"If it really were that easy to deal with... I wouldn't have gone out of my way to pick you up. Murder, this is where I need your brains."
Leaning forward, Killer01 began explaining the source of the trouble to Murder.
"Actually, it's harder to kill than a cockroach... Before you came, I'd already killed it completely several times, but..."
Halfway through, Killer01 suddenly stopped, her expression turning rather enigmatic.
"Forget it. I won't say any more. We've reached our destination anyway. See for yourself."
With that, Killer01 grabbed Murder and jumped off the shock wave!
The shock wave surged straight ahead, vanished into the void, and disappeared without a trace.
Tap!
Murder landed gracefully on the ground, then raised his head.
"!!!!"
The sight before him sent Murder retreating several meters, multicolored energy gathering in his hands as though he had been startled.
Killer's Main Personality, who had been left standing blankly in place, had begun convulsing. Shadows flickered across her body, and she seemed to be showing signs of turning into that dark figure.
"Scary, right? This is actually why that dark figure can't be killed for good. Every time it's killed, it's reborn from the Main Personality...
...Then the Main Personality appears at a random spot within a hundred-meter radius. I can't make any sense of it, and I don't dare just kill the Main Personality..."
Killer01 stared gravely at her own 'Main Personality,' the dagger in her hand spinning without pause, but she still seemed unable to decide whether to strike.
"Then this really is my area of expertise."
Murder pulled both hands from his pockets. The blood-red power of anti-determination slowly emerged from his magic power root vein, every wisp of magic power breaking down and restoring everything around it to its original state.
**Step!