This was caused by external stimulation.
Shausedo's mind was currently divided into three streams: one for his main body and two for his Soul Attachment Clones. He therefore spent an extra half second confirming the source of the stimulation. It was the Combat Puppet positioned at the rear.
It was closest to the Aberrant Tube Jellyfish. While observing the other party's abnormal movements, it discovered that its tangled, slender body rose and trembled like a distorted ripple. This set the magma throughout the hollowed-out area in motion, causing even the thin air and the space carrying them to shake.
This vibration, and its manifestation in the realm of sound waves, directly stimulated Shausedo.
He was extremely sensitive to this frequency, this sound.
It was the distinctive grinding sound of structural disintegration in the Thirteenth District that he had sensed earlier, along with the sticky noises of flesh rubbing and being compressed.
Now, the sound clung to him like gangrene in the bone. It did not merely ring clearly in his ears on the level of mental perception; along with the vibrations, it continued to seep into his flesh, blood, and marrow. It felt as though his entire body would be drawn into the assembly and division of this chaotic Mo Fang's "living body," until his flesh was ground apart and scattered about to fill the gaps.
Perhaps it could be described more simply as... digestion!
Shausedo was an Extraordinary Species, after all. Pure sensation could not persist for long and had to reach a conclusion with rational analysis. One or two seconds were enough for the external stimulation to mix with the information he had previously absorbed, guided by a bit of intuition, and make him blurt out:
"It's going to turn!"
Mora gave a distracted "Mm," as though she