"Ignorance."
"There are no secrets before these eyes of mine."
"But this is not a place for you to be reckless."
"It is absolutely impossible to strike His Majesty while I still stand."
"Stand down."
Jugram Haschwalth's tone was cold as he faced Kanbaru: "My eyes have seen your future—you will die here. That is your destiny..."
Before he could finish, Kanbaru let out a furious roar.
"Stop looking down on people like that, bastard!"
Before Haschwalth's slightly widened eyes, Kanbaru raised his Reishi-forged blade slowly, its edge glowing with a spiraling surge of spiritual particles.
"That guy Yhwach wants to kill me."
"You want to kill me too."
"Since you've drawn the sword—"
"Then either you cut me down, or I carve through you."
In the next second—
Haschwalth's hand moved to the hilt of his sword, and with a flash, he turned and slashed behind him.
Boom!
A burst of blue-violet Reishi surged out with explosive force, tearing apart the space itself and sending Haschwalth flying.
The strike shattered the atmosphere. It was a space-severing sword slash, condensed with the collapse state's overwhelming energy.
Even with The Almighty—his eyes that peer into every possible future and rewrite fate—Jugram Haschwalth couldn't fully avoid it.
"Stand down?"
"See my future?"
"You really think what you saw is what I intended you to see?"
Kanbaru raised his sword and advanced step by step, his blade humming ominously.
Haschwalth's expression darkened.
The future could be changed.
Each present decision caused a ripple—an instability in the pattern of fate.
This brat—he deliberately forced a choice that would distort the timeline, feeding him a false glimpse of the future to disrupt The Almighty's foresight.
It shouldn't be possible.
He's only a half-blood Quincy—how is this possible?
"Try it, then."
"Let's see how far your omniscient eyes can really go."
The moment his blade came down—
Buzz-B's Reiatsu vanished.
Still healing his Blut Vene, he had no strength to withstand the crushing sword pressure radiating from Kanbaru's semi-manifested collapse state.
"Kurosaki Kanbaru... you will die here."
Haschwalth turned coldly and stood beside Bambietta, his gaze icy.
"It must be acknowledged."
"Your strength exceeds expectations. I misjudged—Chergeh, Robert, and Buzz-B failed."
"But your fate is sealed."
"No deviations."
No one escapes the future.
As the Sternritter Grandmaster and Yhwach's second half, Haschwalth's Almighty had already shown him Kanbaru's death.
This mixed-blood Quincy would die—beneath his blade.
"Admitting defeat?"
Not far away, Robert Accutrone stared at Haschwalth in disbelief. Even the man who acted as Yhwach's Balance and right hand... acknowledged a misstep?
And Kanbaru—
He took down Buzz-B in one blow, then forced Haschwalth back in another.
That brat—what is he?!
So... I was fighting that kind of monster earlier?
Robert broke out in cold sweat, and instinctively took several steps back, wanting to retreat from this battlefield between monsters.
Yes, monsters.
To him, both Haschwalth and the half-blood brat standing there now were nothing less than walking disasters.
"As I said—try me, if you can."
The sword pressure sliced through the air with a shriek—Haschwalth's next attack.
Kanbaru raised his sword and parried, then slashed back instinctively—but suddenly stopped.
Because the Haschwalth who had been in front of him was gone.
He had seen the counterattack.
Omniscient and omnipotent—what a frustrating ability.
Kanbaru couldn't help but sigh.
The Almighty wasn't simply foresight—it was future revision. If a future event was observed by The Almighty, it could be negated simply because it had been seen.
As long as an ability or action was "witnessed" by the user, it would automatically be nullified.
In that sense, it was even more insidious than Kyōka Suigetsu.
Any ability already seen by The Almighty could not harm its user.
But herein lay its limit—
Such an ability also required Reiatsu superiority to enforce fate's correction.
Kanbaru turned, smiling.
"It seems you've realized it too. In front of your eyes, my future hides nothing... or so you think."
"You're right."
Kanbaru's eyes narrowed. "But didn't you misjudge me earlier?"
Haschwalth's gaze flickered.
Kanbaru continued: "I admit The Almighty is powerful. But no matter how powerful a tool is, its strength depends on the wielder."
"If Yhwach himself used it on me, I'd probably be dead already—instantaneously."
"But you? You're just a substitute."
Kanbaru's voice was calm and almost teasing.
Even if one could rewrite the future, doing so required spiritual pressure to override the subject's path.
Haschwalth couldn't overpower Kanbaru's Reiatsu—and that's why he couldn't fully perceive nor rewrite Kanbaru's destiny.
This wasn't a miscalculation.
It was a limitation of power.
If Kanbaru were truly doomed, why hadn't Haschwalth struck him down already?
And Yhwach?
Don't even think about it.
He's asleep. He won't awaken now.
So everything was under control.
Kanbaru had only dared enter the Wandenreich because he knew Yhwach was dormant.
"You still won't give up?"
"Your survival instincts are impressive."
"But entering the Wandenreich..."
"You're alone. There's no help, no escape."
"Still, your fate remains clouded to me."
"Foolish child."
Haschwalth's voice was grim as he slashed again.
He couldn't always see Kanbaru's full future—but even seeing fragments of it once or twice was enough.
Kanbaru parried without concern—until his eyes widened.
A sword slash was approaching him—wreathed in blue-violet energy.
That sword pressure—
It was his own slash being returned!
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