As the pain of the Holy Sword piercing his body and the agony of his soul being torn apart began to strip Gerald's consciousness away bit by bit, his obsession with killing the enemy made one of his arms clamp tightly around Pei Yan's single hand that had stabbed into his own chest, while the other arm clutched hard onto the Source Energy Chain coiled around Pei Yan. Like this, he turned himself into an "Immortal Binding Rope," pinning Pei Yan in place, and even as the Longsword of Holy Sword Judgment ran him through and killed him, he did not change his posture.
