The plan to tamper with the wedding cake and use it to assassinate BIG MOM had been exposed, yet the Straw Hat Crew and Capone still had no idea.
With the wedding Tea Party drawing ever closer, Totto Land seemed bustling with excitement, but beneath the surface, the various forces were making their moves.
Katakuri had been temporarily confined. BIG MOM was worried that his pointless affection for his siblings would ruin things, so she had entrusted Perospero with handling everything from start to finish.
The day of the wedding Tea Party soon arrived, and the guests took their seats. As the host, BIG MOM naturally sat at the head of the table.
As she watched the other guests gradually settle in, she let out her distinctive, booming laugh.
Wood was second only to BIG MOM in status among those present, so in theory, he should have been seated beside her.
But Wood politely declined BIG MOM's arrangement, saying he was only a guest and didn't deserve such treatment.
Come on, Wood knew the Straw Hat Crew and Capone were planning to go after BIG MOM—and that they'd tampered with the cake. There was no way he was going to sit beside her now.
Wood didn't think the bombs Capone had arranged could do anything to him, but right now, he just wanted to sit back and enjoy the show. Even if he didn't get hurt, getting splattered with blood would still spoil the experience, wouldn't it?
Hearing Wood's reason for refusing the seat beside her, BIG MOM's eyes narrowed slightly.
When she wasn't suffering from Food Addiction, BIG MOM was actually quite sharp—certainly much sharper than a certain one-track-minded guy who thought about nothing but killing himself all day.
Wood's unusual behavior now made BIG MOM wonder whether he