## One Piece Chapter 888, pages 1-2: Lion - Chapter: 888 - Pages: 1-2 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Charlotte Katakuri ### Summary Page 1: Katakuri stands over the battered mirror-world battlefield and refuses to let Luffy's return pass without an answer. Calm but severe, he says, "Come now, don't let our reunion be such a violent one. I have a question for you." Luffy, breathing hard with "HAA-" and "HAA-," snaps back, "Even if you were to run, everyone knows you were up against me. None would have laughed in your face." Katakuri asks the question directly: "So why have you returned? Have you chosen death over the shame of being called a runner? Or have you seen the truth of the difference in our skills, and come to beg me to allow you to join us?" Luffy's answer is not surrender. With his eyes locked on Katakuri, he keeps panting, "HAA-," and prepares to face him again. Page 2: The duel resumes with a clash of fists. Katakuri's heavy blows hammer down through the air, but Luffy does not step back from the reason he came. He shouts, "I'm here to beat you!" Katakuri looks at him from within the storm of the fight and rejects the answer at once: "I don't believe that was one of the options!" The page is all impact and stubbornness, the black sound effects crowding around the punches as Luffy insists on victory rather than escape, apology, or submission. Katakuri's disbelief only sharpens the point: Luffy has returned not because it is sensible, but because beating Katakuri is the only path he will accept.