Chapter 111: Wind Style: Rasenshuriken
Ryan aimed the needle at himself.
In this moment of crisis, his only remaining asset was his own body.
Ronin watched Ryan's choice with a flicker of disappointment. Manipulators were so predictable. When they ran out of targets to control, they inevitably turned the strings on themselves.
The power of self-manipulation depended entirely on the price the user was willing to pay.
Shalnark accepted the restriction that he couldn't stop fighting until the enemy was dead, which granted him the combat stats of a high-tier Enhancer and "overclocked" his physical capabilities.
What would Ryan's price be?
The small army Ryan had gathered was gone—systematically dismantled by the Shadow Clone and Kurapika's team.
Only the butler remained. He hadn't fought, and he hadn't died; he was currently immobilized by Kurapika's chains.
Initially, the butler had struggled against the links, but as time passed and the tide of battle turned, he had gone limp, accepting his fate.
As a smart man, the butler knew he had been spared for a reason. If the intruders had wanted him dead, he would have been eliminated the second he tried to provide logistical support for Elder Ryan's Hatsu.
In fact, he had activated his ability.
Hatsu: Iron Wall Prison.
It was a Conjuration ability that allowed him to manifest six reinforced steel walls, sealing himself and everyone within his designated range into a maximum-security cell. Within this prison, only he had the power to manifest doors.
This was why he had personally greeted Ronin's group outside. He needed to lead them into his "killing box."
But he hadn't expected to be snared by invisible chains before he could even trigger the trap.
In... he must have used In to hide the chains, the butler realized. They are terrifyingly cautious.
"Can you dispel your ability now?" Kurapika's voice whispered in the butler's ear. "Or should I assist you?"
The butler's eyes widened. The threat was clear: Deactivate the prison, or I kill you to terminate the Hatsu.
The butler chose life. He dispelled the steel walls.
On the other side of the hall, Ryan plunged the syringe into his own arm. Dark, pressurized blood surged into his veins. His muscles began to ripple and expand, starting from the point of injection and spreading across his entire frame.
Ronin watched the transformation. Ryan reminded him of the Hulk, but monochromatic—a deep, visceral red.
His veins were gorged with blood, pulsing rhythmically beneath his skin.
A suffocating aura erupted from this "Vascular Giant." Ryan's aristocratic elegance was gone, replaced by a grotesque, hulking mass of twitching muscle and distended blood vessels.
"Power... I can feel it... absolute power!" Saliva dripped from Ryan's jaw. He was mesmerized by his own bulging arms, lost in the drug-like high of his Hatsu.
Ronin tilted his head.
Ryan vanished. His speed had increased tenfold, appearing instantly at Ronin's flank like a teleporting demon.
But no matter how much his speed increased, he couldn't outrun the Sharingan's insight.
The crimson skeletal hand of the Susanoo manifested, intercepting Ryan's punch in mid-air.
BOOM!
The collision sent a shockwave through the hall. The Susanoo didn't budge. Ronin opened the skeletal fist, transforming the block into a grab. He lunged for Ryan, who was bleeding from his own over-pressurized veins.
Suddenly, dozens of veins detached from Ryan's body, whipping through the air like lashes to entangle the Susanoo's arm.
Ronin's right eye flared. "Amaterasu."
The black flames ignited directly on Ryan's chest.
As the fire spread, Ryan did something unexpected. He slapped his hand against the Susanoo's arm for leverage and, in a surge of Nen, tore large chunks of his own flesh away from his body.
The flayed muscle was saturated with Nen. By ripping his skin off, he discarded the black flames along with the flesh they were feeding on.
Ronin noticed that Ryan's raw wounds were already knitting back together, tiny muscle fibers and capillaries writhing like maggots to close the gaps.
He's forced himself into a pseudo-Enhancement state.
The rapid regeneration and raw physical power proved that Ryan had successfully temporarily shifted his category by flooding his system with Nen-infused blood.
Impressive. But useless.
Ronin's hands came together, weaving a final seal. When he pulled them apart, Chakra began to condense in the center of his right palm.
A spinning orb of天藍色 (sky blue) energy formed. Within seconds, Wind Nature Chakra began to spiral around it, shaping the orb into a buzzing, rotating star.
Wind Style: Rasenshuriken.
Ronin's main body cocked his arm back to throw. The Susanoo protecting him vanished instantly—it would only interfere with the projectile's path.
Ryan sensed the danger, but his brain was now too saturated with blood for fear. He let out a primal roar and charged, his distended veins ready to whip Ronin into pieces.
Ronin hurled the Rasenshuriken.
The sound of the wind cutting through the air was a high-pitched, deafening shriek. The projectile moved with impossible velocity.
Ryan tried to block with his gorged arms. Upon contact, his reinforced flesh and blood vessels were shredded into molecular dust.
The Wind Style: Rasenshuriken looked like a solid object, but it was actually a concentrated vortex of billions of microscopic Chakra blades.
Ryan watched as his arms disintegrated. The shuriken reached his chest, and his entire body began to unraveal under the cellular-level assault.
In his final millisecond, a flicker of clarity returned to Ryan's eyes.
Too late.
The Rasenshuriken detonated inside Ryan's torso.
VROOOOM!
A massive sphere of wind blades engulfed Ryan and the ground beneath him.
When the dust settled, there was no blood. No bones. No equipment. Aside from a fine layer of grey ash on the scorched floor, there was no evidence a Nen user had ever stood there.
It was absolute annihilation. At the cellular level, Elder Ryan had been erased from existence.
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