Chapter 469: Heaven's Tyrant Blood
Kaito Shirogane hung the four brand-new Cleaner Scarlet Drop Cards brightly on his stall and set them to accept bids.
If there were no suitable prices, he wouldn't necessarily trade these cards away. For him with [Omen of the Evil God · Third Stage], these Cleaner Scarlet Drop Cards were stable attribute points.
He could open them whenever he needed.
The crowd of onlookers around was still shocked by the rare appearance of the [Azure Sky] group just now, constantly passing on the news. For a moment, actually no one stepped forward to make an offer.
Instead, that gentle woman wearing a white sacrificial robe didn't leave with Professor and the others. She came to the stall, looking at Kaito with a complex expression.
"Mercenary Tao, could I trouble you to tell me Roland's final ending?"
Loman's eyebrows were curved, her skin fair. Her avatar wasn't considered exceptionally beautiful, but she had a temperament that made people feel comfortable.
Even in her voice, one could hardly hear any hostility.
Reincarnators, possessing power surpassing ordinary people and being able to act recklessly in mission worlds, often unconsciously carried a strong aura. The more powerful the Reincarnator, the more so.
But this woman was completely different. She seemed like a person who had dissolved all hostility. Although she didn't like Mercenary Tao, she wouldn't resent him for no reason.
Loman knew very well that if Roland had really been killed by Mercenary Tao, or schemed to death by him, Boss Cao Qi's attitude would definitely not be like this today.
No matter how absurd or casual Cao Qi appeared, she actually knew very well that Cao Qi's feelings for Roland weren't much shallower than hers. His previous behavior undoubtedly proved that Mercenary Tao wasn't the cause of Roland's death.
Loman had previously been strictly forbidden from looking into related worlds and contacting related Reincarnators. But this time, Adam deliberately let her stay. She knew this meant she was now allowed to know the truth of Roland's death.
Kaito glanced at this woman. The aura exuding from her was completely incompatible with him.
Normally, Kaito would probably just think the other party was a weakling. But having gone through so many missions, he had already learned from too many Reincarnators what kind of organization [Azure Sky] was.
Absolute elitism. Every official member possessed extremely strong power and very special enhancements.
Loman extended her right hand towards Kaito.
[Reincarnator RM31171003 initiated a transaction with you]
[You obtained B-Class Singularity 1]*[You obtained Dimensional Points 12000]
Kaito raised his eyebrows and whistled frivolously. These veterans of Azure Sky were indeed wealthy and generous. Just to ask for a piece of information without much practical use, they offered a price that many Unparalleled Rare items couldn't sell for.
Of course, Kaito couldn't understand that special layer of relationship between people. Therefore, he couldn't understand how important a dead person's final experiences were to the one who cared about them.
Kaito was a guy who valued the spirit of the contract very much. Having received this reward that he considered quite generous, he recalled for a moment and began to tell the final story of that Reincarnator who dragged out an ignoble existence in the One Piece world and caused a huge disaster.
"That Roland probably died a long time ago. The only thing supporting him to stay in the One Piece world seemed to be just one thought. He said, 'He must strike the God of the Abyss with a sword'..."
Kaito completely recounted the story of Roland becoming a God Hand, being imprisoned by Enel, using the power of erosion to massively change the situation of that island, trying to possess him and fight for the control of his body, ultimately cutting off his own spirit body to open a new round of [Eclipse], drawing the descent of the Black King from the Black King Association, and finally actively dying at his hands.
He didn't hide the truth that Roland's spirit body ultimately actively crashed into him and was killed.
Listening to Roland's final struggle and dying wish, Loman's face was already covered in tears. She finally knew why Boss Cao Qi didn't want to let her know; otherwise, she would definitely want to help Roland fulfill that wish.
To strike the God of the Abyss with a sword on behalf of Guts!
The Reincarnators in the [Azure Sky] gathering treated plot characters completely differently from other Reincarnators. Many of them sincerely wanted to help those poor people struggling in pre-set scripts.
Roland was just like that.
They entered the [Berserk World] and brought Guts out from it, thereby triggering a series of disputes involving the fall of many plot characters and Reincarnators.
And caused the causality of the [God of the Abyss] to affect many worlds.
In the end, everything ended with Guts actively throwing himself into the Eclipse and Roland's death.
No... Loman suddenly realized something. That Black King entered the Abyssal World, and she was now allowed to come into contact with these things. This meant that in Boss Cao Qi's eyes, she would no longer be schemed against by the causality of the God of the Abyss...
"The God of the Abyss was... by Luffy..."
She closed her eyes, not wanting more emotions to be exposed. In the eyes of Mercenary Tao looking at her unblinkingly in front of her, there was no sympathy, no mockery, only exploration of intelligence.
Loman didn't want to meet Mercenary Tao's eyes. She even felt those weren't eyes a human should have. Mercenary Tao was more like a "pseudo-human."
"I hope Roland didn't choose the wrong person."
Loman just left such a sentence and directly teleported away from the shantytown. Obviously, she had already guessed that when Roland was dying, he actively used the power of the [Morning Star of Hope] and gave that [Card] she couldn't find no matter what to this increasingly mysterious Mercenary Tao.
Roland's choice, Cao Qi's choice, Adam's choice, were all telling Loman that Mercenary Tao was very special. But she no longer wanted to delve into it.
Kaito looked at the place where the woman disappeared, still recalling her half-sentence in his mind.
The God of the Abyss was killed or sealed by the Black King, Luffy?!
Could the Black King Association go to such an extent...
Kaito developed more curiosity about this group, which could be called the most mysterious in the Space.
"Um, I'd like to buy this Drop Card."
A human voice sounded at this time, interrupting Kaito's reverie. He didn't expect someone would really come to bid for these Cleaner Scarlet Drop Cards immediately.
The person wore silver-white armor, carrying black and white twin swords on his back. His face was heroic, but there wasn't much sharpness in his eyes.
Kaito had an impression of this person. This Reincarnator codenamed [Show] was also highly regarded by many top Reincarnators, considered to possess great combat aptitude.
And he had once bought a tube of [Compound V] from Kaito here.
What impressed Kaito even more was that this person was one of the extremely few characters among Reincarnators who didn't show any abnormal behavior when facing him.
Whether it was fear, disgust, worship, or hatred... there was none. Show seemed unaware of Mercenary Tao's uniqueness, acting no differently towards Mercenary Tao than anyone else.
"This is my offer, take a look."
He raised his hand, and an intense purple color rippled out from the item in his hand. The intensity of that luster instantly lingered around Kaito's stall.
This level of purple luster was unprecedented!
[Reincarnator II67855510 (Show) showed you Item: Heaven's Tyrant Blood]
That was a drop of blood. Just a single drop of blood floated in the air out of thin air, but that intense purple luster surpassed all descriptions.
This thing was extremely rare!
(End of Chapter)
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