"That's absolutely impossible!"
Ravonna gritted her teeth and thrust forward hard again, like a woman gone mad.
Zzzzt!
Yellow sparks sprayed wildly.
Yet it still failed to leave even a mark.
"What the hell!"
"How could a sacred relic turn into scrap metal!" Ravonna shrieked, disbelief written all over her face.
"So you call it a Time Pruner."
"The craftsmanship is pretty fine."
Ren casually reached out and snatched the glowing baton away.
Ravonna froze completely, forgetting even to resist.
Her brain had shut down entirely.
Ren showed her no courtesy whatsoever.
Holding the baton in a reverse grip, he drove it hard into Ravonna's stomach.
"Aah!"
Ravonna let out a piercing scream.
Her entire body seemed to dissolve into thin air.
A layer of yellow light rapidly enveloped her.
In the blink of an eye, she vanished without a trace.
"Hmm. Looks like it's not broken. Works pretty well," Ren commented mildly.
"No!"
"What have you done!"
"You pruned Ravonna!" Mobius roared hysterically, his eyes reddening.
The next second.
He lunged straight at Ren like a madman.
The baton in his hand stabbed toward Ren's throat.
Ren casually extended a finger and tapped forward.
Bang!
The weapon in Mobius's hand shattered on the spot.
"My patience has run out."
"Tell me the truth. What kind of shambles of an organization are you?"
"Where do the people you prune actually go?" Ren's voice was bone-chillingly cold.
He had already noticed something suspicious.
This so-called pruning wasn't complete erasure at all.
No matter how thoroughly someone destroyed a body and covered their tracks, some information would always remain in the universe.
But the Management Bureau's work was far too clean.
Even the soul's imprint was deleted without a trace.
That defied all logic.
The only explanation was that they had been