Shadows and bodies were inextricably linked.
There were many ways this could be demonstrated.
One of them was the soul.
If the effects of the abilities wielded through the Shadow-Shadow Fruit were used as the basis for judgment,
then,
strictly speaking, shadows were not the souls of individuals.
Judging by the way severed shadows were stuffed into zombies, they were more like... copied souls.
That was precisely why Moria had been able to create the Zombie Army.
And in the face of this ability of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, Cavendish, who possessed a split personality, was clearly a rare example.
Because
the shadow severed from his body had not become a copy of his soul, but had directly become a vessel for another personality.
That was another manifestation of the soul.
Moreover, this world itself had several Devil Fruits related to souls.
The most representative example was undoubtedly the Soul-Soul Fruit belonging to the Four Emperors, Charlotte Linlin.
Then there was Brook's Revive-Revive Fruit, and Perona's Hollow-Hollow Fruit...
Even the Shadow-Shadow Fruit currently possessed by Maud was, to some extent, related to the soul.
By sheer coincidence, all three Devil Fruits connected to souls were on Maud's side.
Of course, what Maud wanted was to study the possibilities contained in the relationship between the Shadow-Shadow Fruit and souls, thereby excavating the potential of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.
As for Moria's previous use of the Zombie Army...
Unless zombies could use Haki, Maud basically would not waste energy or time on the Zombie Army.
Moria's fate was a warning from the past.
After all, even if he spent several years producing soldiers in bulk, numbers were utterly meaningless before the powerhouses of the New World.
That was what he said, but Maud would not simply discard the use of the Zombie Army.
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