At those words, the smiles vanished from everyone's faces.
Especially Mel and the others.
Both the Merged Beast and the Two Shikigami had displayed tremendous strength this time.
They did not dare argue.
Besides, they were right.
Leaving was the priority now. Otherwise, if they came under a surprise attack, they would be finished.
Next, everyone quickly cleaned up the battlefield.
But Mel, Brook, and the others fell silent.
What the hell was there to clean up on this battlefield?
The Shikigami Squad had bundled up every corpse and taken them away.
They had even done it entirely out of their sight. What kind of joke was this?!
Still, they were all smart people.
They already had their guesses about where these Shikigami Squad members had come from.
But they would not ask, nor did they dare ask too much.
When dealing with someone like Roy, it was better to say less.
Suddenly...
Crack!
A dark space appeared around them.
The sudden sight instinctively put Mel and the others on guard.
The Merged Beast and the other Shikigami, however, remained utterly calm.
The Shikigami Space descended, revealing the severely wounded Bullet and the Frenzied Leopard Beast Shikigami.
"Cough, cough... don't worry. It's us."
Inside the space were also over a thousand members of the Remnant Army who had been defeated in Area 38.
None of them had emerged yet. They were all in poor spirits, looking as though they had yet to recover from their fright.
There were also the few dozen remaining Shikigami.
The sight delighted Mel, Brook, and the others.
But when they saw that fewer than a thousand remained, with many familiar faces missing, their hearts grew heavy.
"Where's Siro...? Damn it, he said he would witness Captain Bullet become one of the Five Emperors with us!