Horizontal Slash?!
He was startled at first, then his face filled with astonishment and anger.
You deceive a deity!
How could such a sword strike be merely a Horizontal Slash!
But he couldn't utter more words, for the form he had 'descended' in was already thoroughly shattered and no longer sufficient to sustain his existence.
However, before returning, he glared at Avent.
I will come back!
Wait for me!
His gaze carried such a message.
It wasn't a threat.
It was that he really would do so.
Avent, wearing a mask, calmly met the other's gaze.
Snap!
Amid the sound of shattering porcelain, the papal retainer's body was completely pulverized, scattering not blood but rather powder-like crystals all over the place.
The sanctified white disappeared outright.
Droplets of crimson once more settled into the skeletons on the ground.
Only a slight twisted aura began to rise slowly.
Avent 'looked' at this twisted aura, once again took a slow breath, as slow as before.
Then...
