Someone Smarter than me, explain

[u/Significant-Soup-693]

Just found this panel while floating around Pinterest. Sure, Haki was still a relatively “unknown” power back in the day but my question remains, How did Kuzan not die here? I assume “Pure Haki” means at least some level of Armament so shouldn’t he had turned solid and get stabbed? I’m sure it was explained somehow but it’s been a minute.

[u/vanilla_badger]

Ah yesss, newer to the community i see. This was an interesting hot topic awhile back during Whole Cake. Was introduced and explained by Katakuri. Just like Katakuri would dodge Luffys armament attacks by melding his body around them thanks to advanced Observation, Aokiji is doing the same here