethal control. She keeps singing of "The sweet... The sweet..." and "Let's eat again... Together someday," adding "And milky... And milky... And velvety... And velvety..." The Sunny is struck amid black smoke and debris, while Luffy, Chopper, and the others look forward in shock. The sweetness becomes a prison-song over their apparent defeat.

The chapter ends on the worst possible image for the escape. Big Mom's song names the ruler and the land: "A deal with the devil... In the peaceful Totto Land... Where everyone is family... And ruled by the kind queen... Big Mom." Her dreamscape smiles while the real sea burns with wreckage. She laughs and murmurs, "Haaaaa hahaha... Mamama mmmm... Ummm mmmm... That was delicious... Thank you for the meal." The final spread shows the Sunny apparently broken amid smoke and water, with the narration stamped by dread: "This is truly a nightmare." Big Mom licks her lips in satisfaction, and the chapter closes with "ONE PIECE CH. 900 / END" and the note that the series will be on break next week before resuming in WSJ issue #20.

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