Schrift Seal!

"Impossible!"

Faced with Chiba Makoto's answer, Giselle looked as though she had seen a ghost. Her face twisted as she spoke.

"I don't believe it! That's absolutely impossible—it must be because there wasn't enough blood!"

As Giselle spoke, she reached up and tore at the part of her body that had been blasted apart. While forcibly spraying out a sheet of blood, her entire body rapidly entered the Schrift state.

But before Giselle could make any move,

eight enormous trees resembling spears abruptly burst from the ground around her.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

The eight spear-like trees closed in, instantly swallowing Giselle's already petite figure whole.

Only vast amounts of blood splattered from the gaps between the eight giant trees, turning Liltotto and Minina pale.

"Aah! Giselle's spiritual pressure—her spiritual pressure is completely gone!"

"D-Don't come any closer..."

At that moment, Minina and Liltotto fully realized the unimaginably vast gap between them.

If Gadis's defeat had merely been an accident, then Giselle's was an utterly one-sided crushing defeat.

The entire process had been as easy and simple for Chiba Makoto as crushing an ant.

Yet, faced with the panicked Minina and Liltotto, Chiba Makoto wore an innocent, gentle smile and said,

"Don't be afraid. I'm not a bad person."

In an instant, Minina and Liltotto became even more terrified. Chiba Makoto's words alone scared them directly into their Schrift states.

Even Chiba Makoto felt a little helpless at the sight.

Why was it that whenever he told the truth, no one believed him?

Did people simply not like hearing the truth?

The reason Chiba Makoto had instantly killed Giselle was simply that, while Giselle's ability might not work on him, it could potentially create a huge hidden danger.

Since Giselle could use her blood to control Soul Reapers, she could surely