The Weak Have No Right

The Black Death's proper name was the plague.

In the fourteenth century, the plague known as the Black Death had swept across Europe, showing the Europeans of that era what true cruelty was.

Hamelin's Pied Piper was a somewhat horrifying nursery tale.

In the story, a small place called Hamelin was overrun by rats.

A piper used the sound of his flute to control the rats and make them jump into the sea, solving the rat infestation.

But the residents of that place chose to break their promise and refused to pay the agreed reward. So, one night, the Pied Piper took away all the children in the town.

It was said that only one child had been left behind—because an injured leg had kept him from catching up.

Using flute music to control rats, and to control humans.

That was more or less the extent of the Pied Piper's abilities in conventional understanding.

But the Piper battle spirit Gardner had summoned possessed another terrifying finishing move: the "Black Death."

Those "rats" carried an incredibly virulent plague virus.

Not even transcendent beings or battle spirits could escape it.

Shuten-doji had "swallowed" quite a few rats, and the illness was now hitting him with extreme severity.

Hirata Mei, meanwhile, had already entered her final moments.

Only Hirata's World was barely keeping her alive.

Qin Wushuang, Guan Yu, Qin Qiong, and Zhuge Liang were in somewhat better condition. They coughed from time to time, doing everything they could to resist the Black Death.

This was a battle spirit's ability, not a real virus.

Therefore, resistance was effective.

But this not only temporarily crippled their combat strength, it also made them afraid to act rashly.

The Black Death had entered their bodies without their notice and was currently being suppressed. Once it erupted,