## One Piece Chapter 1029, pages 8-9: The Tower - Chapter: 1029 - Pages: 8-9 - Characters: Killer, Basil Hawkins, Eustass Kid, Big Mom, Kaido ### Summary Page 8: Killer kicks Hawkins away and tells him to stop getting in Kid's way. Hawkins says Kid is apparently facing Big Mom now and bets that Kid sees it as his chance to finally supplant an Emperor. He offers Killer a way out, saying Killer can always cut him down with those scythes if he is sick of him, and adds that he still does not mind if Killer surrenders. Hawkins will even put in a good word with Kaido. Killer refuses, saying their side has no chance of winning only if one accepts Hawkins's cowardly path. He says the reason Hawkins's dominion over seas has lasted so long is obvious to anyone who has laid eyes on the Emperors: they cannot be beaten. Killer then says he sees through Hawkins's wailing and that Hawkins regrets the path he chose. Page 9: Hawkins insists that they fought through the impossible odds he foresaw and that Killer and Kid are still here only because Hawkins angered himself and quit. He says he will accept Killer into the fold if he submits. Killer answers that they will see who made the right decision when the battle is over. He then says he does not want to have regrets either and will give this another shot. He asks Hawkins a question: what happens if Hawkins takes damage that has nowhere else to go? Hawkins laughs that Killer should understand his powers by now and that the question has no answer, but Killer has already found the flaw.