Heat Up

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Jyabura lies wrecked in the rubble, laughing weakly after Sanji's counter. He coughs out, "...!! GUFU!!!" From across the tall stone chamber, Sanji continues the thread of the lie Jyabura had just tried to sell him: "ROBIN-CHAN IS... YOUR SISTER...?" Then he steps through the dust and answers it with contempt: "DUMB-ASS. IF YOU ARE LYING, AT LEAST SAY SOMETHING MORE BELIEVABLE." Jyabura is blasted backward again with a heavy "GUOH!!" as broken stones and smoke swallow him.

Sanji stands over the battered wolf-man, cigarette still in his mouth, and asks, "DID THAT TEACH YOU A LESSON, WOLF-KUN?" Jyabura gasps, "... KU!" and Sanji calmly raises the key he stole, its metal shining between his fingers. Jyabura roars, "BASTARD!! YOU TOOK THE KEY!!!" Sanji replies, "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GAVE IT TO ME." Jyabura snarls, "YOU...!!!" Sanji turns to leave with a simple, "BYE, THEN!" Jyabura screams, "WAIT!!!" but Sanji vanishes with "SORU" and launches himself away through the ruined hall.

Jyabura refuses to let Sanji escape. With a huge burst of force, he catches up and smashes Sanji out of his path, the impact filling the page as Sanji reacts, "!!?" Jyabura lands heavily, laughing through the pain with "GOUH!!!" and "TATATATAN!!" Sanji tries to continue the fight by spinning into "PARTY TABLE," but Jyabura recognizes the movement and hardens himself with "TEKKAI KENPO!!!" before the exchange can fully break his defense.

Sanji's spinning attack turns into a heavy kick, "CUISSE SHOOT!!!" with a note that cuisse means leg or thigh. Jyabura notices the strike with "HRM?" and another quick sound, "SHU!" Sanji's kick slams into Jyabura's body and forces him down with a painful "OWW!!!" The fight keeps moving before the dust settles: Sanji follows with "BRO-CHETTE!!!"--explained as meaning grilling skewer--and drives a sharp, spear-like kick through the broken air as Jyabura reels.

Jyabura drops into another Rokushiki variation, calling "TEKKAI KENPO" and "ROUBA NO KAMAE" as he takes a low, predatory stance. A translator note says the kanji reads "posture of wolf banana," with rouba possibly meaning old lady in Japanese. Jyabura then begins circling Sanji at high speed, his movement carving multiple black arcs around the chamber. Sanji stands in the center and tracks him. The attack comes with "AREA NETWORK!!!" and "ROU-KARU!!!" with a note that the kanji reads "wolf hunt," a pun with local area network.

The wolf hunt closes in from every direction. Sanji dodges as slashing strikes cut through the air, thinking, "UWAH!! A SLASHING ATTACK!?" Jyabura keeps his "TEKKAI KENPO" stance and then lands "DONG PO ROU!!!" A note says the kanji reads "heavy walking wolf," while Dong Po Rou could mean simmered square pork meat in Chinese. The blow sends Sanji flying across the chamber, crashing through stone with "!!!" while Jyabura's attack path tears the surrounding walls and floor apart.

Jyabura bounces through the air with "GEP-POU," laughing, "GYAHA HAHA!!!" Sanji catches himself, panting, "HAA... HAA... ... KU!!!" Jyabura prepares another air blade and calls "RAN-KYAKU." The attack takes shape as "LUPUS FALL!!!" with a note explaining that lupus means wolf in Latin and kanji reads "pack of wolf; banana star." Multiple wolf-shaped slashes crash down toward Sanji, their jaws and bodies filling the page as he faces the assault from below.

The wolf-shaped Rankyaku blasts into the floor and walls, tearing the room apart as Sanji cries, "UWAH!!!" Dust and shattered stone flood the chamber. Jyabura lands and grins, then howls, "WUDOOOH!!" He laughs from a distance, "GYAHA HAHAHA HAHA!!! TRYING TO STEAL THE KEY AND RUN? WHAT A CHILDISH THOUGHT!!! I'M A WOLF!!!! I'LL CHASE YOU DOWN UNTIL I CAN EAT YOU TO DEATH!!!" Sanji stands far across the broken room, the key still in play and the fight now impossible to avoid.

Sanji, bruised and smoking, refuses to give ground. Jyabura sees he is still alive and mutters, "OH, HE'S ALIVE..." Sanji says, "I'M NOT PLANNING ON RUNNING... OR BEING KILLED... OR FORGIVING YOU...!!" His heartbeat pounds, "DOK DOK...!" Jyabura mocks him: "FORGIVE...? GYAHAHA HAHAHA. ARE YOU SYMPATHIZING WITH NICO ROBIN?" He adds, "UNNECESSARY EMOTIONAL DOUBT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO SHOW OPENINGS IN A BATTLE!! IF YOU HAVE TIME TO PITY THAT STUPID, UNFORTUNATE WOMAN, YOU'D BETTER THINK ABOUT HOW YOU WILL SURVIVE IN THIS SITUATION!!!" Sanji answers with a cold smile: "WATCH YOUR MOUTH... I'M SOMEONE WHO... GETS HEATED UP BY ANGER...!!!" Jyabura warns, "IF YOU'RE DISTRACTED, YOU WON'T STAND A CHANCE!!! I BET IT'S GETTING TO YOU RIGHT NOW!!"

