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Chapter 232 - Chapter 231 cool

"No, I am."

Ryn grabbed both of Kevin's arms and spat a mouthful of blood in his face.

"Your attack is over. Now it's my turn."

Ryn directly generated a black hole in his hand, devouring Kevin's arm and causing it to collapse and disappear. Then, he punched through Kevin's body, crushed his heart, and released another black hole before moving away from him.

"I'll open a black hole inside you. I refuse to believe you can survive this." Ryn confirmed that the black hole had completely swallowed Kevin before wiping the blood from his body.

"Hm?"

Ryn suddenly looked at the spot where the black hole had engulfed Kevin. He could clearly feel that Kevin hadn't been crushed into cosmic dust... He really wasn't dead.

Three branching bone spurs of Honkai energy emerged from Kevin's position, piercing through Ryn's body.

"F*ck, not even a black hole can kill you!"

"From the moment I could slice through a black hole, you should have understood that a black hole cannot annihilate my existence. As long as you cannot defeat my will, I will crawl back from hell." Kevin, having crawled back from hell, reassembled his body from a state of being compressed into fine particles.

He still wore that same unruffled, expressionless face...

"I told you, only spatial manipulation can truly kill me, but it's clear you can't control space."

Despite saying this, Kevin's self-healing speed was not as rapid as it was at the beginning.

Ryn noticed. After carefully sensing Kevin's condition, the corners of Ryn's mouth couldn't help but curve upwards. He already knew how to defeat Kevin.

"But it's obvious you're not as powerful as you claim, are you?"

Ryn turned his hand into a blade and shattered the bone spurs that extended from Kevin and pierced him. Then, he walked up to Kevin with a smile, patted him on the shoulder, and headed straight for his frozen throne.

Ryn flicked his hair back and sat down on Kevin's throne. Mimicking Kevin's earlier pose, he propped his face up with one hand and looked down with cold eyes.

"Garuda's immortality is impressive, and you, Kevin, are also impressive. But so what? You're still trapped here for thousands of years.

This space isolates the Honkai energy from the outside world and has been continuously absorbing the Honkai energy from our bodies.

After being trapped here for a millennium, you don't have a single shred of Honkai energy left. You've survived until now solely due to the special nature of your body.

You are truly formidable, relying on your... 'Karma Demon'? Yes, 'Karma Demon'. But that doesn't change anything. We are both immortal, but resurrection requires energy for both of us.

We are both creatures of the Imaginary side; we can't replenish Honkai energy in the Sea of Quanta. But I can actually get a supply of Honkai energy from the Sea of Quanta, although I don't get much due to the isolation of this Bubble Universe.

But compared to you, who has lost your supply and has no Honkai energy... Kevin, relying on your own bloodline's energy, how long can you last?"

"If I'm crushed to dust like the last few times, it won't be for very long. But it will be enough." Kevin crossed his arms, standing below and looking at Ryn calmly.

If, at the end of the fight, his energy was truly insufficient, Kevin would choose to devour Ryn... relying on Ryn's energy to continue the battle against him.

Besides, having been in this space for so long, Kevin had fished up countless quantum creatures. Although he had tamed them all as underlings, at worst, he could eat his underlings while fighting Ryn. He could eat quantum creatures to replenish his energy; Kevin refused to believe Ryn could do the same.

"Yeah... it's enough."

Ryn could think of what Kevin was thinking. If Kevin really dared to eat him, Ryn would let him know what spatial manipulation truly meant...

"But I don't have time to waste with you here until then. The longer I'm stuck with you, the more trouble Durandal will be in..."

Rip—

As Ryn abruptly stood up, he felt an unusual coolness on his lower body. His lower half was free at this moment...

Because Ryn's pants had been frozen and stuck to the frozen throne. When Ryn stood up with miraculous strength, he ripped his pants...

Ryn: "..."

Kevin: "..."

A speechless crow: "..."

Ryn's face instantly turned red. He then created a black hole inside his own body, stopping the Herrscher of Death's immortality, and chose to be reborn in the depths of the Sea of Quanta.

Although Ryn had originally planned to do this to return to the Sea of Quanta and then head to Sumeru again, under the current circumstances, Ryn felt that if he ever saw Kevin again, he should probably dig a hole and crawl into it first...

Kevin was completely dumbfounded by Ryn's suicide. He had been prepared for a fight to the death, but Ryn had killed himself out of shame?

Finally, Kevin looked at the pants Ryn had left on the frozen throne and pondered for a long time.

In the end, he uttered a single sentence.

"cool."

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On Durandal's side.

Durandal was dragged into an illusion created by Su.

In the illusion, Durandal experienced a disaster in Nagazora City five years ago. The massive Nagazora City simply vanished...

At that time, Durandal, Ryn, and Rita were attending high school there. After the disaster, Ryn and Rita also disappeared.

After that, the "Honkai Disease" appeared... with a 100% mortality rate...

And Durandal was rescued by Dr. Ragna. Under Ragna's guidance, Durandal also became a doctor.

......…

An official organization called Fire Moth appeared. For every patient infected with the Honkai Disease, Fire Moth's recovery personnel would come to take the patient away or collect the body...

As the "Honkai energy" continued to erupt and the number of deceased patients grew, Durandal fell deeper into self-blame and confusion. Durandal felt that Fire Moth should have a cure for the Honkai Disease, or perhaps they had no cure at all...

Durandal submitted an application to join Fire Moth, but it was repeatedly rejected.

Director Ragna constantly encouraged Durandal, and Durandal remained determined not to give up the fight against the Honkai Disease.

......

Su saw that Ragna was one of Durandal's "beacons" and injected Honkai energy into her, causing her to be infected with the Honkai Disease.

......

Durandal once again fell into self-blame, unable to cure the Honkai Disease patients and only able to watch as Fire Moth took away their bodies.

But the never-give-up Durandal pulled herself together and stayed up all night to study the cases.

Ragna had been injected with Honkai energy by Su; she only had a few hours left to live. After a difficult internal struggle, Ragna made one last call to Durandal.

Ragna intended to tell Durandal to give up her research on the Honkai Disease, because it wasn't a disease at all... it was incurable...

But after hearing Durandal's voice, Ragna gave up. She understood Durandal too well... Durandal wouldn't give up on cracking the Honkai Disease, nor would she let herself die just like that...

So Ragna didn't tell Durandal that she was infected with the Honkai Disease. Only at the very end... like a warm-hearted parent, she advised Durandal to take care of her health and not to push herself too hard...

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