Ch. 161A Glimmer of Hope, the Price of a Miracle
Allen’s surviving spacetime imprint kept Sanji’s dying condition in stasis, allowing the crew to retrieve him from the destruction nest. Sanji was saved, but Allen remained missing, and the [Heart of Destruction] survived, leaving the war unresolved.
- Allen’s spacetime imprint merged with Sanji and trapped the destruction eroding his wound in a fragile time loop, preserving Sanji’s life.
- The [Heart of Destruction] sensed the imprint and gathered its remaining energy to destroy Sanji.
- Luffy, Ace, Law, and the others detected Sanji’s faint life signal, while Nami and Franky located it aboard Pluton.
- Nami and Franky used Pluton for a risky precision retrieval, pulling Sanji out of the destruction nest just as the [Heart of Destruction] fired.
- Luffy and the others gathered around the unconscious Sanji, whose wound remained in stasis, and Sabo said Allen had sacrificed himself to save Sanji and wound the enemy.
- Sabo warned that the war was not over because the [Heart of Destruction] and the rift remained.