"Failure."
Werther watched Vinsmoke Yonji walk away and gave a cold laugh.
He called Vinsmoke Yonji a failure because of what Vinsmoke Judge had done.
While his wife was pregnant, Vinsmoke Judge had modified each of his five children in turn, altering the fetuses in the womb.
Those modifications gave three of Judge's sons and one of his daughters a Constitution far beyond that of ordinary people.
Only one child remained no different from anyone else despite Judge's modifications. After birth, he was as weak as an ordinary child.
That child was the Straw Hat Pirates' cook, Vinsmoke Sanji!
Soon after Sanji was born, tests showed that he had the same Constitution as an ordinary person. He had none of the strength of the other Vinsmoke Family children.
At first, Judge thought Sanji might simply be too young and would grow as strong as his siblings.
But years passed, and Sanji remained no different from an ordinary person. Judge was bitterly disappointed.
Still, Sanji was a child of the Vinsmoke Family. Though Judge no longer cared for him and even neglected him, he did nothing too extreme. He simply acted as if he had no such son.
The modifications Judge had performed on the fetuses in the womb had left Sanji's mother in steadily worsening health. In the end, she became completely bedridden.
When Sanji saw his mother like that, he resolved to make her happy and help her get better.
Around that time, Sanji fell in love with cooking. He hoped to make delicious food that would cheer his mother up.
But this infuriated Judge. To him, cooking was work for servants. For a member of royalty to do it was utterly disgraceful.
So Judge locked Sanji in a dungeon and put an Iron Mask on him, afraid that