Cough! Cough! Cough!
Amid violent coughing, Anderson reached for his throat, seemingly unable to catch his breath.
With a crash, the glass slipped from his hand and shattered into pieces on the floor.
Cough, cough, cough... Anderson's coughing grew weaker and weaker, and his face had already turned bluish-purple.
At that moment, faint flames flickered in his eyes, while the veins on the back of his hands squirmed as if they had come alive.
Bang!
Anderson collapsed to the ground, twitched a few times, and then immediately went still. Even his breathing seemed to have stopped.
The renowned Strongest Hunter at Sea, a Sequence 5 Beyonder, seemed to have choked to death just like that.
This horrifying scene left the guests at several nearby tables frozen. Even Klein, who had little fondness for Anderson, felt a chill run down his spine.
There was no doubt that Alice had returned the doom to him.
Klein slowly realized what had happened, while Anderson, who had died on the ground, sat upright amid the silence and put on a performance of coming back from the dead.
He fearfully touched his face and muttered under everyone's gaze:
"Damn it, I almost choked to death on a mouthful of wine just now.
"If that really happened, I might become the Hunter with the funniest cause of death!
"Luckily, luckily, before entering those waters, I spent a fortune on this thing. It finally came in handy today..."
As he spoke, Anderson took out a doll woven from straw from a hidden pocket in the lining of his vest. Two eyes, a nose, and a mouth had been crudely drawn on it in ink.
The doll's surface had already been corroded, and drops of pitch-black liquid were falling from it.
In only seven or eight seconds, it