Moses's words to the freckled girl sounded exceptionally annoying to Regan and Pame.
Asking the freckled girl to leave for a minute?
Wasn't that implying he would deal with them within a minute?
Wasn't saying that the damaged chair would be the last sacrifice in this store implying that he could resolve the situation without causing further damage to the premises?
'Stop underestimating us!'
Regan and Parme were furious.
They had always acted as they pleased, never once being looked down upon like this.
Despite his anger, Regan was always one to assess the situation.
If he cannot control the situation, he will usually choose to temporarily retreat.
Just moments ago, he had considered withdrawing.
But no matter how much he thought about it, in the current situation, with Moses in front of them and Shizuku behind them, it is obviously not an easy task for them to retreat from this place unscathed.
Regan's brain raced, and his eyes involuntarily passed over Moses and fell on the young freckled girl.
'If there was a breakthrough in this situation, it would be the freckled girl who had just been saved by that man.'
Regan's eyes suddenly became fierce. He raised his right hand and a ball of Nen flowing like water emerged.
At the next moment…
The iron sand particles scattered on the ground and even on the walls flew towards Regan's palm as if attracted by a magnet.
In no time, the gathered iron sand turned into half a black spike.
"Ah."
Seeing this scene, Shizuku finally realized what was happening and exclaimed in surprise.
"When I ordered Blinky earlier, I shouldn't have emphasized sucking out only the black particles 'inside' my body."
She sighed, slightly frustrated, and slapped her forehead with her right hand.
If the order had been to absorb all the black particles, Regan wouldn't have been able to reform the black spike now.
"Then, when you saw him mobilizing his Nen just now, you could have used your ability to stop him from retrieving his weapon."
Moses quickly glanced at the slightly frustrated Shizuku.
He hadn't taken further action at this time, as he wanted to wait for the freckled girl to leave the inn.
At that time, Menchi and Rat Jewel waiting outside will be able to support her, so there was no need to worry about the freckled girl's safety.
"Oh right, why didn't I think of that?"
After hearing Moses's reminder, Shizuku suddenly realized something.
Reagan and Parme were in no mood to listen to the two people's conversation.
Shush-!
Regan swung his arm, throwing the black spike at the freckled girl, who was hurrying away.
The black spike made a faint whistling sound as it shot straight towards the freckled girl's back.
He wanted to use the freckled girl's safety to force Moses to reveal his flaws.
Even if this plan failed, he could still cause a blast by detonating the black spike.
Facing Regan's ruthless attack, Moses' eyes turned cold. And he kicked the chair back the freckled girl had dropped earlier.
With a bang.
As his toe touched the chair back, his released Nen adhered to it, propelling it through the air to intercept the black spike.
The two Nen suddenly collided.
With a visible shockwave, the black spike lost its balance, spinning towards the ceiling, while the chair back shattered into pieces that scattered on the ground.
When Regan made his move, Parme dashed in a curved trajectory towards the dagger embedded in the floor, as if trying to retrieve the dagger.
The reason she didn't use the 'fluid' nature of Conjuration System to recall the dagger was to maintain its token exchange relationship with Regan's black spike.
Shizuku was positioned between Parme and the dagger.
Seeing Parme rushing towards the dagger at this moment, Shizuku was a little confused.
In the previous battle, Blinky's suction had no effect on the dagger, which meant that the dagger was an object conjured by Nen.
But now, although Parme could obviously 'call back' the dagger to her hand at any time, she didn't do so. Instead, she chose to retrieve it herself, distancing herself from her teammate.
"How strange."
Although she was confused, Shizuku immediately attacked Parme with Blinky.
No matter what Parme's purpose for retrieving the dagger personally, what Shizuku need to do now is to prevent her from doing so.
However, as soon as Shizuku made a move, Regan, who had thrown the black spike, didn't hesitate to intercept her.
Seeing that Regan didn't care about the result of his attack and instead insisted on coming to protect Parme, Shizuku suddenly thought of the ability of the two weapons to exchange, and immediately understood something.
'Is there a restriction that prevents retracting the conjured dagger during the maintenance of that ability…?'
With this possibility in mind, Shizuku immediately changed her approach and attacked Reagan with all her might.
The reason that prompted her to change her approach was simple.
No matter what tricks they had, eliminating one of them quickly would suffice.
A bird with one wing can't fly.
That's the truth.
Facing Shizuku's seemingly powerful vacuum cleaner, Regan, who had no weapons in his hands, felt a sudden pressure and dodged in a somewhat awkward manner.
'This rat…'
Regan struggled to dodge Shizuku's fierce attacks.
His eyes glanced at Shizuku's expressionless, delicate face, and a sense of unease appeared in his heart.
'She looked like a fragile, underage girl, with numerous bleeding wounds on her body, but she was as fierce as a Tyrannosaurus Rex in attack.'
Reagan suddenly had a bad feeling.
On the other side, under Regan's cover, Parme quickly grabbed the dagger and without hesitation, turned and threw it towards Regan, who was dodging Shizuku's attacks.
While Shizuku was attacking and suppressing Regan, she still had the capacity to pay attention to the situation on Parme's side.
After seeing Padme throw the dagger at Regan, she immediately understood their intention.
'They were planning to use the same trick again. When the dagger got close to me, they would switch it to the black spike and then detonate it, sending the black particles containing the Manipulation-Type Ability into my body.'
'But…'
'Wouldn't this man also be within the blast radius?'
'So, they weren't worried about 'friendly fire'...?'