Golden brilliance collided with pitch-black clouds.
A wailing-like scream echoed through the false world.
Not only did the servants of death attack one after another, but the beasts created by Moran were also charging.
Blood and death splashed in the air.
In the center of the city entangled by the logic of war, the two leaders were engaged in their first head-on collision.
Moran tore through the pitch-black clouds, dancing with the wind.
He displayed a graceful and violent figure, without firearms or swords, only his strong and powerful arms.
He naturally tore, shattered, and crushed.
Even the planet was changing according to his will, and space was churning like his lungs.
Darkness sped, death spread.
A tsunami that swept everything, devouring everything in its path, while spreading at supersonic speed.
To make an analogy, this is the concept of death itself.
Anything it touched, whether soil, wood, or sand, would turn into mud.
This is the erosion of the grave; since tangible things are bound to collapse, no matter how much one struggles, it is difficult to escape the logic of decay.
Even Moran found it very tricky to deal with.
Especially since the Pale Rider has no physical form.
It is the embodiment of the planet's mechanism, and the best way to completely defeat it is to destroy the planet itself.
But, this is obviously impossible.
Anyone else might be helpless, but Moran has conditions that others do not possess.
Moran has mystic eyes that can gaze at death.
Even death itself, he can see through.
——The death line is quite faint, almost invisible death points.
——As expected of death itself?
Moran smiled slightly at this thought.
His mystic eyes can plunder life force by cutting the death line, and he doesn't know what effect it will have on the Pale Rider.
——But, I can try.
Just as this thought emerged in Moran's mind, and he was about to extend his claws to cut the opponent's death line—
A soul-cutting-like sound rang out.
The originally expanding darkness stagnated, and even showed signs of gradual collapse.
Instantly, the black mist constructed by the Pale Rider, as well as the magical beasts and skeletons summoned from the shadows.
They turned into powder like rot, turning into dust.
As if they had done what they were supposed to do.
All of them lost their form.
"…Is there a problem at the source?"
Moran couldn't help but frown.
It gave people an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
He hadn't even gotten serious yet.
As a result, the Pale Rider underwent a change.
If he guessed correctly, there must have been some change on the side of Tsubaki Kuruoka, the master.
The false world, the Kuruoka mansion.
Let's rewind the time a bit.
When Jester and Ciel were confronting each other, Tsubaki Kuruoka saw the abnormality outside through the window.
The moment she saw it.
Her legs weakened, and she knelt by the window.
The world visible outside the window was completely different from what it had been until just now.
The blue sky was covered by black clouds, and several skeletons resembling giant monsters were walking in the city.
The originally green lawn and the trees in the garden had withered and died, and ominous black smoke was rising everywhere on the ground.
"What… what's going on… monsters… they're all monsters…"
Fear was revealed on Tsubaki's small face.
When facing the Pale Rider, she was not afraid at all.
But, when she saw those skeleton monsters, she felt inexplicably uneasy and fearful in her heart.
She did not know that this was human instinct.
Humans cannot help but fear when they see the scythe of death.
In an instant, it sensed Tsubaki's fearful emotions, and a black mass made of pitch black smoke appeared in the living room.
Ciel and the others present were slightly stunned, and they did not dare to make any big moves at this time.
However, it was clear that they were being presumptuous.
The Pale Rider's only goal in coming to the living room was to protect Tsubaki, opening its black mist like an embrace.
It silently soothed Tsubaki's fear.
"Mr. Black…?"
When Tsubaki saw it appear, she regained a sense of security.
On the other side, the Pale Rider did not make any response, but kept shaking its form to block Tsubaki's view, so that she could not see the terrifying world outside the window.
Then, in a situation where everyone was tense.
Yuukaku Kuruoka appeared here.
"Tsubaki, what's wrong?"
"Ah, Dad, there are so many monsters outside… no, that, that assassin sister is injured!"
Tsubaki was so anxious that she shed tears.
She quickly ran from the Pale Rider's arms to her father's side, completely at a loss.
At the same time, Tsubaki's mother also appeared.
"Tsubaki, don't worry. Those huge, huge skeleton gentlemen are all your companions."
"…Companions?"
Tsubaki was a little puzzled.
At the same time, she was surprised by her parents' remarks.
What she cared about at the moment was the injured female assassin, and the terrifying skeletons walking around outside.
The first time she saw them.
She thought that these monsters had injured the female assassin.
In fact, the process was even more bizarre.
It was Jester who guided the Pale Rider to attack people, and the people he wanted to deal with were Father Hansa and others.
The female assassin was only involved in the indiscriminate attack.
She was not the target of the Pale Rider's attack.
But, as a result.
It was indeed the Pale Rider who injured her.
Yuukaku Kuruoka said calmly:
"Tsubaki, Mom is right. Those skeleton gentlemen are the same as Mr. Black."
"But, but, Mr. Black is different! Mr. Black wouldn't do such terrible things…"
Tsubaki's gaze glanced out the window.
There, she saw a battlefield where life and death were intertwined, and countless skeletons and beasts were fighting and biting each other.
A terrifying battlefield where blood and death splashed everywhere.
Just looking at it made one tremble.
"It's true, Mr. Black is the same as those. Mr. Black is responsible for protecting you, but those skeleton gentlemen are weapons. So it's no wonder Tsubaki is afraid of them."
The mother said, while protecting Tsubaki behind her.
Yuukaku Kuruoka was also like this.
Before Tsubaki understood what was going on, black shadows suddenly broke in from all directions.
They were all kinds of magical beasts.
The aura of death was released from them.