[The warm blood gushing out like a breached dam carried a nauseating metallic stench, instantly staining most of the densely layered slips of receipt paper Reiji wore as his trump cards.]
[Only now, feeling the hollow chill and searing pain inside his abdomen, did Reiji's mind finally awaken from the arrogance of a thousand years ago that had blinded it.]
[He fully realized just how stupid, how fatal a mistake he had just made!]
[He had actually regarded the boy in black-framed glasses before him as an ordinary modern sorcerer he "had a chance of stalling with tactics and terrain, or even defeating"!]
[He had completely failed to realize that even the inhuman strength you had just displayed by bursting two heads within a second, instantly deploying shadows and extreme speed, might very well have been only the tip of the iceberg of your bottomless abyss!]
["Blargh-!"]
[Reiji's legs could no longer support his weight. His knees buckled, and he fell heavily onto the blood-soaked hallway carpet.]
[With his internal organs damaged and the pain overwhelming him, he abruptly opened his mouth and spewed a great mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of organs. His entrails also spilled from the enormous wound, splattering in front of your clean shoe tips.]
[You looked down at him from above, not a ripple in your eyes.]
[As for the peculiar cursed technique he had just used to conjure metal cabinets and mountains of clutter, although you had not immediately forced a complete analysis through "Phantom Parade" during that brief exchange, your precise mind had already worked out its general operating logic in an instant from his combat performance and movements alone.]
[Essentially, he used the special slips of paper covering his body as a medium, expending cursed energy to forcibly reproduce in reality,