Pudding Coincidentally Appears!

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At Sweet City on the Juice River, the other squad continues its desperate route toward the Thousand Sunny. The cream-filled river has become both road and hazard. Someone says, "I CAN'T BELIEVE WE MANAGED TO GET THIS THING GOING!" while another warns, "THE RIVER FILLED UP WITH CREAM TOO... THINGS AREN'T LOOKING GOOD." The sweetness is overwhelming: "THIS STUFF'S SO SWEET! I LOVE IT♡" but the practical problem is immediate too: "IT'S SO STICKY. GROSS. AND LOOK, IT'S MAKING OUR RUDDER ALL SLIPPERY." Their craft wobbles through the cream as they shout, "WHOA, WHOA! LOOK OUT!" and "GET OUT OF THE WAY, MR. SEA MONSTER!" Brook gets excited at the sight in the river, "LOOK, IT'S A MERMAID!" then realizes, "OH, WAIT. IT'S A MERMAN." The Sunny appears ahead, and the group presses forward: "LOOK OVER THERE! WE'LL BE THERE SOON! THE SUNNY!"

On the southwestern coast, inside the Seducing Woods, the chase has become a disaster moving through the trees. Big Mom's body barrels forward while her mind is locked on one craving. Luffy asks, "EATING FITS? WHADDAYA MEAN?!" and Jinbe explains the terror behind the phrase: "THEY'RE TANTRUMS! UNTIL SHE GETS HER HANDS ON WHAT SHE WANTS TO EAT, SHE RAGES, WITH NO REGARD FOR WHAT OR WHO IS AROUND HER!" Nami adds the key point: "SHE'S BARELY EVEN AWARE OF WHAT SHE'S DOING." Big Mom keeps staggering through the woods with the same broken demand, "CAAA AKE!" and "DING WED-" The Sunny is waiting offshore, but the forest, the homies, and Big Mom's hunger all stand between the crew and the ship.

Jinbe identifies the exact trigger of the rampage: "LOOKS LIKE HER 'ORDER' THIS TIME AROUND IS A WEDDING CAKE!" He continues, "WHICH MEANS THE FACT THAT SHE DIDN'T GET TO EAT THE CAKE AT THE CEREMONY IS PROBABLY WHAT SET THIS OFF!" The group turns on Luffy for destroying it, "LUFFY! DANG IT, WHY'D YOU HAVE TO DESTROY THE THING!" Luffy fires back, "BUT OUR PLAN WORKED, DIDN'T IT?!" Even in the panic, Chopper remembers the taste: "BUT THAT CAKE WAS REALLY GOOD!" Someone snaps, "YOU ACTUALLY ATE SOME DURING ALL THAT?!" and another admits, "I DID, TOO! IT WAS SO YUMMY♡" The crew keeps running, but Nami does not trust the route. "BUT THAT'S THE THING WITH THIS FOREST! CAN'T TELL IF YOU'RE GOING IN A STRAIGHT LINE OR NOT!" she says, then asks the question that matters most: "ARE WE EVEN GOING THE RIGHT WAY?!"

Nami spots a familiar river and tries to anchor the group by memory: "AH! THIS RIVER... I'VE SEEN IT BEFORE!" But the landmark is wrong. "BUT... I THOUGHT THAT BRIDGE WAS BROKEN!" she says, realizing the forest may be imitating safe paths. The crew understands that the Seducing Woods itself is an enemy. "IF THIS FOREST IS OUR ENEMY, THEN WE CAN'T TRUST ANYTHING INSIDE IT!" Nami says. "THESE GUYS ARE TRYING THEIR BEST TO TRIP US UP. WHICH MEANS THIS PLACE MOST LIKELY ISN'T THE ONE WE REMEMBER." Even Lola's vivre card no longer solves the problem: "AND LOLA'S VIVRE CARD DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE WORKING ON 'EM ANYMORE." The reason is right behind them: "THAT'S CAUSE MAMA HERSELF IS LITERALLY RIGHT BEHIND US!" Nami keeps Zeus busy with bait and orders, "JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON'T STOP FEEDING HIM THAT BAIT!"

