Gear Fourth

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The chapter opens as the Birdcage closes in on Dressrosa. Citizens scream, "Run! Make for the central districts!" and "Waaaaaah!" while the line of death draws ever nearer. Buildings are not simply being surrounded; the cage is dragging them along and cutting them to pieces. The title appears: CHAPTER 784: GEAR FOURTH. On the plateau where the royal palace is located, the group realizes the true horror of the Birdcage. Bartolomeo says this is bad and tells Roger to get the collapsed people up on their feet because they cannot sit and wait for death.

At the former royal plateau, Viola explains the shrinking Birdcage. The palace now stands where Doflamingo is, and if the fight goes on much longer the plateau will be ripped to shreds. She notes that the center of the cage is slowly shifting and that the epicenter of the shrinking is most likely the plateau where Doflamingo stands. As people hurry and shout, Zoro is asked where he is going. He answers with blunt certainty: "I told you! We're gonna stop that thing."

Before the palace sunflower fields, the wounded Law is tended to. Someone says the dwarves really surprised them. Leo or the healers hope Law's arm attaches properly and explain, "If blood starts flowing through it, it'll start to heal." Law answers, "I know. I'm a doctor." Cavendish reflects on what he realized while underground in the trading port: assuming Luffy defeats Doflamingo, the ripples from that splash will be felt the world over. Law is told that all of them will become the eye of the storm, and Cavendish says, "Yeah. That's what we're after."

At the palace battlefield, Doflamingo stares at Luffy and asks, "Gear Fourth?" Luffy drops his sandals, bites into his arm, and begins to inflate himself with a loud breath. He uses "Muscle Balloon!" and expands into a massive, Haki-coated form. Doflamingo watches in silence as Luffy's body swells, his arms and torso darkening and stretching with steam swirling around him. This is the beginning of the new transformation that Luffy declared at the end of the previous chapter.

Luffy completes the inflated form, bouncing in place with heavy spring-like SFX. His body is huge, round, and coated in Busoshoku Haki across the arms and chest. Doflamingo looks at the new shape and mocks him: "Put on a little weight there, haven't you?" Luffy only pants and keeps bouncing, while Doflamingo continues to study the form. The page emphasizes the strange visual contrast of Gear Fourth: it looks almost ridiculous at first, but it radiates power and tension.

Doflamingo laughs that this is not even funny anymore and says he thought Luffy had some crazy ace up his sleeve, but all he did was use rubber's elasticity to get bouncier. He asks, "Just how desperate are you?" Luffy explains that for two years he fought wild beasts as big as monsters, and to pound them into submission this size and elasticity were necessary. He says, "I ain't gonna let you have your way anymore." Then he names the form: "Gear Fourth! Bound Man!" A note clarifies that "Bound" means bounce.

Luffy launches the first real Gear Fourth attack: "Gomu Gomu no... Kong Gun!" His fist compresses inward into his arm, making Doflamingo realize, "What the... his fist sunk into his body..." Then the arm fires forward like a cannon. Doflamingo is struck by the explosive punch and thinks, "Such obscene power!" The blow sends him blasting through the palace ruins with a huge impact, proving instantly that Gear Fourth is far beyond Luffy's previous attacks in speed and force.

Doflamingo is launched through stone towers and crashes down toward the city below, coughing and gasping from the force of Kong Gun. Citizens below see the impact and panic: "Wh-wha... it's Doflamingo!" and "He just came flying down out of the sky!" Luffy remains above, panting and watching through the steam. The page shows the first public proof that Doflamingo has been overpowered and hurled from the palace, shocking the people who had feared him as an untouchable ruler.

Doflamingo lands in the central district, and people cry out, "Do... Do... Doflamingo! Why are you here!?" Others panic because there is nowhere to go; the Birdcage is coming from that way too. Luffy stares down from above, and Doflamingo, bloodied and silent for a moment, recovers himself. A citizen says the central district took one hell of a recoil. The scene widens the stakes: even as Luffy's new power knocks Doflamingo around, the Birdcage keeps advancing and trapping civilians from every direction.

Luffy uses Gear Fourth's elasticity to fly through the air, leaving the people below astonished: "He can use his elasticity to fly, too!?" He rockets toward Doflamingo and begins another "Gomu Gomu no" attack while compressing his legs and body in midair. Doflamingo watches carefully as Luffy closes the distance from above. The page demonstrates that Bound Man is not just stronger; it also gives Luffy mobility, letting him rebound through the sky and attack from impossible angles.

Luffy strikes with "Rhino Schneider!" and slams into Doflamingo with a heavy Gear Fourth kick. The blow sends Doflamingo bouncing away like a ball, and civilians shout, "Another one showed up!" and ask who the huge guy is that just dropkicked the hell out of Doflamingo's face. A translation note says the kanji reads "howitzer," as in the artillery cannon. The attack shows that Luffy's legs have become as explosive as his fists in this form.

Doflamingo crashes and rebounds through the city, then analyzes Gear Fourth. He recognizes that Luffy has hardened his skin with Busoshoku Haki, and with that increase in tensile strength his power has increased many times over. He curses that the punk is still nothing but plain old rubber. Luffy, watching from above, starts another attack: "Gomu Gomu no..." The page spells out the mechanics of Gear Fourth: Haki reinforces the rubber body instead of canceling its elasticity, multiplying the force behind each rebound and strike.

Luffy fires "Culverin!" A translation note explains that a culverin is a type of cannon and that the kanji reads as python cannon. Doflamingo dodges and counters with "Athlete Thread!" kicking out a sharp, Haki-laced string attack that strikes Luffy. Luffy's arm, however, continues moving in a snaking path rather than stopping. The page sets up the next shock: Gear Fourth's punches do not simply fly in straight lines, and Doflamingo's usual evasive counters are no longer enough.

Doflamingo wonders why Luffy's arm will not shrink back this time. Luffy commands, "Get him! Python!" and continues "Gomu Gomu no..." The stretched arm redirects in midair, chasing Doflamingo around his guard. Doflamingo asks if Luffy is still rubber even though he is hardened by Busoshoku, but Luffy answers, "I don't think so!" The attack lands as Gear Fourth "explodes" into another "Culverin!" hit. The chapter ends with Doflamingo being struck again by a punch that can bend, pursue, and hit despite his defenses.

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