Within the trunk enclosed by a grove of massive, gnarled trees, Nawaki pressed his hands together, a powerful aura surging from his body.
Before him, two white, liquid-like bodies were tightly bound and twisted together by two branches.
Those two figures resembled melting white candles, constantly liquefying and trembling.
Nawaki's gaze swept lightly over the two figures, a faint chill glinting in his eyes as he said in a low voice, "Oh... no wonder I never noticed you before. So you'd been hiding inside that guy's body all along...?"
"But unfortunately, I've lost interest in you now..."
"Even though I'm still very curious about your strange power, this isn't the time to keep dealing with you!"
With that, his hands suddenly clasped together, and his eyes turned cold!
"Screech!" "Screech!"...
The next instant, the enormous tree trunks surging up from underground abruptly attacked everyone in the area.
Jirobo's expression darkened. Facing several massive branches, each several meters thick, hurtling toward him, he crouched down and raised his hands, seemingly intending to tear the trunks apart with his bare hands!
However, the moment they came into contact, the branches that had been attacking him suddenly twisted and split apart, wrapping tightly around his ankles from all sides.
Then, the branches rapidly spread across Jirobo's body.
"Screech..."
Feeling the branches crawling over him, Jirobo's face sank. He hurriedly used both hands to tear apart all the vines clinging to him!
"Hmm!?"
Yet Jirobo let out a muffled grunt.
Though the branches were easily torn apart, they crawled over his body again with startling speed, like maggots clinging to bone.
In just a few moments, Jirobo was panting slightly. His face looked grim as he stared at the vines covering his body and rasped, "They... they're... draining my strength!"
At the same time,