After temporarily deactivating his Ice Oni state, Queen also realized that he seemed to have landed himself in a dilemma.
But he only froze for a moment before a resolute expression appeared on his somewhat comical face...
"Since science and technology are useless, let me show you the true power of an unmodified dinosaur!"
Shouting this, Queen dropped onto all fours and switched to his beast form, straightening his neck and tail to aim himself at Xie Wen like a javelin.
Could it be that move?
Xie Wen suddenly remembered a certain utterly unscientific move Queen had used in the manga, while stubbornly insisting that this was simply how brachiosauruses worked...
"Behold! The power of the kings that ruled the world for over a hundred million years!!! Brachiosnake!!!"
It really was that move!!!
Xie Wen, who had been charging toward Queen, stopped in his tracks. There was plenty to ridicule, but he was still very interested in Queen's unconventional approach to developing his Devil Fruit powers, so he was happy to let him demonstrate...
No matter what Queen tried, he had no chance of beating him anyway.
With that thought, Xie Wen planted White Calm beside him and waited for Queen to launch his "main body."
Queen did indeed launch himself, but things went slightly differently from the manga. His "main body" didn't charge at Xie Wen. Instead, he opened his mouth and spat out a jet of flame, then used its recoil to send his "Brachiosnake" shooting backward with a whoosh.
Before Xie Wen could react, the "Brachiosnake" landed on the ground with a splat, quickly wriggled into the ruins of the giant skull building, and vanished. All he left standing before Xie Wen was a dinosaur body missing its head and tail, with a huge hollow through its