Facing these utterly vicious beings in Hell, Asano Kiyoshi felt not the slightest trace of pity. Aside from the captains who had been forced into Hell because their Reishi was too powerful, those living here were all heinous criminals to begin with. There was no need to hold back against people like them.
The face of a wrathful ghost flashed behind Asano Kiyoshi for an instant. The next moment, as waves of nearly tangible spiritual pressure enveloped his entire body, a layer of sinister black-red flames coiled around the blade in his hand.
The Koguto within the maze seemed to realize something at that moment. They all looked toward where Asano Kiyoshi had been standing, but aside from the desolate sky, they saw nothing.
The next moment, Tai Jin's body exploded. Asano Kiyoshi's nearly berserk spiritual pressure fully manifested beside them, and amid the blood splattering through the air appeared a long blade glinting with an eerie light.
"Ten Questions of Yama—Third Question—Karma Fire Sigh!"
As Asano Kiyoshi's words fell, Tai Jin's scattered remains instantly burst into flames.
The fire burning upon the corpse was unlike any other flame. It was bright crimson, yet as it burned, no one could hear the sound of the blazing fire, as though everything had been muted. Only that crimson blaze continued devouring everything before it.
And that was not all. The crimson flames flowed like liquid. Even after burning Tai Jin's body to ash, they did not dissipate. At that moment, the fire seemed to transform into liquid, spilling directly across the ground and rapidly surging toward the others.
The flowing flames and Tai Jin's earlier misery made all of their scalps tingle, but after so much slaughter in Hell, they still possessed the most basic composure in the face of danger.
Extremely