Royal Ripeness is a boss in Final Fantasy XIII-2. Due to a Faeryl ingesting the Black Hole Fragment, various Miniflan from the Archylte Steppe in an unknown time ended up in the Sunleth Waterscape at 300 AF. From there, the Miniflan undergo a mass-merging into a formidable foe whose existence is eating away the crystal pillar of Cocoon.