As he blew the whistle, a surge of purple energy suddenly enveloped Kabane completely. Kis reacted at once, but she only had time to roar, "Get out of the way!"
Then the purple energy vanished completely, leaving only Kis standing there. But Kis had clearly lost every trace of life. Every shred of vitality in her body had been utterly extinguished. Rather than a corpse, she was now little more than a pile of human-shaped dust.
One guard merely stepped forward, making a slightly louder movement, and Kabane's last remaining trace in this world instantly crumbled into dust and scattered across the ground.
For a moment, Kis felt her mind go blank. She simply could not believe her eyes.
What kind of joke was this?! Kabane was someone Zeref had personally entrusted to her, yet she had actually let him die here like this! What kind of joke was this?! A thought flashed through Kis's mind. It's over. Lady Kyouka will definitely look down on me. I can't let this happen... If Lady Kyouka finds out that I failed the mission, I'm finished! Lady Kyouka won't like me anymore!
Kis's subordinates all gathered around her, every one of them wearing a panicked expression. In truth, what they feared was not Kabane turning to ash in an instant. What they feared was Kis becoming so enraged that she would take it out on them...
But Kis took a deep breath, as if suppressing the anger in her heart. She slowly inhaled again. "Come with me. I refuse to believe it... If I find out who did this, I'll make them wish they were dead!"
One week later...
Four people were walking across the great desert. They were Li and his group...
A week was enough time for them to do many