But Katakuri suddenly froze at that moment, standing motionless without saying a word, his face utterly bewildered.
Mousse immediately broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly told Amon to go hold him off. But after learning that Kaido could hurt him, Amon instantly put on an expression as though he were about to march valiantly to his death, leaving Mousse speechless.
Fortunately, perhaps because he was examining the wound on his body, or perhaps because he was merely waiting for Katakuri's answer, Kaido unexpectedly restrained his urge to launch a surprise attack this time.
Only then did Mousse breathe a sigh of relief. He even had the spare attention to make a rough estimate based on the aura of Kaido's presence that he sensed through Observation Haki:
When Kaido had first appeared on the horizon, Mousse had actually been startled, because the vitality and total Haki/mental power values he sensed through Observation Haki were far higher than even his own mother's!
However, with Mousse's intelligence, he immediately realized that this was simply because Kaido's enormous size in dragon form had wildly inflated those numbers.
Sure enough, after Kaido transformed back into human form and habitually launched his sneak attack, the vitality and total Haki/mental power values Mousse sensed through Observation Haki plummeted. The latter was especially less than half of Charlotte Linlin's, making the disparity in Haki intensity obvious.
But that was only because Charlotte Linlin was far too strong now, not because Kaido's mental power was too weak.
In fact, even Katakuri, who had already entered the ranks of top-tier powerhouses, had a maximum Haki reserve that could not compare to Kaido's, and the gap was not small. Even accounting for some inflation due to Kaido's larger build, his Haki intensity might not be weaker than Katakuri's current