At Perona's command, the four Negative Hollows lunged at Xie Wen, Robin, Klee Meow, and Brook, who had only just managed to recover. In particular, the one Link Meow had knocked away took a wide detour to attack Robin at the back.
Xie Wen chuckled. Perona really was easy to read. Apart from Klee Meow, all her targets were the larger humans. But precisely because of that, she had inadvertently made the right choice. After all, unlike Xie Wen, neither Robin nor Brook had mastered Armament Haki yet, so they had no way to deal with the Negative Hollows.
"Brook, try leaving your body."
Xie Wen offered Brook the reminder as he shielded Robin behind him.
In theory, once Brook left his body, he should have been able to touch the Negative Hollows, which were also spirits.
"That's right! I still have that trick!"
Brook suddenly smacked a fist into his palm. Before the Negative Hollow could touch him a second time, his whole body collapsed first, and a faint green soul emerged from his mouth right afterward.
But...
"Wait! I only have a head in soul form!"
Just as Brook's soul head spun about in a panic, the Negative Hollow lunging at him arrived. The two souls slammed hard into each other, both crying out in pain.
"Ow!"
"Negative!"
"Sure enough, Brook can touch Negative Hollows in soul form."
With his curiosity satisfied, Xie Wen nodded in contentment. Then he calmly caught the Negative Hollows charging at him and Robin and smashed them into each other.
However, rather than reacting the way Brook and the other Hollow had, the two ghosts simply overlapped.
"Is it because they came from the same source? Souls really are mysterious."
Xie Wen muttered, then looked at Ai Haibara Meow, who had been staying