how to process fetch response from an 'opaque' type?

Essentially, you cannot access response body from an opaque request.

Adding mode: 'no-cors' won’t magically make things work. Browsers by default block frontend code from accessing resources cross-origin. If a site sends Access-Control-Allow-Origin in its responses, then browsers will relax that blocking and allow your code to access the response.

But if a site doesn’t send the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in its responses, then there’s no way your frontend JavaScript code can directly access responses from that site. In particular, specifying mode: 'no-cors' won’t fix that (in fact it’ll just make things worse).

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/43268098/1666071

And also from fetch documentation:

no-cors — Prevents the method from being anything other than HEAD, GET or POST, and the headers from being anything other than simple headers. If any ServiceWorkers intercept these requests, they may not add or override any headers except for those that are simple headers. In addition, JavaScript may not access any properties of the resulting Response. This ensures that ServiceWorkers do not affect the semantics of the Web and prevents security and privacy issues arising from leaking data across domains.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/mode