Ash, who had seen all kinds of negative energy forms, could call himself a doctor in this field without exaggeration. Observing the forms of those "shadows," he swiftly reached a conclusion.
"These are probably all Rampage Energy—highly concentrated Rampage Energy fused together until it has physically manifested and become visible to the naked eye!"
But why? How had such a high concentration of energy been awakened?!
In a sense, these were even purer than the "Doomsday Monsters" created from energy and someone's negative emotions...
"But didn't we defeat the entire world's collective Rampage Energy back then?"
Hana, who carefully dodged the attacks before swiftly counterattacking, could not help growing irritated. Even if these enemies had no self-awareness and were easy enough to defeat once their weaknesses were found, their seemingly unlimited numbers still made them troublesome.
"A month? Or a week? How could they reappear here so quickly? This makes no sense at all—"
"Indeed." Ash, whose mind was almost as tangled as Hana's, cautiously checked their escape route. "Unless something is attracting them—"
He thought again of Kurai, the man capable of controlling and commanding Rampage Energy. Based on similar cases in other worlds, Kurai should have paid with his own "broken heart," then been approached by Rampage Energy as a bear was drawn to honey. By willingly accepting it, he had become something like its spokesman.
Could that man be secretly stirring things up again? No. I don't think that bastard, who could watch someone important die without reacting, has the nerve to show his face before me again.
"If that's the case, then what exactly is drawing all this Rampage Energy here?!"
Pulling Hana swiftly backward to avoid the spikes thrusting at them by the mass of shadows, Ash faced the countless hostile entities before him and