Everyone turned toward the voice, only to see Imu, who had already been reduced to dust, appear in the sky once again.
But Imu no longer looked human. He had no limbs or body, only a head, and even that head looked insubstantial. Eerie wisps of smoke curled around it, making him look like a ghost.
For a moment, the atmosphere suddenly turned otherworldly.
Imu, floating overhead, suddenly shuddered, his entire ghostly form rippling. Then he slowly grew larger, eventually regrowing his body and limbs. However, he remained translucent, the clouds behind him faintly visible through him, and an extremely eerie mist still lingered around him.
"W-what is that thing?"
The same question arose in everyone's minds.
Shattered Mirror had clearly ground Imu and the Ancient Weapon to dust just now. They had even seen a clear, open sky, without anything strange in it at all. So where had this ghostly thing come from? What exactly was its connection to Imu?
Su Yu studied the translucent Imu, then thought back to the ghostly state in which he had first appeared. It seemed familiar. After a moment's thought, his eyes lit up. Right, wasn't this almost the same as that skeleton Brook's out-of-body state later on?
Since Imu had already used the powers of the Tremor-Tremor, Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Flame-Flame, and Wind-Wind Fruit, it was perfectly reasonable for him to pull out a Revive-Revive Fruit now. Thinking about it carefully, the Revive-Revive Fruit only took effect after death, which matched Imu's situation too.
In fact, Su Yu's guess was correct. Having just been killed by Su Yu, Imu had successfully activated the Revive-Revive Fruit's power, and his dead soul had returned from the underworld. However, his body had been completely destroyed, so he could only remain in this half-dead ghostly state.
Still,