Big Mom calls her cloud back with fury: "GET BACK HERE, ZEUS!" The homies echo the threat, "HOW DARE YOU DISOBEY MAMA'S ORDERS!" Luffy turns toward the burning sun homie and loses patience. "OI! YOU SUN GUY! HOW DARE YOU BURN THESE TREES!" he shouts, winding up with "GOMU GOMU NO..." But Nami is fighting the smarter battle above him. She holds out more bait and calls, "ZEUS! LOOK HERE! YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER EGGS!" then explains the temptation clearly: "THEY ARE FILLED WITH JUICY THUNDER-HEADS!" Zeus reacts with delight, "HY-AA!" The page splits the fight into two instincts: Luffy tries to strike Prometheus directly, while Nami turns Zeus's appetite into a weapon before he can return to Big Mom.

Luffy unleashes "JET GATLING!" against Prometheus, hammering the burning homie with a storm of blows. Prometheus bubbles and burns through the impacts, "UBU BUBU BU!" but does not fall. Luffy is shocked: "WHAT THE-?!" The realization lands fast: "EVEN BUSOSHOKU DOES NOT WORK ON HIM?!" Luffy concludes, "HE MUST BE WORSE THAN A LOGIA TYPE!" Prometheus's flame body is not behaving like an ordinary opponent that Haki can simply force into solidity. Meanwhile Zeus is still thinking with his stomach. Big Mom orders, "GET BACK HERE, ZEUS!" but Zeus answers, "I WILL! BUT AFTER I GET THIS LAST YUMMY THUNDER-CLOUD!" That delay is exactly what Nami needs.

Jinbe handles Prometheus with the element Luffy could not provide. He calls out "SPEAR WAVE!" and drives water into the living flame, then commands the others, "GET OVER THAT BRIDGE QUICKLY, EVERYONE!" The attack becomes "PASSING SHOWER!" and Prometheus screams, "GYAAAH!" The crew sees the difference immediately: "IT WORKED!" Jinbe's logic is simple and brutal: "OF COURSE IT WORKED! HE'S JUST ANIMATED, CONCENTRATED FLAME!" Another voice frames it even more clearly: "THINK OF HIM AS JUST A TALKING WILDFIRE!" Prometheus spits, "CURSE YOU!" while Big Mom and Zeus push onward. Jinbe has not won the fight, but he has created enough breathing room for everyone to keep moving.

The escape collapses into pure motion through the Seducing Woods. The group runs as trees, roots, homies, and broken ground crowd the path from every side. The forest keeps pressing them out of formation, and the page is full of impact and movement rather than long dialogue: bodies lunge, branches snap, and the path shifts under them with sounds like "ZAZAZA" and repeated cries of alarm. Jinbe's water bought them a moment against Prometheus, but the woods answer by making every step dangerous. Luffy, Nami, Sanji, Jinbe, and the others are still together for now, yet the page makes clear that staying together is becoming as difficult as reaching the Sunny.

Pedro breaks from the escape and moves toward Perospero. Perospero recognizes him with a grin: "PEDRO, WAS IT?" Luffy sees what is happening and shouts, "WAIT, PEDRO!" Carrot tries to rush after him, but the crew cannot afford another separation. Someone calls, "LUFFY! STOP CARROT!" and Carrot cries, "WAAH!" as she is held back. Jinbe keeps the order strict: "FOCUS ON DEFENSE, AND RUN!" He warns them why stopping is impossible: "WE CAN'T GET SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER! WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND EACH OTHER AGAIN!" The answer comes back, "GOT IT!" Pedro's choice is now set apart from the crew's route. He is facing Perospero, while the others must keep moving or be swallowed by the forest.

Nami keeps feeding Zeus until the bait has done its work. Zeus happily takes the last cloud, and Nami calls, "AH! ZEUS!" as he swells larger and darker with thunder. He groans with pleasure, "YUMMMY!♡" Prometheus notices the danger too late and curses him: "WHAT IS HE DOING?! DAMN IT, ZEUS!" Sanji sees the enemies closing in and urges Nami onward: "NAMI, NO TIME TO DILLY-DALLY! THEY'RE RIGHT BEHIND US!" But Nami has not been wasting time. Every Weather Egg Zeus swallowed has gathered inside him, and the bloated cloud is now a loaded weapon hovering directly over the battlefield.

