"You can't escape! A snake is a predator that never easily lets its prey go!"
Facing the pirates who feared her, Mobius hopped down from her instrument and described a snake's nature in that cute voice of hers.
Then she raised her little hand. At that moment, the surrounding air became stiflingly hot. Of course... the pirates, busy fleeing for their lives and trembling in fear, did not notice this change at all.
Only the pirate captain nearby showed a trace of solemnity and hesitation in his eyes. His steps toward Mobius came to a halt.
There was no mistake. That was... the aura of a demon god.
It was not power that a Vision bearer could command. Yet he did not run. Though he had fallen into piracy, though he had murdered, set fires, and committed every evil imaginable—
He had his own creed!
He would fear no one... not even a god.
Still, he made no move to save his subordinates. First, because he knew he could not save them. Second... because he did not care about the lives of these pirates.
The helmsman was still aboard the pirate ship, and these ronin-turned-pirates could always be replaced no matter how many died. He could even take a smaller share of this cargo run.
Thus, the pirate captain chose to watch, staring intently at Mobius's every move.
As for Mobius, just as she made the air turn stifling hot, suddenly...
Thunderstorm Dance!
Though the weather was perfectly clear, dark green lightning abruptly struck at the fleeing pirates under Mobius's control.
The lightning was incomparably bizarre, resembling dark green lightning-snakes.
The pirates screamed as the roaring bolts struck their bodies. They collapsed to the ground, their bodies twitching without end, completely unable to fight.
At the edge of the dark