章 165: Chapter 165: Building a Beautiful Nation (Part 1) [7/7]

With this, we ended the bonuses :3 

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After Bal's death, Renji no longer had a reason to fight. He quickly undid Nova's "materialization" state, causing the flames on the Crimson Wings behind him to extinguish rapidly until the wings themselves dissolved into nothingness, replaced by the figure of the Dragoness reappearing at Renji's side.

Although Nova had always been in the form of the "Crimson Wings" behind Renji, her consciousness was not stripped away. She silently observed everything - the entire battle, the subsequent conversation between Renji and Bal, and Renji's final lie.

For this reason, Nova now looked down at the place where Bal had perished. This comrade who had fought alongside her five hundred years ago, once a fellow Vanguard at the same height as her, now couldn't even leave a complete corpse behind, only turning into mist and dust in the evaporating black mire.