The next morning, Sanji woke up in his bed on the baratie. He went down to breakfast and ate with the others. When everyone was done business should start.
Sanji was about to go into the kitchen with the others when Jeff said to him: "Wait a minute. I have to explain something to you."
"What do you want to explain to me? I know how it works here. Or did you forget that I used to work here?"
"I'm not that old that I suffer from Alzheimer's? I still know that you worked here. But a lot has changed since the 7 years you were gone."
"Dan tell me what has changed."
"Since you found the One Piece, there have hardly been any pirates left. When it comes up, a gang might come over here every month."
"Then it got boring here. And I thought there was something else going on here that I won't be bored."
"It won't be boring here either. We'll have closed societies until the end of this year.Either birthday parties or wedding parties were reserved. Sometimes it can happen that two celebrations can be in one day. In addition, we have now been given permission to train cooks and waiters. Next week we will have our first apprentice as a cook. "
"Great. Then there will also be some who can't do anything. They won't stay long anyway. Either they'll quit because they're homesick for their home, or because the requirements here are too high for them."
"Now just wait and see what kind of role they are. Maybe there are women too. And now guess what kind of role you will play in it."
Sanji shrugged.
"You are responsible for the new cook."
"You don't mean it? I shouldn't have come back here. Who else would have got the job if I hadn't come back?"
"Actually Patty. But I decided that my head chef should get this job.""Does that mean I will stay head chef?"
"Only if you take over the apprenticeship in the kitchen."
"Well I'll do it. But only if it brings anything at all."
"If it doesn't work, then this one is wrong anyway. If you have any problems with him, let me know. And now go to the kitchen. The first orders have already come in."
Sanji nodded and went into the kitchen.

2 years have passed since that day. Sanji had settled in well again on the Baratie. As it turned out, the new trainee was a woman. Jeff had known about it, but deliberately didn't say anything to Sanji, because otherwise he would have gone crazy with joy. The new name was Sandy and she settled in well on the bar and cooked pretty well. Sandy fell in love with Sanji a few months later and told him so too. Since Sanji is known to love all women, he has reciprocated their love. But he immediately noticed that he had completely different feelings about her than about Nami or Robin.He talked to Patty about it. The two became friends after Sanji returned to the baratie. He had told him that he had really fallen in love with Sandy and that it was real love.

Since then, both have been happily in love. Only Jeff looked at this suspiciously. But he quickly realized that both work and private life could be separated. So he quickly brushed this suspicion aside.

2 years this love went well. But then one day the setback came for Sanji. Jeff hadn't told Sanji that he had terminal cancer. Chopper had told him that he still had a maximum of 2 months to live. If he had come to him earlier, he could still have helped him. But so they could only wait for his death.

Jeff hadn't told anyone about his illness. So it had really dealt a blow to Sanji when Jeff actually died. After that, Chopper told him what Jeff died of. Sanji is so freaked out that he almost killed Chopper if Patty and Carne hadn't stopped him.When Jeff's will was found a few days later, it turned out that Jeff had looked at Sanji like his own son all the years and that he had bequeathed the entire baratie to him. Sanji was so exhausted that he couldn't really accept his inheritance and could hardly take care of the baratie.

Sandy watched this mourning lump for a few months. At first she didn't know what was wrong with her boyfriend. When Jeff died she was in vocational school and hadn't noticed anything. She had to pull it out of Patty's nose.
At some point Sandy got too much with Sanji's grief and she asked in the kitchen: "Can you do without me for a while?"
Patty said: "You can see what's going on here!"
"Sorry, I just wanted to talk to Sanji and him. You can't even see his grief anymore."
"You will definitely not get him out of his grief. Carne and I didn't make it either."
"But I already know how to get it out.""Then get out of here! But bring him back with you!"
With that, she disappeared from the kitchen and went to Sanji's room.

There she knocked.
Sanji asked from his room: "Who's there?"
Sandy replied, "It's me."
"Shouldn't you be in the kitchen?"
"Yes, but I'll help you."
"I need no help."
Sandy didn't want to be fobbed off by Sanji so quickly. She finally wants her boyfriend back. So she decided to go into the room. Sanji was lying on his bed with a photo in hand. Sandy knew what kind of photo that was. It's the photo when Sanji was little and Jeff bought the Baratie.
Sanji tore her from her thoughts by asking, "Who asked you in?"
"Wait a minute. This is still my room, after all. I can go in and out as I want!"
"Wrong! You only live here because we're together. You still have your own room. If I don't ask you in, you'll stay outside too! Is that clear?""No."
"What are you saying?"
"Sanji, how much longer do you want to mop up? Jeff is dead. So what? Life goes on. Jeff didn't bequeath the Baratie to you for nothing. He knew it was in good hands with you."
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW WHAT JEFF KNOWED? YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HIM!"
"That's right. Why didn't you ever tell him that ...?"
"What? That he was like a father to me? I just never could. After all, he was once a pirate and robbed my ship where I worked as a kitchen boy."
"Then how did you end up here?"
"By being stranded together on a rock after a storm. When we were discovered by a ship after half an eternity, I was put in an orphanage. Jeff had taken me out of there because he was supposedly already so much I worked here for 10 years until I decided to become a pirate myself to make my dream come true. ""What was your dream? The One Piece?"
"Not really. But my captain had the dream. Everyone in our crew had their dreams come true. Except for our ship's doctor. He has not yet found a cure for cancer. My dream was to find the All Blue. Just like Jeff." . "
"Well please. You made Jeff's dream come true too. Then fulfill his last wish to run the Baratie. You know best how to run it. There is already a rumor in the kitchen that the Baratie maybe it will be closed if things go on like this with you. And I don't want to lose my apprenticeship position in my last year and neither do the other trainees. "
"You will be able to continue working here. I will continue to do it as Jeff would have wanted! And now back to the kitchen!"
"Sanji, I have something else to tell you."
"What?"
She took Sanji's hand and put it on her stomach and replied: "Sanji, I have to tell you that I am pregnant and that you will be a father.""But that's great. I can't believe it. It's a shame that Jeff can't see that anymore."
"Now finally stop and look forward to our child."
"You are right. But what happens to your education now?"
"I am now in the third month and will work for another 3 or 4 months. Then I will take my baby break and my maternity leave. Then I will finish my training."
"Wrong, honey. You're just going to take your baby break. After that, you'll continue your education. I'm going to take paternity leave."
Sandy shrugged and then they both went back to the kitchen.

There he said to the staff: "Take care, people. From today I will run the Baratie. Just as Jeff would have wanted it to be. If there are any problems or complaints, please contact me."
Patty asked Sandy, "Hey, honey, how did you get Sanji out of his hole?"
"I just gave him my opinion. I also told him he was going to be a father.""You are pregnant? What happens to your education?"
"Everything has already been agreed with the child's father and boss."