The next second, Nazca moved.
Without warning.
The golden patterns flowing across his body seemed to have been flooded with high-voltage current, their brilliance abruptly surging to a whole new level.
On the armor behind his back, golden light gathered and took shape. No longer abstract lines, it became the tangible form of spread hummingbird wings.
Those wings, composed of pure energy, were as thin as cicada wings. Unstable arcs of electricity flickered along their edges, slicing apart and vaporizing the raindrops around them.
Bzz— Accompanied by a high-frequency tremor, Nazca vanished from where he stood.
It was not that he had moved so fast he blurred—it was a complete disappearance, as if he had been erased from the retina.
Where he had been standing, the air was torn open into a vacuum passage. The delayed sonic boom then erupted with a deafening crash, throwing up a three-meter wall of water from the puddles on the ground. The few surviving panes of glass in the pachinko parlor by the street shattered in response, clattering to the ground.
This guy had gotten faster again!
Shotaro exclaimed in admiration, sincerely grateful that this guy was on their side.
That sea-blue streak of light, wrapped in golden arcs of electricity, shot straight at Daido Katsumi.
The gale whipped up the cape of Eternal's white armor.
Through the curtain of rain, he had already caught Nazca's trajectory.
At the very instant the streak was about to reach his face—0.01 seconds before impact—he raised his left hand.
A new Memory had appeared in his hand.
It was gray, engraved with a strange symbol that looked both like a vortex and a maze.
He inserted the Memory into an empty slot on the side of his belt.
"ZONE!"
The electronic voice rang out. Unlike ETERNAL's death