"Someone's spying on us!"
Angel, crouching beside the dock under the cover of "Invisibility," heard the shout and activated her "Affliction" Ability without hesitation, letting invisible pathogens spread through the crowd on the breeze blowing toward the sea.
As a Demoness of "Affliction," she could naturally control the disease's targets and range of transmission. Distinguishing enemies from innocents was simple at this moment—she only had to make the disease infect men. The slaves were all young, beautiful women bound together, so they would remain unharmed.
Then she silently retreated, soundlessly distancing herself from Mad Captain and his guards, the Sailors, while deepening the effect of "Invisibility" in an attempt to evade the hooded, cloaked man's search.
But in the next second, Angel discovered that her body had appeared amid the crisscrossing light of the setting sun and moonlight.
Her "Invisibility" had failed!
This wasn't due to a confrontation between Beyonder Abilities. Instead, it seemed as if she had dispelled her Invisibility herself.
In an instant, one gaze after another focused on the graceful figure that had suddenly appeared.
"Flaming Jump"!
Angel, who had prepared a backup plan long ago, didn't panic. She activated the Ability attached to the "Hypocrisy" ring and jumped toward the lantern she had placed deep in the jungle.
She had divined in advance and prepared everything at this meeting point, so she could naturally ensure that nothing went wrong.
But after the flames surged and swallowed her body, they detonated. The expanding flames didn't come from the lantern she had prepared, but from a lantern held by a Sailor beside Mad Captain Connors.
"Bang—"
Her figure jumped out of the flames, startling Finger and Mad Captain, who had just completed the transaction. Their eyes widened as they instinctively retreated.
The one even more shocked than them