Jashin Antenmaru, Unable to Cry Despite Wanting To! (Bonus Chapter 57 for Book-Reading Nobody's Alliance Leader)
"No... impossible!!!"
The purple beam of light that had cut across half of Shogun Castle was torn apart from the middle.
It scattered into countless chaotic motes of dark spiritual energy.
Meanwhile, the cherry-red streak of light wrapped in black-red lightning did not slow in the slightest.
With unstoppable force and a trajectory precise to a terrifying degree.
Amid Antenmaru's desperate, furious, and terrified roars.
It first effortlessly tore apart the charred arms it had hastily raised in front of itself.
Then it pierced straight through the center of its chest.
"Gahhhhh!"
An unbearable howl of pain and madness burst from Antenmaru's mouth.
Yet the cherry-red streak had not exhausted its momentum.
Dragging the pierced body of the evil god along, it descended like a Judgment Sword falling from the heavens.
Firmly pinning this evil god, demon god, and Jashin—who believed itself immortal and indestructible, who had existed for a thousand years, and whom onmyoji throughout history had been powerless against—
To the rubble-strewn, waterlogged ground before Paradise Bridge.
[BOOM—]
The earth shook violently as dust, water columns, and purple spiritual radiance shot into the sky.
The next second.
The Haki lightning condensed to its absolute limit erupted from the cherry-red streak embedded diagonally through Antenmaru.
[Crackle!]
Like a red-hot branding iron plunged into ice and snow, or holy lightning purifying filth.
Countless black-red bolts surged from the wound where the Jashin had been pinned.
Like living serpents of destruction.
They rampaged, slithered, and annihilated everything within and around its enormous dark spiritual body.
"No!"
"What kind of energy is this?!"
"I can't resist it. I can't stop it... I can't regenerate..."
Antenmaru finally let out one last unwilling roar.
Its struggles grew weaker and weaker.
Its enormous body as a Jashin turned into black mist and completely dispersed into