Jyabura rushes in with "TEKKAI KENPO" and "MATEN-ROU!!!" A note explains that Matenrou means skyscraper, while the kanji reads "evil heaven wolf." Sanji takes the strike and is driven hard into the stone with "UWAH!!!" and "GRRRR!!!" Jyabura laughs, "GYAHAHAHA!!" as Sanji coughs and struggles back up. Sanji, still breathing hard, says, "HAA...!! HAA... YOU CAN LAUGH ALL YOU WANT RIGHT NOW...!!!" The page leaves Jyabura confident and Sanji hurt, but not broken.

Sanji begins spinning in place, faster and faster, until the motion becomes a dark spiral of speed. Jyabura stares and asks, "... HUH?" Sanji keeps rotating with a grinding heat, and Jyabura says, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S SO INTERESTING ABOUT SPINNING YOURSELF..." Then the effect reveals itself: Sanji's leg turns red and begins to glow. A note states, "DIABLE MEANS DEVIL AND JAMBE MEANS LEG IN FRENCH." Jyabura reacts, "HRMM? WHAT THE...? HIS LEG IS TURNING RED...!!" Sanji names it, "DIABLE" and "JAMBE," while the narration explains, "A LEG THAT HAS GAINED PLENTY OF HEAT... IN ADDITION TO ATTACKING SPEED... WILL HAVE..." Jyabura realizes, "IT'S GLOWING...!!!"

Sanji stands before Jyabura with his leg blazing, and the wolf-man recoils from the pressure. The heat radiates visibly from Sanji's foot; Jyabura notices, "HOT!!!" The narration completes the thought: "THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER... OF THE DEVIL." Sanji charges in, his glowing leg leaving a heated trail through the air. Jyabura is forced back as the attack closes the distance, the sound effects swelling across the page while Sanji's new technique changes the whole rhythm of the fight.

Sanji's flaming kick detonates against Jyabura and sends him blasting across the chamber into a wall. Jyabura gasps, "...!! HGH... GEGH!!!" and then screams, "AAAH!!! HOT, HOT, HOT, HOT, HOT, HOT!!!" He panics as the damage sinks in: "IT... IT BURNED ME!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE BONE!!! MY RIBS ARE BROKEN!!!" He realizes his defense failed: "'TEKKAI' DIDN'T WORK AT ALL!!!" Far below, someone reacts, "WHAT IS THIS KICK!? SHIIIT!!!" and another shouts, "DON!!!" The point is unmistakable: Diable Jambe has burned straight through Jyabura's iron-body confidence.

Jyabura sees Sanji leap into the air and blur toward him again. He cries, "NU!!? IDIOT!! JUMPING INTO THE AIR... AGAINST A 'ROKUSHIKI' USER?" Sanji answers only with the name, "DIABLE JAMBE!!!" and rushes in. Jyabura counters with "GEPP0U!!!" but Sanji strikes with "PREMIERE HACHIS!!!!" The hit slams into Jyabura, who thinks Sanji has overreached. He laughs, "GYAHANA, IDIOT!!! YOU'RE A BIG IDIOT!! YOU GOT CARRIED AWAY... AND RUSHED INTO BATTLE!!! IT'S MY VICTORY!!!" Sanji stares back, startled for a moment, as Jyabura prepares a desperate follow-up.

Jyabura launches "GEKKOU JUSSHIGAN!!!" with a roar, "BAAWWBR!!!" Sanji reacts as Jyabura's fingers drive toward him, and the exchange tears across the page with "GRRRR!!!" Jyabura laughs, "UHA HA HA, YOU'VE BLOCKED ONLY ONE ARM!! HAD THE OTHER KICK MADE IT IN TIME, YOU COULD'VE AVOIDED ALL OF THE 'SHIGAN'!!" Sanji does not retreat. His other leg is already heating with "DIABLE JAMBE," and he answers, "THERE'S NO OTHER WAY...!! THE OTHER KICK IS...!! RESERVED FOR THE FATAL BLOW." Jyabura realizes too late: "EH...!!? ... WAI... WAIT!!"

Sanji drives the finishing strike home: "FLAMBAGE" and then "SHOT!!!!" A side note explains that flambage is a style of French dish, setting fire to the dish for the finishing touch; kanji means the finishing touch when drawing something. The burning kick catches Jyabura cleanly, and the impact fills the page as Jyabura gurgles, "GUWA AAAAAAH!!" Smaller panels show him choking, "MSHHH! MSHHHH MSHH!!!" before he is launched away and crashes down through the chamber, leaving Sanji's Diable Jambe as the decisive answer to Tekkai.

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