Luffy’s arm recoiled, coiling like a snake ready to strike again. “This is the form that never stops coming,” Luffy said. “No matter how far you see ahead… I’ll always catch up.”

Here’s a short story about when Luffy uses Snakeman for the first time. The air on the rooftop of the Whale Tree was thick with blood and fury. Luffy, struggling in his Boundman form, was running on empty. Katakuri’s mochi fists rained down like meteors, each one predicted and parried by the pirate’s future sight. But Luffy was losing. His haki was flickering like a candle in a storm.

“What?” Katakuri stumbled.

Katakuri blocked—but the fist wasn’t there anymore. It had swerved around his arm and struck his ribs.

“Gear Fourth…” Luffy whispered, his eyes turning completely white as his pupils vanished.

“You cannot beat me,” Katakuri said, his voice calm but edged with respect. “Your power is explosive, but linear. I see everything you will do before you do it.”

Thump. Thump. Thump.

And then he struck one final time— King Cobra —a punch so fast and so relentless that it seemed to bend space itself, slamming Katakuri through the mochi wall and into the mirror-covered ground below.