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Chapter 21 A Sunny and Cheerful Young Man

The fourth second.

On the eve of the impending explosion of tens of thousands of TNT units, a tug-of-war was taking place in the sky.

"Sizzle—!!!"

Pei Qi's elytra vibrated wildly, and the immense thrust from the three-stage firework rockets attempted to carry him away from this land that was about to turn into a hellish inferno.

However, he couldn't leave.

Dozens of pale, thorny bone whip tentacles wrapped tightly around his body, freezing him in mid-air.

Behind him, Muzan Kibutsuji was like a heavy and frenzied deep-sea anchor, dragging Pei Qi toward the abyss of hell.

Two opposing forces formed a brief and strange stalemate in the air.

Meanwhile, in the system status bar, the elytra's durability is plummeting at a rate of tens of points per second.

"Want to leave? Dream on! You think you can just walk away?!"

Muzan's originally handsome and eerie face now appeared particularly grotesque and distorted under the pale light emitted by tens of thousands of TNT below.

That was the madness of facing the inevitable end of death.

He grinned maliciously, coughing up fragments of his internal organs as he frantically tightened his tentacles.

"If I don't live... neither will you!!"

"Even if I die, I'll take you with me! Pei Qi! You'll stay here and be my burial offering! Beneath this scorched earth, let us become one forever!!"

If he cannot survive, then he will drag the culprit who destroyed everything down with him to hell! This was the last and most vicious obsession of this ghost king who had survived for a thousand years at the end of his life.

The immense pulling force caused Pei Qi to abruptly stop, completely halting his upward momentum.

"Tsk."

Pei Qi frowned, feeling the immense pulling force around his waist, and glanced downwards.

In the enormous void below, the tens of thousands of red and white blocks were lit to their maximum brightness, and the hissing sound of death's countdown had become a continuous chorus.

He raised his head again and looked at Muzan in the distance, who had a crazed expression on his face and seemed to have already seen the two of them perish together.

Sudden.

In this life-or-death predicament, the tense look on Pei Qi's face slowly faded.

Instead, he revealed an extremely strange smile.

It wasn't the fear of facing death, nor the panic of a failed scheme. It was an excitement that Muzan couldn't understand at all.

"Under the pressure of near death, you've pushed your body to its limits once again? Not bad, very spirited. This is what a Demon King should be like."

Pei Qi's voice remained clear amidst the howling wind, carrying a sense of composure.

"You want to take me down with you? Muzan, didn't you get one thing wrong from the start?"

"Wh...what?" Muzan was stunned, and his hand stopped moving involuntarily.

"That means... I never intended for you to leave alive!"

The next second, Pei Qi did something crazy that instantly shut down Muzan's brain.

"Click".

A soft sound.

The pair of elytra that carried him soaring through the sky vanished instantly, replaced by a heavy lower-level alloy breastplate.

In the instant the lift was lost, the fragile balance in the air was completely shattered!

At this moment, the enormous pulling force that Muzan originally used to drag Pei Qi instantly turned into the most deadly accelerator!

It's like a stone that's been drawn on a bowstring and suddenly the fingers loosen.

Pei Qi no longer flew upwards, but instead used Muzan's own power to leave a trail of afterimages in the air, rushing back towards Muzan at a terrifying speed!

"you--!?"

Muzan's pupils trembled violently, the madness in his eyes instantly turning into terror. He tried to loosen his grip on the tentacles, but the immense inertia made it all too late.

"Since you want me to stay with you so badly, then I'll grant your wish!!"

The wind howled as Pei Qi adjusted his posture in mid-air, his body like a cannonball fired from a gun.

In his hand, the Nether Alloy Sword that had accompanied him in slaying several Upper Moon Killer V-like beings was already unsheathed.

"Pfft!"

There is no suspense.

Using its immense inertia and impact, the dark red alloy sword tip easily tore apart the tentacle net that Muzan was trying to defend.

Those bone whips, as hard as iron, became as fragile as withered branches under the immense damage inflicted by the undead assassin.

The longsword plunged straight in, like a hot knife cutting through butter, and pierced Muzan's chest until the hilt was gone!

"Ugh—!!!"

The blade pierced through their bodies, and the immense kinetic energy brought the two of them crashing together.

Pei Qi gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands, pushing the progenitor of demons as they plummeted rapidly towards the TNT ocean about to erupt below.

"You're insane! You're a lunatic!!"

Muzan finally collapsed.

He originally thought Pei Qi would struggle to escape in terror, but he never expected that this man would actually voluntarily shed his wings to die!

What kind of logic is this? What kind of tactics are these? This is not human thinking at all!

As he plummeted, Muzan frantically swung his claws, tearing at Pei Qi's back and biting at his neck with his sharp teeth.

"Let go! Let go now! You'll die! You'll really die!!"

"I won't die with you! Let me go! I won't kill you!!"

Blood splattered.

Sparks flew from Pei Qi's lower-dimensional alloy armor as Muzan attacked him relentlessly on the verge of death, each scratch accompanied by a sickening metallic twisting sound.

The health bar in Pei Qi's field of vision was flashing red, constantly displaying the number of health points being deducted.

Pei Qi gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands, using the blade to jam Wu Can's sternum, preventing him from escaping.

"What's wrong, Lord Muzan?"

Pei Qi's voice was so light it was almost infuriating, as if he were in the midst of a pleasant freefall.

"Weren't you just crying and begging me to stay with you? Didn't you say you wanted to be together forever?"

"Now that I've even willingly given up the chance to escape, why are you unhappy?"

"Get away! Get away from me!!"

Muzan let out a desperate wail, a scream of despair after some belief had collapsed.

The dignity of the thousand-year-old ghost king? The arrogance of the progenitor? All vanished in this moment.

The intense heat, enough to melt one's soul, was already upon him, even igniting the tips of his hair.

"Please... let me go... I'll give you anything... my blood, my position, even if you want to be the Ghost King!!"

"Don't die... I don't want to die! I haven't found the Blue Spider Lily yet!!"

If he were only on the edge, his regenerative abilities might allow him to survive.

But if you fall into the center of the explosion... there is absolutely no chance of survival!

"Don't be so pessimistic, cheer up."

Pei Qi looked at Muzan's face, which was filled with fear, snot, and tears, and gave him a bright and cheerful smile.

"Look, this is the ultimate fireworks display prepared just for you. There are only two of us in the VIP seats."

"Come on, give me a smile."

"You bastard—"

boom--!!

Muzan's final curse was completely swallowed by the light.

Tens of thousands of TNT units were detonated.

At that moment, all sound in the world vanished. Only the continuous explosions engulfed the enormous crater and everything within it…