Chapter 216: The Revenger Turns Back

Chapter 216: The Revenger Turns Back The Revenger Turns Back

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How delightful!

Ah, how delightful it is!

Today, a fragment of you.

Emi’s soul.

Has achieved a new awakening.

There is nothing more joyous than this!

The black and beautiful radiance increases its intensity and captivates me even more.

It can be said that my past efforts, when I had lost most of my power and stubbornly survived in despair, are now being rewarded.

...That said.

I must brace myself again.

Carefully, very carefully, I expand my soul and fill in the parts that have been torn and holed by this awakening.

I will once again envelop Emi’s soul with the membrane formed by my soul.

To block the presence originating from you that leaks out from her soul.

Emi is still like a newly born chick.

If the former you were a single universe, the current her is just a small grain of sand.

That’s why we still need to keep her hidden.

Fortunately, this world is still young, and the foolish gods do not know about you.

Ufufu.

Let’s raise her in this opportunity.

Greatly, greatly!

Eventually, to the point where she can reach even you!

Ufufu, fufufufu.

Was this a bit presumptuous of me?

Even so.

The power she gained at the end of the awakening is being influenced by the shape of that man’s 【Invisible Hand】.

This is extremely, extremely irritating.

Envious.

However, that is the result of Emi’s efforts bearing fruit.

No matter how envious I am, I have no choice but to accept it.

But.

At least the right to name it, please let me have that.

That is no longer something similar to 【Invisible Hand】, it’s a different ability.

It may not even... be similar.

It’s arms that are clearly visible to anyone, after all.

Therefore, that is 【Black Arms】.

Yeah, simple and easy to understand.

It’s good.

After the battle, yes, I’ll suggest that.

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Eerie.

The first thing the golden bear felt upon seeing the black arms newly extending from the shoulders of the demon, its mortal enemy, was a feeling of disgust that made its soul tremble.

Next, awe.

It wanted to get away from that right now.

It wanted to run away.

It was caught by such emotions.

Ah, why didn’t it finish her off earlier, it thought.

Yes, it regretted.

It was completely consumed by the deformed demon in front of it.

But then, the face of its mother crossed its mind.

Its mother who lovingly protected and raised it.

Its mother who strongly and bravely continued to protect it.

Its mother who wisely and with great insight taught and guided it.

Who killed such a respectable lord of the mountain who lived for a long time?

The next moment, the black right arm, which had stretched like the left arm, punched the golden bear’s completely exposed belly with tremendous force!

“GUOOAAHH!!?”

Rolling its eyes and spitting blood, the golden bear rotates once around its gripped right arm.

Crack crack crack!!

The bones in its arm break!!

But terrifyingly, the attack still isn’t over.

The 【Black Arms】 gripping the golden bear’s right arm slams it into the ground as is!

BADOOOOOM!!!

A resounding roar!

Dust rises!

“Gu... oh...”

The golden bear lies on its back, looking up at the sky.

Its consciousness is hazy, and it can no longer move properly.

When the dust blown by the wind is carried away somewhere.

What flew into its field of vision.

Was a chop by the 【Black Arms】 swung down from the sky, aiming at its neck.

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Thus, the golden bear’s head was chopped off.

However, its tremendous vitality and vast magic power kept it alive even in a state of just a head.

That said, there was nothing it could do.

It could no longer even generate lightning.

It just blankly stared at its severed body.

Ah, ah, ah.

How unreasonable this world is.

It lamented.

Its revered mother was slain, and its own revenge was thwarted just short of success.

Why did it have to suffer such a fate?

What did it, what did its mother, ever do?

No matter how much it regretted, it couldn’t regret enough.

That demon was hateful.

Resentful.

While it had become a living head and was spending the rest of its life lamenting resentment and bitterness, the demon’s 【Black Arms】 stretched towards its body and gripped it.

What did it intend to do?

As the golden bear watched, the 【Black Arms】 gradually, gradually became shorter.

And dragged by the shortening arms, the demon approached its body.

The demon retracted the 【Black Arms】 into its body and made them disappear, then crawled up to the cut surface of the golden bear’s severed head, and there... it began to devour its flesh and blood.

Its flesh was taken into the demon’s belly in the blink of an eye.

Even though it was clearly eating more flesh and blood than the demon’s body could hold, strangely, her belly didn’t swell.

Its own body was getting smaller and smaller.

Seeing this, the golden bear.

Felt like it had suddenly clicked.

Ah, so that’s it.

The weak are eaten, and the strong survive.

Its death was, in other words, just that.

It was frustrating.

It was frustrating, but it could accept it.

That was a small salvation for it.

And then, just a little while later.

It passed away.

Emi is a fragment.

And “you.”

They are mysterious words also mentioned in Arc 3.

You don’t need to pay attention to them.

TL Note: I am also puzzled as to what “you” is here. Original Japanese is あなた様. Arc 3 is where Emi trains with her master and the author appears to be referring to the beginning of Chapter 38 where Extra-sama is marveling at Emi’s ability to learn a new ability so fast. あなた様 is used in the line “Your soul” in that segment, which may mean Extra-sama is not talking about Emi specifically. Either way we’ll find out in the future probably.