Linlin looked at the exaggerated grin on Ron's face, and her heart tightened slightly. Seriously, couldn't he be happy without flashing that spine-chilling smile?
Ron didn't immediately step forward. He stood where he was, his brows slightly furrowed. With Zeus absent, he was torn, unsure how to deal with this impostor.
But... wouldn't any method do?
The guy had an immortal body, anyway.
Uninstall his family jewels?
Keep uninstalling them as they grew back?
But with Linlin beside him, he had to mind his image.
"Ahhh!"
A howl of pain abruptly interrupted Ron's thoughts.
Ron snapped his head up, his gaze landing on the figure ahead. The impostor was clutching his neck with both hands, kneeling on the ground in agony, his mouth wide open as a cloud of thick black smoke poured out from deep in his throat.
Ron's pupils contracted slightly. Was he inviting some demon or monster to possess him again?
"Don't... don't abandon me, great god! I'm still useful! Don't-!"
The impostor's voice came out of his throat in broken fragments, as though something had lodged inside it.
His body shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye. His skin cracked like earth stripped of moisture, caved in, and then-
Boom! A muffled explosion sounded.
Purple arcs of electricity flickered and leaped around him. Then his shriveling body suddenly exploded.
"Noooo!"
"Don't!"
Ron abruptly reached out, as though trying to catch something, but grasped only empty air.
Crack!
As the explosion subsided, a skeleton landed on the ground with a clack.
"Aaaaah!"
He dropped to his knees and slammed his fist into the ground. "Why?! Why?!"
Linlin stood beside him, utterly baffled. *What a lunatic. So he died. Was that really necessary? Such a huge reaction-anyone who didn't know better would think you'd lost a