Monster itu terus memperhatikan pertarungan Azier. Dengan kecerdasan dan kemampuan adaptasinya yang unggul, ia melakukan segala cara untuk menyerap teknik *Falling Edge* milik Azier. Dalam satu hal, itu mirip dengan seorang pendekar yang memasuki kondisi meditasi yang dalam. Melewatkan semua dasar dan hal-hal mendasar yang seharusnya ia pelajari lebih dulu, seluruh tubuhnya bergerak dalam upaya mencapai satu teknik *Falling Edge* saja. Ia masih belum sepenuhnya memahami. 'Aku harus keluar dari sini.' Monster itu mengamati sekeliling penjara. Ia sudah mencoba melarikan diri sebelumnya, tapi penjara ini dirancang untuk mencegah entitas dengan Mana keluar. 'Yang pertama kali menangkapku juga melakukan hal yang sama.' Sejujurnya, ingatannya tentang saat ia dilahirkan masih samar. Saat itu, yang ada hanyalah niat membunuh yang tak ada habisnya. Begitu ia mulai 'berpikir,' ada seseorang yang harus ia bunuh tepat di depannya, dan karena itu ia mencoba membunuh mereka, tapi dihentikan. Ia menunduk menatap tangannya. Tangannya, yang bisa berubah menjadi cakar seperti logam sesuka hati. Kemampuan menyamar yang membuatnya bisa menyembunyikan tubuhnya dan kabur dari pandangan orang lain kapan saja. Dari mana ia mendapatkan hal-hal itu? Apakah ia memilikinya sejak awal, atau itu hanyalah tiruan yang tidak disadarinya? Ia tidak tahu apa arti 'bencana'. Ia bahkan tidak tahu apakah itu adalah kata yang menjawab pertanyaan tentang apa dirinya. Namun, tidak ada dasar baginya untuk mengetahui siapa dirinya saat ini. Ia bisa berubah menjadi bentuk apa pun dan mencuri kemampuan apa pun. Karena itu, ia tidak bisa mengetahui wujud asli dirinya. 'Tapi teknik itu berbeda.' Kalau saja ia bisa meniru teknik itu. Setidaknya, ia akan lolos dari sesuatu yang umum dimiliki semua orang. Bahkan jika ia tidak bisa menjadi yang paling unik, setidaknya ia bisa menjadi yang kedua. Monster itu meraih jeruji penjara. Jeruji penjara bereaksi terhadap Mana monster itu, memancarkan sengatan listrik yang mengerikan. Ini bukan sekadar sambaran petir biasa; ini adalah serangan ganas yang secara langsung menyasar Mana yang disentuhnya. Jeruji itu tidak hanya menyentuh, tapi menyerang segala sesuatu yang melewatinya. Karena itulah, monster kecil pun sebesar dan selincah apa pun tidak bisa kabur. Monster itu merasakan sakit. Ia belajar bahwa ia bisa merasakan sakit ketika pria berambut hitam itu menusuk punggungnya. Monster itu tidak tahu apa yang harus dilakukan setelah merasakan sakit, dan saat ia berjuang melepaskan diri dari rasa sakit itu, akhirnya ia berteriak. Jeritan itu bukan tiruan siapa pun. Itu adalah tindakan pertama dan terakhir yang ia pelajari sendiri. Itu adalah tindakan yang ia pilih sendiri. Karena itu, ia hanya menemukan dirinya dalam rasa sakit. Tubuh monster itu perlahan menghilang. Namun, karena ia hanya menyamarkan dirinya, sengatan listrik dari jeruji terus menghancurkan Mana-nya. Tubuhnya berteriak sebagai respons. Namun, ia tetap mempertahankan penyamarannya. Ia menjadi sepenuhnya transparan. Ia bisa berubah menjadi apa saja, mempelajari apa saja, dan