Chapter 894

A flashback to Sabaody shows Silvers Rayleigh teaching that every attack carries intent. Luffy locates Rayleigh's cooking by smell, smashes the pot, and earns a beating meant to drill Observation Haki into him. Hungry and refusing food the island animals bring, Luffy keeps training as Rayleigh explains how the sense reads movement and even offers fleeting glimpses of the future. When Luffy asks whether it can read personalities, Rayleigh admits he never tried, but vows to draw out the boy's full potential. In the present, Luffy now traces the flow of Katakuri's strikes and slips past them, trading punishing blows with the Sweet Commander even as his hands tear from blocking.

With the cake aboard the Nostra Castello, Bege trusts the pursuing Big Mom Pirates cannot strike recklessly, and Vito notes Prometheus has slowed under its swollen bulk. Chiffon overrules dropping the cake at Liqueur Island, insisting on the more distant Funwari Island so Big Mom is drawn farther from Nami's group. On the Sunny, Jinbe entrusts navigation to Nami, who dodges a giant Smoothie's air slashes; Citron and Cinnamon beg their sister to stop growing. Sanji and Pudding race toward Cacao Island on Rabiyan. There, Oven gathers a host of siblings, including the Charlotte Decuplets and former Sweet Commander Snack, to ambush the crew. With under an hour to the rendezvous, Luffy rises on trembling legs and activates a never-seen Gear 4 called Snakeman.

Chiffon redirects the Fire Tank Pirates to Funwari Island, Big Mom is now utterly emaciated, Carrot recovers, and Smoothie reveals her size-changing power. Several Charlotte members debut at the ambush: the 25th son Snack, who carries a 600,000,000 berry bounty, plus Brownie, Raisin, Yuen, Joconde, and the Decuplets. Luffy debuts the Snakeman variation of Gear 4. The cover shows Riku Doldo III assigning Leo, Bian, and Kabu as Levely escorts.