"You were curious about who I am, weren't you? This is the place you wished to explore, the place you needed to experience. Now let me see what the Lord of Hell's heart really looks like!" As Naoko spoke softly, the scalpel slowly descended and sliced open Satan's chest.
An unprecedented pain spread through Satan's chest.
It could not help letting out a muffled groan. As it struggled violently, a dripping sound rang out.
Black liquid gradually seeped from the walls, while streams of black water emerged from the ground at some unknown point. Satan was, after all, a Hell-level existence; it had still broken through the blockade of this domain of fear.
More and more silver threads appeared where black water overflowed from the walls, layering over one another to block the water and prevent it from flowing in.
Seeing this, Naoko immediately quickened her pace, completely cutting apart the blood vessels and incantations connected around Satan's heart.
Just as she was about to reach out, seize Satan's heart, and deliver the final blow, Satan's six horns abruptly broke off at once, transforming into six masses of black light formed from incantations and shooting toward every corner of Hell.
The hospital scene before them instantly shattered, returning to the black landscape of Satan's Hell.
The entire Hell began to shake violently. The black water boiled, and countless imprisoned souls screamed as they burst out from the surrounding walls.
"You think this can kill me? I am—I am the Lord of Hell." Satan's body began to collapse, but its voice was incomparably ferocious. "Now I'll show you the true power of Hell."
Amid Satan's final roar, Naoko sensed a frenzied power awakening and gathering throughout the entire space.
Countless silver threads immediately surged wildly, trying to stop it.
But Satan