"Who... are you?" The voice of the "heart" of the Death Announcer, or rather, of Gaunt, the former War God, rang directly in Abner's mind.
The voice was indescribably complex, sometimes hoarse, sometimes chaotic, sometimes like delirious muttering, and sometimes like singing...
However, the various thoughts of "desire" that had been forcibly stuffed in alongside it were completely blocked by the Pure White Eye and had no effect on Abner.
Abner smiled at that. "It seems that even with 'caution,' you're still quite dishonest!"
The Death Announcer had also realized by then that its power could not break through the other party's mind at all. It could even vaguely sense danger from the depths of his mind... as though the sun-like protection in his eyes was not protecting the young man before it, but protecting itself.
"Who exactly are you?" the Death Announcer repeated its earlier question.
Abner withdrew his right hand from the ugly "heart," took out a handkerchief and wiped it, then said meaningfully, "Who am I? Heh, you probably thought that after defecting to the Mother Tree of Desire, you could truly escape the methods I left behind, didn't you?"
At those words, the Death Announcer's heart throbbed violently several times, nearly causing Agalito, the King of Immortality, and the other pirates on deck to lose their footing. Thinking an enemy had attacked, they remained on alert for a while before realizing it had been a false alarm.
"Oliver Constantine?!" At that moment, the Death Announcer's heart uttered the name it hated to the bone.
Hearing its tone, Abner was slightly stunned as well, unable to understand where the Death Announcer's immense hatred for him had come from.
*Could Tolzna's intelligence have been wrong? Rather than the War God being killed and his Evil Spirit eventually ending