Lanky Man could not help flashing a thumb-up at Frank.

However, the gesture changed just as Frank was not watching—with a flash of blue light, countless needles rained down on Frank!

Nonetheless, Frank did not move.

The needles continued toward him before clanging loudly as they came to a stop near him, as if striking a wall.

Lanky Man could not help being stunned—that was his killing stroke, and he launched it at Frank when he let his guard down.

However, the kid was somehow able to cast some barrier that nullified his attacks. What the hell was that even?!

"Curious, aren't you?" Frank asked just then. "I'm sure the people you butchered would've been curious about your powers too. Now that the tables have turned, I must ask—has it ever crossed your mind that you're the same as them?"

At those words, Lanky Man's knees buckled and he dropped to his knees.

natural that he imagined his defeat,

him, and it clearly appeared that

"Screw you!"

Lanky Man grabbed a needle and charged

sent Lanky Man flying back whence he came with a thought. "I apologize for showing you the world so soon, kiddo.

Man was dead inside and had no coherent questions

and scrambled to crawl toward the

slowly landed in front of them, chuckling. "Come on. Tell me

Lanky Man's fellow apprentices

play out countless times—but with them on the side of the

at Frank. "Do you

aren't afraid of death, why would you crawl

of—it's the refusal to admit it. So tell me what I want to know right

you take us for fools? We'd be dead if

and nodded. "Smart, but that isn't

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