Burning

"What just happened?"

Everyone was watching the battle with rapt attention, and then the couple whose words they couldn't hear suddenly said something about taking Ryu as a disciple, and then the image vanished. 

Sovereign Black Worm's expression turned dark. He didn't like this turn of events at all. 

First, Silver Dance clearly gave up the fight on purpose, and now these two had somehow broken free of Fate entirely, leaving behind the restrictions of the Heavens and doing things on their own. 

He calmed himself with thoughts not too dissimilar from Ryu's own. Even if they broke free of some restrictions, they couldn't possibly break through them all. 

However… the vanishing of the image was something that was difficult to swallow…

That most definitely wasn't a normal feat. 

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