That thought did Gyomei an injustice.
With his innate pair of eyes, which could be called a miniature version of the Transparent World, Kanzaki Kumo had long since honed his reflexes to their limit. Otherwise, he could never have blocked all of Akaza's attacks before his blade broke.
Naturally, Gyomei's reflexes were no slouch with the Transparent World's enhancement, but there was still a slight gap between him and Kanzaki Kumo, who had stimulated his heart to break through his physical limits.
The gap was very small, though, so Kanzaki Kumo's Divine Punishment: Fivefold had merely forced him to use his Axe.
The Transparent World was not simply a matter of seeing more clearly with some added "X-ray vision," an enhancement still confined to the senses. It truly let one "see through" the world.
It seemed to touch upon some unseen rules governing this world.
The wind blew and clouds moved, the sun rose and the moon set, flowers bloomed and faded, and plants withered and flourished. These were all the laws of nature, or rather, its rules, and at that moment, Kanzaki Kumo could faintly sense the threads of those rules.
Although that sensation was extremely vague, and he could only watch as a bystander while those threads representing certain rules operated naturally, unable to interfere with or influence them in the slightest, merely sensing those threads was already absurd enough.
Because even if he could not influence how those rules operated, he could imitate and make use of them.
Man follows earth, earth follows heaven, heaven follows the Way, and the Way follows nature.
After entering the realm of the Transparent World, he could be said to have truly touched the realm of "the Way follows nature."
It was also at this moment that Kanzaki Kumo's understanding