章 78: Baku – IV

"Do you want me to teach you some manners, little boy?"

Bang!

"!?" Haru didn't know what had just happened.

He was fully alert, his eyes fixed on Baku. Yet, after Baku finished speaking, he was struck.

"Gah!"

The blow to his stomach was so powerful that he almost spat out blood. But he held it in.

However, the impact sent his body flying back.

Bang!

He crashed into the wall of a small house in the neighborhood.

[HP > -30]

'What just—!?'

As his eyes remained locked on Baku, he noticed something.

Black smoke began rising from the little girl's body.

The fumes were so dense that they covered her entire body, concealing her within.

But just as the smoke dissipated, slowly, a figure emerged.

However, it wasn't the figure of the same black-haired little girl he had been fighting just moments ago.

It was something else.

Something much eerier.