## One Piece Chapter 420, pages 17-19: Buster Call - Chapter: 420 - Pages: 17-19 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Rob Lucci ### Summary Page 17: Lucci presses Luffy with sharp, relentless movement, striking and vanishing through the wreckage. Luffy is battered, knocked back, and left panting, yet he keeps forcing himself upright. The fight is mostly motion and impact here: Luffy's breath comes as "HAA...!!" and "HAA," while Lucci's attacks hammer him from angles he can barely follow. Even with the island shaking and his body worn down from Gear Second, Luffy stays between Lucci and the passage his friends need. The page makes the fight feel less like a clean duel and more like Luffy enduring punishment because moving aside would expose everyone behind him. Page 18: Lucci finally understands what Luffy has done to his own body. Seeing the steam and the exhausted rhythm of his breathing, he says, "I SEE..." and then, "... SO IT'S LIKE DOPING..." He explains the technique with cold precision: "YOU USE YOUR LEGS AS A PUMP TO ACCELERATE YOUR BLOOD CIRCULATION... CREATING BLOOD PRESSURE THAT COULD TEAR YOUR HEART." For a normal body, Lucci says, it would break a person "INTO PIECES," but Luffy's rubber body makes it possible: "FROM ENTRAILS TO BLOOD VESSELS, IS MADE OF RUBBER. IT REALLY IS A TECHNIQUE JUST FOR RUBBER MEN." Still, he warns that the price is deadly. "EVEN THOUGH YOUR PHYSICAL ABILITIES INCREASE BEYOND THEIR LIMITS, YOUR STAMINA IS UNABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THOSE REINFORCEMENTS...!!" Luffy has chosen power by shaving away his own life. Page 19: Luffy answers Lucci's warning with a grin that is almost frightening. "IT'S BETTER THAN LOSING SOMETHING IN FRONT OF MY EYES!!!" he says. Lucci calls it reckless: "YOU'RE GETTING YOUR HOPES UP TOO MUCH!!" Luffy replies without hesitation, "I'LL DO ANYTHING I CAN!!" Lucci then reveals that the explosions outside may already have sealed the fate of the others. "DID YOU FEEL THE EXPLOSIONS EARLIER? WARSHIPS FROM THE MARINE HEADQUARTERS PROBABLY TRIED A TEST FIRING." He adds the threat plainly: "... WITHIN A FEW MINUTES, A BURST OF SHOTS WILL START... YOUR NAKAMA IN THE TOWER OF JUSTICE WILL DIE." The page turns Luffy's exhaustion into a race against both Lucci and the approaching warships.