Yongye appeared silently before him, less than two steps away, as if he had crossed space itself.
Jaeo looked up. Only one expression remained on his stone-like face: helpless despair.
Yongye looked down at him and clenched his right fist. A dark golden glow covered the knuckles of his Golden Cloth.
"Be a good person in your next life."
The fist fell.
Jaeo's head burst like a shattered clay jar. Golden blood splashed across the surrounding wheat stalks, and his body toppled backward like a discarded sandbag. It hit the field and lay still.
Yongye withdrew his hand, shook the golden blood from his knuckles, and turned away.
A cheerful system chime sounded in his mind.
[Ding! Kryptonian adjutant Faora has been detected. She was killed in a single strike by the host's Rozan Rising Dragon Strike. Ultimate mental breakdown.] [Heartbreak points have exceeded the limit. Super Blind Box ×1 obtained. Open it now?]
"Open it," Yongye murmured.
[Ding! Super Blind Box opened! Congratulations, host. Reward obtained: Virgo Shaka's Heavenly Dance Treasure Wheel from the world of Saint Seiya!]
A flood of memories rushed into his mind. Within his Clear Sword Heart, the laws of the Six Paths of Reincarnation were swiftly broken down, reassembled, and woven into his fighting style, like a new blade sliding into its sheath.
Yongye closed his eyes and felt it for a moment. Then he opened them and looked toward the eastern sky.
In the distance, the flames above Metropolis had yet to die out. Several figures could be seen battling high in the air.
"Zod..."
He murmured the name, a smile slowly curving his lips.
"You're next."
Then he vanished from the edge of the wheat field. A golden gleam lingered where he had stood for an instant, like