## One Piece Chapter 1045, pages 13-15: Next Level - Chapter: 1045 - Pages: 13-15 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Kaido, Yamato, Kozuki Momonosuke ### Summary Page 13: Kaido's spiked club slams into Luffy's face with a huge "Plonk!!" but Luffy's head stretches around the spikes instead of being crushed normally. Yamato screams, and Luffy yells that it hurts, yet he keeps laughing and moving. Kaido follows with more attacks, squashing Luffy and driving him across the roof, but Luffy's body bends, rebounds, and stretches in impossible ways. The page makes the pain and comedy inseparable: Luffy is not immune to damage, but every blow becomes a new shape, a new gag, and another chance to bounce back. Kaido's overwhelming force is being translated into rubber spectacle rather than simple defeat. Page 14: Luffy and Kaido trade more impossible impacts. Luffy bends and whips around Kaido's attacks, his body stretching like a loose elastic loop, then he counts down "One... Two... Three... Zero!!" while winding himself up and spinning back into motion. Kaido watches with a wary glare as Luffy's body coils into a new attack pattern. The page is almost entirely physical comedy and momentum, but it advances the fight by showing Luffy learning to use Gear Fifth deliberately. He is no longer only reacting to strange side effects; he is counting, timing, bending, and launching himself with the same absurd freedom that has been warping the whole battlefield. Page 15: Kaido analyzes Luffy's form with growing seriousness. He calls it a pure white transformation and notes that Luffy is coated with Armament and Conqueror's Haki. He also says Luffy can influence anything around him with his ability and fights with such freedom that he has never seen anything like it. Still, Kaido declares that there is no one in this world capable of taking him down. Luffy launches a huge free-form punch, stretching across the battlefield toward Kaido. This page shifts the tone from confused comedy to strategic awe: Kaido recognizes that the ridiculous power is also technically terrifying, combining Haki, rubber awakening, and total bodily freedom.