Dio had just steadied himself and looked at the corpse with its bloodied, broken head when the Nen Aura on it suddenly vanished without a trace!
Just as he was puzzling over this, he heard Caesar calling to him:
"My shoulder? Is there something on my shoulder?"
Come to think of it, the man had actually remembered to use his alias at a time like this?
That was some composure in a crisis.
Almost at the very moment Dio marveled at this, he suddenly felt a weight settle on his right shoulder-
As though someone had tapped him.
"Hm?"
Dio frowned and slowly turned toward his right shoulder.
His eyes met another enormous eye-
Henrich had just steadied himself. Hearing Caesar's shout, he instinctively looked toward the Hunter.
The sight made his pupils instantly contract, and he blurted out, "Watch out!"
It was a huge black tadpole, larger than Dio's fist, with a round mouth that could not close, filled with ugly, uneven rows of sharp teeth.
At the same time, a vicious Nen Aura rose from its body, sending chills down their spines.
Parasitic Post-Mortem Nen?
Dio did not panic. His Ripple Sensing had barely stirred, which meant that, at least for now, this tadpole Nen Beast that had suddenly appeared could not hurt him.
The huge, bizarre tadpole perched on Dio's shoulder, constantly gnawing at his neck, its single eye filled with brutality and impatience.
But no matter what it did, a thin layer of golden light on Dio's body blocked its attacks, preventing it from hurting him in the slightest.
"Trying to burrow into my neck?"
Dio narrowed his eyes, maintaining the Ripple throughout his body to keep even a trace of that evil Post-Mortem Nen from entering as he carefully studied the Nen Beast.
"Th-that's Post-Mortem