Bang, bang—
Even with her shockingly good luck just a moment ago, Angel didn't dare gamble on the hammer clicking on a one-in-five chance of good fortune again. Instead, she pulled the trigger continuously, "normally" pouring bullets into Ms. D's body. At the same time, she slowly closed in, laying out strands of invisible thread that extended toward the opponent, guiding the black flame to entwine this tenacious Shepherd and burn her to ashes.
In her combat experience, this cursed black flame had a special effect on the Rose Bishop of the Secrets Suppliant Pathway. Yet on the Sequence 5 Shepherd, it didn't seem to cause fatal damage. Ms. D, sprouting specks of black flame all over, actually climbed up slowly under the hail of bullets, the flesh inside that horrific wound on her chest writhing and beginning to slowly heal!
Had she managed to keep moving even without a heart? Or did the Shepherd's powerful regenerative ability keep her heart functioning?
Ms. D even smiled as she used her hand to pull at the edge of the wound, dragging it to the side. In Angel's eyes, that wound seemed to be dragged as it drifted aside, while the defect in the opposite direction rapidly healed, just like a Magician's sleight of hand.
No, that really was a Magician's magic!
Angel suddenly realized that the opponent was using Damage Transfer; she was going to transfer the fatal wound on her chest to another location!
Amidst a suddenly surging blaze, Angel similarly utilized the Magician's ability, using the black flame covering the opponent's entire body to flash behind Ms. D. The ragged, bloody wound covering almost half of the Shepherd's back rapidly deformed under the effect of Damage Transfer, shifting along with the pull.
Flame... frost... In that instant, various Beyonder