Actually, Yamato did not have many objections. At least for the time being, she had no intention of setting Queen up. Robin had merely made a slight adjustment when relaying her words.
Young Miss, Miss Yamato, Oni Princess—there were many ways to address Yamato.
Robin normally only called her Young Miss or Yamato, but this time, she had switched to Oni Princess and even put a little extra emphasis on it.
Grammatically speaking, there was nothing wrong with Robin's wording. She was still conveying Yamato's original words, and she had not distorted their meaning.
But Queen judged things by how they sounded, and since he already had a habit of overthinking everything, he ended up coming up with some bizarre logic.
The battle had dragged on for a long time, which was directly related to Queen fooling around, but that did not stop Queen from finding an excuse for himself.
If Queen admitted he was wrong, there were only two possibilities: either he needed something from someone, or he could not beat the other party.
At a time like this, the one in the wrong was obviously the son of Judge, the man he hated most.
As for why he hated Judge more than Caesar, that was naturally because Caesar was already dead.
"Sparking Queen!"
Spark-like energy beams fired from his eyes. Even though the combat suit provided Sanji with a certain degree of defensive enhancement, the endless barrage pinned him down so heavily that he could not even get back up.
As time passed, these Lineage Factor abilities could no longer be considered Queen's primary combat strength, but against Sanji, they were more than enough.
"Winch Queen, Henry Queen!"
As if he wanted to prove that Judge's technological prowess would never measure up to his own, Queen flaunted every technique besides Poison Pink in all sorts of ways.
With Winch Green's powerful strength combined with Dengeki Blue's electric shocks, Sanji had already been smashed into the ground by Queen.
Poison Pink was also the only field Queen had never dabbled in. If Queen merely looked down on Judge in every other area, then when it came to poison, Queen outright held Judge in contempt.
"Alright, time to give you the finishing blow. You seem pretty close with that green-haired guy, so I'll let you experience the same thing he did. Plague Bullets: Medusa!"
Pink poisonous gas enveloped Sanji.
But once again, events developed beyond Queen's control. Sanji did not enter a petrified state like Zoro had. Instead, blood began gushing wildly from his nose, and in the end, he fainted from excessive blood loss.
"That's not right. Medusa doesn't have any blood-loss effect. Did something go wrong with my research? Impossible. It must be Judge's son who has a problem."
Living creatures had individual differences, but Queen could not understand how a petrification drug had somehow turned into a blood-loss drug.
"I refuse to believe there's bleeding even I can't stop."
Looking at the nosebleed that was even more terrifying than a ruptured artery, Queen actually became more interested. Having doubled as the ship's doctor for a long period of time, he had his own convictions, and Sanji's unique reaction was well worth studying.
This was one aspect Queen had yet to fully understand. Although Medusa's most obvious effect was petrification, the effect produced by combining the Love-Love Fruit with Pheromosa's pheromones was far from that simple.
To a certain extent, it stimulated the desires buried in a person's heart, particularly desires related to physical beauty. For ordinary people, the petrification effect was stronger; before those desires could even arise, their bodies would already become rigid.
But Sanji was different. Even after his body entered an unconscious state, those desires still existed within his mind. Once stimulated by Medusa, the desires in his head plunged him into an illusion. If what he was currently seeing were shown to anyone else, even holy light plus mosaics would not be enough to censor it.
And precisely because of that, despite Queen having no intention of killing him, Sanji had nearly bled to death.
"What a pain. Now you're the only one left, woman. So, how would you like to pass out?"
After a series of battles, Nami was the only one still conscious, but Queen had no intention of going easy on her. If he went soft at a time like this, then later on he would definitely learn firsthand what it meant to be truly ruthless.
"Would you rather be burned by fire, or electrocuted?"
"Um... I'm a girl, you know. Can't you be a little less violent...?"
Nami tried to act pitiful in hopes of finding an opening, but Queen paid her no attention whatsoever. Queen had always believed he had countless female fans, so a single female enemy was nowhere near enough to shake him.
"Judging by the look of you, you seem pretty good at deceiving people. To prevent anything unpleasant from happening, you'd better go join your companions."
"Huh...?"
Not only did he show no mercy, but to make absolutely sure nothing went wrong, Queen even gave Nami an extra punch, knocking her unconscious as well. Then he dragged the whole group toward Udon.
"Babanuki! Come out and take in some prisoners! There's still room in the prison, right?"
"Babanuki! Come out and collect your debt! I'm here to pay what I owe this month!"
Two shouts rang out from outside one after another, jolting Babanuki awake from his sleep. Although it was currently noon, for a Slaking, there was never really a time when sleeping was inappropriate.
Before long, Udon's gates slowly opened.
"Boss Queen, Delia, why did the two of you come together...?"
"We were heading the same way, weren't we? Here's your money."
Delia took out a wallet and tossed it to Babanuki. As for Queen, after instructing Babanuki to keep a close eye on the prisoners, he turned around and left without looking back, apparently planning to go do something to save himself.
At that moment, Hercules also came out from inside alongside Babanuki.
Any prisoners being brought in at this point in time, Hercules could figure out who they were even if it thought with nothing but its horn.
Thanks to its species' natural gifts, Hercules had even dragged over a large prison cart, intending to transport the whole group away.
At this time, Luffy was still working hard for his lunch. Now that the Straw Hats had gathered together once again, Hercules analyzed the situation based on past experience and felt that if they were put together, they might stir up some trouble, so it planned to scare them a little.
Because of the strength of the attacks they had taken, stronger people like Zoro and Sanji actually did not wake up first. While the two of them were still unconscious, Nami and Usopp had already woken up.
The shackles around their wrists told them that this place was a prison.
"We're finished... We're completely finished this time. We all got thrown in here..."
Usopp sprawled on the ground as though all life had drained out of him. At that moment, however, he noticed a nameplate had appeared on his chest.
"Kuku 13? What does that mean?"
"Oh, that? This is a prison. We usually can't be bothered to remember your names, so we give you simple code names instead. But there are too many people here, so the names get reused.
"See that guy over there? His nameplate says Kaka 3. That means the previous two people with the code name Kaka are already dead."
"Then what does the thirteen mean...?"
"Obviously, it means the people who wear that nameplate never behave. Twelve of them have already died."
Hercules had found a Beasts Pirates pirate who could understand Heracross' speech and used him to relay what it wanted to convey. Judging from the way Usopp was trembling all over, it seemed to be having at least some effect...
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