Pitch-black, hollow eye sockets could not display the emotional reactions a human should have.
Yet Nanika's excessively intense bodily reactions laid bare her current feelings without reservation.
There was fear, but even more panic.
This instinctive or soul-deep stress response was something that played out countless times every day in the food chain of the biological world.
That was right.
It was like she had seen a "predator"...
Nanika kept shuffling backward, but the wall behind her left her unable to widen the distance between herself and Moyu.
This unprecedented situation astonished the Zoldyck Family and inevitably stirred a trace of unease in them.
Only Killua was worried about it.
"Nanika, what's wrong...?"
Killua rushed to Nanika's side at once, his face full of concern.
Nanika loved Killua most of all and always reacted to his words and actions.
Yet this time,
Nanika did not respond to Killua's concern. She continued staring fixedly at Moyu, and her feet showed no sign of stopping or even slowing as they kept moving backward.
There was no doubt that Moyu was the source of Nanika's reaction.
"What's going on...?"
Although Moyu was directly involved, he was no less puzzled than the members of the Zoldyck Family.
Panic, fear?
If he remembered correctly, the personality soul called Nanika inside Alluka was the Desire-Dependent Gas Lifeform Ai, one of the five great Calamities currently known to humanity.
However, this Ai residing within Alluka differed in many ways.
Moyu remembered that in the original election arc, Nanika could feel sad, wronged, and even cry.
By that logic, Nanika's soul was more like a human's.
So seeing such a panicked reaction from Nanika was not exactly out of place.
It was just—
Why was she so frightened?
A flicker of confusion crossed Moyu's eyes.
Was it because