## One Piece Chapter 661, pages 17-18: The Lake of Bandits - Chapter: 661 - Pages: 17-18 - Characters: Trafalgar Law, Smoker, Tashigi ### Summary Page 17: The Marines panic as Law's blade cuts through them without killing them normally. One shouts, "Don't try to help out, any of you!!!" Another screams, "Aaaag hhhhhhhh hhh!!!" A Marine stares at his separated body and cries, "He sliced right through me!! Huh?! I'm still alive!!" Smoker warns everyone, "You're all in the way!!! Get out of his circle!!!" He explains the danger: "As long as you're within the circle Law creates... you might as well be patients on his operating table!!" The page clarifies the rules of Law's battlefield: inside the Room, he can cut and rearrange people while leaving them alive, and ordinary courage or numbers mean little against that control. Page 18: Smoker names Law's space directly: "This is his 'operating room'... Within this space, he controls everything, and can perform any 'operation'!!" The Marines shout, "They don't call him the 'Surgeon of Death' for nothing!!" Smoker tells Tashigi, "Fall back, Tashigi!! Your Haki can't stand up to his ability!!!" But Tashigi moves forward anyway. A Marine cries, "Captain-chan!!" as she charges Law with her sword. Law stands ready, and the page closes with Tashigi entering a fight she has been explicitly warned she cannot win. The chapter's final story beat is a direct clash between Tashigi's resolve and Law's overwhelming spatial power.