| The Cyber Ascension | Arc 7 — The Bloodlines and Carnage | Volume 7 | Chapter 76 : The King of hell Won |
Sanji Youta stood over Z's broken body.
The battlefield was silent now.
No explosions.
No flames roaring.
Just the sound of burning blood dripping onto cracked earth.
Sanji Youta let out a short, amused breath.
Sanji Youta
"Heh… what a weakling."
He crouched.
Placed one hand on Z's chest.
The other hand—
he dragged his claw across his own palm.
Skin split.
Blood spilled.
Not normal blood.
It was thick. Dark. Almost alive—writhing as it flowed.
Sanji Youta tilted Z's head back.
Three drops.
Only three.
They fell into Z's mouth.
The moment the blood touched Z's tongue—
The ground screamed.
Not metaphorically.
The earth itself cracked open, veins of red-black energy racing through it like a nervous system hijacked by something foreign.
Sanji Youta straightened, wiping his hand on his armor.
Sanji Youta
"Heh. That's it."
His body stiffened.
Cracks spread across his skin—fast, violent.
His armor rusted in seconds. His flesh dried, shriveled, then collapsed inward like a corpse emptied of meaning.
Sanji Youta's body fell.
Lifeless.
Empty.
Dead.
Silence.
Then—
Z's body twitched.
Once.
Twice.
A pulse throbbed beneath his skin—unnatural, too strong, like a second heart beating where it shouldn't exist.
His fingers curled.
Slowly.
Deliberately.
Z's eyes opened.
But they weren't Z's.
They glowed deep crimson, pupils slit like a predator's.
His mouth stretched into a grin that cracked his lips.
Then he laughed.
Not Z's laugh.
A voice too deep. Too old. Too pleased.
Z (Sanji Youta)
"Heh… HAAHAHAHAHAHA—!"
The laugh echoed across the ruined heaven, bouncing off shattered mountains and burning forests.
He rose into the air effortlessly.
No wounds.
No fatigue.
Only power.
Z (Sanji Youta)
"NEW BODY!!"
His aura exploded outward—
A tidal wave of hellish pressure that crushed trees flat and forced Haruko's barriers to scream in protest.
Z (Sanji Youta)
"I GOT WHAT I WANTED!!"
He spread his arms wide, drinking in the chaos.
Z (Sanji Youta)
"At last… there is NO ONE left in this world who can resist me!"
Kiyoshi stepped forward, eyes burning.
Kiyoshi
"Goukani Bakky—"
Haruko grabbed his wrist.
Hard.
Her voice trembled—not with fear, but with painful acceptance.
Haruko
"It's over."
Kiyoshi froze.
Haruko
"If you do that… it'll only destroy what's left."
Eirien stared at Z's floating body.
His fists clenched.
For the first time ever—
His mind raced.
Eirien
"…We should do something."
But even as he said it—
They all felt it.
The pressure.
The truth.
Z was gone.
The King of Hell had won.
And the Second Heaven now belonged to something far worse than Hell itself.