Big Mom bears down on them and snarls, "YOU BASTARDS JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN TO GIVE UP, DO YA?" Nami has already finished setting the trap. She says, "MY WEATHER EGGS ARE ALL NOW INSIDE ZEUS..." and then warns the crew, "SANJI! EVERYONE! RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! DON'T LOOK BACK!" Zeus is still chewing happily, "CHEW CHEW" and "YUM YUM!" until Nami calls him by name: "ZEUS." He reacts, "WAH!" and Nami releases the technique: "BREEZE TEMPO!" The command turns his overfed thunder into a massive discharge. This is not a random accident; Nami deliberately uses Zeus's greed and her stored weather to make Big Mom's own homie strike the field.

The lightning tears through the Seducing Woods. The blast throws trees, stones, and bodies through the air, turning Nami's setup into a battlefield-sized strike. From the enemy side, the result is misunderstood. Someone looks at the destruction and says, "THIS..." then concludes, "LOOKS LIKE MAMA USED ZEUS TO FINISH THEM OFF." Another voice says, "MAMA SHOULD BE HERE SOON." Katakuri watches without needing to add anything. The page leaves the Charlotte forces believing Big Mom's own attack has ended the pursuit, while the real sequence is sharper: Nami forced Zeus to release the charge and used the confusion to give the Straw Hats a chance to survive.

On the Thousand Sunny, Chopper and Brook can only look toward the blast and worry. Chopper starts, "LUFFY... I MEAN..." and Brook asks, "TH- THEY SHOULD BE FINE, RIGHT?" Perospero, who has seized the ship, uses the moment to break their resolve. "LOOKS LIKE YOUR FRIENDS ARE DEAD," he says. Then he presses harder: "NOW, THEN... WHAT WILL YOU DO? EVEN IF YOU PUT YOUR LIVES ON THE LINE AND SOMEHOW MANAGE TO WIN THIS SHIP BACK FROM US, NONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT ONCE RODE IT WITH YOU ARE COMING BACK." The soldiers offer an escape: "IF YOU'RE CONTENT TO LEAVE ON THAT LITTLE SUBMARINE OF YOURS, WE'LL LET TWO OF YOU GO FREE." Chopper refuses without hesitation: "I REFUSE." Brook stands with him: "GET OUTTA HERE! THAT'S OUR SUNNY YOU'RE STANDING ON!"

The aftermath spreads across different parts of the escape. Brook worries, "I HOPE THEY'RE OKAY!" while someone reports, "ZEUS IS GOING CRAZY!" Elsewhere, Pudding has come to Chiffon with a desperate request. She apologizes, "I'M SO SORRY, CHIFFON... THIS IS SUCH A HAREBRAINED REQUEST..." Chiffon answers warmly, "IT'S OKAY! IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE BAKED TOGETHER! BESIDES..." Bege worries about the danger, but Chiffon points to the debt they owe: "BEGE! THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT SAVED LOLA'S LIFE! I TOLD YOU, DIDN'T I?" When Bege protests, "BUT, CHIFFON, DEAR... IT'S DANGEROUS! I'M WORRIED!" Chiffon gives the real reason she will help: "IT'S EASY TO JUST SAY 'THANK YOU FOR SAVING LOLA' WITH WORDS. BUT WHEN THOSE YOU'RE INDEBTED TO ARE IN TROUBLE? THAT'S WHEN THE REAL TRUTH OF THAT THANKS IS TESTED!"

Chiffon turns gratitude into action. "LIVE WITH HONOR!" she declares, then adds, "THAT'S WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAY, RIGHT, DARLIN'?♡" Bege answers, "YES, BUT..." but he cannot stop her. Chiffon leaves him with their son: "IF ANYTHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO ME... TAKE CARE OF PEZ, OKAY?" Bege cries, "CHIFFO-OOOON!" as she goes, and someone calls, "MISS!" Pudding suddenly points ahead: "CHIFFON, LOOK! THERE!" She sees Sanji and loses her composure at once: "S-S-SANJI, HE'S...♡♡" then snaps back, "WERE YOU EVEN LISTENING?" Chiffon sees the same direction and exclaims, "THAT FOOL'S RIGHT THERE?!" The chapter closes on the promised coincidence: Pudding and Chiffon arrive just as Sanji and the others are caught in the crisis.

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