## One Piece Chapter 540: Level 6, Infinite Hell - Chapter: 540 - Pages: 0-17 - Characters: Luffy, Nami, Usopp, Chopper, Nico Robin, Sanji, Franky, Brook, Zoro, Emporio Ivankov, Inazuma, Portgas D. Ace, Impel Down guards, monitor room guards, Jimbei, Level 6 prisoners, Marines, Whitebeard, Crocodile, Marine admirals, Marine vice admirals, Dragon, Vivi, Whitebeard Pirates ### Summary Page 0: Chapter title page: Chapter 540: "Level 6, Infinite Hell." The color spread shows the Straw Hat crew relaxing in a huge tree hollow with strange animals around them. Luffy sleeps under a blanket, Robin reads, Nami and Usopp sit nearby, Chopper rests in the foreground, Sanji laughs, Franky reacts, Brook plays music and Zoro dozes beside a giant creature. It is a bright crew illustration and title card, sharply contrasting with the chapter's actual setting: the deepest prison floor of Impel Down and the desperate pursuit of Ace. Page 1: Volume insert page for One Piece volume 55. The page is mostly white space with a small black-and-white illustration of Luffy posing above the "ONE PIECE vol.55" logo. It is not part of the Impel Down sequence and contains no narrative dialogue, but it identifies the collected volume material included with this chapter scan. Page 2: Luffy, Ivankov and Inazuma burst into Level 6, Infinite Hell, smashing through guards while Luffy shouts, "Move it, move it, move it!!!" and Ivankov yells, "Don't get in my way!!!" The monitor room reports that the traps did not work and the guards have been obliterated. A guard identifies the intruders as Strawhat Luffy, Okama King Ivankov and Inazuma the revolutionary, and announces that they have entered Level 6. Luffy runs through the prison shouting, "Ace!! Where are you!?" and then cries, "Ace!!! We came to save you!!!" Page 3: Luffy reaches the cell and calls, "Ace...!!!" but the chains are empty. He pants, "Haa... Haa..." and realizes, "He's not here!!!" Ivankov insists there is no mistake and that this is the cell, but Luffy sees they were one step too late. From another cell, Jimbei reacts in shock, realizing that a straw-hat man really came, infiltrated the impregnable Impel Down and actually made it to Level 6. The huge barred cell door and the empty restraints make the failure brutal: Ace was there, but Luffy arrived after the transfer had already begun. Page 4: The Level 6 prisoners confirm Luffy's identity and shout after him. One asks, "Are you Strawhat Luffy!?" and another urges him, "If you hurry, you can still make it!! Go!!!" Luffy is told that Ace was taken up the lift only a moment ago. He barely stops to answer, saying, "Got it!! Thanks!! I don't really know who you are, though!!" The lift gate is open, but the wheel is locked and the lift will not move. Ivankov says they cannot use it, but if they climb up, they might still make it somehow. The page turns the rescue from a search into a vertical chase. Page 5: As the group tries to follow the lift shaft, a trap slams down with a massive crash and someone yells, "Look out!!!" Ivankov concludes, "Of course... They won't let us get up that easily!! We can't use the lift! Our hands are tied!!" Luffy says they will take the stairs they used to get down, but another huge barrier closes in the hallway. The sound of the gates and bars locking off the route makes it clear that the prison is sealing the floor around them. They are no longer just racing Ace; they are being deliberately boxed into Infinite Hell. 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...