[Wake up for me!]
At the very instant half of Nusjuro's body was imprisoned by the Azure Ice Flower, his consciousness briefly stalled in "death" as his brain was pierced and the extreme cold ate into him.
An indescribable, uncanny power, seemingly rooted in the very source of the "world," erupted from the deepest reaches of his body!
"Imu's Supreme Blessing Contract"-the power of ageless immortality took effect!
Within the area covered by the Azure Ice Flower, the state of "death," frozen down to the particle level, began to be forcibly reversed by this higher power!
The ice crystals broke apart and dissolved from within, but they did not turn into water.
Instead, they simply "vanished," as though some rule had erased the states of "freezing" and "injury."
At the puncture wound in his left temple, flesh and bone regenerated and healed at a frantic pace visible to the naked eye.
His severed life force reconnected as though time itself were flowing backward!
Within just two or three breaths, every horrific injury Nusjuro had suffered from Gern's fatal strike was completely restored!
Even the enormous Azure Ice Flower dissipated entirely, leaving only crystallized ground, smooth as a mirror, where the ultralow temperatures had ravaged it.
"ROOOAR!!!"
The instant his consciousness returned, Nusjuro did not groan in pain. Instead, he unleashed a deafening neigh!
Without looking at his restored body, Nusjuro abruptly raised a massive bone hoof coated in pitch-black Armament Haki and stamped down viciously on the remaining ice crystals!
BOOM!!!
Haki erupted, shattering and dispersing every ice crystal and trace of cold around him!
Then he tightened his grip on the First Generation Kitetsu, and the cursed blade shrieked.
An unadorned horizontal slash tore through the air, cutting straight at the neck of Gern, who had just landed!
Gern's