"You damned bastard!! How is this possible?! Why?! Why—" Cobra urged the great serpent beneath him to hurry out of the gray-black poison smoke. His hands clamped around his throat, his face flushed crimson with pain, and he roared in hysterical disbelief, "Why can't I swallow your poison smoke?! Why the hell not?!!!"
With his ability to hear other people's thoughts, Cobra had actually learned Achill and Gerard's next moves right from the start! Achill would create a poisonous fog to obscure everyone's vision, and Gerard, understanding his intent, would seize the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to Brain!!
When he first heard their plan, Cobra hadn't been concerned in the slightest. He had even almost laughed aloud!! Are you an idiot, True God of Death? You're trying to obscure our vision with poison smoke when I, a Poison Dragon Slayer Mage, am standing right here? What a joke!!
Yet when he opened his mouth wide, intending to swallow all that troublesome poison smoke in one breath and ruin Achill and Gerard's joint attack, he finally realized something was wrong!! Unfortunately, by then, it was already too late! He had swallowed a considerable amount of poison smoke—
"Why? Heh, haven't you already figured it out, Cobra of the Oración Seis..." Achill curled his lips into a sinister smile and raised a finger, wagging it before his eyes. With an eerie chuckle, he said, "Did you think I wouldn't take any precautions against your ability to hear people's thoughts? Just as you deliberately guarded against my sensing ability, naturally, I took specific precautions against your abilities too!"
Having unleashed his powerful spell, Gerard landed beside Achill, slightly out of breath, and stood with him atop the huge, rounded head of the Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo.
Achill glanced at Gerard beside him.