[Illusion Technique... Infinite Void....]
"Buzz....." The Nen, using the Yin Escape technique, was projected through the Sharingan onto Dunn Westen.
The knight's squire, fond of wearing an open vest, imitating the nobles of the Samir Duchy, froze with widened eyes. His sword hadn't yet pierced Roy, but his pupils dilated as his consciousness violently shook, forcefully imbued with the entirety of the Demon Slayer World within 0.001 seconds.
His brain was utterly stuffed, exploded, and shattered with a tremendous bang!
[Hint: "Life Energy" +50]
[Hint: "Power Of Faith" +10]
[Abnormal Power Of Faith detected, suspecting... the other party received an unknown existence's protection, 10 points of "Power Of Faith" are unusable unless....]
[The host finds the source of "Faith", kills the opponent, usurps their "Divinity", and only then can absorb it]
'As expected,' the panel's hint sound resonated.....
Roy finally realized what that familiar feeling was!
The so-called "unknown existence," the so-called "divinity," since it wasn't the Thunder worshiped by the Samir Duchy, then... who could it be?!
"Puff~" Dunn Westen fell... along with the Nen Soft Sword which had not yet been thrust, clanging to the ground, serving as a wake-up call to Edmond Sand, who had just had both arms cut off by Roy in one swing!
The man transformed into a Rotten Torrent, numerous mouths opened in disbelief, exclaiming, "You're not a Viscount!"
It looked like a Transmutation Technique,
seemed like a Conjurative Light Transformation,
along with Drowsiness... bizarre Spiritual Impact...
"One, two, three, four.... Marquis, Duke, Earl, Viscount, Baron... damn it!"
"What on earth are you?!"
Edmond Sand came to his senses, as if suddenly grabbed by Dunn Westen's death, slapped a few loud slaps on his face, tremblingly looked at Roy, turned his head in a swirl of telekinesis, smashed through the window, and instantly fled... such decisiveness was astonishing!
"Ho ho ho... cough cough... what a thing... you are defiling a great existence!"
Inside the Sumeru Mustard Seed,
Riberi Garcia sneered, tugged his wounds, inhaled from the pain, grinning as he watched Edmond Sand's dismal escape, angrily shouting: "Desecrator, you will be executed, you will be killed!"
As he finished, in the villa's living room, the window near at hand, breaking would lead to the garden... it looked like an exit...
Edmond Sand suddenly heard a faint whisper saying, "Freeze!"
His body abruptly froze, glanced down... somehow, a Bud appeared in his decayed foul torrent-like body, this Bud once infiltrating his body, was like a dying stranded fish suddenly pulled by the sea waves, returning to the water, instantly becoming lively, even... too animated... a bit too frantic... resulting in.....
He could only watch helplessly in despair... as the opponent absorbed his Nen, growing furiously, in an instant becoming a small tree, branches extending, spreading to his limbs and bones, making it impossible for him to maintain his Torrent form, continuously shrinking... shrinking... further shrinking... until,
he was sucked into a dried Human, strung on the tree branches!
Soon, there was only one last breath left!
"Enough,"
"Don't force me to slap you!"
With the Bud Technique deployed... Roy flicked forward, hitting Edmond Sand, quietly watching him turned into a human shell as he was now, retrieving the Light Saber, flashing over, strolling to his side, patting the Heart Worm on the backside, sending it along the line of causality, just before Edmond Sand's last breath, into his heart!
"Five... five of them....."
Following Transformation, Light Transformation, Drowsiness, and Spiritual Impact... Edmond Sand's heart shook, noticing a transparent worm suddenly invade his heart, lifting its slender proboscis, jabbing on the spot, just like the Bud, started devouring his "despair," "fear," "resentment"... and other negative emotions....
Barely hanging on, glancing at Roy, eyes wide, he said: "You... you… you are....."
Before he could finish, Roy "shushed" him, sealing his mouth.
Then, the gate of the mind was breached by Roy in a blink, as his mind moved, invading directly, standing hands behind, on the heart ground....
"Crash~" Inside Edmond Sand's heart, his life scroll slowly spread out, appearing in front of Roy.....
Showing him growing up in the shantytown streets, eating meals from a hundred families.....
Showing him teasing cats and dogs, chased by a dog biting his butt, fleeing in disarray.....
Showing him stealing things on the street as he got older, caught by people, panicked and at a loss.....
At a certain moment, Roy suddenly froze,
spotting a familiar dazzling silver hair entering his sight, rescuing Edmond Sand,
The boy nearly lost control of his emotions, with Nen violently fluctuating, almost revealing his true form!
No other reason, the resemblance, too alike... Roy stared blankly, the owner of the silver hair unmistakably rescued the then Edmond Sand, telling the pancake shop owner caught him: "Hand him over to me."
And then slowly turning around....
Revealing the cold and rugged face that looked just like Silva's....
Roy's mind exploded with a "boom," consciousness violently shaking, "puff... puff... puff..." transforming into countless "slashing swords," instantly stabbing Edmond Sand's heart into a sieve!
"Squeak——" The Heart Worm was still devouring negative emotions, but suddenly, caught by Roy's meddling, it had no place to stand, discontentedly squeaked, rolling back along the line of causality.....
And, as Edmond Sand's heart completely shattered... his Nen alongside his life, due to the lack of "spiritual" support, could not sustain more than two seconds, leaning his head, lifeless at the scene.....
The Bud which had already grown into a small tree, displeased, trembling its branches, was given a fierce stare by Roy, shuddered, followed by... rapidly shrinking, reverting back to Bud state, quickly followed the Heart Worm into Roy's body.
[Hint: "Life Energy" +170....]
[Hint: "Power Of Faith" +25....]
[Abnormal Power Of Faith detected, suspecting... the other party received an unknown existence's protection, 25 points of "Power Of Faith" are unusable unless....]
[The host finds the source of "Faith," kills the opponent, usurps their "Divinity," and only then can absorb it]
Roy stood dumbly at the window, letting the panel's hint sound ring in his ears, eyes slightly lowered, expression fluctuating with the shadows, even Riberi Garcia inside the Sumeru Mustard Seed, through the constraint of space, relying solely on the waves of Nen, keenly sensed something.....
The man in his forties, having seen more dirt and filth than the salt he consumed,
sensibly kept his mouth shut, said nothing, but his experience told him that this young man... was obviously very emotionally unstable because of something.
Fortunately, time is the best balm, some emotions, some things, as long as the timeline stretches... will quietly fade silently, until forgotten, until disappearing.....
After silently staying by the window for a while, Roy forced himself back to sense, looked up at the blazing sun outside the window, with sunlight spilling down, illuminating and warming the earth.....
The boy took a deep breath, slaying alone with his sword those minions who aided the tyrant, acquiring another 40 points of Life Energy on the panel, then again released the Sumeru Mustard Seed, gathering Dunn Westen, Edmond Sand, and over a dozen guard corpses as well as those hypnotized "girls" altogether inside....
Finally, with a flick of the finger, released the Burning Truth, catalyzing a wisp of flame, burning the villa thoroughly from inside out, then immediately vanished with a Light Transformation, following the flow of light, disappeared into thin air......