However, Saint Mars's speed was incredibly fast!
His Itsumade form was already known for its eerie speed and ability to traverse the void. Now, exploding with full fury, he seemed to teleport, instantly closing the distance to Uta's position!
Yamato's expression changed drastically!
She spun around abruptly, shielding Uta completely behind her. The spiked club 'A-Ken' in her hand, wrapped in cold air, swept out without hesitation, kicking up a frost storm in an attempt to intercept that pouncing cloud of death!
"Get lost! Monster!"
Yamato's voice was full of resolve.
But everyone knew that with her strength alone, facing a Gorosei who was attacking with full fury, the situation... under Saint Mars's precise and vicious pounce, instantly took a turn for the worse, becoming more chaotic, more bloody, and more desperate!
On one hand, the Marine was pushed to the edge of a cliff by that ultimatum, forced to make a cruel choice immediately—obey orders and massacre all 'non-human species,' becoming butchers and accomplices?
Or disobey orders, risking the complete erasure of the Marine system?
Whichever choice they made, it meant unbearable costs and endless guilt!
This order, like the most vicious poison, was injected into the core of the massive machine that was the Marine, about to trigger an unpredictable chain reaction of collapse!
On the other hand, the alliance—the Red Hair Pirates, the Revolutionary Army, some of the Supernovas, and Yamato and her group, whose stance was delicate—faced an even more severe disaster!
Four Mythical Zoan Type Gorosei, completely enraged and holding nothing back because Satan Saint had been heavily wounded, had their wrath and killing intent fully locked onto every non-allied presence on the field!
Saint Mars pouncing on Uta was only the beginning!
Next would surely be a ruthless, full-scale encirclement aimed at a complete purge and the erasure of everything!
The pain and humiliation of losing Satan Saint would turn into even more frenzied, reckless destructive energy, pouring onto every enemy who dared to stand against them!
And Uta, as the starting point of it all, became the primary target of this final reckoning!
Her life or death might directly affect the final direction of the battle, and could even become the fuse that ignites a larger-scale conflict and sacrifice!
The atmosphere of despair, like a tangible thick fog, began to permeate this already devastated battlefield.
With the full-scale encirclement of divine wrath in front, the potential forced backstab from the Marine behind, and the lethal surprise attack on a key figure in the middle... this was almost... a dead end!
Everyone's hearts were in their throats because of the situation that had suddenly tightened to the limit!
The moment of choice, the moment of resistance, the moment of survival or destruction... was right now!
..."Uta, hold on tight!"
The strange bird burning with eerie black flames tore through the air, and the scorching wind of death had already pounced close to her back.
Yamato didn't even turn back to confirm the trajectory of the attack; the instinct for survival and the sense of responsibility to protect exploded in her heart.
She suddenly ducked down, her arms like iron pincers wrapping around Uta's slender waist, firmly shielding that body, which had become slightly stiff from shock, in her embrace.
"Ah!"
The sudden feeling of weightlessness made Uta let out a soft cry, and she subconsciously reached out to tightly hug Yamato's neck.
"Hold on tight!"
Yamato growled low, her ankles exerting force as her lithe and strong body burst forth with all its power like a compressed spring.
She didn't choose to hard-counter the attack that was clearly filled with an ominous and destructive aura, but instead—flee!
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