Moria / The Clear-Clear Fruit

However, a prepared Ahua and an unprepared Ahua were two completely different people!

His enormous rabbit paw instantly turned black with Armament Haki. Hovering in midair, Ahua looked at the ghosts surrounding him and swatted at them without hesitation.

Pop!

The instant a ghost touched Ahua's palm, it was like a water balloon meeting a steel block hurtling through the air. It twisted, deformed, and compressed wildly before bursting outright.

Ahua kept moving. As though he really were swatting flies, he swung his palm and scattered the remaining ghosts in just a few blows. For a moment, popping sounds rang out nonstop.

After scattering the ghosts, Ahua fixed his bloodshot eyes on a distant figure hiding behind a tree.

He could not see her from the ground, but now that he was in the air, that ghostlike figure stood out to him like a light in the darkness, instantly drawing his hatred.

Behind the tree.

In her astral form, Perona only dared poke her head out to look.

After leaving the Castle earlier, she had quickly found somewhere no one could discover, hidden her body, and sent her soul flying out.

Since she could fly, she had arrived here before Moria and encountered Kuta and the others.

She did not dare approach. Even though her astral form was completely immune to physical attacks, being in that state also made her perception far stronger than it was in her body.

She felt as though Kuta and the others were an ocean, while she was a fallen leaf floating on its surface. Though they gave off no aura at all, the power hidden deep within their souls stopped her from taking even a single step forward. Even standing behind this tree, her soul trembled faintly.

That blue-haired figure among the distant group,