Chapter 316

Still under the Noro Noro effect, Luffy slowly propels out of the kitchen until the thirty seconds finally lapse, hurling him into a dark chamber where he wonders where Foxy has gone. Foxy then surfaces atop a contraption named the Gorilla Puncher 13, advancing slowly while loosing a beam that misses on purpose. Confused, Luffy is told to turn around, where a mirror behind him exposes a startling fact: reflective glass can bend the Noro Noro Beam right back. Dodging the bounced beam, Luffy is struck by one of the machine's boxing gloves, a hit that badly scorches him. Far from done, Foxy brings out a mirror racket and fires multiple reflected beams, taunting that Luffy will never get near him while dodging both punches and beams.

In response, Luffy spins and smashes the mirror at his back, prompting Foxy to mock the move as cheap before losing track of him. A Gomu Gomu no Pistol catches Foxy in the spine; he tries another beam, but Luffy slips it and ends up clinging to the Gorilla Puncher 13, where a jeering Foxy brands him foolish before scorching him again with the Gorilla Puncher Golden Hit. Outside, Itomimizu commentates while riding Chuchun, and the Straw Hats keep cheering Luffy on. An explosion erupts on the ship, Foxy emerges in triumph, and Luffy lies face-down, leaving the crew stunned that mere punches left burns. Luffy rises once more, and an annoyed Foxy draws his Noro Noro Beam Sword to bind both arms and legs before a Megaton Nine-Tail Rush. Driven back, Luffy stands again, and when the combo repeats he gets right back up, vowing to fight to the death to save his friend.

A key disclosure here is that mirrors can redirect the Noro Noro Beam, turning the reflective room into a trap. Foxy brings out the Gorilla Puncher 13 and severely burns Luffy with its strikes, later pinning him with a Noro Noro Beam Sword and a Megaton Nine-Tail Rush. Time and again Luffy refuses to stay down, set on winning Chopper back from the Foxy Pirates.

The cover continues the running cover serial about Gedatsu and his accidental drift across the Blue Sea, reaching Volume 3, whose subtitle muses on how carelessly he survived. In it a local islander unearths the crashed angel from the soil and exposes the figure as Gedatsu himself. The chapter was adapted in Episode 218, pages 2 through 19, and belongs to the Long Ring Long Land Arc within the Water 7 Saga.