But this last-ditch struggle had no effect at all.
Just a few seconds later, the "Cat Returned from the Underworld" emerged from the "Divine Concealment Mist," wreathed in roiling black smoke.
The nine-lived cat was silently buried within the mist it had released itself.
Garfield's heart turned icy, an uncontrollable chill rising within him.
A "cat" with multiple lives was extremely sensitive to death. From the "Cat Returned from the Underworld," he sensed an intensely ominous aura of death.
It had already transcended the Magic Spirit itself.
But he did not shrink back because of it.
At this point in the duel, his odds of victory were already extremely low. But as long as they were not zero, there was still a sliver of hope.
Garfield suddenly vanished, leaving a black coin to fall from thin air where he had stood.
His true body had entered the "Curtain of Shadows"! This was Garfield's final hunt!
A life-or-death strike with no path of retreat!
From within that pitch-black shadow, the Anubis Hound's furious barking suddenly rang out.
It lurked within the shadows and hunted death.
The instant Garfield entered the "Curtain of Shadows," it unleashed its Ultimate Move—"Shadow Hunt"!
Garfield felt countless claws suddenly lunge at him from every direction. Though he tore them apart in an instant with "Iron-Shattering Claw," they caused him to miss his final opportunity.
Like a ghost, the "Cat Returned from the Underworld" slipped into the shadows and launched its final hunt against him!
"Whoosh—"
No one saw what happened within the shadows.
They could only hear, amid the background music played by "Divine Cause," the death-defying will of a battle atop a cliff.
Then the referee suddenly blew the whistle.
Having lost his last life, Garfield was reborn in the "Graveyard" zone.
The shadows receded,