Chapter 307: The Inversed Tohka
Letting out a soft breath, Franklin slowly walked towards the inversed Tohka. As the black aura gradually dissipated, Franklin also saw the inversed Tohka at the very center of the aura. At this moment, Tohka's expression was exactly the same as when Franklin first met her—cold, majestic, and full of an endless, inviolable aura. She held a pitch-black, bizarre longsword with a hint of purple, which had obvious red spirit power patterns on it. Purple armor, resembling a princess's dress, encased her entire body. The seams, lining, and hem of the dress were made of an immaterial film of light that bloomed with an unbelievable radiance.
Looking at Tohka, whose posture had completely transformed, Franklin carefully recalled his understanding of the inversed Tohka before him. Her inversion was completely different from other spirits; her memories had vanished, and her personality had been directly replaced. To describe it as being completely replaced by another person wouldn't be an exaggeration at all. As he continued to think deeply, the answer Franklin arrived at was that he had absolutely no other impressions of her. His only impression was that she was tyrannical, decisive in her killing, and had nearly slaughtered Shido Itsuka with a single sword strike.
Having failed to recall any useful information, and not wanting to directly restore Tohka using Kurumi's Dalet, Franklin could only rely on himself to negotiate with the inversed Tohka for now.
"Who are you? Where is this place?"
Hearing that cold voice, completely different from Tohka's, Franklin's expression became much more solemn.
"My name is Franklin, and this is the beach by the sea in Okinawa. I want to know who you are. And where is Tohka's personality?"
Before he could finish his sentence, Franklin saw the inversed Tohka raise the longsword in her hand high, slashing a strike directly at him.
"So you are the true culprit who drove Tohka to despair. Then go to hell!"
Sword qi, wrapped in endless sword light and aura, struck towards him. Franklin's eyes instantly widened. Just as he was about to block, Sandalphon directly appeared in the next instant and positioned itself in front of Franklin, blocking this sword strike that had reached the Sword Force Realm of the Human Dao of Swordsmanship. Although the inversed Tohka's combat power was far inferior to Franklin's at this moment, the strike, infused with the peak sword power of the Human Dao of Swordsmanship within its technique, could easily break through Franklin's Blood Drop Realm physical body. While he wouldn't suffer overly heavy injuries, if he didn't counterattack, he would definitely end up in a very sorry state.
His domain expanded, shrouding towards the inversed Tohka, but it was directly blocked ten meters away from her body by the endless sword force. Franklin no longer underestimated her. He picked up Sandalphon in front of him, preparing to first subjugate the inversed Tohka or seal her spirit power after getting close before deciding on the next step.
"This is Sandalphon... Since you stand in front of that man, you can disappear together with him!"
As the endless black sword qi attacked, Franklin let out a soft breath and swung Sandalphon straight down. Snow-white sword qi was instantly slashed out, moving forward without any imposing aura. Its speed looked extremely slow, and the air it passed through showed no ripples. Yet, in merely the blink of an eye, it collided with those dozens of imposing, black-purple sword qi strikes. The latter had their internal structures destroyed in an instant, transforming into a sky full of masterless spirit energy that merged into the air.
Seeing this scene, the inversed Tohka's eyes widened. She wanted to dodge but felt the space around her being directly locked. Left with no choice, she held her black longsword horizontally in front of her. In an instant, it collided with that snow-white sword qi. A massive force continuously assaulted her. The inversed Tohka's feet plowed the ground as she tried her best to block, but she was still blasted back hundreds of meters. It wasn't until Franklin proactively erased his sword qi that the inversed Tohka finally stopped her retreating footsteps.
"Can we sit down and talk? I love Tohka very much. It's just that she misunderstood what I said earlier. A simple explanation can perfectly resolve this matter."
The inversed Tohka, who had been sent flying by Franklin's strike, looked at him with eyes full of fighting intent. She directly cast Franklin's words to the back of her mind.
"If you truly want to see Tohka, beat me into submission. When that time comes, I'll tell you everything you want to know. As for now, take another one of my strikes!"
"Nahemah!"
As her voice fell, a black-purple throne descended from the sky. In an instant, that black-purple throne directly shattered, then swiftly merged with the Nahemah in her hand.
"Take this move of mine!"
Looking at the giant sword, over a dozen meters long, held high in the inversed Tohka's hands, Franklin's eyes narrowed slightly as a sense of crisis welled up in his heart.
"Sword of Demise!"
In an instant, black-purple sword qi cascaded down like a waterfall. Franklin let out a soft breath and placed Sandalphon at his waist. The Heaven-Severing Sword Drawing Art he had comprehended in the virtual world during his time in the Naruto universe was instantly unleashed. The black and white sword qi collided, and even space exhibited ripple-like distortions. For some unknown reason, a fusion phenomenon actually occurred between the two streams of sword qi. Looking at the exact center of the sword qi, where the black and white mixed sword qi energy had condensed, Franklin's pupils shrank slightly. His figure moved extremely fast, appearing beside the inversed Tohka almost as if by teleportation.
Facing the incoming slash, Franklin didn't block at all and directly took the hit with his body. In an instant, the Sword of Demise shattered, and Nahemah slashed straight into Franklin's body. After letting out a light grunt, Franklin used his body to dissipate the force and firmly jammed the blade with his bones. Afterwards, Franklin directly sealed the inversed Tohka's spirit power and picked her up. Expanding his domain, he took all the spirits and humans shrouded within it and quickly moved far away from the beach. It wasn't until he was three hundred kilometers away that Franklin finally stopped his relocation.
Feeling the black and white sword qi energy cluster radiating terrifying power, Franklin still felt a lingering fear in his heart at this moment. Although he estimated that its explosive power would only cover tens to hundreds of kilometers, the high-dimensional sword Dao power contained within it could instantly inflict life-threatening injuries upon him.
"Hey, human, what exactly are you trying to do? Why did you seal my spirit power and even drag me this far away to escape? It's just a cluster of spirit power, yet you're actually this scared? Truly cowardly!"
Looking at the cold yet slightly disdainful gaze of the inversed Tohka held in his arms, Franklin put her down. He directly pulled out the Nahemah stuck in his body and handed it back to her.
"Why did I take you this far away to escape? Why would I be this scared? If it weren't for the fact that the body you're currently occupying belongs to Tohka, that Tohka's personality is still trapped inside, and that you're also a spirit, I absolutely wouldn't care about you. Since you think it's just a small energy cluster, I'll let you see its terrifying power."
As he spoke, Franklin pointed his fingers together at the black and white energy cluster where the two streams of sword qi had temporarily reached a balanced fusion. A beam of sword qi instantly shot out from his fingertips. Under the acceleration of the domain, the distance of three hundred kilometers was crossed in the blink of an eye. In just an instant, the energy cluster was detonated. Like the invasion of a black hole, not a single blade of grass remained wherever it passed. The beach, buildings, seawater, and even the air it touched—absolutely everything was directly annihilated to the most fundamental particle state the moment it made contact with that energy cluster. Franklin casually compressed an unknown elemental sphere with a density comparable to his physical body's strength and threw it towards the energy cluster. At the mere moment of contact, that creation with a density reaching the attometer level was directly annihilated into the most fundamental particle state by the sword qi contained within it.
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