Charlotte Oven might not have been the sharpest, but he had plenty of combat experience. Katakuri's back was a bloody mess, terrifying to look at, yet Oven could tell at a glance that his life was not in danger.
Hearing that he could still talk to Mousse and use his Devil Fruit ability, the weight in Oven's heart finally lifted completely. He even had the mood to chat with Katakuri. "With your current strength, even if you have some flaws, no one would dare underestimate you, right? Even one of Mom's most powerful moves couldn't kill you."
But Katakuri shook his head slightly, saying that his survival under Charlotte Linlin's newly mastered ultimate move was not entirely due to his strength. "Mom didn't fully charge up before launching it. Otherwise, even if I hardened my entire body, I would still have died. Besides, hardening my whole body leaves me completely unable to move or attack, so it has little practical value in actual combat. I still haven't broken through that ceiling."
Charlotte Oven nodded after hearing that, but Mousse, whom he had taken into his arms, grew suspicious.
He knew that the "full-body hardening" Katakuri spoke of meant turning his entire body into Hard Mochi, strengthening it, and then coating it in Armament Haki for further hardening.
It was certainly a powerful defense, but the problem was that the new version of "Elbaf Spear - Ikoku" his mother had just unleashed had been a massive eruption of Armament Haki!
Didn't Armament Haki allow one to seize the real body after elementalization? Then how had Katakuri maintained his mochi properties under that attack?
Thinking more carefully, Mousse recalled that Katakuri's techniques were all achieved through the combination of mochi and Armament Haki. His confusion only deepened. *Unlike Logia types, Smoker has