Fifteen minutes later.
CRASH—
The beam snapped, and the tiled roof caved in, allowing moonlight to shine through.
It fell upon a figure.
Ji Yan basked in the moonlight as the gruesome wounds across his body visibly healed...
Ji Yan slowly turned around. On the other side, Onimaru sat collapsed on the ground, his hands mangled and bloody. His face twitched as he stared at Ji Yan in disbelief. "...You're clearly a [Devil] attendant. Why can you use [The Hermit]'s privilege?!"
Onimaru had never expected this.
Fifteen minutes earlier, his [Eerie Kusanagi] had struck its target twice, respectively sealing Ji Yan's [Tool Bar] and his movement. Thinking there was no longer any threat, he had approached—only for the other man to smash his jaw apart with a single punch...
What the hell? Wasn't he a Player?!
Without any equipment enhancement, how could he unleash such terrifying eerie power?
Clutching his bloody jaw, Onimaru had planned to ignore his teammate Nine Tails's cooperation agreement and raise his gun to kill Ji Yan first. Yet Ji Yan had beaten him to it by committing suicide...
Yes, suicide.
Ji Yan could neither move nor use equipment.
So he raised his right hand, hooked all five fingers around the crown of his head, and crushed his own skull, blowing his head apart!
That right hand seemed to be an independent lifeform. Even after the brain died, it could still claw at the body on its own...
Just as Nine Tails and Onimaru thought Ji Yan was going all out, preferring suicide over letting them clear the dungeon, intense discomfort suddenly struck their abdomens.
Onimaru was pregnant!
His belly rapidly swelled.
Then blood-soaked things came pouring from his lower body, splattering all over the floor.
As a man, he was having a difficult birth!
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