## One Piece Chapter 540, pages 6-8: Level 6, Infinite Hell - Chapter: 540 - Pages: 6-8 - Characters: Luffy, Emporio Ivankov, Inazuma, Level 6 prisoners, Impel Down guards, Portgas D. Ace, monitor room guards, Jimbei ### Summary Page 6: The group finds the stairs blocked too. Someone yells, "Hey, they closed off the stairs!!!" Ivankov says the guards are trying to lock them in by closing the only two exits and that they need to break through the bars to get out. Then gas begins pouring into the floor with "moku moku" sounds. Inazuma sniffs and asks if it is poison gas, while the prisoners shout from their cells, "Hey, hey!! I don't know who you are, but don't bring your problems down on us!!!" Another voice screams, "Shut up!! Level 6!!!" The panic spreads from the escape team to the entire sealed prison floor. Page 7: Luffy refuses to slow down, shouting, "I don't care if it's poison or whatever!!!" and charging forward while Ivankov warns there is a limit to how reckless he can be. Inazuma identifies the gas as sleeping gas, and Ivankov says they will be put to sleep with the rest of the prisoners on this floor if they remain trapped. The monitor room confirms that Level 6 has been completely sealed off and that the powerful sleeping gas leaves nowhere for them to escape. Meanwhile, at the first floor in front of the lift, Ace is still being escorted upward, bound and held in the giant hand of a guard as the transfer continues. Page 8: Jimbei calls out, "Luffy!!!" and tells him that resistance is futile: as Luffy already heard, Ace is a pirate too and there is no way out for him either. Ace, restrained above, clenches his teeth and says, "I hoped that it wasn't true...!!! Why did you come here, Luffy!?" A guard asks how Strawhat survived. Luffy coughs in the filling gas and someone yells for him to do something because the floor is filling with gas. The page ties Ace's regret and Luffy's danger together: Ace never wanted his brother to come, but Luffy is already trapped in the deepest floor because of him.