Barn spoke gravely, but the blade in his hand never hesitated. With its keen edge and the Seastone mixed into it, the First-Generation Onikiri easily sliced through the skin and breastbone of Enel, now no different from an ordinary man, exposing his still-beating heart!
Barn slowly crouched down. His hands, as white as jade, plunged into Enel's bleeding chest, seized his heart, and tore it out!
"Ah..."
The instant Barn's hand closed around Enel's heart, Enel's previously calm eyes flew wide open. Yet they were utterly hollow, just like Barn's eyes. There was nothing in them but endless emptiness and darkness.
In that instant, all color vanished from Enel's world. Everything seemed to turn black and white, then gradually faded into endless darkness...
Enel, the once-arrogant god who had dreamed of reaching the Endless Vearth, met the end of his life here.
The crimson blood and the still-beating heart, set against Barn's jade-white palm, made for a chilling sight...
Though Barn could not see, the ever-slowing pulse against his palm told him there was little time left.
Almost without hesitation, Barn swiftly reversed the First-Generation Onikiri in his hand and drove it into his own chest!
"Ngh!"
The pain was no less intense than Enel's two-hundred-million-volt attack. Barn's wound instinctively began trying to heal, shining with a dazzling green light.
Even the Golden Lion, who had weathered countless storms, felt his hair stand on end at the sight of Barn.
If what Barn had just done to Enel could be called cruel, what he was doing to himself now went far beyond cruelty.
After slicing through his own chest and breastbone with the First-Generation Onikiri, Barn thrust his sword hand forward. The blade plunged straight into the ground, burying itself to the hilt!
Barn swayed. Just as the wound in