Chapter 835

The opening scene takes place in Chocolat Town, where twice a year the inhabitants are made to answer "Leave or Life?", and anyone selecting life has a tiny round object extracted from their body. Over in the Seducing Woods, Luffy is baffled by the pile of look-alike crewmates he has rounded up, until one of the supposed Namis proves to be the real one. She knocks him about the head, then describes how a Luffy impostor traveling alongside the group had unmasked herself as Charlotte Brulee. Nami got loose using her Clima-Tact, but Carrot was dragged into a mirror by Brulee's Mira Mira no Mi ability and locked inside the Mirro-World. Chopper stayed behind to stall the tree minions so that Nami could break away and track down the genuine Luffy.

The buried giant trades information for some juice and lays out how the country functions. Having eaten the Soru Soru no Mi, Big Mom commands souls; every six months her citizens hand over a month of their lives as soul fragments, which settle into surrounding objects and creatures to spawn living "homies", gathered by shards of her own spirit known as incarnations. The duplicates Luffy collected, he adds, are animals transformed by Brulee. He then confesses that he was formerly married to Big Mom and was thrown away after two daughters were born to them. At that, Charlotte Cracker, the family's tenth son and a member of the trio known as Sweet Commanders, hauls him out of the soil by his ponytail, exposing him as a large man topped by an enormous head. Pleading for a final chance to reunite with Chiffon and Lola, his daughters, he leaves Nami stunned the instant Lola's name is spoken.

This entry identifies Brulee's Mira Mira no Mi and Big Mom's Soru Soru no Mi, spells out the homies and the soul-payment system, and establishes the buried man as a discarded spouse whose children are Chiffon and Lola, which makes Lola one of Big Mom's offspring. Charlotte Cracker debuts. The cover depicts the Straw Hats enjoying dessert among penguins and a polar bear.