"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"
White sand filled the night sky over Hueco Mundo! Beneath the cold white moonlight, it glittered like countless twinkling morning stars.
"This is simply unbelievable!"
"It's my first time seeing a Menos Grande capable of fighting His Majesty to this extent."
The mid-level Menos stared wide-eyed at the enormous meteor crater left behind by the fierce clash between the monsters—one black, one white, one small, one large—representing the two evolutionary paths of Menos. For the first time, they realized just how vast the gap between Menos could be...
The shockwaves released merely from the battle between Baraggan and Jiba were enough to make them tremble in fear! If any of them so much as considered entering the fight, they would be crushed the instant they stepped onto the battlefield by the endless deathly aura of "aging" and the ultimate berserk power of "evolution."
Boom!
No one knew how long Baraggan and Jiba had been fighting. As a violent gust swept through the area, Jiba fired a crimson Cero from his mouth at Baraggan. Yet once the dust settled, Baraggan, protected by his deathly aura, remained completely unharmed! Still, after fighting to this point, Baraggan finally began panting heavily, a rare sight indeed.
"Huff, huff..."
For the first time, Baraggan felt that perhaps he had grown old. While aging others, he himself seemed to be aging as well! Yes, that power of "aging" was powerful, but every use seemed to place an unimaginable burden on his body.
"Have you vented enough, beast?"
After catching his breath, Baraggan looked coldly at the still-enormous Jiba before him.
"My name isn't Beast. I have my own name... Kumbhira!"
Jiba revealed his true name to Baraggan. Deep down, he still acknowledged Baraggan.
"Hm? Why is your name different from before?!"
Baraggan froze