Under the silver-white night sky illuminated by lightning, this was the scene.
The blade of Nidai Kitetsu pierced Apophis's body, and blood mixed with rainwater as it dripped from his chest.
Drip! Drip!
"Is this your slash that transcends time? Not bad. Truly, not bad!" a hoarse voice came from beneath the mask.
"Sorry! For Kuina's sake, this is the only thing I can do!"
"But why didn't you follow through with this strike?" Koshiro asked, looking at the sword tip before his chest.
The other half of the scene was that the Seven Star Sword held in both of Apophis's hands had stopped right before Koshiro's chest.
"You've already burned through your soul. Whether I follow through with this strike or not makes no difference," Apophis said indifferently.
"I'd actually feel better if you did. The feeling of killing your own benefactor isn't pleasant." Bitterness twisted Koshiro's lips.
"I think you may have misunderstood something." Apophis's body moved backward. The blade blocking the wound was pulled out, and blood gushed forth like a spring.
"You'll die, but I won't."
"How is that possible?" Koshiro stared at Apophis's chest in disbelief. Where his heart should have been, the cavity was completely hollow.
"Could it be that you're some kind of freak whose heart naturally grew on the right side?"
"No. I simply moved my heart to the right side in advance." Apophis explained it as casually as if it were nothing.
"How could a human possibly do something like that?" Koshiro's hands began to tremble violently.
"But I can do it." Apophis's voice was cold. "In the end, you only saw one fragment of the future. You lost!"
"Yes. It seems I couldn't escape the fate of the wielders of Nidai Kitetsu throughout the generations!"
Koshiro pleaded weakly, "But could