"What is this?"
A week later, Rimuru, who had been planning to return to the real world for a vacation, was once again visited by an uninvited guest—Mu Feng Changge had invaded R'lyeh again, claiming that he had brought him a gift.
It was a blood-red arrow engraved with feather-like patterns.
Rimuru did not rashly take it. For some reason, merely looking at the arrow made him feel an intense, razor-sharp sense of being locked onto, one that would not rest until one side was dead.
"Well... how should I put it? A small apology from someone who would prefer to remain unnamed?"
"Huh?" Rimuru froze slightly. Then R'lyeh and Great Sage's analysis results came in. Yet aside from showing that the arrow had reached the unfathomable Sequence 2, there was no other information at all. It left him somewhat stunned, and he nearly called Nine Tails, Lilith, and the others over out of habit.
"I really can't think of anyone who would... Wait, this pattern, this feeling... Don't tell me you're planning to deliver a bomb from Phoenix?"
"You're quite perceptive." Hearing that, Mu Feng leisurely crossed one leg over the other and smiled. "This thing is indeed related to Phoenix. Recently, one of my kin has clearly caused you quite a bit of trouble. By both reason and sentiment, an apology was in order."
"As for Phoenix, you needn't worry." Mu Feng lightly tapped the arrow, and overwhelming hatred erupted from within it. "So-called divine artifacts are forged from god-level materials—Phoenix will probably never trouble you again."
"..."
Mu Feng's words instantly left Rimuru silent—
"What do you mean... Don't tell me you mean..." Rimuru stared at the arrow in disbelief. "This arrow... is..."
It had been forged from Phoenix's corpse?
"Ah, to be precise, there were three