Chapter 117: "Trying Out the Spiral Cane" (II)
Gelman conjured the Spiral Cane in his hand. Moving at incredible speed, he flashed forward and drove its sharp, pointed end into the thug's forehead with a wet thunk!
The thug died instantly.
Blood welled from the thug's forehead. Before he could fall—and just as everyone turned their attention toward them—Gelman pulled out the Spiral Cane and kept moving.
With a strange clack, a long whip shot out of the Spiral Cane, slithering like a black snake.
Gelman became a terrifying blur across the hall.
In the split second before the remaining twelve thugs could react, he swung the whip that had sprung from the Spiral Cane at their heads, blowing them apart one by one!
Bang, bang, bang—
In an instant, all twelve thugs had their brains blown out, and a tangled cloud of blood mist rose into the air!
If he had hit them elsewhere, the thugs might still have instinctively raised their rifles and pulled the triggers. But with their brains shattered beneath their skulls, they never got the chance.
Gelman had actually blown their heads off in sequence.
But from the perspective of everyone in the hall, the thugs' heads had all burst at once, inexplicably, amid a series of bangs!
People stared in shock as the headless thugs fell to the floor. Only then did they notice the figure in a black robe and Plague Doctor Mask standing beside the bodies.
He did it. The thought sprang into everyone's mind.
It was hard to believe, but that strange man had killed all thirteen thugs in an instant!
They held their breath, stunned into silence, unsure how to react.
Kurapika watched from among the crowd, his breathing growing increasingly rapid.
He had still been thinking about how to