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Return of the Fallen Volume 10 Chapter 77

Even though the soul weapon was no more, Kazuki still thought about it.

(For the smoke creature to avoid detection, it tried to remain dormant inside the soul weapon, but it was that nonaction that gave itself away. Alutra said the soul fragments within were similar to the fragments left behind in Magical beast cores in the way that they will detonate due to the lingering hatred within. Because the soul weapon didn’t explode, Alutra just managed to pick up on this.)

“Alutra, that smoke creature, it should have had a chance to escape earlier or even try and do something with Fera’s corpse since it was in the range of my ring. Why do you think it waited?”

Alutra thought about it and came to a simple conclusion.

“It was too weak to do much of anything. You should have realized when it attacked that final time and almost hit us all.