Immortality meant being undying in a certain sense.
But did being undying mean never aging?
Did it mean having an infinite lifespan?
No one knew, because that was uncharted territory.
Shinji did not know why his opponent had suddenly stopped harrying him and stood there laughing out loud instead.
But he knew that the things falling from the sky were definitely deadly.
After a moment's hesitation, he decided to find out exactly what his opponent was relying on.
An utterly unremarkable grain of sand happened to fall first. He reached out to catch it, only to see it pass straight through his palm.
And he could feel that, as it passed through his palm, a portion of something inside his body had been stripped away.
His brow instantly furrowed. Then he activated the "Power of Stopping" and reached out again to catch another grain of sand.
What happened next shocked him even more.
The effect of Limitless failed to work. The grain of sand passed through his palm just as the last one had.
"This sand actually ignores the effects of space?"
A look of surprise immediately appeared on Shinji's face.
By then, Saibote seemed to have laughed enough. He was ready to explain a few things to this dead man to satisfy his own vanity.
"It's useless. This place will soon be submerged in yellow sand imbued with time power. Every single grain can take a year of your time, and absolutely no form of defense can stop them from falling. Now I'm very curious-how many seconds can you last in this raging sand?"
As he spoke, the yellow sand filling the sky had already spread over Shinji's head.
Saibote seemed able to foresee his opponent's death.
Even though he himself only had a few seconds left to live.