This recovery time lasted several seconds.
Uchiha Mai could not even be bothered to attack.
"Gum-Gum Giant Pistol!!!"
"Damn it, you bastard!" Luffy shouted at Uchiha Mai.
Uchiha Mai sent him crashing into the mountainside again, and Luffy was already furious.
Luffy bit down on his thumb.
His arm swelled to an enormous size.
Then he switched hands and bit down on his other thumb again.
He launched a frenzied assault at Uchiha Mai's position.
"Gum-Gum Giant Gatling!"
The Gear Third version of the Gum-Gum Pistol required Luffy to bite his fingertip and blow air into the gaps in his bones, making his hand gigantic.
This technique posed no threat whatsoever to Uchiha Mai.
Especially since Luffy became slower after enlarging his body.
Though even an increase in speed would have meant little against Uchiha Mai, since he still could not hit him.
This Gear Third technique was simply too slow.
Uchiha Mai vanished from where he stood and appeared atop the mountain the next second.
He formed hand seals with both hands.
After all, life needed a bit of ceremony.
Rumble—
Dazzling lightning shone through the clouds as bolts fell from the sky.
The next second, they struck where Luffy stood.
Luffy truly was not afraid of lightning.
But the impact of the lightning still blasted him into the ground.
And the lightning in the sky continued to fall without pause.
If one could see at the speed of light, one would notice a trace of black at the tips of the lightning bolts.
Armament Haki!
Uchiha Mai had coated the lightning with Armament Haki.
That saved him the trouble of doing it himself.
So, like a game of whack-a-mole, Luffy was struck by lightning every time he poked his head out.
Then he was sent back into the