Chapter 1034: Sanji vs. Queen

In the Pleasure Hall of the Left Brain Tower, the geishas scatter from the duel, all save the hurt O-Some, who stays behind searching for her pet mouse Chuji while her colleagues urge her to flee Onigashima and perhaps Wano entirely. Out beyond the tower, Momonosuke seizes the flame clouds Kaidou left adrift; finding he cannot shove the island back, he resolves instead to tug it clear of the Flower Capital.

Queen opens with Sparking Queen, raining eye lasers that Sanji vaults over and recognizes as a copy of Ichiji's Sparking Valkyrie. The telescoping neck of Henry Queen then clamps onto him with a brutal shock, echoing Niji's Henry Blazer. Boasting he can reproduce every Germa 66 trick, Queen crowns Judge's children the peak of his science and admits he only wanted to crush a suited Sanji to prove himself the keener mind, which galls the cook. He next flails Sanji about with Winch Queen, after the fashion of Yonji's Winch Danton, smashing him bloody through walls, until Sanji boots the arm to scrap, breaks loose, warns Queen off his family, and lands Flanchet Strike. Both, he observes, have ground each other down, but he has found his resolve and is no longer the man who fled the Live Floor.

Queen claims he, too, can vanish like the Raid Suit, then works out that the cook never becomes unseen at all and is instead simply outpacing the eye. As O-Some retrieves Chuji, Queen recalls anointing her his favorite after Komurasaki's apparent death and how she rebuffed his summons; unseen, he steals toward her to deal out more divine punishment. Aloft, Sanji discovers fresh options, melding his exoskeleton with Armament Haki to raise flames hotter than ever, which he names Ifrit Jambe. Closing in, he understands it was Queen, while invisible, who had struck O-Some. Enraged, he hammers Queen into the ground with Collier, snapping back into view before her. A chain follows, Basse Cote into Paleron, then Jumeau a Bifteck, Tendron, and Flanchet, on through Queue, Poire, and Jarret, capped by Boeuf Burst, which bursts Queen backward in a huge blast.

Across the fight, Queen's cyborg body proves able to ape the raid suits of the Vinsmoke brothers, Sanji wrecks Queen's left mechanical arm, and it emerges that Queen himself had wounded O-Some earlier, having fixated on her after Komurasaki's death. The samurai and Beasts Pirates keep trading blows throughout. PN Ebi's cover request shows Usopp winning prizes for children at a festival shooting game. The chapter is part of the Wano Country Arc.