Chapter 58

Stranded on a barren rock, Sanji rations his tiny food supply but is left with a single moldy crust after twenty-five days. A passing ship sails by without noticing him. Seventy days in, hollowed out and despairing, he resolves to cross to Zeff's side of the rock and seize the older man's stores by force. When he tears open Zeff's sack, however, it holds only treasure, not a scrap of food. The truth lands: Zeff had given the boy every bite and kept himself alive by devouring his own leg.

Confronted about why he would do such a thing for a boy he claims to despise, Zeff admits he too chases the legendary All Blue and had been searching the Grand Line for it. With his crew gone he can no longer pursue that dream, so he decides that if rescue ever comes he will leave piracy behind and open a restaurant. The miracle arrives on the eighty-fifth day when the same ship Sanji spotted returns and lifts them both off the rock. In the present, this memory clarifies Sanji's rage: out of debt to the man who saved him, he will let no one kill him or rob him of his last ambition.

Sanji's flashback continues, confirming the pair endured eighty-five days marooned together and that Zeff's peg leg comes from eating his own limb to survive. The cover continues Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles, volume seventeen, in which Mohji and Cabaji battle through the night over the captaincy while the rest of the crew sleeps and Richie dreams of leading them.