A King's Disposition

The two sisters call on their respective powers. Marigold's belongs to the King Cobra model of the Hebi Hebi no Mi, while Sandersonia wields the Anaconda variant, and the watching crowd credits these serpentine bodies to the gorgon's curse, which only confuses Luffy further. As the spectators bay for a quick kill, Luffy instead hauls the three stone statues, Marguerite along with Aphelandra and Sweet Pea, clear of danger before hopping up to face the sisters. The audience jeers at his nerve, and Marigold cautions that any tumble into the gap between the platform and the seating ends on the spikes waiting below.

Luffy weaves around Marigold's halberd and venomous spit, yet his kick is turned aside by her palm and her staff cracks into him, leaving him stunned that a blunt strike can wound him. Sandersonia then loops him in her tail, squeezing painfully, and remarks that he knows nothing of Haki. She calls his right-leg attack in advance and dodges it, and while her own tail-slam does no harm, he cannot connect once as she glides clear of everything he throws, which the crowd names as Haki. A tail blow from Marigold flings him into the trench, where he barely clears the spikes.

When Hancock belittles him and Luffy snaps back for her to be quiet, the sisters decide to break his spirit before killing him. Sandersonia grabs the statue of Marguerite to smash it, and Luffy, recalling how she had spoken so warmly of Hancock, erupts. His scream for them to stop releases an unseen force that knocks several onlookers cold and so rattles the sisters that they let go of both Luffy and Marguerite.

Both serpent fruits are formally named here, and the chapter demonstrates that Haki can foresee an opponent's motion and land on Devil Fruit users no matter their powers. Luffy and Hancock are each confirmed to wield Supreme King Haki, a gift roughly one person in a million possesses, though Luffy has no idea what he did before vowing to fight at full strength. According to the SBS, the cover is printed in gray, marking the point at which the series matched the chapter total reached by Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball run.