Cordis naturally couldn't let Youpi stop Gon and Killua from reaching the second floor. After exchanging a glance with Shoot behind him,
he picked up speed.
He leaped straight into the air and kicked at Youpi's face. As expected, the kick did little against Youpi.
Youpi quickly blocked Cordis's kick with one of his hands.
But just as Youpi thought that round of attacks was over, a sudden pain struck the left side of his face. Someone had rushed up without him noticing.
The punch wasn't particularly powerful, but it landed squarely on his left cheek, sending him staggering to the left again.
Gon and Killua seized the opportunity to get past the steps and race upstairs.
Seeing the two run upstairs, Youpi's fury reached its peak. However dim he might have been, even he knew he'd been played.
Youpi stood there roaring in fury. As his roars grew louder, Cordis and Shoot sensed something ominous and leaped as far away from him as they could.
Youpi's already unsightly upper body began melding together again like modeling clay. At last, Cordis felt that same oppressive presence he'd experienced when he first encountered Neferpitou.
That fear, burned into his DNA through pain, made his legs go weak.
His legs trembled so violently that he had to crouch down. Beside him, Shoot looked at his pale face and sweat-beaded temples, his own expression unchanged. "Are you all right?"
Cordis shook his head at the question, then stood again after taking several deep breaths.
Meanwhile, after a series of grotesque transformations as Youpi's upper body broke apart and fused back together, it finally stopped. His head now resembled a ball of flesh, covered in dozens of pairs of eyes of varying sizes.
Those eyes swiveled aimlessly in every direction.
The sight alone filled