Sabaody Archipelago, Island 41.
Inside a room in a three-story villa, decorated predominantly in black and filled with Gothic ornaments.
Perona, dressed in black silk pajamas, was fast asleep on a large pink bed, clutching a teddy bear doll in her arms. A trace of transparent liquid even trickled from the corner of her mouth...
Sephiroth gently pushed open the door from the hallway and walked over to the pink bed. He reached out with his right hand and lightly pinched the round cheek of the pink-haired little girl.
"Wake up! Time to get up and eat breakfast. It's already on the dining table..."
"Ugh~! Let me sleep a little longer..."
With a dazed expression, Perona raised a hand and wiped the corner of her mouth.
Then, without even opening her eyes, she lifted the pink blanket and buried herself completely beneath it.
Seeing this, Sephiroth's eye twitched slightly, but he ultimately shook his head and gave up trying to persuade her.
After spending this time together, he had come to realize that Perona was a... shut-in!
Sephiroth had once asked Perona whether she wanted to go to school and make friends, but she refused without a second thought!
In everyday life, unless Sephiroth personally took the little girl out to have fun, give her a doll, a ghost storybook, or even let her create a few souls herself, and she could stay holed up in her room all day...
After weighing it over, he ultimately decided it was better to let Perona do as she pleased... Whatever she wanted was fine!
After all, this world spoke through strength, and Perona, with her Ghost-Ghost Fruit ability, had long reached a level of power ordinary people could scarcely hope to attain.
Even Sephiroth, if he did not use Armament Haki to