## One Piece Chapter 388, pages 4-6: Gear Second - Chapter: 388 - Pages: 4-6 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Blueno ### Summary Page 4: Blueno is hurled across the roof, but Luffy gives him no time to re-center. Steam curls around Luffy's body as he follows immediately, and Blueno can only cry, "Whoa!!!?" before the next attack comes. Luffy's leg snaps out with "Stamp"!!! and drives into Blueno with another brutal impact. Blueno coughs, "Gaha...!!" as the force knocks through him. The page tells the fight as pursuit: Blueno's body is displaced, Luffy closes the gap again, and every panel makes the distance between them meaningless. Gear Second has turned Luffy's rubber body into a weapon of acceleration, and Blueno is being forced to experience that change hit by hit. Page 5: Blueno staggers and tries to make sense of what has happened. "No way...!! No... there's no doubt...!! That guy surely..." He reaches the conclusion that frightens him: Luffy "has learned how to use 'Soru'!!! and is able to move around with it...!!" Luffy repeats the quiet reason this meeting mattered: "I'm glad I met you here." The line is not gratitude toward an enemy; it means Blueno's techniques showed him the path. Blueno, now pressured, stops trying to answer with ordinary movement. He opens an "Air Door" and slips out of the visible world, leaving Luffy watching the empty space where he stood. Page 6: Inside the strange space created by Air Door, Blueno thinks through the danger. "This can't be happening." He recognizes that even before the Soru-like movement, Luffy's body itself has become strong enough to use the technique easily. Still, pride and training fight against the evidence: "But there's no way anybody else... could beat 'Rokushiki' users in speed!!! There's no way we can lose!!!" He chooses a plan with his Door-Door power: "I'll make his body a 'door' and stop his movement. I should be able to take him out with no problem." Then he commits: "I'll go in full power and settle this in an instant!!!!" Outside, Luffy only notes the disappearance: "He disappeared..." The two fighters are now separated by Blueno's hidden space, but Blueno is the one trying to calm himself.