The metal ring clamped around Hecatos's wrist. The grooves inside it lit up, holding back the hand pressing down on Bai Zhu.
Corrosive power struck beside Bai Zhu.
Boom!
A deep crater sank into the street, reducing paving stones and bones to powder.
Taking advantage of the Shadow Fist loosening, Bai Zhu kicked away the arm by his feet and rolled out of the encirclement.
"Ging, I was wrong!"
He grabbed the Asauchi embedded in a pile of bones, coughed up several mouthfuls of bloody foam, and raised his thumb.
"You're incredibly loyal!"
Ging yanked on the metal ring, dropped his shoulder back, and forcibly dragged Hecatos away from Bai Zhu.
"Cut the chatter."
Flocks of golden crows rose from the end of the street and swept along the rooftops toward his back.
Ging curled his fingers, compressing aura into a tiny sphere before his thumb, then flicked it out.
Bang!
The lead crow flew backward, smashed through two stone walls, then crashed into the flock behind it. Golden dust, feathers, and bones carpeted the street.
Ging did not even turn around.
"Find the seal's core."
"If we drag this out any longer, that giant squid outside won't hold up either."
Bai Zhu climbed up from the edge of the crater and wiped the blood from his chin.
"At least you finally did something decent."
A Shadow Fist struck from underground.
Ging raised his foot and stepped on the fist's surface, rotating his ankle as Nen pressed into the shadow. The half-buried arm hidden below was blasted out through the paving stones and flipped into the nearby ruins.
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll send you back to it."
"Don't. We're on the same side."
Bai Zhu retreated to the roadside with the Asauchi in hand.
Hecatos's wrist shrank, slipping