Research Institute, underground shelter.
Amado, his face covered in dust, looked up toward the surface. "Is it over?"
The shelter was already in ruins. Although it had been reinforced inside and out and built hundreds of meters underground, the battle between the "Kekkei Mōra" on the surface had still reached it, destroying large sections of the shelter.
The command center hadn't escaped either; a large section had collapsed.
Scorpion said, "It should be over, right? The shaking's stopped!"
Daemon looked at his sister, Ada. "Who won?"
Ada shook her head gravely.
Her Telescopic Eye had once been unfailing, but lately she had suffered one setback after another. Even now, she couldn't observe the battle on the surface. Through her Telescopic Eye, the entire surface was a blur.
Amado pushed his crooked glasses back up the bridge of his nose and analyzed the situation. "Since the lord chose to set an ambush here, he must have made every possible preparation."
"Yeah!"
Scorpion nodded in agreement this time.
From "B" disguising himself as Shinji to fight, to "I" and Kaguya Otsutsuki, two "Kekkei Mōra," suddenly appearing and joining forces with "B" to ambush Otsutsuki Shibai, this chain of developments all showed that Shinji hadn't completely lost control of the situation.
On the surface.
Watching Otsutsuki Shibai kneel on the ground and slowly decay, Karin let out a long breath of relief. "We finally got rid of that guy!"
Disguised as Shinji, Karin had been under tremendous pressure the whole time. Especially after Otsutsuki Shibai gained the power of the Overlord of Fear and his strength soared to the peak of the "Kekkei Mōra," she had even prepared herself to die in battle.
Fortunately, Otsutsuki Shibai's fear of Shinji was ingrained in his very bones. So when he realized his opponent wasn't Shinji,