meniru apa saja. Sengatan listrik dari jeruji berhenti. Pemisahan total dari dunia di luar penyamaran. Dan ia berjalan keluar di antara jeruji. Volume tubuhnya yang terhalang jeruji terpisah sebanyak itu, lalu menyatu kembali saat melewati jeruji. Azier menyaksikan monster itu menjadi tak terlihat. Tentu saja, begitu juga Mizonus. "Hmph, kurasa kau menyerah menggunakan penyamaranmu untuk kabur! Dasar bodoh!" Mizonus berkata dengan jijik. Melihat itu, mata Azier berkedut. Azier tidak tahu apakah monster konjak itu berhasil kabur atau tidak. Monster itu bisa membuat tubuhnya sepenuhnya transparan, dan satu-satunya yang bisa mendeteksi penyamaran itu saat ini adalah Frondier. Sengatan listrik dari jeruji menembus monster yang menyamar itu, dan setelah beberapa saat, sengatan listrik berhenti. Kalau dipikir secara logika, memang benar, seperti kata Mizonus, bahwa monster itu menyerah dan kembali ke dalam penjara. "Aku tidak mengerti kenapa kau begitu kesal." Azier berkata pada Mizonus. Bukankah bencana itu monster yang dikirim oleh para iblis? Kalau monster itu kabur dari penjara sendiri, mereka seharusnya menyambutnya. Lagipula, bukankah mereka menyerbu penjara ini untuk mengeluarkan monster itu? "Hmph, sungguh keliru!" Pedang Azier dan cakar Mizonus berbenturan tanpa henti. Dalam hal kemurnian keterampilan, Azier lebih unggul, tapi sepuluh cakar Mizonus semuanya memiliki kekuatan yang mirip dengan pedang Azier. Sederhananya, dia punya lebih banyak senjata. Selain itu, Mizonus bisa menembakkan Aura bahkan di tengah pertarungan, jadi jika Azier lengah bahkan sesaat pun, kepalanya akan tertembus oleh serangan cakar. "Kami mengirim makhluk itu ke sini untuk menghancurkannya!" "Benar! Monster dari dunia lain awalnya─" Mulut Mizonus yang sedari tadi berceloteh tiba-tiba berhenti. Wajahnya langsung pucat, dan matanya dipenuhi ketakutan. Azier melihat celah di pertahanan Mizonus dan hampir secara refleks menendang perutnya. Mizonus terhuyung mundur karena benturan itu. Namun, Mizonus tampaknya masih lebih takut daripada kesakitan, karena dia berdiri termenung sesaat bahkan setelah terkena tendangan. Mizonus, yang tiba-tiba mengubah ekspresinya seolah dia melihat dan mendengar sesuatu, berkata, "Itu bukan hal yang seharusnya kuceritakan pada orang sepertimu." "……Apakah semacam perintah bungkam turun?" Cakar Mizonus berayun lagi. Aura dari cakar yang menyilang dan turun itu menyebar seperti pola kisi-kisi dan melesat ke arah Azier. Kalau itu manusia biasa, mereka akan menyerah pada hidup dan menunggu nasib mereka dicabik-cabik hidup-hidup, tapi. "Apa kau tidak bosan dengan ini?" Bagi Azier, itu adalah salah satu cara paling mudah untuk menghadapinya. Bilah pedangnya menusuk di antara titik-titik persimpangan Aura itu lalu mengayun ke bawah sekali. Seolah benang Mizonus terputus, aura itu robek dan terbelah seperti gelombang ke kedua sisi Azier. Semuanya mengukir bekas yang mengerikan di lantai dan dinding, tapi Azier yang berada di tengah sama sekali tidak terluka. Melihat itu, Mizonus mengeraskan wajahnya. "Kau sengaja mengulur waktu."
