"Damn it, your blood is wrong. What exactly are you?"
The demon's voice woke Shade. The lengthy hallucination had corresponded to less than two seconds in reality; even Iluna and Tifa had no time to react.
His mind returned to normal, and the runes gleaming with spiritual light on the Great Sin Chains returned to normal as well. Yet their dark coloration seemed to suggest that the chains had changed somewhat.
Daknis's right hand recoiled as though it had encountered its natural enemy, swiftly releasing Shade's shoulder.
But the consequence of that was that the black chains piercing his arm were dragged back toward Daknis as well.
Priest Augustus's blessing vanished. Having had its power devoured, the Darkness Box ended its loss of control, and the surroundings returned to the interior environment of the Darkness Domain. Shade clutched his right shoulder and saw that the silver glow on the right side of his body had gone out. Half his body seemed to have melted into the darkness.
But in the blink of an eye, the abnormal half of his body recovered as well. The effects of devouring Darkness Power vanished completely. It even seemed as though devouring darkness had made him adapt to it; his field of vision was broader than when the blessing had still been active, and he could now almost see perfectly in the dark:
"Priest Augustus's blessing really is excellent. I have to thank him properly once I get out."
Shade thought.
She chuckled softly.
Daknis withdrew his arm, which writhed and transformed into pus, "spitting out" the Rune Chains that had pierced it. Shade, whose spirit had suddenly become abundant, leaped forward and used Laguerre's Leap to break through space once more, appearing before Daknis. He swung his sword down with his right hand, but