User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 846: Let's Make a Deal/@comment-3529684-20161117145123/@comment-12.106.174.131-20161117214520

Seeing as she then followed it up with the Straw Hats it would sound like the 8(minus Sanji) are free to go but their friends are not, Pedro and Carrot. Zeff is only being threatened if Sanji were to run, otherwise nothing was expected to happen to him.