Kido remained frozen, unable to move. His ruby eyes glowed in the darkness like two incandescent flames. The silence of the tunnel was oppressive, each second marking an invisible struggle within him.
Rakahn, a few meters away, was trying in vain to get up. His body still trembled from the impact of the blow. The force of Kido's punch was unimaginable, as if several tons had fallen upon him. He wondered how many essence stones Kido must have absorbed to attain such power. His breath was uneven, and his vision, blurred by pain, revealed the immense gap between them.
Cliff, on the other hand, was torn between shock and terror. The scene he had just witnessed horrified him. Kido had nearly committed the unforgivable. The thought that he had managed to stop Kido just in time troubled him. But he could not ignore what he had seen: a crime that could have changed their fate.
