"Rumble!!"
As if to prove Daitokuji's words true.
The four high-voltage transmission towers surrounding the substation suddenly erupted in deafening electrical roars at the same time!
"Crackle! Bzzzt!"
Dazzling blue-violet arcs raced wildly between hundreds of copper transformer tubes and porcelain insulators. The air pressure plummeted, and before the fine snow drifting down could even reach the ground, the ferocious high-voltage heat instantly vaporized it into thick white mist!
The ground shook violently!
At the heart of countless wildly leaping serpents of lightning, a tall, imposing phantom figure slowly rose above the transformer bank!
His teal leather trench coat snapped in the gale.
Brutal, cold metal rivets stitched together skin so pale it was utterly bloodless!
Two thick high-voltage cables were embedded deep into the back of his bald head and either side of his temples, glowing with an eerie, soul-chilling violet light!
Most chilling of all were the electronic compound eyes blazing with bloodthirsty red light above the iron restraint respirator covering his face!
Every turn of those eyes produced the teeth-grating grind of meshing mechanical gears!
The android, Jinzo!
An overwhelmingly powerful DARK Attribute psychic pressure swept across the grounds alongside a violent electromagnetic field, making Hayato yelp, stagger back three steps, and land on his backside in the snow.
"H-he's here! What a terrifying monster!!"
Hayato clutched his head and trembled.
Floating in midair, Jinzo slowly lowered his head, his scarlet electronic eyes sweeping over the people below.
When his gaze passed over Jaden and Yūki, the red light abruptly intensified, and a sinister chuckle like scraping steel rose from his throat.
"Heh heh heh... foolish Tributes, daring to walk straight into my trap..."
Jinzo raised his metal arm, fitted with a high-voltage discharge generator, his voice brimming with barely concealed greed and ecstasy.
"I can sense