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Chapter 362 - Chapter 362: Undying Bond

"Wha-. . ." Was all Solomon could say, blood coming out of his mouth as he was ruptured straight into his stomach, a watery spike that tried to blast him off his garden. He'd extend Shady to grab ahold of the stage before plunging into the ocean, letting his body be sucked in before the waters try to attack further, expelling out once the Umibozu rose once more. Out from the Sea Monk was the performer himself, dragging the stage back into its body, letting it sift and sit at the stomach. To the children's surprise, the man looked like he was barely scratched. "How....? How did you..." Solomon would ask, coughing up some blood as Eden would heal his egregious wound.

"Survive? Well that's the neat part! I didn't! Though problem was, you're attacking something that isn't in this world anymore!" Sansol replied, his manic grin still present, his white teeth gleaming with the sparkly water alongside his long, majestic mane of hair.

"So what, you're a ghost or something...?"

"You can say that! After all, An Umibozu only exists as the departed souls of monks! You can't really think a mere firecracker like that is enough to stop the rock, right?!" The situation became more clear now for everyone involved: To defeat Sansol, one must also defeat the Umibozu itself. "We're linked, in the grand scheme of things. Bound with the same soul! Bound with the same eyes and heart! As long as it lives, I live! As long as I live, it lives! We are inseparable!" His words came as if it was praise rather than bragging rights. His eyes darted upwards to the Sea Monk, open arms as he imagines an embrace with it, his breath calming as he'd focus back into reality. "Now...if you boys don't have anything better to do, just hold still and let me whisk you away to a better place. I'll make sure to tell him personally-" He'd start, before hearing a laugh. A weak one, but a laugh nonetheless.

The Demon that was once intoxicated finally has became sober, his body returning back his energy, laughing all the way. "Inseparable, huh? That's really unfortunate for you..." He'd murmur.

The Musician became confused, hitting a few keys in order to prepare a splash of red and blue. "Is that right? Why exactly do you say that? Can't be because you guys outnumber me. I already demonstrated how that logic is useless."

"Oh no, no, no. I ain't saying that. Being conked out for so long doesn't let me really see the full picture, so I could be wrong. However, I did left something in that Body of yours. Something that I thought would've been some support for us....Is now your Death Warrant." As he uttered such words, Sansol would start to feel its effects, his vision slowly going dim. His rainbow eyes widened as he frantically looked to his side, with one last thing being visible before his sight went out. A Man. A man in a color of Yellow and Black, a singular eye staring down at him. Curved horns attached to his head, markings of a Rorschach left on its chest and arms, as well as a rounded base instead of legs. A green cape that flowed as much as the crashing currents was around its neck, having Eligos on it to act as a defense for the harsh waters, flapping vigorously to quell the tides within. The head bobs up and down as if it was laughing, rotating around like a pinwheel as it jeered, watching Sansol's senses go out, and to an extent, control over the Umibozu. "You're probably not hearing me now, but just in case you are, because you share each other's senses...That means some of our spells can hit you both Simultaneously. Worst part is that I don't know how you're gonna get out of this one. Usually to break the illusion, we'd have to hit you, but because its hitting the Umibozu, I don't think it's gonna count as an 'Attack' since it's living water. You're gonna be stuck there for a while....and I'm sure a certain someone's going to enjoy beating you senseless again." The Devil sneered as he'd see the Child up above take immediate advantage, with the Monsters remaining quickly swarming in, as well as Harvard summoning forth a new one in the form of Atlantis, letting all of them attack in a stampede of wrath.

With Osiris' body, quickly unwrapping itself to shed off the Radiation it was once infected, it used such binds as a whip to strike on all sides against the Umibozu, and to an extent, infecting its toxin directly back to the Musician. Puzzlmina and Cherub both work in tandem together to maximize as much damage as possible from both the feathers and its holy beams of light, trying to see if they can rig the dice enough to land critical hit after critical hit. Shangri would drain out as much energy as possible to feed into the City of Khepros, letting them fire back in massive waves of magical spells to overwhelm the body of water further. Eurodux would extend the attacks themselves at a massive point, making holes upon holes of the Umibozu as they peppered it. Aiwass would instead aim for the source, now that it's finally open, even after sustaining damages against the Sea Monk when it first tried to invade, grasping at the Musician's face and entering into his mind. Harvard would cast a Seal in order to summon the two arms out as its proper monsters, casting Fusion in order to combine the two. The brief spurs of a bird-like creature with a human's face and a body of white armor, wings that extend to expel its red mist, as well as the skeletal samurai, would merge. A swordsman with white armor, the mist now coating its body and blade, as Miyashi swoop down to slash it down to its mere droplets, trying to scatter as much as it could.

As the onslaught raged on, the Musician can't help but fall further and further downwards, his mind at a stalemate with itself, his memories rushing in. "Where.....where did I went wrong? Was this not what they wanted...?" He thought to himself. Unable to see, unable to hear, and unable to feel. He stared blankly at what he assumed was the sky, as his mind came rushing once more. Sounds began to be made as he gets lost into his mind.

Like a dream, he drifts into this landscape, remembering what happened.

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