As the Coffin of Eternal Darkness shattered bit by bit, Meliodas looked at the sheet of paper Uchiha Kazama had left behind.
It contained records of many things.
Some were even pieces of information he had yet to learn.
"That guy really did..."
Something stirred in Meliodas's heart. A surge of magic spread out, destroying the paper in his hand.
Just then, Uchiha Kazama, who had vanished, suddenly reappeared.
Before Meliodas's stunned eyes, he fell to the ground and stopped breathing.
"This..."
Meliodas appeared beside Uchiha Kazama's corpse in an instant.
"He's dead?!"
"How?"
Meliodas had no idea what had happened to Uchiha Kazama.
With the Coffin of Eternal Darkness gone, several other members of the Seven Deadly Sins appeared there as well.
When they saw that Meliodas had returned to normal, yet Uchiha Kazama's corpse lay on the ground, strange emotions surfaced in their eyes.
"Captain, did you kill Kazama?!"
Madara tightened his grip on the Sacred Staff and slowly spoke in a low voice.
"I didn't kill him."
"He just... died on his own."
Meliodas offered no lengthy explanation, only those simple words.
Madara had wanted to say more, but Uchiha Kazama's body had already begun to change.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
Roots spread out from Uchiha Kazama's body.
Soon, a large tree grew from within him.
In the space of a dozen breaths, it had already reached over ten meters tall.
Amid those ruins, a lush green tree stood out sharply.
"This..."
"Why did this happen to him?!"
Meliodas could clearly sense Uchiha Kazama's presence slowly fading.
At last, when the tree stopped growing, Uchiha Kazama's presence vanished completely.
"Kazama really is dead?!"
"But..."
Gold landed there as well. Looking at the tree before him, he could not help feeling sorrow.
He had only spent a few months