"I'm... breaking apart?"
Seeing herself turn into fragments little by little, even Mugino Shizuri, who had fully committed herself to ruthlessness, struggled to remain calm.
The calls from Frenda behind her also took on a note of terror.
As a member of the Dark Side who lived alongside darkness every day, the blonde girl had heard of many gruesome ways to die.
But this was her first time seeing anything so bizarre that it left her utterly dumbfounded.
Mugino Shizuri's injuries were indeed severe, but aside from those ordinary wounds, she should not have been affected by any other ability user's power. Otherwise, it would not have escaped Rikō Takitsubō beside her.
But even fatal injuries clearly could not explain why Mugino Shizuri was still alive yet constantly turning into fragments, flaking away bit by bit.
"Roland-! What did you do?!"
Mugino Shizuri instinctively covered her hand and roared furiously at Roland, who stood before her looking utterly unperturbed.
"Nothing at all. This is just the aftermath of that earlier blow."
With a brilliant smile, Roland said something that made their blood run cold.
"I can pinpoint the boundary between taking away all your vitality and leaving your consciousness intact. If you hadn't entertained the delusion of resisting and forcibly stimulated your body, you would have stayed in that dying state for quite a while longer."
"Utter nonsense! Even if you really meant to kill me, I wouldn't end up looking this strange!"
"How rude. Taking the vitality from every cell in your body while keeping its outward shape intact is a way of dying created solely to kill the strong. I even made an exception and used it on you. Why not savor this moment?"
Looking at Roland's amused expression, Mugino Shizuri gritted her teeth.
Rather than believe such