...I'm not so sure, to be honest. Sanji is well liked, but when I had assumed that would shield Natsuo, and I shielded you instead, he was killed. So, not wanting to feel that pain of "I could have stopped this," I chose to protect two people at once by giving his name to be protected.

If I hadn't made that wish to protect you... I wouldn't have done the same. It's Goro who I want to protect most of all.

[And who he's afraid will be targeted at any given point.]

But Sanji... Though I understood his points on Zelos-kun's importance, and I'll do my best to protect him in other ways, it's Sanji's presence that I selfishly believe will do more good here. He has a role. He won't tell me what it is, in order to keep it on his own shoulders.