Pekoms’s Bounty at 330,000,000 Berries

Pekoms and Tamago worked as a pair, collecting Big Mom's monthly tribute of sweets from Fish-Man Island — a debt-collector's job, not a conqueror's. The Kame Kame no Mi he ate grants a defensive turtle shell, an oddly passive power for a tiger mink whose reputation rested mainly on brute force. That same reputation is exactly what made him useful the day he personally pleaded with Big Mom to spare Pedro's life after Zepo's execution — a mercy nobody in the crew would have expected from a man built for intimidation, not diplomacy. A knight of Big Mom's court just like Tamago, he held rank enough to address the Emperor directly with no intermediary — a privilege he spent, that one time, on saving an enemy's life rather than advancing his own standing.

The real reversal happens at Zou. Pekoms discovers the Straw Hats had been treating his fellow minks while he himself served an Emperor who could have ordered their destruction with a single word. He breaks down crying in Sanji's arms and hands over, for nothing in return, the real hidden objective of Capone Bege's mission — without ever formally breaking his oath to Big Mom or renouncing the crew that raised him.

The 330 million on his head measures neither a captain nor a strategist, but a feared enforcer who paid off two separate debts of gratitude in a single campaign, all while never once openly betraying the name he still serves.