Outside the circus, the entire Poker Face team, led by Jack of Spades, had fallen into a dazed state. Each of them released powerful disease abilities, yet merely hacked wildly at the air. Some had even fled far from the circus in a mad sprint.
The mysterious young man was completely unaffected. Keeping his eyes open, he prepared to step into the circus.
Just as he was about to approach... swish!
Another playing card came spinning toward him at high speed. Unlike the previous cards, which had only been stuck into the ground, this one sliced straight toward the young man's neck.
The card's surface gave off an unbearably foul stench of rotting flesh and was covered with countless tiny specks of meat, which served to lock onto its target.
Seeing that he could not dodge it easily, the young man stopped trying to evade it.
When the card neared his neck, the skin there suddenly bulged outward on its own. A gleaming silver scalpel burst through the skin... swish!
The playing card was sliced in half and scattered across the ground.
However, the threatening aura remaining on the card's surface only grew stronger. Clumps of rotten flesh kept sprouting from the back of the card.
The young man took a quick step and put dozens of meters between them.
At the same time, he focused his Moon Eyes on the playing card, shining over its surface like a spotlight. Unlike the suited cards from before, the card that had been cut in half was a Joker Card.
The Joker depicted on the card wore a vicious expression,
as if it had long since anticipated being cut in half. The Joker's image covered its stomach with one hand, as though preventing bloody intestines from spilling out.
Rapid Proliferation
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