## One Piece Chapter 1033: Shimotsuki Kozaburo - Chapter: 1033 - Pages: 0-16 - Characters: Tashigi, Roronoa Zoro, King, Enma, Sanji, Queen, Lunarians, Beast Pirates, Sandai Kitetsu, Ipponmatsu, Kuina, Koshiro, Tenguyama Hitetsu, Shimotsuki Kozaburo, Wado Ichimonji, Shimotsuki Village Children, Marines, Shimotsuki Village, Kozuki Oden, Monkey D. Luffy ### Summary Page 0: The title page reads "Chapter 1033: Shimotsuki Kozaburo." It is a cover request by Soda Susu: "Tashigi plays the villain for baby penguins that make-believe as heroes." Tashigi wears a witch-like costume and holds a net while small penguins dressed as heroes surround her in a snowy setting. This is official cover-request art rather than the chapter's main narrative, but it is kept as useful extra material because it includes the chapter title and One Piece character art. Page 1: The fight resumes at "Zoro vs. King." Enma flares up in Zoro's hand and drains his strength, making Zoro shout, "Enma!! Stop draining my energy... without permission!" A caption frames the danger: "Zoro has to deal with a rogue sword?!" Zoro struggles to steady himself while King watches and asks, "Trouble in paradise?" Even with King in front of him, Zoro's immediate problem is his own blade. Enma is pulling Haki out of him by force, leaving Zoro huffing and vulnerable while King's dark, winged form closes in through the smoke and rubble outside Onigashima. Page 2: King looms over Zoro with his wings spread and flame still burning on his back. Zoro, still fighting Enma's drain, asks, "What're you tryin' to pull?" King suddenly launches a beam-like attack directly at him, and King reacts with surprise when it lands: "Ahh... a direct hit." Zoro is knocked into a massive explosion that tears through the exterior wreckage of the island. The blast leaves a towering black plume of smoke and debris, while Zoro is momentarily swallowed by the impact. The page shows how dangerous it is for Zoro to lose control of his sword even for an instant against an opponent as fast and destructive as King. Page 3: Inside the Skull Dome's left brain tower, in the pleasure hall, bystanders react to the huge explosion outside and laugh that Zoro is the "pirate hunter." They say he does not stand a chance against King. Sanji, still fighting Queen nearby, hears the discussion. Queen explains that King is a surviving Lunarian and that the Lunarians were once considered gods in the distant past. He says those monsters could thrive in any inhospitable environment the world threw at them, but they were all supposedly eradicated. Sanji asks how beings like that could get wiped out, and Queen answers, "That's something... you'll have to find out for yourself!" Page 4: Back outside, Zoro survives the explosion and thinks that it was a close one: he would have been a goner if he had used Armament Haki even a second later. He also notices the impossible part of the exchange, asking how King is still unscathed when King just blew himself up. Zoro shifts to one-sword style and launches "Lethal Lion Song!!" directly at King. The attack cuts in hard at close range, but King's body and flame-backed durability continue to make the fight feel wrong. Zoro is not only trying to land a clean strike; he is trying to solve what King is before his own stamina and Enma's demands run him dry. Page 5: Zoro's strong technique appears to do nothing, and he stares in disbelief, saying, "Nothing?!" King stretches his pteranodon head and beak again, preparing the bizarre elastic strike from the previous battle. Zoro is stunned that one of his strongest techniques did not work, but Enma interrupts him again, flaring and pulling at his arm. Zoro yells, "Stop it!! Enma!!" while King builds another attack with "Imperial... Tempura..." Zoro realizes he cannot afford this distraction now and cries, "Not now!!" The page stacks two threats on top of each other: King's lethal body mechanics and Enma's refusal to stay quiet. Page 6: King fires the stretched-beak attack with "Udon!!" and hammers Zoro into the wreckage again. The impact drives Zoro through stone and smoke while his swords scatter. King mocks him: "A swordsman beaten by his own sword!! That's a first!!" As Zoro tumbles, he spots one of his blades and calls out, "Sandai Kitetsu!" The page makes the danger personal for Zoro. Losing his swords would mean losing the foundation of his fighting style, but diving after them while King keeps attacking leaves him open to being crushed. King sees that and sneers at him for risking himself to save a sword. Page 7: As Zoro reaches for Sandai Kitetsu, he remembers the day in Loguetown when he first took it from Ipponmatsu. Ipponmatsu warned, "You already wield Sandai Kitetsu. That is one of mine." Zoro called it cursed, and Ipponmatsu panicked that he could not sell it because Zoro would end up dead and Zoro's blood would be on his hands. Zoro answered, "I'll take it," accepting the risk. In the present, King attacks again and...