"Roy Zoldyck...."
"Spiritual Morphine, Gusman...." Roy used the Target Tracking Technique to lock onto Gusman's position. This time he canceled all other viewpoints and focused his Telekinesis entirely on the green-haired boy. At last, he finally saw it clearly...
The so-called Substitute Death Puppet was in fact a thick Line of Causality that pierced straight up into the void from the crown of Gusman's head, its end lost somewhere unknown... Following that line of causality with his sight, Roy's pupils suddenly contracted. Just as his vision was about to fly out of the island at the lake's heart,
his consciousness followed his Gaze, and with a "snap~" it broke apart.
In the dark, Roy seemed to see a river, like a world-serpent coiling tightly around an entire continent, cutting off some kind of peeping from the Dark Continent, while at the same time... seemingly protecting the island at the lake's heart from harm, faintly warning him... danger!
In a daze Roy vaguely grasped something, lowered his head to look down at Gusman, and said with narrowed eyes, "So you're from that Continent."
As his words fell, the hired soldiers including the old commander Grant, and even... Benjamin "Reheated Pork" on the throne, their Gazes all sharply focused, snapping toward Gusman.
With his origin exposed, the green-haired boy simply dropped the act. He pressed his palms together and silently intoned, "Praise the Real One,,,"
He straightened his back and said in a deep voice, "That's right,"
"I am the most devout and lowly servant of the great True Creator, the source of all conjured things, specially entrusted with an Oracle to descend to the lower world and preach, to purge heresy, among which,,,"
"is you,"
"and you Zoldycks behind him!"
An uproar!
Gusman's sudden frankness was like throwing a heavy bomb into a tranquil pool!
The blast made old commander Grant and the others' scalps go numb... As Benjamin "Reheated Pork"'s personal guards, existences ready to die for him at any time, and to feed his Nenryoku, they keenly caught that "that Continent" mentioned in Roy and Gusman's exchange!
What is "that Continent"? It could only be the Dark Continent! The very same continent their King and His Highness hoped Beyond would lead the whole Kakin Empire to ascend upon!
Had they not seen... right there by the pier next to the royal palace on the coast, the Black Whale being overseen and constructed day and night?
Grant and the others stared at Gusman in perplexed shock, their minds recalling the intelligence they'd gathered on the so-called True God Church. Some odd details... suddenly all made sense, even... matched one by one.
Grant quietly glanced at Benjamin "Reheated Pork".
The First Prince of the Kakin Empire was only stunned for an instant, then returned to an unfathomably calm, overwhelmingly dignified state, as if he had foreseen everything and found nothing strange.
Only when he withdrew his Gaze from Gusman did he slant a look at Roy and say, "This isn't your home, Roy Zoldyck."
Benjamin "Reheated Pork" narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "You come whenever you want, leave whenever you want, without so much as a word. Aren't you... taking yourself a bit too seriously?"
Benjamin "Reheated Pork"... From above, Roy looked down at this First Prince, recalling all the descriptions of him in the original story. Compared to the Second Prince's "nerves", the Third Prince's "scheming", the Fourth Prince's "pure evil"... this one hid blade and edge, yet just by sitting there, he was an entire army unto himself, a nation, even... a world.
The invisible Nen flowing around him was as domineering as Silva's, yet carried a trace of royal authority that Silva lacked.
Clearly, the Nenryoku Inheritor of the Stars, capable of simultaneously containing the Nen capacity and abilities of 14 bodyguards, had invisibly granted him immense confidence.
Looking again, Roy noticed the strange "Nen Beast" squatting behind him, that seemed to be a "fly". As Roy's Nen surged, he heard Jinx's call. Just like when he first met Ging and summoned Feathered Parrot of Insight, this Nen Beast belonged to the same "rank"....
Roy pressed his palms together and softly invoked an honorific, "Praise the sun! Please understand, Your Highness, no matter how vast the world is, sunlight can go wherever it pleases..."
The boy said earnestly, "The reason I'm here is not my fault. If there is fault, it lies with the sun, it lies with the sunlight...."
"Ho ho ho..." Benjamin "Reheated Pork"'s tapping fingers suddenly stilled on the armrest. He actually laughed, a rare laugh, muffled like thunder, "dong dong~" exploding in the void, accompanied by the outpouring of kingly dominance raging through his body!
"The sun?" Benjamin "Reheated Pork"'s aura soared step by step as he locked his twin pupils onto Roy. "Are you sure?"
Heaven admits no second sun. For a thousand years since the world birthed life and thought, there has been, and can only be... one sun!
"That bastard Roy Zoldyck, could it be that he's using the 'sun' as his visualization object for Ren?" The old commander Grant instantly worked something out, and joined Benjamin in raising his head to stare at Roy in shock.
At the side, Gusman lowered his lids. Murderous intent overflowed from his strange double pupils as he suddenly thought of Jager Zoldyck. Truly... not a family, not a door—every last one of them possessed hearts so wild... even God would be startled and wary of their arrogance!
All Gazes converged, shifting in an instant from Gusman to the figure in midair.....
Expressionless, Roy gave Benjamin a faint look. His twin pupils suddenly flared into two blazing suns as he slowly spoke: "There's nothing to be sure of."
The boy's silver hair cascaded like a toppled galaxy, the tips faintly tinged with dazzling gold. Reaching out, he pinched a strand of moonlight and said calmly, "Above and below the heavens, I alone am supreme. I am the sun, and the sun is me, in the past, in the present, and in the future!"
"Boom!" Thunder split the night... Gusman jerked his head up, glaring at Roy with deadly intent, and shouted loudly to Benjamin "Reheated Pork", "Your Highness saw that, right? You heard it from his own mouth!"