The Kiss of Death - The Emperor Assassination Plan Begins!

Trapped inside Capone Bege's living fortress, Jinbe cannot rouse a deeply asleep Luffy no matter how hard he hits him, so Nami insists that meat is the only cure and the Fire Tank crew scrambles to fetch some. Out in the open, Streusen and his cooks finish their song before he drives a blade into the ground, and the towering wedding confection erupts skyward with the altar perched on top. Sanji and Pudding are carried up to the priest, the groom giddy while the bride privately seethes, each one secretly braced for what the other intends.

Once the vows are recited, Pudding lifts her veil and exposes the eye she has always concealed, gun ready beneath her arm. Rather than recoil in disgust, Sanji tells her the eye is lovely, words no one had ever offered her. The praise shatters her resolve and she crumples in tears, throwing Big Mom's timetable into ruin. Katakuri, foreseeing the priest's shot going wide, flicks his own jellybean at Sanji, who slips aside so it strikes the priest instead. Moments later Luffy and his many copies erupt from the cake, wrecking it and panicking the guests.

Streusen raises the colossal cake and the betrothed pair ascend to the altar. Pudding reveals her third eye to carry out Big Mom's assassination scheme, but Sanji's sincere compliment about it makes her break down, paralyzing the plan. A bitter childhood of bullying over the eye, including her own mother's cruelty, floods back to her. Katakuri's attempt to gun down Sanji backfires and wounds the priest. Luffy and his duplicates finally smash out of the cake, leaving Big Mom enraged.

The episode visibly shows Streusen planting his sword in the floor before the cake rises, and it lingers on Pudding letting her pistol slip from her hand once Sanji praises her eye. The crew reviving Luffy with meat is depicted onscreen. Pudding's flashback runs longer than the manga's, beginning with Big Mom ordering her to grow bangs over the eye, then layering in children who flee, taunt, and even cut her hair to force the eye into view, before she repeats to herself that she is no monster and turns on her tormentors.