Time Stop ended, and time began to flow again!
Sword light spanning heaven and earth swept through everything before it like a torrent.
Shalnark's eyes were vacant, yet the aura surging from his body was astonishingly powerful.
In [Auto-Operation Mode], he felt no emotion when he saw that his position had suddenly changed. At that moment, instinct controlled him completely.
Following that instinct, Shalnark snapped his arms back with lightning speed and crossed them in front of himself in a defensive stance. The brilliant sword light was already almost upon him.
His beastlike intuition caught the scent of death, and he instinctively concentrated every last bit of his aura into his arms-[Ko]!
However, the power of that slash clearly exceeded the limits of his defenses.
Screeech-
A brief, piercing crack rang out the instant the sword light touched Shalnark, only to be swallowed by its roar a moment later.
The sword light passed straight through Shalnark's body, cleaving through the curtain of rain and the black clouds as it hurtled toward East Lake Prison!
Shalnark's body instantly went rigid as the sword light passed through him. His overpowering aura gradually dwindled to nothing and vanished, and his golden hair, which had stood on end, slowly fell.
A distinct red line slowly appeared down the middle of his face and along the entire center of his body.
Thud.
Like the two sides of pork left after slaughtering a pig for the New Year, the two halves of his body collapsed limply to the ground. One of his eyes stared fixedly at Dio, who had somehow run off to the side.
He seemed to be asking, "Bro, what's going on with you?"
Right up until his death, Shalnark was still wondering what had happened. With an ability like his, he could not