"Pfft-"
Before Cheadle had finished speaking.
An unfamiliar figure suddenly came flying out and slammed heavily onto the ground in front of them.
The man rolled several times across the ground like a tattered burlap sack, then opened his mouth and vomited a great mouthful of blood.
Dio: ???
"Cough-what bastard kicked me-"
Mori raised his head in disbelief and met Dio's bewildered gaze head-on.
The air seemed to freeze completely.
Mori swore that this was the second-longest second he had ever experienced.
The longest second had been five years ago.
Back then, he had witnessed a giant Buddha smash an entire building to pieces with a sky full of flying fists in a single second.
"Hee-hee-"
A distinct laugh came from the place he had been sent flying from.
That laugh gave the impression of someone watching an enemy about to be beaten to death, yet still making a show of trying to hold it in.
Just as every hundred-meter race had a starting pistol, that abrupt laugh rang out like a gunshot, reminding Dio while he was still thinking.
"So you were the one playing tricks just now?"
Dio's voice buzzed beneath his helmet.
He decisively raised his fist. Golden currents flashed across his knuckles, and a powerful surge of Nen Aura rapidly gathered around it.
He had no evidence, but even an idiot could tell that the talking dried corpse before him was definitely no ally.
I'll just kill him.
With that thought, Dio swung his fist at him without hesitation.
In an instant, the wind from his fist howled like a man-eating tiger roaring through the mountain forest, cutting across Mori's face like blades.
Mori's pupils contracted. Driven by his survival instinct, he decisively deactivated his ability!
"Cover the Sky and Change the Earth, deactivate!"
His