Naruto: From Konoha to One Piece

Shin sucked in a breath of cold air, but the voice felt even louder. He turned his head and saw that Page One and Kyros had the same expression. The three of them exchanged glances and couldn't help but show heartbroken looks.

"This is really a special attack on men." Shin felt a chill in his crotch and suddenly felt even wiser for rejecting Violet.

"It's terrible, it's terrible! Miss Violet is terrifying! By the way, when I wanted to see Miss Violet's panties, she wouldn't castrate me too... Although I don't have anything to castrate already."

After the cold joke, Brook felt the air become even heavier.

In fact, after witnessing this attack, not only the three men present but even Ulti and Pudding wore slightly guilty expressions.

Both of them were now wondering whether they had ever offended this seemingly gentle Violet in the past. If so, they would have to be more careful in the future.

"Alright, let this guy go," Shin reluctantly suppressed his unease. "Let's go find Gecko Moria and his subordinates."

"Violet, did you see which direction those negative ghosts came from? Let's catch the Ghost Fruit (Hollow-Hollow Fruit) user first."

Violet casually tossed aside the knife in her hand, nodded lightly, and began leading the way.

Shin and the others followed her, moving through the eerie castle together.

"Strange, why did a negative ghost disappear?" Inside the castle, a gothic girl with odd black-and-white eyes, looking both cute and eerie, stared at the ghost below her, tilting her head in confusion.

At that moment, a group of bats flew in through her window, and the lead bat began to report the situation.

"Oh? An enemy is coming?" Perona's face lit up with excitement.

"Horo-horo-horo-horo-horo! More new toys to play with?" Her laughter, like her appearance, was a mix of charming and unsettling. At this moment, she was completely unaware of the terrifying foes approaching. She assumed they were just more foolish pirates, like the ones before, ones she could toy with.

"I'll hide my body first, Horo-horo! Then, I'll go play with them."

With that, Perona found a hidden chamber in her castle, lay on a luxurious bed, and let a ghostly look-alike emerge from her body before it floated through the wall.

While Perona set out to "play" with Shin and his group, they were actively searching for her. At this moment, they pushed open the massive castle doors and stepped inside.

With a flurry of wings, a swarm of bats rushed toward them, but an irritated Ulti smacked a few out of the air, sending the rest scattering in fear.

"Really. Other than bats and some strange creatures, is there nothing here that can fight me head-on?"

The "strange creatures" Ulti mentioned were stitched-together monsters. According to Shin's memory, they were created by a brilliant surgeon under Moria.

Of course, these patchwork monsters wouldn't scare someone like Ulti, who was raised in Kaido's bestial crew. Instead, she gleefully pummeled them, her blows tearing weaker ones apart.

Unfortunately, she soon realized that these creatures only looked intimidating but lacked any real strength, so she lost interest in tormenting the "little animals."

"Isn't that what we were looking for?" Shin raised his head, spotting a mass of eerie white figures floating toward them. "It should be the ghosts from the Ghost Fruit user."

"Ha! This time, I'll blow them all up!" Ulti's spirits soared as she cracked her knuckles, ready for action.

Unexpectedly, before she could even make a move, the ghosts giggled and exploded on impact, sending Ulti flying.

Fortunately, she had coated her entire body with Haki to guard against negative ghosts. Even so, she ended up looking a little worse for wear.

"Damn bastard! Using such sneaky tricks! Come out and fight me if you dare!"

"Horo-horo-horo! Didn't I already come out?"

A moment later, accompanied by an eerie, ghostly laugh, Perona emerged from the wall, floating in the air and looking down at Ulti with a mocking smile.

"You little brat, you're dead!" Seeing Perona appear, Ulti leaped into the air, transforming into her half-dragon form. Black Armament Haki covered her head as she charged straight at Perona.

However, when Ulti's headbutt struck Perona, it simply passed through like a phantom, causing no damage at all. Instead, the force of the impact shattered the wall behind her. The falling rubble and dust only made Ulti look even more disheveled.

"Damn it! What's going on? Is she just an illusion?" Ulti frowned and lashed out with several claw strikes, but they all passed harmlessly through Perona.

"That's not her real body. It seems to be something like a spirit projection." Violet studied Perona carefully. "Physical attacks and Haki don't seem to work on her."

"Hee hee hee, leave it to me." Pudding stepped forward, her three eyes glowing red. Red things swirled in them, forming three tomoe.

"Weird… three eyes? Are you trying to intimidate me with just a stare?" Perona giggled.

"Genjutsu—Sharingan!"

"Aaaaah!" Perona, who had been smiling moments before, suddenly let out a bloodcurdling scream as the illusion engulfed her. Her spectral form trembled violently, blood seeping from every orifice before she erupted into a burst of blue smoke and vanished.

Shin hadn't taken any action yet, merely observing the power of the Ghost Fruit.

"Perona's spiritual body is different from regular ghosts. She isn't affected by Armament Haki," he analyzed.

"However, since she lacks physical protection, her resistance to mental attacks is much lower. One attack nearly obliterated her."

Under normal circumstances, Pudding's illusion would have only dazed an opponent for a few seconds. But because Perona was in her spirit form, without her physical body to anchor her, the effect was devastating. Her soul must have suffered a severe blow, likely knocking her unconscious entirely."

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