'Wha-- What just ' what just ' '

Aisa shivers. She clutches, against her own instincts, tightly onto Gan Fall 's chest, feeling the warmth of his body against the bandages and his overwhelmingly soothing voice as she realizes,

realizes

, what has just happened.

Their voices-- gone, in an instant.

It wasn 't like when Enel electrocuted Sanji. She could still hear Sanij 's voice-- the moment of silence only occurred for an instant, and immediately picked back up, slowly, gradually, as he regained his strength in his sleep.

But those two-- Hotori and Kotori-- their voices were

extinguished

, and suddenly, Aisa could hear painful silence where voices once existed, a gaping hole where a heart once was.

There was a wet squelch, a distinct

cluck

as something hit the bow-- but Gan Fall refused to let her see.

Pierre agreed, wings wrapped around them, on guard. Kinoko had flown off, going toward Usopp.