"Moshi Moshi"

Atop the cliff.

A brilliance as dazzling as a rising moon suddenly flared. To the people below, it was blindingly bright, overwhelming even the scorching sunlight in the sky.

Boom!

A majestic wave of sword energy surged forth behind Eclipse's radiance, colliding head-on with the torrent of flowers that had changed direction and rushed in. The first wave of cherry blossoms was completely obliterated, cut into nothingness.

The flower rain behind it, which had originally charged forward with overwhelming momentum, was also sent swaying wildly by the shockwaves. In the end, it completely lost its former resilience, shattered into pieces, and drifted down like ordinary petals.

In the town, the criminals who witnessed this scene froze where they stood.

"Prince William's flower rain was cut apart?"

"To unleash a sword strike like that, who exactly is that guy...?"

It was not just them.

William, hovering in midair, was also briefly stunned by the power of that strike, disbelief filling his eyes.

Turning a sky full of flower petals into blades was one of his trump cards. In the past, he had used this move to slaughter countless people who had dared oppose him.

Yet today, it had been so easily neutralized by a single sword strike from that black-haired brat?

Swish!

There was no time to think, because while his vision was affected by Eclipse's radiance, Noah had somehow already arrived behind him.

Two sword blades crossed as they slashed toward him, and the bone-piercing chill made every hair on William's back stand on end.

He shuddered in alarm and immediately willed countless tiny dark-blue petals into existence behind him. They formed close-fitting armor around his body while a portion of them automatically split away, ignited with ghostly blue flames, and coiled along Noah's blades toward his arms.

"What an