[She nods, uttering a soft but polite thanks. She'll start heading out in a moment then, shuffling about the room to get on her boots and coat. That is, until the question makes her stop. The first one, that is. Would Mihawk really, truly, honestly hurt her? He has no reason not to...yet at the same time he did let her and Zoro stay on his island. Zoro was a given, because he was being trained. But Perona herself...there really was no reason for her to stay, even if she did play nurse to the green-haired idiot. Her skills back then were pitiful.

Yet still. There's a part of her that wants to think he wouldn't. The stupid and naive part.]

...Whether he would or would not harm me, I cannot be sure. [But she's not taking the chance, nor listening to that tiny, stupid voice that holds its belief. She's smarter than that.] As for his strength - he can cleave a massive seafaring vessel in one strike of his blade.

[And that's not even a fraction of what she's seen okayokay.]