## One Piece Chapter 540, pages 3-4: Level 6, Infinite Hell - Chapter: 540 - Pages: 3-4 - Characters: Luffy, Emporio Ivankov, Inazuma, Jimbei, Portgas D. Ace, Level 6 prisoners ### Summary 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.