Chapter 1412: Weng Faluos 3.5 (442)

Demon Slayer.

"Ah?? Where is my Xilian? Where did my big Xilian go??"

"Why did it suddenly disappear without a sound?"

Zenitsu's eyes widened in an instant, and he looked in terror at the spot where Xilian had vanished.

The gloomy voice, the vivid red jellyfish……no matter how you look at it, it's very strange!

"So why did Xilian call that sound 'Olohnis'? When did Olohnis gain the ability to summon red jellyfish?" Tanjiro was equally puzzled; that instant ability to make someone disappear didn't look at all like something related to "time".

That icy female voice, hearing it, somehow reminded me of March 7th.

But does March 7th speak like that?

No, the March 7th I remember has always been cheerful and lively; even when feeling down and sad, she would never use that gloomy tone to talk to people.

Moreover, this jellyfish looks completely unrelated to March 7th's Six-Phase Ice ability……

"I get it! That female voice is from Liuguang Yiting!" Zenitsu, who had been completely confused just a moment ago, slapped his forehead, "I completely understand! It's the people from Liuguang Yiting who came to Weng Faluos, which is why it seemed like we hadn't seen them before—they were all hiding, preparing to kidnap Xilian at this crucial moment!"

"Kidnap? But I feel like I'm rescuing Xilian." Tanjiro raised an objection.

"I'm not entirely sure either, but only the people from Liuguang Yiting have the ability to snatch Xilian from Laigushi's hands? And they only rescue Xilian, not Star, which makes the meaning very clear……"

Zenitsu's gaze sank slightly, and he said solemnly, "…They can only interfere with people related to 'memory'; as for others, they don't care. If the intervener were March 7th, she would definitely try every means to rescue Star as well."

This reasoning convinced Tanjiro, who nodded in agreement: "That makes sense……If the one who acted really was March 7th, facing Star trapped in prison, she could never just stand by and do nothing."

——

"The time of judgment has arrived. Your Excellency Star, the prison I built for you is already complete……" Laigushi slowly spread his hands, "In the name of 'Wisdom', I invite you——to step into the same cage as me."

Seeing the ill-intentioned arrival, Star immediately pulled out a bat to prepare for battle. But at the moment she was about to act——her body froze.

A dazzling beam of light lit up in Laigushi's hand, and at the same time, countless red garbled data began to seep out from the surface of Star's body, as if her existence had become a 'fallacy' in this place, forcibly locked by the system. Her body began to flicker and deform continuously, and she could only watch helplessly as Laigushi stepped closer step by step.

At this critical moment, Caesar slammed the piece in his hand hard; the next instant, the blade shimmering with water waves thrust straight toward Laigushi's throat, and Hesyin arrived instantly——

Caesar was just a hair's breadth away from being beheaded.

But it showed no hurry, and instead, a hint of curiosity arose in its words: "Your Highness Caesar, what is this?"

"I never permitted you to act." Caesar slowly rose, walking slowly toward Laigushi beneath the throne, "My fate can only be decided by the monarch."

"But, Your Highness Caesar……"

Like an old scholar casually opening the front page of a book, Laigushi stretched out his left hand, pinching forward with two fingers.

"Clang——"

The sound of metal biting tightly together rang out.

Hesyin stared in disbelief at what lay before her, seeing Laigushi alternately speaking with Caesar while lightly pinching her blade with two fingers. This time, no matter how hard she exerted, she could never push the blade forward even half an inch.

"It is not the monarch who judges fate……"

Laigushi gave a light flick, and Hesyin instantly felt an unparalleled immense force transmitted from the blade, causing her to stagger backward several steps.

"But——"

Laigushi pressed his palms together; the garbled data on Star's body, like an eraser rubbing away, erased large patches of her 'existence'. When the dazzling light finally faded, her position was already empty.

"God."

——

One-Punch Man.

"Blocking Hesyin's attack with just two fingers……Looks like it being beheaded countless times by Bai'e before was all just a 'performance'. When it really gets serious, the Golden Heirs have no power to resist at all."

"And Star……she also vanished like Xilian did; this amounts to directly kicking Star out of Fire Pursuit Journey. Is that its administrator privilege? That's just too unreasonable……"

Although Laigushi's words were extremely arrogant, after Atom Swordsman personally witnessed Laigushi's gesture making Star disappear, he also began to doubt whether this so-called 'Ultimate Agreement' actually works. In the previous thirty million cycles of reincarnation, was it unable to act, or did it choose not to act?

For some reason, the feeling of futility that Bai'e once experienced surged up from Atom Swordsman's heart again; no matter what efforts Star, the Golden Heirs, and others made, Laigushi could easily destroy everything.

……It's completely unreasonable.

"If its authority is that powerful, why didn't it just lock Star up in a cage from the start?" Child Emperor frowned slightly, "And doing that would mean it completely broke the Ultimate Agreement, right? This makes no sense at all."

"No, Child Emperor, do you still remember the space Laigushi previously dragged Star into? Its so-called 'Mythos Beyond'……" Drive Knight reminded, "Back then, Star had indeed come into contact with a screen."

Child Emperor lowered his head to recall: "I remember, that screen marked Star as an 'Abnormal Quantity', then executed a 'Record Command'."

"Exactly; looking at it now, marking Star as an 'Abnormal', then creating a separate cage, extracting the marked 'Abnormal Quantity' from the scepter's operation……that is Laigushi's true purpose for pulling Star aside for a private talk. From the very beginning, Laigushi made two preparations: if Star agreed not to interfere with Fire Pursuit Journey, that would naturally be best; if she disagreed, it also had forcible means to eliminate interference."

"That bastard really made plenty of preparations." Metal Bat's teeth clenched with a 'gek-gek' sound, "Now Xilian is missing, Star is also missing; how are we supposed to contend with Laigushi? If it wants to, can it also erase Caesar, Hesyin, and the rest all at once?"