The blood-colored "Leo" instantly transformed into a streak of Bloodlight and shot forward. The hundred-meter distance between them vanished in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, he was standing silently behind Leo.
Still watching his movie, Leo remained completely unaware, wholly absorbed in the small phone before him.
The blood-colored figure slowly expanded. Its vicious eyes peeked out over Leo's shoulder, while its hands silently settled onto Leo's shoulders. Its ten fingers gradually turned into fine strands of blood, splitting apart as they tried to burrow into Leo's body.
Its pupils also changed from a single blood-red ring into blood-colored whirlpools, like undercurrents spiraling in deep water, dragging in everything that entered them. In the outside world, they could devour an ordinary person's soul in an instant, completely erasing their mind.
It was waiting for Leo to turn around. It only needed an opening, a flaw that would let it hold Leo back. In a mental struggle, with the entire space assisting it, there was still a sliver of hope for success. At the very least, compared to the utter despair of before, its current situation was countless times better.
The strands of blood from its ten fingers gradually wrapped around Leo's shoulders and began to burrow into his body, yet they still triggered a faint golden glow that encircled him.
At that moment, it heard Leo let out a sigh from in front of it.
"I was originally prepared to let you go. Perhaps you could have continued living here peacefully. You could share my memories and consciousness. At the very least, you wouldn't disappear."
"But you kept forcing me to act. Forget it. I'll bury you completely first."
Leo naturally turned off his phone's screen. Then, with no more than a slight lift of his