Chapter 360 Shizuku: You're Good

Shizuku instantly thought that the explosion of the black spikes would most likely not cause any harm to Regan.

With this realization, Shizuku decisively pulled back her offensive, intending to avoid the confrontation temporarily.

However, Regan would never let Shizuku have her way.

As soon as Shizuku showed signs of retreating, he shifted from a defensive stance to a fierce, fearless attack, pressing towards Shizuku.

His action also confirmed Shizuku's suspicion.

Indeed, the love touted to never part was, in some respects, selfish.

Therefore-

The numerous control factors that formed the black spike were only ever meant to harm the opponent.

This was the fundamental reason why Parme didn't consider Regan's situation.

From her perspective, as long as she could get the dagger to Regan's side, she could directly activate her ability and swap the black spike on the ceiling with the dagger.

At that time, Regan could detonate the black spike without hesitation, bound Shizuku once more, and then kill Shizuku directly at such close range.

In this way—

They can then get back their original 'advantage'.

Unfortunately, ideas are always beautiful, but reality is often cruel.

Just as the dagger left Parme's hand, it suddenly froze in the air, as if time had stopped.

In fact, the swiftly thrown dagger was caught by a hand that appeared out of nowhere.

The hand simply pinched the blade of the dagger between his thumb and index finger, and the dagger came to a halt.

And the owner of this hand is, naturally, Moses.

"Huh?!"

The sudden turn of events stirred the emotions of the other three present.

Realizing that the dagger had been intercepted, Regan's sense of foreboding intensified.

'No, I need to find a way to escape...'

At this moment, Regan was only thinking about saving himself and didn't care about Parme's fate at all.

Moses's intervention also freed Shizuku from any worries, allowing her to fiercely attack Regan once more.

Meanwhile, Parme's face was filled with shock.

'I couldn't even see how he got here, such speed...!'

Parme looked at Moses, her eyes trembling, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

"You're clearly an Emitter, but you took the trouble to materialize a dagger. Of course, it can be used to deceive people..."

Moses applied a bit more force with his fingers, and the dagger between his fingers shattered into pieces, turning into scattered Nen particles that quickly dissipated into the air.

"But what's the point if the 'strength' can't keep up?"

With a single sentence, Moses exposed Parme's secret.

Parme's face showed an expression of disbelief.

Throughout this battle, she had never displayed her Conjuration Ability.

She even risked distancing herself from her teammate to retrieve the dagger.

With this kind of behavior, no normal person would think that her dagger is a conjured object.

'But, this man in front of me saw through it...'

Parme's heart trembled, and then she raised her hand with a ferocious look on her face and conjured another dagger.

The dagger that had a token relationship with the black spike was shattered by Moses, and the ability was thus nullified.

At this moment, she had no choice but to engage in close combat.

With fierce killing intent in her eyes, Parme lunged with the dagger towards Moses's vital points like a venomous snake.

Moses looked at Pame with a slightly bored expression. He just raised his hand and turned it into chop, then dodged and chopped Parme's dagger and her neck.

Shh-

The dagger that was thrusting forward abruptly broke.

At the same time…

Parme's body froze in place, and her ferocious face, which was filled with a hint of astonishment, was also frozen.

A line of blood first appeared on her neck, and then a large amount of blood suddenly spurted out.

"See, it's so weak it couldn't even block my hand."

Moses slowly lowered his hand.

At this moment, the broken half of the dagger fell to the floor.

'With just a chop...'

Parme's throat emitted an incoherent gurgling sound before she collapsed to the ground with intense unwillingness.

Her eyes were wide open, clearly indicating she died with unresolved grievances.

After killing Parme in seconds, Moses felt no sense of accomplishment at all.

After all, before taking action, he had already understood the Nen Abilities of these two through 'observing the battle'.

Once a Nen User's abilities are seen through, their threat level naturally decreases significantly.

After glancing at Parme's corpse, Moses turned his attention to Shizuku's side of the fight.

At this time…

Realizing the dire situation, Regan had decided to flee.

Just as he put his idea into action, Parme was killed by Moses's chop.

This turn of events would likely make Regan feel his decision was wise.

However-

When he decided to expose his back to Shizuku, the Grim Reaper's scythe silently approached.

Shizuku suddenly leapt forward, and the vacuum cleaner in her hand looked as light as a feather.

During the previous close combat, she was attacking while dragging the vacuum cleaner, which gave Regan the impression that she was very fierce but not agile enough.

But now, leaping forward, Shizuku resembled a leopard pouncing on its prey.

Her graceful figure traced a beautiful yet dangerous arc in the air, finally landing precisely on the back of Regan's head.

Thud!

A dull sound rang.

Regan's head suffered a heavy blow, and a blood-red flower instantly bloomed.

Shizuku landed steadily on the ground, while Regan crashed heavily to the ground.

Before he died, Regan glanced at the inn's entrance door which was just a stone's throw away, and a strong sense of unwillingness surged in his heart.

'Just one step away, just one step...'

Regan took his last breath.

If he knew that there was another Nen User waiting for him outside the door, perhaps the resentment in his heart would dissipate, and replaced by despair.

"Job's done."

Shizuku looked at Regan, who was lying lifeless on the ground, and calmly put down Blinky.

Then, as if she remembered something, she turned to Moses and asked curiously, "How do you know that her dagger was conjured by Nen?"

Throughout the entire battle, Parme never revealed the dagger was a conjured object.

If it weren't for Blinky's ability, Shizuku would never have thought that the dagger was actually conjured.

Just now, she had considered reminding Moses about this, but she didn't expect that Moses already knew that the dagger was a conjured object.

"Guess."

In response to Shizuku's question, Moses said casually.

"How did you guess that?"

"Use my brain."

"How did you use your brain to guess?"

"Use my brain to think."

"How did you…"

"Alright, I'll explain."

Moses looked at Shizuku, who was staring at him calmly, with speechless expression.

Shizuku nodded slightly, then looked directly into Moses's eyes, waiting for the answer to her doubts.

"At the beginning, well, before you spoke up, this woman wanted to throw the dagger at the innkeeper..."

"She was just facing an ordinary person who posed no threat at all, yet she wanted to use the dagger in her hand as a throwing knife so casually. I initially thought she was carrying multiple daggers or had some retrieval method like a tether."

"But she didn't, which was the first thing that struck me as odd. Usually, only Conjurers have this bad habit of not caring about their 'weapons' leaving their hands."

"Whether it's to coordinate with a companion's ability or disguise her attack information, as long as she has unconsciously developed this bad habit, the changes in the flow of her dominant hand's Aura will reveal this."

Moses explained slowly.

After listening to this, Shizuku's eyes flickered slightly and she said calmly: "I didn't even notice that."

"…"

Moses was silent.

He wanted to say that this wasn't the only thing she missed.

'When you are fighting, a shadow with In could have danced a senior disco in front of you without being discovered.'

Shizuku didn't know what Moses's internal monologue. She looked up at Moses and said seriously:

"You're good."