Though Angel remembered Bruffin as a huge fat man, he had also seen what Bruffin looked like after slimming down. So when Angel sensed someone watching him and turned around, he immediately recognized Bruffin and Winchester.
What puzzled him, however, was that Bruffin clearly had not recognized him. So why had Winchester kept his gaze fixed on him?
Had he seen through the Nightmare Transformation Technique?
Only now did he finally understand.
Winchester's gaze had been fixed on his earlobe. As a Fire Transmutation wielder, what he had recognized was not Angel himself, but the Flame Mark on his earlobe.
Bruffin looked at Angel in confusion, then at Winchester. "What exactly are you talking about?"
"Didn't you sense it?" Winchester gazed quietly at Angel. "Though the fluctuation is extremely faint, I sensed it clearly in Lasudelan before. So even if it is hidden to the utmost degree, I can still feel it distinctly."
Bruffin was still bewildered and did not understand what Winchester meant, but the mention of "Lasudelan" made his expression turn solemn.
"This is the fluctuation of Origin Fire."
As Winchester's words fell—
Origin Fire? Bruffin reacted at once, staring at Angel in shock. "Could you be..."
Before Bruffin could speak Angel's name, a terrifying pressure spilled out from him. Whether the person before him was Angel or not, controlling him first was the right choice.
The moment the pressure erupted, more than ninety percent of the people on Magic Material Street crumpled to the ground, trembling as they looked toward its source.
The others had merely been caught in the pressure's spillover, but Angel stood at its very center.
Yet Angel did not lose his ability to move. Even his expression remained unchanged.
Nausicaa behind Angel did not collapse either, but she dropped to one knee. Though