Inside the cultivation tank, every clouded eye on that deformed mass of flesh abruptly swiveled in unison.
They looked past Camilla, who stood within arm's reach, and past Hisoka, who was still locked in combat.
Every gaze fixed hungrily, unblinkingly, on the person they had never "seen" before.
On the screen before the Overseer, the glaring patch that had represented blank data all night changed for the first time.
D-04's sensory data began tracing a blurred human outline, stroke by stroke.
First the shoulders, then... the hand gripping a flaming longsword.
A cold new system annotation popped up in the corner of the screen:
[S-class specimen: visual localization complete.]
The Overseer raised his head and looked at the figure charging toward him again, a smile of fanaticism and cruelty spreading across his face.
"Got you."
The moment he spoke, doom closed in from three sides at once.
Boom!
Behind Bai Zhu, the pitch-black mech, Scavenger, forcibly broke free of Hisoka's Nen Threads. An ominous red glow erupted from its massive body as its thrusters went into overdrive, and its enormous ghostly blue scythe blade came crashing down toward Bai Zhu's head with an air-rending howl.
Bang-!!!
Ahead of him, the cultivation tank imprisoning the Pope's double exploded!
The half-fused mass of flesh abandoned all defense. Like a pool of melted wax carrying countless scarlet paper fragments, it became a tide of flesh and blood that sealed off every route ahead of Bai Zhu.
"It's broken free of the Main Box's control!"
Clutching the Replica Box, which had begun to smell scorched, Camilla stumbled backward in terror. The box had become completely useless.
Caught between the mech's scythe blade and the raging tide of flesh, the Dankū barrier before Bai Zhu cracked under the strain. Spiderweb fractures rapidly spread