
One Piece chapter 56, No Way, has Sanji refuse to abandon the Baratie even at gunpoint, offering his own life for Zeff, then opens a flashback to the day nine years earlier when the two first crossed paths.
Gin holds Zeff hostage and demands Sanji surrender the restaurant, but Sanji flatly tells him to go to hell. The refusal looks selfish until it becomes clear he is sacrificing himself: he asks Gin to aim the gun at him instead and stands still as the revived Pearl beats him. When Luffy moves to retaliate, Sanji stops him, knowing any harm to the Krieg Pirates could doom Zeff. Sanji blames himself for wrecking the head chef's old life and would rather die than hand Don Krieg the Baratie. Battered, he thinks of the All Blue, and the chapter slips back nine years to his time as an apprentice aboard the Orbit, where his elder colleagues mocked his dream and the ship suddenly came under attack by Zeff's Cook Pirates.
Sanji's nine-years-ago flashback begins. The legendary sea known as the All Blue is named for the first time. The young Sanji is introduced as a cruise-ship apprentice who clashes with veteran cooks over wasting food, just before Zeff's crew raids the vessel.

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The color cover shows Sanji riding a cigar-smoking bison loaded with supplies, with Luffy oddly carrying his own bison rather than riding it. The chapter's opening pages ran in full color in their original Weekly Shonen Jump printing.
In Chapter 56 of One Piece, "No Way," Sanji refuses Gin's demand to hand over the Baratie even with Zeff held at gunpoint, telling him to go to hell. Sanji then offers his own life in Zeff's place and stands still as Pearl beats him, while stopping Luffy from retaliating to protect Zeff.
Sanji blames himself for wrecking Zeff's old life and would rather die than let Don Krieg take the Baratie from him. He asks Gin to point the gun at him instead of Zeff and endures Pearl's beating without fighting back.
The legendary sea known as the All Blue is named for the first time in Chapter 56, as Sanji, battered and thinking of his dream, drifts into a flashback from nine years earlier.
Nine years before the events of Chapter 56, young Sanji served as a cruise ship apprentice aboard the Orbit, where veteran cooks mocked his dream of finding the All Blue. The ship soon comes under attack by Zeff's Cook Pirates, beginning the flashback that runs through the chapter.
The color cover of Chapter 56 shows Sanji riding a cigar smoking bison loaded with supplies, while Luffy oddly carries his own bison instead of riding it. The chapter's opening pages ran in full color in the original Weekly Shonen Jump printing.
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