## One Piece Chapter 388: Gear Second - Chapter: 388 - Pages: 0-16 - Characters: Miss Goldenweek, Mr. 3, Monkey D. Luffy, Blueno, Oimo, Kashii, Franky Family, Galley-La Company, World Government agents, Yokozuna, Straw Hat Pirates, Mozu, Kiwi, Tony Tony Chopper, Roronoa Zoro, Sogeking, Sanji, Franky, Nico Robin, Spandam, Chimney, Gonbe, Kokoro, CP9 ### Summary Page 0: The chapter opens with the cover-story title Chapter 388: "Gear Second." In Miss Goldenweek's strategy "Meet Baroque," Volume 22 is labeled "Mr. 3 Surrenders!?" The image is a bonus cover-story scene rather than the Enies Lobby battle itself, but it still belongs to the chapter package: Mr. 3 is shown in a tense surrender-themed situation connected to the Baroque Works side story. Page 1: On the courthouse roof, Blueno stares at Luffy's changed stance and repeats the word he has just heard: "Gear"? Then, trying to understand the threat in front of him, he asks, "Your technique will evolve?" Luffy answers with his body rather than with an explanation. He crouches low, one fist braced near the ground, and steam begins to pour off him with a soft "Shuuu..." The empty rooftop around them makes the moment feel still and dangerous. Blueno has faced Luffy as a rubber-bodied pirate, but now the air around Luffy is heating, his posture has tightened, and the fight is about to shift into something Blueno has not measured yet. Page 2: Blueno tries to dismiss what he is seeing. Steam rises from Luffy's body, and Blueno says, "Emitting steam from your body... are you trying to imitate a steam engine -- what're you trying to bluff?" Luffy does not argue. He simply says, "I... am glad I met you here." Then he begins the attack name: "Gomu Gomu"... Blueno assumes the distance still favors him and says, "Are you trying to snipe me...? You're just giving me a chance to escape." Luffy's expression sharpens into a grin. "Heh... try to aim your best and hit me...!!" Blueno accepts the challenge and vanishes with "Soru," expecting his Rokushiki speed to decide the exchange. The page holds the last instant before Luffy proves that the old speed gap has disappeared. Page 3: Blueno moves with "Soru," but this time Luffy is already beyond his reading. The air cracks with motion, and Blueno's certainty turns into alarm: "I can't see him at all!!!" Luffy crosses the rooftop in a blur and drives the attack through him: "Jet Pistol!!!!" Blueno's body folds under the impact as the blow lands before he can properly defend. The sounds and reactions come in jagged pieces -- "!!!?" and "...Kuh!!!" -- because the whole point of the page is speed. Luffy is not merely punching harder; he is moving so quickly that Blueno's trained eyes, the eyes of a Rokushiki user, cannot follow the strike. Page 4: Blueno is hurled across the roof, but Luffy gives him no time to re-center. Steam curls around Luffy's body as he follows immediately, and Blueno can only cry, "Whoa!!!?" before the next attack comes. Luffy's leg snaps out with "Stamp"!!! and drives into Blueno with another brutal impact. Blueno coughs, "Gaha...!!" as the force knocks through him. The page tells the fight as pursuit: Blueno's body is displaced, Luffy closes the gap again, and every panel makes the distance between them meaningless. Gear Second has turned Luffy's rubber body into a weapon of acceleration, and Blueno is being forced to experience that change hit by hit. Page 5: Blueno staggers and tries to make sense of what has happened. "No way...!! No... there's no doubt...!! That guy surely..." He reaches the conclusion that frightens him: Luffy "has learned how to use 'Soru'!!! and is able to move around with it...!!" Luffy repeats the quiet reason this meeting mattered: "I'm glad I met you here." The line is not gratitude toward an enemy; it means Blueno's techniques showed him the path. Blueno, now pressured, stops trying to answer with ordinary movement. He opens an "Air Door" and slips out of the visible world, leaving Luffy watching the empty space where he stood. Page 6: Inside the strange space created by Air Door, Blueno thinks through the danger. "This can't be happening." He recognizes that even before the Soru-like movement, Luffy's body itself has become strong enough to use the technique easily. Still, pride and training fight against the evidence: "But there's no way anybody else... could beat 'Rokushiki' users in speed!!! There's no way we can lose!!!" He chooses a plan with his Door-Door power: "I'll make his body a 'door' and stop his movement. I should be able to take him out with no problem." Then he commits: "I'll go in full power and settle this in an instant!!!!" Outside, Luffy only notes the disappearance: "He disappeared..." The two fighters are now separated by Blueno's hidden space, but Blueno is the one trying to calm himself. Page 7: Blueno reappears from a hidden door with "Door Door," but Luffy reacts before the ambush can take shape. Blueno is shocked by the timing: "When you... move...