Lynn smiled. "Didn't you tell him these were offerings for me? Hmm?"
Bai Yi said, (ŎдŎ;), "I... I did, but he didn't take you seriously at all, Big Brother. He even said you weren't worth shit, and that even if you came out, he could use one hand to..."
Smack-
Bai Yi was instantly slapped to the ground, face-first.
"Big Brother, why did you hit me again?"
Bai Yi protested bitterly.
Lynn closed his eyes. "Spare me the embellishments. This isn't a movie, and nobody's watching. I don't have much time left, so I'll forgive you this once. But if you dare ruin things for me at the last possible second again, don't blame me for turning you into a human candle and hanging you from a flagpole like a sausage. Understood?"
In an instant.
Lynn abruptly turned his head, and the Evil Spirit immediately saw the bizarre, sinister smile on his face.
"Run!!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he roared and spun around, his twisted body about to merge into the surrounding spectral energy.
Almost the instant he saw that expression.
He knew.
Against a monster from Hell like this, a Surface World Evil Spirit like him had virtually no chance of winning.
But almost the moment he turned, he felt a raging storm behind him. With a terrified glance from the corner of his eye, he saw the hand Lynn had extended toward him split and twist into countless tentacles, lashing wildly toward him like venomous snakes.
"You dared eat my offerings. You ought to spit them back out."
That amused voice sounded like the Grim Reaper coming to claim his life.
Whoosh-
In an instant, blade-like tentacles wound fiercely around his legs. In terror, he thrust his hands forward, trying to reach the surrounding mist, but the surging