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The monster continued to watch Azier's fight. With its superior intelligence and adaptability, it did everything it could to absorb Azier's Falling edge technique. In a sense, it was akin to a swordsman entering a state of deep meditation. Skipping all the fundamentals and basics it should have learned first, its entire body moved in an attempt to reach the single technique of Falling edge. It still hadn't reached a full understanding. 'I need to get out of here.' The monster scanned the surroundings of the prison. It had tried to escape earlier, but this prison was designed to prevent entities with Mana from leaving. 'The one who first captured me did the same.' To be honest, its memories of the time it was born were unclear. Back then, there was only endless killing intent. As soon as it started to 'think,' there was someone it had to kill right in front of it, and so it tried to kill them, but was stopped. It looked down at his hands. Its hands, which could transform into metal-like claws at will. The cloaking ability that allowed it to hide its body and escape from others' sight at any time. Where did it get such things? Did it have them from the beginning, or were they just another unconscious mimicry? It didn't know what 'disaster' meant. It didn't even know if it was a word that answered the question of what it was. However, there was no basis for it to know who it was right now. It could transform into any form and steal any ability. Therefore, it couldn't know his true form. 'But that technique is different.' If it could just mimic that technique. At least it would escape from something common that everyone had. Even if it couldn't become the only one, it could become the second one. The monster grabbed the bars of the prison. The prison bars reacted to the monster's Mana, emitting a terrifying electric shock. This was not just a simple lightning bolt; it was a vicious attack that directly targeted the Mana it touched. The bars didn't just touch, they attacked everything that passed between them. This was the reason why even small or flexible monsters couldn't escape. The monster felt pain. It learned that it could feel pain when the black-haired man stabbed it in the back. The monster didn't know what to do after feeling pain, and as it struggled to escape the pain, it eventually screamed. That scream was not a mimicry of anyone. It was the first and last act it had learned on his own. It was an act it had chosen himself. Therefore, it found himself only in pain. The monster's body gradually faded. However, since it was only cloaking himself, the electric shock from the bars continued to crush its Mana. Its body screamed in response. Yet, it continued to maintain his cloak. It became completely transparent. It could transform into anything, learn anything, and imitate anything. The electric shock from the bars stopped. A complete separation from the world beyond cloaking. And it walked out between the bars. The volume of its body that was blocked by the bars was separated by that much, and then rejoined as it passed through the bars. Azier witnessed the monster turning invisible. Of course, so did Mizonus. "Hmph, I guess you gave up on using your cloaking to escape! You fool!" Mizonus said with disgust. At that sight, Azier's eyes twitched. Azier couldn't tell if the konjac monster had successfully escaped or not. The monster could make its body completely transparent, and the only one who could detect that cloaking was currently Frondier. The electric shock from the bars pierced the cloaked monster, and after some time, the electric shock stopped. Thinking logically, it was correct, as Mizonus said, that the monster had given up and returned inside the prison. "I don't understand why you're so upset." Azier said to Mizonus. Wasn't the disaster a monster sent by the devils? If the monster escaped the prison on his own, they should be welcoming it. In the first place, didn't they invade this prison to get that monster out? "Hmph, what a misconception!" Azier's sword and Mizonus' claws clashed incessantly. In terms of pure skill, Azier had the upper hand, but Mizonus' ten claws were all similar in strength to Azier's sword. Simply put, he had more weapons. Furthermore, Mizonus could fire Aura even in the midst of battle, so if Azier let his guard down for even a moment, his head would be pierced by a blow from the claws. "We sent that thing here to destroy it!" "That's right! Monsters from other worlds are originally─" Mizonus' mouth, which had been chattering away, suddenly stopped. His face turned pale in an instant, and his eyes were filled with fear. Azier saw an opening in Mizonus' defense and almost reflexively kicked him in the stomach. Mizonus stumbled back from the impact. However, Mizonus seemed to still be in more fear than pain, as he stood there dazed for a moment even after being hit. Mizonus, who had suddenly changed his expression as if he had seen and heard something, said, "It wasn't something I should have told the likes of you." “……Did some kind of gag order come down?” Mizonus' claws swung again. The Aura from the claws, which crossed and descended, spread out like a grid pattern and rushed towards Azier. If it had been an ordinary human, they would have given up on life at that sight and waited for their fate to be dismembered alive, but. "Aren't you tired of this?" For Azier, it was one of the easiest ways to deal with it. His blade pierced between the intersection points of the Aura and swung down once. As if Mizonus' thread had been cut, it ripped apart and split like a wave to both sides of Azier. All of it carved terrible marks on the floor and walls, but Azier in the center remained completely unharmed. Seeing that, Mizonus hardened his face. "You're deliberately buying time."
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