Apex Predator

He broke our swords into pieces, and then we jumped back away from him. His energy was increasingly getting unstable. We didn’t have enough time to escape, and I had no idea how much power he would release.

There was only one thing I could do

In that fleeting moment, I turned around and hugged Sane tightly to my chest to shield him from the explosion. Still in the Solid State, I thought my enhanced healing might give both of us a chance to survive the explosion.

Sane tried to push me away, but I held him with all my strength. Then, Hira 125 exploded, releasing energy equivalent to 50 kilotons of TNT—far beyond anything I’d expected. At hyper-cognition, I realized then that no amount of regeneration could save me; I was about to be reduced to ash.