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"I have to believe I can." He stepped forward. The air around him shifted, carrying a strange, natural pressure that seemed to weigh on everything nearby.
At the same time, he suddenly raised his arms in an odd, deliberate pose.
The skeleton tensed, bracing itself, certain he was about to unleash a spell or skill.
However…
"HEN…!"
"…?"
"SHIN!"
He crossed his arms sharply afterward, but nothing happened.
Absolutely nothing—no transformation, no beams from his eyes, no visible change at all.
"Huh? What was that?"
The skeleton stared, utterly baffled by whatever nonsense it had just witnessed.
Yet inside Keitaro… something had indeed shifted.
"Hoooo…"
He exhaled deeply, steadying his breathing as his aura intensified.
What had once been nearly invisible now burned with undeniable presence.
"…?!"
The skeleton finally sensed it within Keitaro.
That mana-less heart blazed with the fiercest flames imaginable.
